Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-11
THE SOUTH cARoLINIAN SHOWS
EQUAL ABILITY WITH THE
PRESIDENT IN THE USE OF
SHORTER AND uGIaER WORMS
-sAvAeE REPLY TO fREsI-
DENTS CHARGE.


nj ed the galleries OF the senate to.
day 20 hear Senator TIllman's reply
to President Rooseveit,s accusation
that the South Carolinian is gui "
OF using his pos ton as senator
to buy government lands In Oregon.
No more serious arraignment Of a
government Official has ever been
heard In the senate than that de-
liyered by Tillman today. He ac-
leused the presidens OF cunning"
advert's ng," "coward.ce," "bo,d
and outrageous faasehoods." per
sonal ma'ice." hatred" and of pur-
poseiy Withholding facts IN his POS
session and of deliberately misrep-
resenting condit ons for the purpose
OF placing the senator in bad light
before the world. In his address of
two thousand words Senator Tlllman
dec AIRED that being senator did not
take away his right to purchase
properly. He sa d he had inquired
into the lands in Oregon and while
he did not buy any he expaa ned It
by saying that he did nor believe
It a good investment at that time.
However. IL in the future these same
lands appear 10 be an investment
which w II prove profitable he viii
buy He referred to e. II. Harri-
man as the presidents dear friend,
who owns two m.liion acres or land
in Oregon. why doesn't tho PRES
ident say something about that7"'
asked the iiveFwire Statesman. Fil-
man declared that the president was
guilty of gress discourtesy to SEN
ator Hale and the appropr ations
committee by giving to the press his
message To congress regarding the
senator before giving H. 20 Hale and
the committee. THE president Us
an adept at advertising and was the
first TO get In bow, but gentle
men, i calmly and confidently seek
and insist upon thorough inves-
tigaston OF these malicious charges
against my character" Through a
bill passed by congress the govern
ment secured indictments against
several land swindlers in Oregon.
T.lqman declared that The president
has bad information IN his hands
5 nee last July. why did he waa4
so long TO take hig stand?' Till
man declared that while he was at
his home in South Carolina secret
service men, ander orders from the
White House, broke open hts desk
and stole therefrom letters which
the president has used in his at
tempt to b'acken his character. ~
have not attempted 20 deceive any
one; have tod no falsehood; 4
have broken no laws; have not
been guilty of an immoral act. The
man who announces to congress,
that ne, Theodore Roosevelt, as
sumsd the right TO permit the stee'
trust to absorb its greatest rival
contrary to law, would DOUBTLESS not
hesitate TO help his dear friend Har-
riman in holding two miaion acres
OF public domain because Ben TIL
man contemplated aud wanted one
thousand four hundred and forty
acres. The president having con-
victed Senator Til1man looks to the
American people ana the senate FOR
their approval. invite comparison
OF my private life and pubic work
as man and senator with Theodore
roosevelt or any other man ana fee
absolutely sure OF the ground ipon
which / stand"
The following are the charges
preferred by the president against
his anc ct enemy, the senator from
South Carolina:
Taat he used his official position
TO further his private interests; that
on February 10 he rose in his place
on the floor Of the senate. ana after
denooncing what be termed the an
authorized use OF his name IN con-
nec''on with the Oregon land deal,
Ieeared positively that be had not
Brought any western lands, and had
not undertaken to DO so, whereas
only four days before ne had actu-
ally sem an order to his agents to
purchase for HIM eight quarter sec
onB, the payment for which was to
be determ. ned on later; that In de-
nouncing Bryan r. Dorr. OF Port
land as . swindler he did an In
nocent man an injustice; that in
us,ng his Official frank for his PR