Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-01-12

Ice IN The senate.
Sees Only Personal Malice.
"An examination of the presidents
letter to Mr.. Hale which might just
as well been special message of the
type with which we are so familiar,
said Mr.. Tillman. will show that the
presidents charges boiled down,
amount to two in number.
First he pdomotes me To member
ship In the Ananias club, and charges
In effect that have deliberately lied
to the senate
Second, he charges that ] have ex-
erted my official influence and WORK
rs a senator for my personal beneht
alone to secure the passage of reso-
luton and to press the department OF
justice to bring suit against the cor
poration which holds SO much OF the
public domain in the west and VIII
not sell 1t to settlers under the terms
of their grants from the government.
"He has prepared his indictment
with consummate ability and skill. He.
is even summing in the apparently In
nocent pretense that in making
search through the secret service for
one kind of malefactor he has run
down another and the case of that one.
of such serious Importance that his
sense of official obligation compelled
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 honest, he did not make
them known then"
he
sage to the house on January in
which he said he had no charges of
corruption against congress nor
against any member of the present
house Mr.. Tillman said:
ct follows that he found no grounds
for indicting me in the courts which
no doubt would have rejoiced him over
much and all this fuss, fury and
fustian about the seriousness of the
case and the gravity of the offense
with which he charges me can be at.
tributed to personal malice alone"
PRESIDENT Used sieuths UnawfuIy.
referring to the presidents letter
to Senator Hale, Mr.. Tillman declared
that the president recognized the ex-
traordinary character of his action as
well as the unlawful use he has made
of the secret service. Mr. Tillman
said he did not deny the authenticity
of the letter or the telegram of which
photographs were made and he pre-
sumed the letter from William E. Lee
was also correct copy, but he was
not aware of it's existence until 1t was
brought to his attention by the presi
dents statement and added that he
was not in any way responsible for
Mr.. Lees ideas expressed in it. TAX
Ing up the presidents statement con
corning Dorr, land agent making his
filings through Reeder and Watkins OF
Marshield, Oregon, Mr.. Tillman says
1T will be noted that Iaccused
Dorr in the senate Of being swindlel
and asked the postoft1ce department
to issue a, fraud order against him
Dorr declared in his circular Sc
sure is Senator Tillnan of our sue
cess that he has subscribed and pait
the necessary fees, for a, quarter sec
ton for himself and ten other sec
tions for ten Of his nearest relatives.
1t was this bold and outrageous false
hood tina caused me to denounct
Dorf as a. swindler as well as to de
clarer:ii1 the senate th.-t he had nj
warrant for the assertion. The sleuths
which the president put upon my trai
have nade their report and a perusa
SO far from endeavoring to justify The
fraud order against Dorr, they were
of it to- show. to any fair mind tina
really put toWorlz to investigate INT
and endeaVor II possible to discove
something to my discredit. while thu
president directed the investigation.
say this because it is hardly possibl,
that a postoffice inspector would Sc
about getting Photographic copies o
the letters of a United States senate
and trying to convict him of lying
the orders did not come from a higj
source. Let us suppose for momen
4 that l was guilty Of a falsehood il
declaring that ] had not undertakes
to purchase any land. What did tina
have to do with DORIS Transparent
and open use of the mails to induc
men to send him money to purchas
land? DORIS declaration that I ha
paid the fees is an absolute falsehoo
and the postofdce inspectors. Will
they searched the records 70
entries at Coquille noted tha
Reeder and Watkins had file
severed hundred applications, ne
where mentioned that. any had bee
filed in my name Or for me. Therefore
the falsehood is proven on Door an
yet the president declared the assault
which Senator Tillman made on Nj
Dorr was according to the report c
the inspector, wanton assault mad
to cover up Senator Tillman's ow
transactions
TilIman Says He Acted in Open.
mo such statement was made b
the Inspector. In fact so earnestly il
tent on convicting Senator Tillma
Is the president, he actually commit
himself to this proposition, towit: :
Tillman voluntarily and without an
compulsion from any source, an
with nothing to conceal, brougt
up a matter in the senate which h
need not have done to cover Il
transactions which were absolutel
unknown to any one except himse
and his correspondents. Reeder an
Watkins. and were entirely honorabl
and clean. Much exposure closed o,
the swindIers. Dorr, when his ma
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