The Cairo bulletin., 1909-01-12
T|LLMAN DENIES
CHARGE OF GRAF 7.
SAYS PRESIDENT is GUILTY OF
MALICE, cOWkRpICc AND
FALSiFICATlON
LIVES IN GLASS HOUSE
Promises Later in Session to Bring
Him Face to Face With Himself
Senator Too Weak
to Sceak Lonrcr.

! Washington, Jan 11.-Being gree t.
ed by applause from the galleries
whom he entered the senate chamber
| today to reply to President Roc Sc.
ivelts structures in respect to his con-
nection with Oregon timber land
| transactions Tillman proceeded to
| read his prepared remarks with litl3
attempt at oratorical effect.
TN my public work hert said
Mr. Tillman, Il have not hesitated to
criticise and comment on the official
actions and utterances of President
Roosevelt, and | have doubtless given
him good cause to seek revenge.
have, at various times, arraiencd him
for tyrannical invasion CT the rights
of congress, for usurpation CT au.
thority not given him by the consti.
tutiCn, for disobedlence of the law,
and the neglect of duty, and par.
ticularly in the case of Mrs Morris,
fro brutal and cruel conduct toward
a helpless woman.
wants 10 Get even,
Il was not aware that these dar
of mine had quivcred in the executive
hide and stun- l,m SO, but the eager
ness and intensity with which he has
presented his case against me, bis
making precedent, when none has
existed before, his taking from the
committee to which he had forward
cd them. the papers and giving them
to the press before that committee
had considered them, indicates that
Theodore Roosevelt enjoys to the
limit the feeling of getting even with
E2n Tillman, and lays on the big
stick with 'she lseenest relish, but
believing that the pitch
fork has gone out of business"
He accrsed the president Of per
sonal malice. misrepresentation, falsi-
flcation, cowardce, hitting below the
holt" contempt Of the senate, and
Of the law In the Use cf the
secret service.
Papers Were Stolen.
Incidentally he gave utterance to
Irday that important papers bear
ln the case at issue had been stolen
rem his desk in his room at the capi-
.ol probably by some Of the secret
;ervic esleuths."
II" also arraisned the president fer =
the so-calIed Steel trust to {
ibsorb the Tennessee Coal and Iron /
company and for helping his d ar ,
riCnd Hartman to hold two million I
crcs of the public domain, because
3en Tillman wanted to buy LAO" ,
The senator demanded the most d.
earching investigation of his con !,
uct and invited comparison of his
private life and public work with
hat of Theodore Roosevelt, or any
ther man" Il
He admitted that he was perhaps s
isingenious in the statement to the e
enatc' declaring that he had not +,
ought or undertaken TO buy" any n
the lands in question. Everything. u
c declared hinged on the meaning q
the word undertaken" as he f,
sed it. He had not paid any money p,
or had he taken any ones receipt,
the usual process by which one un- a
eftakes 10 buy land"
II have not attempted to deceive
nyhody" he declared with emphasis.
have not told any falsehoods. 81
ave not broken any laws. | have not "
cen guilty If any immoral conduct. !
had the right to purchase the land ID
! could" d'
1T has been expected and desired. ol
p said, that having made my own d
efense | would turn my batteries on q
" assailant. ! do not feel that my In
.rengih is sufficient for the double bi
lsk. for my physicians have warnel II
Ie against overtaxing myself. One M
the truest and best sentiments in al
nglish literature is this from Tenny-
IN 'Soiling another will never make b.
he's self clean bi
Lives IN Glass House. fe
The president lives in a glass fl
luse. with even a glass foor in g.. h
ld should remember the old adage.
O. has eKerted all the power Of the y
Jycrnment 70 destroy me. but feel le
.at ! can stand unscathed. because di
al other arguments fail to convince al
on. the character for rectitude. truth 81
lness and honesty on which ] "a
Ave buiided in siKfy-one years Of nv -
.e. would AZ least be my bulwark. O.
On who have always been clean and N
1norsbie do not suddenly become t'
hrs and hyPOcrites AZ sixty-onc.
ithOut any necessity. 81
VIII Show Him NO Later. Iiv
Later on in this session Il Is mvi
lrp0se TO devote some time 70 bring