The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-11

to wait until Monday with the hope | that my defense. without being inad- | vertentIy .nutilated, would reach the people in good time.
 tAn examination of the Presidents letter to MT. Hale will show that the Presidents charges, boiled down, amount to two in number. First, he promotes me to membership in the | 'Ananias Club and charges in effect, that have deliberately lied to the Senate.
 l "Second-He charges that have eX- erted my, official influence and worked as a Senator for my personal benefit alone, to secure the passage of reso- lution and to press the Department of Justice to bring suit against the cor porations which held so much of the public domain in the west and will not i sell it to settlers under the terms of their grants. He is even cunning in the apparently innocent pretence that in making a search through the secret service for one malefactor he has run down another and the case of that one ! is of such serious importance that his sense of official obligation compelled l 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 so marked, he did not l make them known before.''
 MT. Tillman here quoted from the Presidents special message to the pulp lie on the secret service in which ho declared that If he had proof of cor ruption of any member of the House he would take prompt action in the courts against such member" 'It therefore follows continued the Sena- tor, that he has found no grounds for indicting me- which would no doubt rejoice him over overmuch and all this fuss, fury and fustian about the seri- ousness of the case, and the gravity of the offense with which he charges me can be attributed to personal malice alone.
 1''In my public work here I have not hesitated to criticise and comment up- on the official acts and utterancea of President Roosevelt and I have doubt less given him good cause to seek re- venge. l have at various times ar raigned him in the Senate for tyran- n1cal evasion of the rights of Congress for usurpation of authority not given him by the constitution. for disobedi- ence Of the law, and neglect of duty, and particularly i'll the case of Mrs. Morris. for brutal, cruel conduct to- aware that these darts of mine had quivered in the Executive hide and stung him so deeply"
 Referring to that portion of the let ter to Senator Hale which describes how the Tillman case came to. the Presidents attention the Senator said: It is well to note that the President recognized the extraordinary character of his action as we'll as the unlawful use he has made of the secret service He pretends that his case against me has been worked up by accident, by reason of discoveries of the inspectors in Investigating the fraudulent trans 2 fIok the facts ought not to be hidden or suppressed"
 After admitting the authenticity of the letters and telegrams as shown as exhibits, Senator Tillman entered into lengthy discussion of his transactions Il nunciation of Bryan R. Dorr on the floor of the Senate for stating in the circular to the prospective clients that he had paid the necessary fees for a quarter section for himself and ten other quarter sections for ten of his nearest relatives
 "The swindlers had secured good many thousands of dollars before the exposure in the Senate stopped peo- pie from being duped, and yet Theo- dore Roosevelt, who poses as the on- ly remaining honest man in public life in the face of these facts, has felt call ed upon to attack the character of
 
 been questioned, whose official position is second only to his own.
 Will the president undertake to say l nave lost my right to buy land be- cause l am Senator? Can the Pres loent deny that my activity secured the passage of the resolution instruct Ing the attorney general to bring suit TOT the recovery of this land for the use of actuaIssettlers? If Hartman and others like him are made to dis gorge by reason of these suits, shall the fact that I was endeavoring to buy little pittance of the land be used as the basis of charge that am a liar and corrupt Senator?
 The president lays great stress on the statement of mine made the 18th of February, in letter to Dorr. The President gloats over the fact that my letter was written just four days be- fore he announced in the Senate that he had not undertaken to buy any land in the west as clinching his conten- tion that have lied to the Senate. The records show that in the interim, the Dorr circular had been sent to be.
 "It is easy for those who are them selves vulnerable to convict others on the most flimsy evidence and the Pres ident seems to work on that theory.v
 After referring to the failure of the Supreme Justice to bring suit to re- store the Oregon land grants to the puUllC uOlIdll, senator I1llman nreQ this parting shot at the President
 "The man who announces to Con- gress that he, Theodore Roosevelt, as- stunned the right to permit the steel trust to absorb it's greatest rival, con- trary to law would doubtless not hesi- tate to help his dear friend Harri- man in holding 100000 acres of the public domain, because MT. Tillman has contemplated and wanted to buy LAO acres. The President having condemned Tillman proceeds to close the door in both cases, contrary to the facts and smilingly retires from the center of the stage which it is his greatest delight to occupy and compla- gently looks to the American people and the Senate to give their approval to his verdict. I await that verdict calmly and without fear and will glad ly abide by it.''
 HARTMAN FULLY RECOVERED.