The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-01-14
MR.TILLMAN'SREPL
Gives President Few a ProdS
of the Pitchfork.
HE DEMANDS AN INVESTIGATION
Wanted to Buy Land-Isand Held IN
lawfully Exposed the Wrong and
the Frauds Not Guilty of Crime.

In addressing the Senate Monday
Mr.. Tillman arose to a question of
personal privilege, declaring that for
the first time in the history of this
government, so far as he had been able
to learn, a member of. the Senate Ead
been brought to the bar of public
opinion before the Senate itself to4Be
Judged under indictment by no less a
person than the President of the
United States. The tanner of doing
it, he said, and the animous and zeal
displayed by the Chief Executive were
worthy of consideration.
The Senator limited his scathing of
the President being warned by his
physician against overexertion. He
said:
Zone of the truest and best senti-
ments in English literature is this
from Tennyson: 'Soiling another
will never make ones self clean.'
"Later on in this session it is my
purpose to devote some time to bring
ing Theodore Roosevelt face to face
with his true self and let the people
Of the United States see what charac-
ter of man they have been so bowed
down to. For the present / content
myself with applying to him this quo
tatiOn from Spencer's Fair Queen
"'He RACES throughout the whole
world, neither is there any that can
restrain him. Of late he has grown
especially presumptuous and pestilent,
barking at and biting all alike wheth-
er they be blameworthy or innocent.
None are free from his attacks. He
spares neither the learned wit nor
the gentle post, but rends and tears
without regard of person, reason or
time
SIN my public work here" said
Senator Tillman, 81 have not hest
lated to criticise and comment on the
official actions and utterances of Pres
kident Roosevelt and / have doubtless
given him good cause to seek revenge.
I was not aware that those darts of
mine had q~uivered in the Executive
hide and stung him so, but the eager
ness and intensity with which he has
pICSCIllCu Ills case dSdAllSb Lit III
making a precedent, when zone has
existed before, his taking from the
committee to which he has forwarded
them the papers and giving them to
the press before that committee mad
considered them, indicates that TheO-
dore Roosevelt enjoys to the limit the
feeling of getting even with Ben Till
man and lays on the ''Big Stick with
the keenest relish. doubtless believ-
ing that the 'Pitchfork' has gone out
of business"
He declared that the President
was was an adept at advertising 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 offthe
House of Representatives on Friday
lin laying part of his message on the
table, by the sensational accusation
against a man who has had long SER
vice in the Senate. ~
-"First, he promotes me to member
ship in the Ananias Club. and charges
in effect that I have deliberately lied
to the Senate.
"Second, he charges that / have
exerted my official influence and work
as a Senator for my personal benefit
alone to- secure the passage of a reso-
luton and to press che Department
of Justice to bring suit against The
corporation which holds so much OF
kthe public domain in the West and
will not sell it to settlers under the
terms of their grants from the gov.
ernment. {
He has prepared his indictment
with eonsummate ability and skill
He is even cunning in the apparently
innocent pretense that in making a
search through the secret service fol
one kind of malefactor he has r1r
down another aud the case of that
one, of such serious Importance, that
his sense of official obligation com.
PEELED him to prompt action. MARI
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 did not
make them known then"
AS to the Oregon land affair Tho
Senator says: cit will be noted that
I accused Dorr in the Senate of beins
a swindler, and asked the Postofict
Department to issue a fraud ordel
against him. Dorr declared in hi:
circular: so sure is Senator Tillmar
of our success that he has subscribed
and paid the necessary fees for {
quarter section for himself and ter
other quarter section for ten of hi!
nearest relatives DORIS declaration
that I had paid the fees is an abso
lutte falsehood and the p~ostofice in
spectors, while they searched the re
cords for entries at Coquille- and not
ed that Reeder & Watkins had flee
several hundred applications NJ
where mentioned that any had beer
filed in my name or for me. There
fore, the falsehood is proven on Dorr
and yet the President declared 'tht
assault which Senator Tillman made
upon Mr.. Dorr was, according to the
report of the inspector, a wanton as
sault made to cover up Senator Till
mans own TRANSACTIONS
"Now about the lying: Ny lettel
of February 18th, of which the Presi
dent secured a Photographic copy