The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-12
Tilln1an's Introductory.

7 1l1IIldI1 Introductory y
in my public work here" said Sen
atoT Tillman. Il have never hesitated
to criticize and comment on the &C
lions and utteTances of President
Roosevelt and l have doubtless given
him good cause to seek revenge.
have, at various times, arraigned him
in the senate for tyrannical invasion
of the rights of congress. for uSurpa-
ton of authority not given him by the
constitution, for disobedience of the
law and the neglect of duty, and par
ticularIy iii the case of Mrs. Morris,
for brutal and cruel conduct toward a
helpless woman. I was not aware that
these darts of mine had QuiveTed in
the executive hide and stung him SO,
but the eagerness and intensity with
! which he has presented his case
against me, his making a precedent
when none has existed before, his
taking from the committee to which
he has forwarded the papers and Civ
ing them to the press before that
committee had considered them, indi-
Gates that Theodore Roosevelt enjoys
to the limit the feeling of getting
| even with Ben Tillman and lays on
the big stick with the keenest relish,
doubtless believing that the pitch
| fork has gone out of business.
An Unheard of Event.
In addressing the senate today Mr..
Tillman arose to a question of per
! sonaI privilege, declaring that for the
| eminent, so far as he had been able
to learn, a member of the senate had
| been brought to the bar of public
opinion before the senate itself to be
| judged under indictment by no less a
person than the president of the Unit
ed States. The manner of doing it,
| he said, and the animus and zeal dis
played by the chief executive were
worthy of consideration
Mr.. TilIman called attention TO the
publication of these charges by the
president before they had been con-
sidered by the committee of the SEN
ate to which they had been referred,
and declared that in so doing the
president had treated the senate with
| that contempt which has been his
wont" He declared that the president
was an adept at advertising and had
used the press with more skill than
any man in American politics
| Another probable reason for his
great haste" said the South Carolina
senator, was that he thought to de-
tract attention from the action of the,
house of representatives on Friday in
| laying part of his messages on the ia
Bile, by the senatorial accusation
against a man who has had long ser
vice in the senate
Presidents Charges.
AN examination of the presidents
letter to Mr. Hale, which might just
as well have been special message
of the type with which we are SO ia
miliar." said Mr.. Tillman, will show
that the presidents charges. boiled
/ IN fxr-n in. aTnr
First. he promotes me to member
ship in the Ananias Club, and charges
in effect, that / have deliberately lied
! to the senate
Second, he charges that l have
| eXerted my Official influence and work
as a senator for my personal benefit
| alone to secure the passage of a res
4 olution and to press the department
| of Justice to bring suit against the
| corporation which holds so much of
the public domain in the west, and
will not sell it to settlers under the
| terms of their grants 1rOm the gov
eminent.
President Cunning.
He has prepared his Indictment
with consummate ability and skill
/ He is even cunning in The apparently
| innocent pTetense that in making a
/ 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 COM
PEELED 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
| Quoting from the presidents mes
| 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 says;
at follows that he found no grounds
for indicting me in the courts, which
no doubt would have rejoiced him
overmuch 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 1T
tributed to personal malice alone"
Referring to the presidents letter
to Senator Hale, Mr. Tillman deciSr-
ed that the president recognized the
extraordinary character of his action
"aS we'll 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 we're
made, and he presumed the letter
! from William z. Lee. was also cor
rect copy, but he was not aware of
/ its existence until it was brought to
his attention by the presidents state
ment and added that he 7-as not in
any way responsible for Mr.. Lees
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