The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12
ROOSEVELT IS
ARRAIGNED BY
EX-SENATOR
TiIIman Asks the President 10
Deprive Hartman of Two
Million Acres
Says Steel Trust Also Was IL
legally Permitted to
Absorb Rivals
Defense in Oregon Land Case Is
That He Attempted Legiti-
mate Purchase

reply 70 President Roosevelt's charge
IN respect to his connection with Ore
gon timber land transactions, Senator
Tnlman Of South Carolina read his
prepared remarks with little attempt
ut oratorical effect He was accorded
careful attention by senators on both
sides Of the chamber. the public and
private galleries being taxed to their
capacity
In addition TO his speech. which had
been printed in advance. Tinman pre-
pared other brief remarks. which he
read:
Quotes TENNYSON
Tt has been expected and desired. {"
he said, that having made my own de-
fense I should direct my batteries on
my asssilant. I do not feel that my
strength IS sufficient for the double
task for my physicians have warned
me against overtaxing myself. One
OF the truest and best sentiments in
English literature is this from Tenny-
son:
Soiling another viii never make
ones self clean
with even q glass floor ia it and should
remember the old adage. He has ex-
erted all the power Of the government
10 destroy me, but ! feel that I stand
unscathed because, If all other argu-
ments fail to convince men. the charac-
ter for rectitude, truthfulness and
honesty which / have builded in 61
wears OF my life would at least be my
bulwark- Men who have always been
clean and honorable do not suddenly
become liars and hypocrites at 81
without any necessity.
~BARI<S AND BITES" AT ALL
Later on in this session it is my
purpose to devote some time to bring
Theodore Roosevelt face TO face with
his true self and let the people OF the
United States see what character OF
man they have been so bowed down to.
For the present I content myself with
applying to him this quotation from
Spenser's "Faerie Queene":
He ranges throughout the whole
world, neither is there any that can
restrain him.. OF late he has grown
especially presumptuous and pestilent,
barking at and biting all alike, whether
they be blameworthy or innocent None
are free from his attacks. He spares
neither the learned wit nor the gentle
poet but rends and tears without re-
When Tillman concluded his remarks
there was no applause. the vice presi-
dent having admOnished the occupants
Of the galleries against making demon
strauOns. Tillman was congratulated
by a number OF democratic senators.
TILLMAN DECLINES OFFER
Not long after he had concluded his
speech Tillman received a cablegram
from London newspaper asking him
10 express in so words his opinion of
the president. and saying that If he
would do so the tolls would be paid at
. the other end. The senator declined 10
comply with the request.
Senator Tillman said, in part:
In my public work here I have not
hesitated TO criticise and comment on
the official actions and utterances of
President Roosevelt and / have doubt-
less given him good cause to seek re-
venge- i have at various times ar
ra gued him in the senate for tyranlli-
cal invasion Of the rights of congress.
FOR usurpation Of authority not given
him by the constitution. for disobedi-
ence Of the law and the neglect of duty
and. particularly in the case Of Mrs
Morris for brutal and cruel conduct
toward a helpless woman. 1 was not
aware that these darts of mine had
0uivered in the executive hide and
stung him so, but the eagerness and In
tensity with which he has presented
his case against me, his making a
precedent when none existed before his
taking from the committee to which
he has forwarded them the papers and
giving them TO the press before the
committee had considered them indf-
Gates that Theodore Roosevelt enjoys
10 the limit the feeling Of getting even
with Ben Tillman and lays on the .bfer
stick with the keenest relish doubf-
less believing that the "pitchfork" has
gone out Of business.
PROMOTED TO ANANIAS CLUB
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letter TO Mr.. Hale. which might lust
as Weei have been a special message
of tn" type with which we are so ia
miliar viii show that the presidents &
charges boiled down amount TO two
in number
First, he promotes me to member
ship in the Ananias club and charges
in this that I have deliberately lied
10 tie sezSte.
second. e charges that I have ex-
erted my of5cial influence and work as
= senator for my personal benefit alone
10 secure the passage Of a resolution
and to press the Department or ms
tice to bring suit against the CORPORA
rion which holds so much OF the p1b-
lie domain IN the west and Will NOT
sell il to settlers on the terms Of their
grants from the government.
He has prepared his Indictment with
consummate ability and skill. He is
even cunning in the apparently fnno-
cent pretense that ia making a search
through the secret service for one
kind of maiefactor he mas run down
another. and the case OF that one was
OF such serious Importance that his
sense Of Official obligation compelled
him 10 prompt action. Mark vou he
has been ia the possession OF All the
facts In the case since July last and
men viii be curious 10 know wbv IL
his zeal was honest, he did not make
fhem known then.
ALLEGES personal MALICE
Tt follows that he found no grounds
for indicting me in the courts. which
no doubt, would have rejoiced him
oVermuch. and All this fuss fury and
fustian about the seriousness of the
case and the gravity OF the offense
with which he charges me can be at
tributed 10 personal malice alone
II viii be noted that I accused Dorr
So the senate OF being a swindIer and
asked the pOstof1ice department to is
sue a fraud order against him Dorr
declared in his circular, $50 sure Is
Senator Tiliman Of our success that he
has subscribed and paid the necessary
fees for a quarter section for himself
and 10 other sections for 10 of his
nearest relatives. 1t was this hold
and outrageous falsehOod mainly that
caused me to denounce Dorr as =
swindler as well as to declare in the
senate that he had no warrant for the
assertion.
The sleuths whom the president put
upon my trail have made their report