The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-27
Cromwell, Farnham. Taft
 and Others Named.
SAYS THEY ARE RoBBING
 PANAMA AND UNCLE SAM
Declares These Men Have Assis-
 tanee of Administration.
sxr. Raiaey Was Particularly Bitter in
 His Denanesation of Mir. Crem- we'll, Whom He Deeiasea to ft De Leader sf Gang.

washington, Jan. Exchanging that William Nelson Cromwell, Roger l.. Farnharn, Charles P. Taft. and others. are parties to the most infamous rail- road proposition ever submitted to any government" and that they are being permitted not only to rob the republic of Panama but indirectly the treasury Ralney. of Illinois, directed the search light of publicity upon affairs. in the canal zone in a startling speech In sup- port of his resolution providing for an Investigation by Congress of the Pan- anna canal purchase.
 Tn their efforts In this direction" he continued, they have had so far the complete cooperation and executive assistance of the present admintstra- tion and of the next President of the United States"
 Mir. Rainey traced the history of the proposed canal 800 years back and warned that we have already started in the direction of the rocks upon which the French companies were wrecked. s, ,.
 Referring to the governments libel suit against The New York World and the grand jury investigations now in progress In this city and in New York. MT. Rainey said:
 ''If we are to carry this project through to a successful conclusion, we must avoid graft. It Is not the part of wise statesmanship to dispose of resolutions asking for an investigation of any phase of the canal question with the sweeping and absolutely unsup- ported official declaration that there is nothing to investigate It Is not the part of sound statesmanship and true patriotism to attempt to revive the ob- solete common law remedies of 200 years ago and to employ all the tEe- mendous agencies of the government in attempting to crush newspapers who have had the courage to call attention to questionable transaction in con- nection with the scanal,3 <
 He submitted for record vax5ous pa. pers and dpcunaenfs in suppoFt of many Allegatio1s contained in the speech.
 UeAUumeeA CrunaSsetl.
 MT. fsainey was parficulariy bitter in hts denunciatlon of Mir. rCror we'll, general counsel of the new French Panama Canal company and counsel and director of the Panama Railroad, which is owned By the United States government. He charged that through the r1anipulations of Mir. Cromwell, the French Canal Company was per- mitted to steal from the United States government three or four million doI- lars, and that after he had become an ofiicer in fact of the United States, he became party to an attempt to col& lect from the United States fraudu- lent claim on the part of the canal company of $2.200, ,0OO."
 He also was unsparing in his attack upon Don Jose Domingo de Obaidl, President of Panama, who he said, re- piled. "as no other Spanish American statesman in his generation, all that is corrupt in Spanish-American poli- tics.
 without obaldi,Y he stated, "Crom. welrs career would have been impos- sible. Without Cromwell, ObaIdl would have been impossible"
 Against President elect Taft, now eIl route to the canal zone, Mir Rafney directed the. accusation that on the occasion of his last trip to Panama in May, 'he did nothing on the isthrnus except to openly push the candidacy of obaldi for the presidency." He as- serted that very thinly yelled threat to seize the republic If obaidia was not elected, was contained in a letter written by Mr. Taft to the then Pres- ident Amador and that to prevent this crisis. Obaldia's opponent withdrew. Reference to President RooseYelt's re- cent attack on Senator TiIlman was made by Mir, Rainey In asserting that Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, was responsible for the expenditure on January last of over one million doi- lars for the purchase of the steam ships Shawmut and Fremont for the Panama Railroad Company, which the Canal Commission did not want and did not need, but which were bought because "the constituents of the senior Senator from Massachusetts wanted to sell them"
 He said: For some weeks the secret agencies of the government have been at work Investigating the senior Sen ator from South Carolina. They have" he said, discovered that he used his frank inadvertently in send ing correspondence and so deprived the government of revenue to the amount of cents, and this matter was con- stdered important enough to be em- bodied in special message from the President to Congress. The senior Senator from Massachusetts. believe. Is stlIl Invited to the White House dfn- ners. is the Presidents friend and ad- visor and the cabinet maker for the incoming President. have not heayd Of any secret service agents disturb ing the senior Senator from Massacbu- setts. and yet he is directly, individual. ly and solely responsible that there was taken out of the treasury of the United States, over one million dollars
 CrOmweII's Work
 "A year or two after the Indenend. ence of Panama" continued MT. Raj. ney. the officials of the little repuhIjc commenced to absorb ideas of patri- otism peculiarly dIstasteful to Mr Comwell. Mir. Cromwell determine5 to dispIace Dr. Amador and the other leaders of the constitutional party of Panama and put in as president some more pliant parsonage. less devoted to high ideas and of course in such an emergency as that his attention was directed to his old friend and ally, Obal dia. He was man after Cromwell's own heart. So it was determined that Obaldia was to become President of Panama. Cromwell and his friends had developed certain methods for de- spelling and robbing the little country and they did not propose to be inter- rupted in any way by the awakened public patriotism and honesty of pr. Amador and his friends.
 Subsequently" he said, "Obaldia's opponent withdrew on account of the interference of Secretary Taft In the elections, and Obaldia was elected. In President Amador's farewell message Go the General Assembly," said Mir. Rainey. The directly charged MT. Taft EiNh forcing Inc -alANffOu of OhaTdfn