The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-09-17
GONG. TAWNEY
STRIKES BACK
CHARGES FORMER FORESTER
WITH MISREPRESENTATION
OF FACTS.
ALWAYS STOOD BY ROOSEVELT
Support of the Government Within
Law His Purpose, He says.-As
Appropriations Chief He At.
tempted to Benefit People.

tempted to Benefit People.
Rocheste, Sept 14.-Before an audi.
ence that cheered him to the echo
and on the same platform from which
Clifford Pinchot had spoken a week
before, Congressman James A. Taw-
ney answered his political critics.
1t was remarkable speech, spoken
in remarkable way. The town of
Rochester was out in full force and
nearly every community in Olmstead
county and in the entire district was
represented. The speech was deliver.
ed in the Metropolitan opera house.
The address of Congressman Taw-
ney was directed chiefly towards Gift
ford Pinchot. The fighting congress.
man, the man who has the reputation
of possessing more nerve and fight
ing characteristics than any man in
congress, did not mince matters. He
said he hesitated to characterize the
former forester by the shorter, uglier
word, but proceeded to take up the
Pinchot charges one by one, and to
read the record on him.
The address was pitched on high
plane. Mr.. Tawney says the fight
being made on him is waged chiefly
because of the fact that as chairman
of the committee on appropriations,
he has awakened the hostility of pow.
erful interests.
He read from the letter written by
Senator Knute Nelson to C. l.. Sven.
son of Albert Lea in which the sena.
tor from Minnesota offers his testi.
mony in opposition to the charges that
have been made against the first
district congressman.
In outlining the position which he
has taken as chairman of the com.
mittee on appropriations Mr.. Tawney
was reserved and took no drastic posi-.
ton. He insisted that this was q gov.
eminent within the law and not gov.
eminent by executive choice and pref.
erence.
With this as a text, the speaker pro.
ceeded to show that his actions as
the chairman of the committee on ap.
preparations had been actuated by a
desire to do good for the public serv.
ice and to conserve the public rev.
enues.
Relative to former President Roose.
welt, Congressman Tawney paid an
eloquent tibute to the militant colonel.
II voted for every one of the meas.
ures President Roosevelt praised and
commended congress for enacting,"
said the speaker and the audience
cheered this magnanimous tribute to
the former president to the echo.
Il deny that am an enemy of Mr..
Roosevelt" continued the speaker aft
er the storm of applause had died
out, nor do l believe he bears any
enmity towards me. Mr.. Roosevelt is
man of great force, positive in his
ideas and emphatic both in manner
and voice when expressing them. l
might add, there are other men in this
country who possess, perhaps in less
degree, the same qualities. Mr. Roose-
welt and have neved had any person.
al difficulties. Speaking generally we
have always agreed upon all public
questions outside of the appropria,.
ton, of public moneys. Only two
years ago, in the first session of the
Slxtleth congress, we worked side by
side and no man rendered me greater
assistance when was fighting the
organization of the house in an en-.
deavor to force it to offer a resolu.
ton fnstructing the ways and means
committee to begin work of tariff re-
vision before the Republican national
convention declared in favor of such
policy. No man, l say. rendered
more valuable assistance in this fight
against the house organization prop.
osition than Mr.. Roosevelt.
Il was entrusted by him and his
manager, Mr.. Cortelyou. with the re-
sponsfble position of director of the
speakers bureau for the national com.
mittee when he was a candidate for
the presidency in the United States in
1904. According to his own testimony
which l have, successfully managed
the speaking campaign for him in ri
states. For that service he Afterwards
extended me his thanks and congratu.
lations. From that time until he went
out of Office as have said, our differ.
ences have been few and were wholly
confined to the expenditures of public
moneys"