Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

the senate of being swindler and asked
the postoffice department to issue fraud
order against him. Dorr declared in his
circular, so sure is Senator Tillman Of our
success that he has subscribed and paid the
necessary fees for a quarter section for him
self and ten other sections for ten of his
nearest relatives
sit was this bold and outrageous false
hood mainly that caused me to denounce
Dorr a swindler as well as to declare In
the senate that he had warrant for the
assertion
The sleuths whom the president put upon
my trail have made their report and a per-
usal of it will show to any fair-minded
person that so far from endeavoring to JUS
tify the fraud order against Dorr they were
really put to work to investigate me and
endeavor, if possible, to discover something
to my discredit, while the president d.
rected the investigation.
1 say this because it is hardly possible that
a postoffice inspector would set about get
ting Photographic copies of the letters OF
United States senator and trying to convict
him of lying if the orders did not come
from a high source
Let us suppose for a moment that I was
guilty Of a falsehoOd in declaring that l
had not undertaken to purchase any land
What did that have to do with DORIS trans
parent and open use of the mails to induce
to send him money to purchase landY
DORIS declaration that I had paid the fees
is absolute falsehood and the postoHice
inspectors, while they searched the records
for entries at Coquille, NOTED that Reeder
and Watkins had fled several hundred APP
plications,'' but nowhere mentioned that any
had been filed in my name or for me.
Calls 1t Wanton Assault
Therefore, the falsehood is proved on Dorr
and yet the president declared the assault
which Senator Tillman made on Mr.. Dorr
was, according to the report of the inspec-
tor, wanton assault made to cover up
Senator Tillman's own transactions.
No such statement was made by the in
spector In fact earnestly intent on con-
victing Senator Tillman is the president he
actually committed himself to this propo-
sition, to wit:
''Tillman voluntarily and without any
compusion from any source and with moth
ing to conceal brought up matter in the
senate which he need not have done, to
cover up trasactions which were absolutely
unknown to any one except himself and his
correspondents Reeder and Watkins, and
were entirely honorable and clean.
Dorr,i when his mail was not delivered
retired from the land business and became
a fruit grower as reported by the 1nspec-
tors. The swindlers had secured good
many thousands of dollars before much ex-
posture in the senate stripped the swindlers
and stopped people from being duped ana
yet Theodore Roosevelt, who poses as the
only remaining honest man in public life, in
the face of these facts, has felt called upon
to attack the character of man whose IN
tegrity has never before been questioned,
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his own.
In doing this he makes false declaration,
for of the inspectors now here say any
such thing as above quoted, which can be
proven by examination of their report.
About the "Lying"
Now about the lying: My letter of Febru-
airy Is, of which the president has secured
Photographic copy, antedated by four days my
statement in the senate that had not bought
any land undertaken to buy any, and the
president considered this positive proof of
falsehood.
Il did not say 1 had not considered the
purchase Of land; did not say had not con-
templated the purchase of land; because
had done both.
I'm my conversation with the attorney gen
eral in regard to the resolution 1 introduced
and which he himself produced after we had
talked over the land situation, distinctly re-
member telling him that my interest in the
matter had been first aroused by my desire to
purchase some of the timber land and that
my coming to him due to the fact that
discovered upon investigation that could not
buy it through any agency whatsoever, that
| could not buy it even by lawsuit because
was advised by very able lawyers in the
west, among then Hon. George Turner of
Washington, that in attacking the holders of
these land grants no one would have any
standing in court except the grantor, the gov
eminent itself L was perhaps disingenuous, but
a moments thought viii convince any hon
est minded man that as | had not signed any
papers, had not paid any money, had taken
nCbCdy's receipt, the usual processes by which
one undertakes to buy land L speaking
accurately and not falsely.
Everything hinges the meaning of the
wcrd undertaken and my use of it. Did
mean to conceal the fact that 1 was anxious
to buy some of the land? Not at all.
did I mean to attack Dorr swindler
when l myself was engaged in a dishonest
and dishonorable transaction? That is what
the president would have people believe. Can
l be justly charged with falsehood when if
had told the senate of the entire transaction
it would have made no difference whatever,
while 1 would have been charged with intro
ducing my private affairs into public discus
sion?
What law did 1 break2
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