Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14

The tines of the ''pitchfork" had been
sharpened anew and the recent on
slaught of the big stick" was re-
turned with the South Carolina sena-
tors old-time skill Mr. Tillman ac-
cused the president of personal NAL
ice, Misrepresentation, Justification
contempt OF the senate, ana violation
of the law in the use of the secret
service. Incidentally, he gave official
utterance to the charge he made in
formally Saturday that important
papers bearing on the case had been
stolen from his desk in his room at
the capitol probably by some of the
Secret-service sleuthS The presi-
dent lives in a glass house with even
glass floor in it and should remem-
Der the old adage He has eXerted
all the power of government to do
stroy me, but feel stand unscathed,
because II all other arguments fail to
convince men, the character OF recti-
tude, truthfulness and honesty which
| have builded in 81 years of my life
would at least be my bulwark. Men
who have always been clean and hon
orable do not suddenly become liars
and hypocrites at 81 without any ne
cessity. Later on in this session ii
Is my purpose to devote some time to
bringing Theodore Roosevelt face to
face with his true self and let the
people of the United states see what
character of a man they have been so
bowed down TO. OF late he
has grown especially presumptuous
and pestilent barking at and biting
all alike, whether they 81. blame
worthy or innocent. Non IRE free
from his attacks. He SPARES neither
the learned wit nor the gentle poet
but rends and tears without regard of
person, reason or time
Repre- sentative KeifCr OF emo intro
duced a bill authorizing the secretary
of war to appoint a board of engineers
to make a preliminary location and
survey and to prepare plans for a
ship canal connecting Lake Erie aud
the Ohio river on the line of the Mi
ami and Erie canal from Toledo TO
Cincinnati.
Washington, d. c.. Jan. IL Illegal
diversion of public funds by the pres
ident and William II. Taft while see
rotary of war, to pay for the invesu
cation by private detectives into the
| Brownsville affair was charged by
Senator Joseph Benson Foraker Of
Ohio, in the senate in a speech In
| replying to statements of Herbert !.
! Brown of this city and William G.
Baldwin, of Roanoke, Va, who were
employed by the secretary Of war to
secure evidence of the guilt of negro
soldiers of the 25th infantry, United
! States army, in shooting up" Browns
Vile on the night of August Is and II,
! 1906. The government use Of the
private detectives was characterized
by Mr. Foraker as "atrocious, shock
| ing and revolving This charge of
illegally diverting $4,000 from the
war fund of $30O0,O0O appropriated
! by the deficiency act Of March ,, 1899.
was made by Mr.. Foraker in conclud-
| ing his remarks, which consisted of
very careful consideration of GER
tain legal phases of the Brownsville
affair and the reading of number OF
affidavits by soldiers whose testimony
and confessions" Mr. Browne al.
! legged he had secured to unravel the
my terry of the identity of the men who
! did the shooting and those afIidayits
denied with great particularly nearly
every statement of Importance by the
detectives. Speaking of the $1,000
600 war fund of 1899 appropriated as
an emergency to meet unforeseen con
! LingenCias constantly arising to be
expended at the discretion of the
president, Mr.. Foraker said: 1T viii
probably be surprising information
to the appropriations committee, as
| it will be to most senators, that this
! appropriation made ten years ago at
the close of the Spanish-AmeriCan
war, to enable the president to meet
emergency army contingencies such
as were then arising in connection
with our military establishment
| should have been construed to be a
permanent appropriation, and that
there is still a large unexpended bal
ance out of which payments Of the
character now under consideration
are being made