The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-11

vertising 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, by the sensational accusation
against a man who has a long serV-
ice in the Senate.
IAN examination of the Presidents
letter to Mr.. Hale, which might just as
we'll have been a special message of
the type with which We are so ia
mi.iar.f said Mr.. Tillman. will show
tina the Presidents charges, boiled
down, amount to two in number.
In Ananias Club.
First, he promotes HE to member
ship in the Ananias Club. and charges
In effect that | have deliberately lied
to the Senate.
Second he charges hat / have ex-
erted my official influence and work as
a Senator for my personal benefit"
Quoting from the Presidents mes
sag to the House on January 4, in
which he said he had no charges
of corruption against Congress nor
against any member of the present
House, Mr.. Tillman says;
..It follows that he found no grounds
for indictiug me in the courts, which
no doubt would have ~reioieed him
over-much 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 he at
tributed TO personal malice alone
Referring to the Presidents letter to
Senator Hale, Mr.. Ttllman declared
that the President recognized the ex-
traordinary character of his action las
well as the unlawful use he has made
of the secret service"
Admits Land Deal.
Il was anxious to obtain some of the
lam in Oregon. if it could be done
legally, and wrote Reeder & Watkins
to hat effect, but my faith in them,
and in the whole scheme died when l
received the circulars of Dorr, which
came TO me on February II and Is
from three different directions, show
ing the widespread circulation of them.
"Dorr, of whom | had never heard
before" he said, was evidently push
in- his scheme of getting suckers to
invest, and using my name, as | AVE
indicated, without authority; because
I had not paid any fee to him or writ
ten to him or filed n applications. I
therefore felt it incumbent on me to
expose the swindle in the Senate.
THE Presidents sleuths, set to do
the dirty work OF spying on a senator,
when that senator had exposed Il
fraud which was being perpetrated on
the public, reported to him on July y.
I had nothing to do with the change
in the law of which the President COM
plains in regard to the secret service.
So the Presidents animus is not
against me on the same ground for
which he has attacked Messrs. Taw-
ney, Smith and others in the House,
but one of personal malice ~engendered
by hatred because of my course in the
Senate during the last seven years.
Am Innocent.
II have not attempted to deceive
anybody; ! have not told any false
hoods; I have not broken any law;
/ have not been guilty of any immoral
conduct. I had the right to purchase
the land If 1 could, but my judgment
tnid me it was unsafe as an invest
ment. Whether | ever get any of the
land or not does not matter If Harri-
man and others of that ilk are made to
rdisgorge the large holdings which they
have stolen and are attempting to hold.
..The man who announces to Con-
gress that he, Theodore Roosevelt, as
sumed the right to permit the steel
trust to absorb Its greatest rival, con-
trary to law, would doubtless not hesi-
tate to help his dear friend Hartman
In holding two million acres of the
public domain because hen TilIman has
contemplated and wanted To buy LAO
ceres.
1.-THE President, having convicted
Tillman, proceeded to clear Dorr, in
both cases contrary to the facts, and
smilingly stares from the centre of the
stage, which ii is his greatest delight
to occupy. and complacently looks to
have the American people and the Sen
ate give their approval to his verdict