The Detroit times., 1910-08-08
AlDR|CH FLIES
|T0 VIOLENT RACE
20 Il An Outrage" He snarls
ben Asked About Reported Con-
nection With Rubber Trust.

RovlDENCE. r. l.. Aug. s.-Unit.
states Senator Aldrich has not
. any reply to Senator Bristow's
gos. and he intends to make none.
Rhode Island senator made this
clear today to . reporter who Wis
him at his magnificent estate at
wick Neck, q few miles out of
violence.
nen asked to reply to certain Ques-
embracing Senator Bristow's
ges, Senator Aldrich, In q rage.
ined to make any reply.
nave seen nobody and spoken to
one from any newspaper on this
5ect or any other subject" he en-
med. "and I am not going to. I
e nothing to say now or at any
pr time"
hts declaration followed an angry
purst from Senator Aldrich, pre-
tated by the fact that a reporter
reached him personally. The or.
are strict that no newspaper men
" have access to him, and they are
Prced as strictly as intelligent SER
To know how. But a reporter
ght him by himself In the great
thouse that he has built on the
70 OF his estate.
Fhen he learned the identity Of the
tor the senator's rage knew no
nds and he declared that the estate
, private property on which news
Ser men had no right to intrude.
five questions were then submitted
Senator Aldrich. These were the
Sstions:
n It true. as Senator Bristow
3, that you own $3.50 shares, or
reabouts, OF the preferred stock OF
Intercontinental Rubber Co. and
poo shares. or whereabouts, OF the
ne company's common stock?
II II true that your son, Edward
Aldrich. ownes $500 shares Of the
|ercontinental Rubber Co.'s common
lex?
Is It true that you are deeply, II
|irectly, interested In the cotton
|nufacturing industry?
!. Did any OF these facts, II they
fActs, influence you In favoring the
10 changes made In the rubber and
ton Industries?
3 II these things be not true, what
your opinion Of Senator Bristow
b wherein else does he lief
Benator Aldrich took the list OF
estions and glanced at them q mo-
Int Then he exclaimed, his eyes
ling between the paper and the re-
fter:
Ill won't read 1t, sir. This Is an
krage-to intrude thus on my pri-
BY. T"-(with another glance at
questions)-"won't read this. l
mt read anything. have been pes
ned to death by reporters from Bos-
and Providence and New York
10 wanted to see me, and I have
sn nobody and spoken to none of
,m till you got here. And when
d are gone I'm. going TO take good
re- that no more get to see me.
We nothing TO say now or at any
aer time. Good day. SIR"
He was waving the paper containing
! questions as he reached the eli
~ of his remarks, and now and then
! glance strayed at the list OF ques-
me. AS he turned away he made
offer to return the paper, but on
4 contrary took 1t back upstairs
IN him. and the reporter could OBJ
rye him reading 1t carefully as he
mt upstairs. All subsequent efforts
reach the senator were unavailing.
win Rhode Islands next United
stes senator be Col. Samuel p. Colt.
Bristol; Col. Henry F. Lippitt. OF
IA city or Senator Nelson w. AID
n. for a sixth termf
public opinion In the last two
,nths seems to have crystallized
r,dlv in favor of the election OF Col,
N. who was the majority candidate
his party to succeed Senator
,oree Peabody Wetmore, but was de-
TED nv a coalition Of Democrats
a Republicans who refused to 60
- caucus and frittered away the
mary session OF the 1907 general
ssmbly with fruitless balloting.
Greater even than Senator Aldrich
,weyer. as a captain Of industry Ia
!, Colt. who q few years ago was
director In more than two score cor
nations president of the United
stes Rubber Co., a director In the
ner,can Wooden Co. and president