The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
EXPOSE IS JUST BEGUN
Representative Rainey Says Not
Through With Canal Matter.
REPUBLICANS TAKING NOTICE

Illinois Congressman Has Added
Much to the Discontinue of the
Republicans by the Bomb He
Touched OFF. Has More to Tell.
and Will Back 1t With the Proof.
His Former Speech Stands just
Where 1t Did the Day 1t Was De-
Hvered, the Only Denials Being of
Something He Did Not Say.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-''The Pan
anna canal expose has just begun"
Henry I. Rainey, the man who eX-
ploded the CrOmwell-Taft-ObaI
bomb in congress, and by reason
thereof has been for the last two
weeks one of the most-talked-about
men in Washington, stopped the die
tatiOn of letter to his stenOgrapher
Just long enough to make this crisp
assertion. Then he went on dictat-
ing.
Not Through Yet.
81 am not through with the Pana-
ma canal crime" he continued, af-
ter he had finished his letter.
There is a lot more to tell about
William Nelson Cromwell, or rather,
the business methods of Mr.. Crom-
well, who has received the public en-
dorsement of President-elect Taft |
will address the house again on the
Panama canal within a short time. !
will have abundant proof for every
thing l say.
N tho meantime rric 10 hO
understood would not take ad-
vantage of my prerogative as a mem
Der of congress to resist a subpoena
to testify in the proceedings insti-
tuted by the president against GER
tain newspapers for the alleged libel
of the government.
Rainey's Work Appreciated.
With every day that has passed
since Rainey's now famous canal
speech the real merits of his work
have been more appreciated His
name is one to file away for ready
reference. He will no longer dwell
in a place of comparative obscurity,
for from this date on congress will
watch his every move with interest
The democrats have looked Rainey
over carefully, up one side and down
the other, and have come to the con-
clusion man has been discovered
in the ranks that was not fully ap-
preciated.
Up to date Rainey's Panama ca
mai speech stands just as it did on
the day he delivered it. There have
been some denials in connection
with the Panama expose, but, accord
ing to the Illinois congressman, those
who have denied have taken par
ticular pains to deny something l
didn't say
While many members of congress
have long entertained the conviction
that many of the transactions in
connection with the Panama canal
enterprise would not bear close scru-
tiny no one appeared to be able to
get the necessary facts to substanti-
ate these beliefs. If a member en-
deavOred to make a little investiga-
ton for himself he soon found him
self confronted with a mass of Off
cial red tape that defied penetration.
One day word went through the
republican cloak room of the house
and senate that Rainey, a democrat,
of Illinois, was addressing the house
on the Panama canal situation.
Touched Of Bomb.
Another fzzle," said the republic
cans. There is no scandal in the
Panama canal, and none can there
fore come out of it.
Some of the majority party re-
manned to hear what Rainey had to
say. His speech didn't listen alto
gether like a fizzle, and for the first
time there was real fear among many
republican members of congress over
Panama canal graft charges. The
situation was not improved on the
following day when Rainey an
nounce he was ready to answer any
questions in connection with his
charges. He read a telegram from
Charles p. Taft in which the latter
denied ever having had any transac-
tions with Cromwell or anyone else
on the Panama canal. Rainey read
from the Congressional Record the
paragraph in which reference had
been made to Chas. P. Taft, which
showed there was nothing for Rainey
to retract.
The telegram only added to lack
of comfort of the republicans.
Thought They Had a Trump.