The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-12
T|LLMAN DENIES BEING CRIMINAL
AND COURTSA FULL INVESTIGATION
Scores The President And Says Roosevelt Rssas Criticism HIS Official
Acts And Has Gone To Limit IN Ehdeavor To Get Even

Washington, Jan. 12.-Being greet
ed by applause from the galleries
when he entered the senate chamber
to reply to President Rooseyelt's
structures in respect to his connection
with Oregon timber land transac-
tons. Senator Tillman of South Caro-
lima proceeded to read his prepared
remarks with little attempt at ora
torical effect. He was accorded care
full attention by senators on both
sides of the chamber, the public and
private galleries being taxed to their
full capacity by visitors, who ocou-
pied all the seats and standing room,
while without the entrances long
lines of men and women unable to
gain admission stood for nearly three
hours vainly hoping to enter the gal
leries
In addition to his speech, which
had been printed in advance, Mr. Till
man had prepared other brief re-
marks, which he read. ieN
+ ut has been expected and desired"
he said, that having made my own
defense, should turn my batteries on
my aSSaiIant | do not feel that my
strength is sufficient for the double
task, for my physicians have. warned
me against overtaxing myself. One
of the truest and best sentiments in
English literature is this from Tenny-
son: 'Soiling another will never make
ones self clean
Admits Crtcising Roosevelt
I'm nay public work here" said Sen
ator Tillman, IL have not hesitated to
criticise and comment ON the official
actions and utterances # President
Roosevelt, and have doubtless given
him good cause to seek revenge. L
have, at various times, arraigned him
in the senate for tyrannical invasion
of the rights of congress, for usnrpa-
ton of authority not given him by
the constitution, for disobedience of
the law and the neglect of duty, and
particularly in the case of Mrs Nor
ris, for brutal and cruel conduct to-
u H.
aware that these darts of mine had
Quivered in the executive hide and
stung him so, but the eagerness and
intensity with which he has present
ed his case against me, his making
precedent when none has existed be-
fore, his taking from the committee
to which he had forwarded them the
papers and giving them to the press
before that committee had considered
them, indicates that Theodore Roose-
welt enjoys to the limit the feeling of
getting even with Ben Tillman, and
lays on the big stick with the keen
est relish, doubtless believing that
the 'pitchfork' has gone out of bust
ness"
can examination of the presidents
letter to Mr. Hale which might just
as well have been a 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 num-
ber.. First, he promotes me to men,
bership in the Ananias club, and
charges in effect that / have deliber-
ately lied to the senate. Secnad, he
charges that l have exerted my off,
cial influence and work as senator
for my personal benefit alone, to Sc
cure the passage of a resolution and
to press the department of Justice to
bring suit against the corporation
which holds so much of the public do
main in the west, and will not sell
it to settlers under the terms Of their
grants from the government"
Quotes From Message.
Quoting from the presidents mes
sage to the house of Jan. 4, in which
he said he had no charges of corrup-
ton against congress nor against any
member of the present house, Mr.
Tillman said: 1T 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 fustain about the seri-
BUSINESS of the case and the gravity
of the offense with which he charges
me can be attributed to personal
malice alone.
81 have not attempted to deceive
anybody; l have not told any false
hoods; have not broken any law; 1
have not been guilty of any immoral
conduct. had the right to purchase
the land IL could, but my judgment
told me II was unsafe as an invest
ment. l would like to get some of it
yet and If the attorney general and
his successors shall not die of old age
before anything is done, it may be
possible that l may have the opportu-
nifty to purchase some of these tim
Der lands of which he made mention
In his report. Through my action, at
teution has been directed In q. COM
polling way to the need OF prompt
action by the department OF justice.
Whether I eyer get any Of the land
or not does not matter. II Hartman
and others of that Hk are made to
disgorge the large holdings which thsy