Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-12

| played by the Chief Executive were
worthy of consider| ion.
Mr.. Tillman called attention to the
| publication Of these charges by the
President before they had been consid-
| cred uy the committee of the Senate to
which they were referred and declared
that in so doing the President had
treated the Senate with that con-
! tempt which had been his won't" He
declared that the President was an
adapt at advertising and had used the
| press with more skill than any man in
| American politics.
"Arother 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.
| nv the sensational accusation against
| a man who has had long service in the
Senate
"An examination of the Presidents
letter to Mr.. Hale which might just as
we'll have been special message Of
the type with which we ere SO ia
milar," said Mr.. Tillman, will show
that the Presidents charges boiled
down amount to two in number"
First, he promotes me to member
ship in the Ananias Club, and charges
in effect that 1 have deliberately lied
to the Senate.
Second, he charges that | have ex-
erted my official influence and work as
4 Senator for my personal benefit
alone to secure the passage of reso-
luton and to press the Department of
Justice to bring suit against the cor
| pora lion which holds SO much of the
public domain in the West. and will
not sell it to settlers under the terms
of their grants from the government.
"t ''a4 rrnpared his Indictment
viii r,nsuN,natc ability and skill He
is even cunning in the apparently in
nocert pretense that in making
search through the Secret Service for
one kind of malefactor he has run down
another and the case of that one OF
such serious Importance that his sense
oc official obligation compelled him to
prompt action. Mark YOU he has
been in the possession of all the facts
in this case since July last and men
will be curious to know why. if his
zeal was honest, he diG not make them
known then"
Quoting from the Presidents mes
sage to the House on January Attn In
which he said he had no charges OF
corruption against Congress nor
against any member of the present
House, Mr. Tillman said:
ut follows that he found no grounds
for indicting NE in the courts, which
no doubt would have reioiced him owe,
| + f,,v nd
about the seriousness of the case and
| The gravity of the offensc with which
| no charges me can be attributed to per-
Sonal malice alone.
Referring to the Presidents letter t
| Senator Hale Mr.. Tillman declared
| that the President recognized the ex-
traordnary character of his action "a:
| well as the unlawful use he has mad
OF the Secret Service" Mr.. Tillna
said he did not deny the authenticate
of the letter or the telegram of W!icl-
photographs We're made and he pI0
s1med the letter from William r. Lee
was also correct copy. but he was moi
aware of it's existence until it was
brought to his attention by the Pres
| ident's statement and added that he
Twas not IN airy wise responsible fol
| Mr.. Lees ideas expressed in it. TAX
| ing up the Pre- Sident'S statement con-
| corning Dorr, q land agent making his
filings through Reeder and Watkins of
| Narshfeld, Oregon, Mr.. Tillman says:
| 1T will be noted that l accused Dorr
in the Senate Of being swindler. and
asked the Postoft'cc Department to is
sue fraud order against him. Dorr
| y in, GjrC
Senator Tilhnan Of our success that he
has subscribed and paid the necessary
fees for a quarter section for himself
and ten other quarter sections Tor ten
of his nearest relatives
ut was this bold and outrageous
falsehood mairly that caused me tC
Genounce Dcrr as a swindier as well as
to declare in the Senate that he had nc
v arrant for the assertion. The sleuths
which the President put upon my trai
have made their reports and perusa
Of it will show to any fair mind tina
: 50 far from erdeavoring to justify thu
fraud order against Dorr they wer'
really put to work to investigate me
: and endeavor it possible to discove
something to my discredit while tn
: President directed the investigation.
5 say this because it is hardly possibl
that a Postoffice Inspector would Sc
about getting Photographic copies o
the letters of United States Senate
/ and trying TO convict him Of lying
t the orders did not come from a hig
. source.
A let us suppose for \ moment that
n was guilty Of falsehood in declarin
n that I had not undertaken to pur
d chase any land. What did that llav
n to- do with DORIS transparent an
d open use of the mails to induce me
e to send him money to purchase land
y Dorr's declaration that I had paid til