Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-01-27

dollars for the purchase of the steam.
ships Shawmut and fremont for the
Panama Railroad Company. which the
Canal commission did not want anc
did MT need but which were bought
because the constituents OF the
senior senator from Massachusetts
wanted to sell them" He said that
for some weeks the secret agencies
OF the government hau been at work
investigating the senior senator
from South Carolina. They have
he said. discovered that he used his
frank Inadvertently in private cor
respondence, and so deprived the gov.
eminent of revenue to the amount OF
two cents and the matter was con-
sidered important enough to be EN-
bodied in special message from
the President to congress. The SEN
Tor senator from Massachusetts. | be-
lieve. is still invited to White House
! dinners. is the Presidents friend
and adviser and the cabinet
maker for the incoming pres
dent. | have not heard CT
any secret service agents disturbing
the senior senator from Massachu-
sets. and yet he is directly. individu
ally and solely responsible that there
was taken out Of the treasury Of the
United states over one million dol
lars"
"A year or two after the 1ndepen-
dence of Panama" continued Mr..
Rainey." the ocifials of the little re-
public commenced to absorb ideas OF
patriotism peculiarly distasteful to
Mr.. Cromwell Mr.. Cromwell deter
mined to displace DR.. Amador and the
other leaders of the constitutional par
ty of Panama. and put in as President
some more plant parsonage. less de-
voted to high ideas and of course IN
such an emergency as that his at
tenton was directed to his old friend
and ally. Obaldia. He was a man at
ter Crcmwells own heart. So it was
determined that Obaldia was to be-
come President of Panama. Cromwell
and his friends had developed certain
methods Tor despoiling and robbing
the little country. and they did not
propose to be interrupted in any way
by the awakened public patriotism
and honesty of Doctor Amador and
his friends
subsequently, he said. "Obaidia's
opponent withdrew on account of the
interference Of Secretary Taft in the
elections" and Obaldla was elected
In President Amadors farewell mes
sage to the general assembly, said Mr..
Rainev he directly charged Mr. TAFT
with forcing the election of Ofaldia
The plan CT Mr. Cromwell and his
loft "a h
solutely appropriate to their own
use the revenues of the Republic
and to steal the forests and the public
lands. The necessity for Mr.. Taft's
interference and for the election OF
Obaldia becomes now as plain as
day.
Infamous Proposition.
Mr.. Rainey referred to the fact that
there was pending and about to be
adopted in the General Assembly OF
Panama the most infamous railroad
proposition ever submitted to any
government" by which Randolph G.
Ward. of New York, was to be large
" the beneficiary. He called atten-
ton to what he sad was the failure
Of Arnold Shanklin, the American
Consul General at Panama, to make
report requested by the Bureau OF
Forestry last year because che evil
IDENTIFY, feels he owes his position
there to William Nelson Cromwell"
and charged that certain Interested
parties were seeking to levy tribute up.
on the people Of aPnama and indi-
rectly the people OF the United States
in connection with these timber land
deals.
c. p. Taft interested.
1T will be interesting to know who
the gentlemen are who are attempt
ing in this way to impoverish the
Republic of Panama. he said land
he mentioned William Nelson Crom-
well. Roger L. Farnham. w. S. Har-
vey and Charles P. Taft.
Since the election of last Novem-
ber'. he continued. under the shad-
ow Of the dome Of the Capitol a
bread line appear daily. constantly in
creasing in length. II We permit the
scheme of William Nelson Cromwell.
and others through on to the !sthmui
Of Panama. this government will have
there a Tread line containing four
hundred Thousand people" II wei
permit the men who are attempting
to steal and to appropriate to their
own use the revenues Of this repub-
lie" We place npon the ,nitej States
the burden of caring for these people.
he said
II do not charge that the gentle
man who will be iBaugurated presi-
lent of the United States on the
fourth day of March is party to this
infamous scheme for rcbbing this
little country. His friendship for
Cromwell Farnham and z. A. Drake.
NJ hoard ~ dsTec-