The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-29
Aldrich Says "He Told Pack OF
Lies About Me-
Declares Kansan Should Have
Spoken in Senate.
TELLS ABOUT RUBBER
Ayers DuttOn Statement Takes
Care Of That.
Presumption Is That Rhode Is
lander Wrote 1t.

Providence, r. L, July 29.-For the
first time since he has been bombarded
by Senator Joseph L. BristoW of Kan
sas and other insurgent members of
the upper chamber of congress, Senator
Nelson w. Aldrich has hit back.
THAT man Bristow is telling a pack
of lies on me-" declared the man, who
for nearly twenty years has been the
boss of the United States senate. There
was bitterness in his voice. His brown
eyes snapped fire He bit his lips and
turned sharply on his heels to walk
away from interviewer. Then he stop
ped With his face flushed and his
fingers twitching, Aldrich continued:
He has told so many lies. he manu-
factured them so rapidly-that would
not know where to begin should take
notice of him and make denials."
But SENATOR" it was urged, your
friends think your name demands that
you refute the more serious charges
concerning your work on the last tarlH
bill and the alleged motives that con-
trolled you
II don't need advice as to what
course 1 should pursue in this or any
other matter 1 generally manage to
take care of myself in the proper way
when the time to do so comes.
senate E<llQuCCOO tAOAN~O~-.
eff the charges had been made upon
the floor of the senate the case might
have been different" was suggested
With a sardonic smile that ran into
a chuckle the senator responded:
"Yes, yes, you notice they don't talk
about me that way on the floor OF the
senate. If they should
At this point the senator stopped
short. He again bit his lips. Turning
again from the interviewer he walked
away and refused to say anything
more. In uttering the last sentence
his manner indicated that he mad IN
mind a rigid rule of the senate Whlch
forbids any senator to speak disre-
spectfully of another senator or OF an
other senator's state.
Political supporters of Senator Aid
rich say that because of the violent
attacks made upon him since the ad-
journment of ongress-attacks that
even impugn his personal nonor as
senator-probably he viii yield to
their insistence and renounce his re-
Gently expressed wish not to be re-
elected. They are insisting upon his
return to Washington with the vim
dication of a constituency he has serv-
ed nearly thirty years and go after
| his detractors in that body.
Refers to Dutton Statement.
THAT man Bristow even charges
| for stock speculation purposes" said
lAldrich, in the brief talk he had with
his interviewer The senator laughed
as he spoke of this charge, but would
not comment upon it. "As to his
charge that 1 raise the tariff on rub
ber," he went on, cautiously, well
| that has been taken care of In q
| statement made by Walter Dutton
ysecretary of the Intercontinental
Rubber company"
| Senator Aldrich spent Monday even
! ing and the greater part of Tuesday II
New York in conference with Secretary
Dutton and other officers of the Inter
continental Rubber company-th.
rubber trust. 1t is therefore presumed
| that he assisted Secretary Dutton IL
| preparing the statement in which Sec
| retary Dutton defends Aldrich from
| only a part of the Bristow charge
The Kansas senator declared tina
through Aldrich's powerful influence il
| the senate the duty on MANUFACTURED
rubber had been increased from 80 t.
35 per cent. He also called attention
to the fact that Aldrich, his son, Ed
ward B., and the Rockefellers, one O
whose sons is the son-in-Iaw of Sen
ator Aldrich, owned large interests il
| the rubber trust through their contro
of the Intercontinental company. Th
Dutton statement calls attention to tn
fact that there never has been a dut,
on crude rubber and rests the at
tempted refutation of the BriStov
charge upon that fact.