Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-01-12
PIICHFORK AND BIG
STICK HAVE CLASHEu
AFTER SETTING FORTH MS
SIDE OF LAND DEAL QUESTION
TILLMAN RoAsTs THE ap,RrX
WORK OF THE pREsIpENT.a
SlEuTHs IN SPYING ON HIM.

washington. D. c., Jan. IT.
ee'ar'ng that the president Had
oeen actuated by motives o. m,l.
Ice and revenge in attackino Il.
course IN connection with ths
oregon land grant, Senator ri,t.
man from his seat in the senate
'ooay made reply to the accuse
lions OF the CHIEF executive. His
speech read from manuscrlp..
was a characteristic mixture Of
argument and lnvectIve. TIIlman
was greeted by an audience which
r'''ed every seat in the galleries,
ana the senate chamber itse,f
was also well filled. From thc
f'rst the senator received che
most careful attention.
TIllman closed his speech at
1859. There was no eemonstra-
ton OF applause and the immense
crowd IN the galleries rapidly
GU OuL.
washington. D. c., Jan. II Senator
Tlllman today replied to charges made
against him by the president Of having
eXerted his official influence as a sen.
ator and for his own benefit to bring
sult against railroads of the northwest
IN order that he might be able Ia
purchase land held by the southern
oregon company and granted to tha
state OF Oregon in 1868 for the con.
struction Of a military road.
I'm my public work here" said
Senator Tillman, 81 have not hest
tated to criticise and comment on the
ot1c1al actions and utteraEces OF
PRESIDENT Roosevelt and | have doubt
less given him good cause to seek re-
venge. have, at various times, ar
raigned him in the senate for tyran.
nical invasion OF the rights of con.
2ress, Tor usurpation of authority not
given him by the constitution, for dis.
obedience of the law and the neglect
OF duty, and particularly in the case OF
Mrs. Morris, for brutal and cruel con.
duct toward a helpless woman. / was
not aware that these darts OF mine
mad quivered in the executive hide
and stung him so, but the eagernesa
and Intensity with which he has pre-.
sented his case against me, his max.
ing a precedent, when none has ex.
listed before, his taking from the com.
mittee TO which he has forwarded
then, the papers and giving them to
the press before that COMMITTEES had
considered them indicates that Theo.
dore Roosevelt enjoys to the limit the
feeling Of getting even with Ben Till,
man and lays on the big stick with
the keenest relish, doubtless believing
that the 'pitchfork' has gone out OF
business"
Says President is Best Advertiser.
In addressing the senate today Mr.
Iiliman arose TO a question OF person.
al privilege, declaring that for the
first time in the history of this gov.
efnment so far as he had been able to
learn, a member of the senate had
been brought to the bar of public opin.
ION before the senate itself to be
JuuSSu uhbsl lilulcIIu9nt Dye no less
person than the president of the Unit.
ed States. The manner of doing 1t,
he said, and the animus and zeal dis,
played by the chief executive were
worthy of consideration.
Mr.. Tillman called attention to the
publication of these charges by the
president before they had been con
sidered by the committee of the sen.
ate to which they We're referred and
declared that in so doing the presi.
dent had treated the senate with "that
contempt which has been his wont. =
He declared that the president was an
adept at advertising and had used the
press with more skill than any man in
American politics.
Another probable reason for his
great haste" said the South Carolina
senator, was that he sought to dis.
tract attention from the action of the
house of representatives ON Friday in
laying part of his message on the
table hy the sensational acnne.+;1s,,