Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-01-18
AMES PUI IN
ANANIAS CLUB
He Is Accused Of Outrageous,
Deliberate FdIsehOOd
ROOSEVELT WIRES TO WALKER

Vigorously Denies That He Repri-
manded Lodge For "Monkeying'
With Purchase Of Golfers, anc
Praises Senator's Honesty-Con'
gresham Says He Has Not Over
stated Case and Reiterates Charges
Boston, Jan. 6.-Congressman
Butler Ames, Republican candidate
for United States senator against
Henry C. Lodge, was placed squarely
in the Ananias class by eX-Presiden'
Roosevelt in a telegram to Speaker
Walker of the Massachusetts house.
Mr. Roosevelt brands as 'deliber-
ate and outrageous falsehOOd" the |
statement made by Ames that Roose-
welt had reprimanded Lodge in the |
presence of former Secretary of the |
Navy Newberry for his alleged attempt |
TO force the purchase of two golfers |
by the navy department at a price al
$500 900 in excess of their real value.
THE story told by Ames, reported
in the newspapers, as to the alleged
i conversation between me, Lodge and
Newberry about purchase of GOLFERS
is a deliberate and outrageous false
hood Roosevelt telegraphed from
q Oyster Bay Il never made any such
remark. and no such conversation
ever took place.
During the twenty-siX years | have
known Senator Lodge he has on all
occasions, and especially on every Oc
casiOn when he dealt with public mat
tiers, or had any connection with any
thing in the governments behalf, con-
Quoted himself not merely with abso-
lutte honesty, but with the most deli
cate sense of propriety.
Il never had any talk with him
about these golfers at all. 1t is
shocking to think that Mr.. Ames
should invent such an Infamous false
hood about public man of such
rigid integrity and probity, a false
hood for which there is not even the
smallest foundation in fact"
The story in question was told by
Ames Friday night He said Lodge
had fixed up an amendment to the
sundry appropriation bill so that nc
golfers but those he wanted could be
purchased; that Newberry protested
against the purchase Of those boats at
the excessive price asked, and that
when they saw President Roosevelt,
he said:
"Newberry, can't you and my friend
Cabot, get together on this PROPOSE
tion?" Whereupon Newberry told the
president the whole history of the
transaction, after hearing which
Roosevelt turned to Lodge and said:
Cabot, told you not to monke!
with these things. Secretary New
berry is absolutely right"
Mr. Ames said Newberry told hin
the story and that it was common tall
in Washington, but Newberry join.
with Roosevelt in branding it a lie.
After learning Of Rooseyelts com.
ment Ames said:
Il am neither surprised nor dis
turbed at my initiation into the cele
brated club | have invented moth
ing and have not knowingly overstate}
or msstated the case. The fact tha
| should be initiated iutO the celebrat
ed club before pains were taken to &c
an accurate statement from me wa
to be expected.
II have given to the press what
believe to be true statement of tn
facts in connection with these GOLFERS
was to some extent incQrrectl
quoted in the morning papers"
The latest statement to which Anne
refers denies that he ever mentione
the particular words calling down" O
>"called down" in reference to Roose
velts conversation with Lodge. 9th
,.erwise his statement is practically a
originally printed.
Senator Lodges friends and cam
paign managers profess to be happ
over the result of their weeks har
work and claim that the senator wi
he reelected in both branches of tn
legislature Tuesday and that a bale
in a joint convention on Wednesda
will not be necessary. One hundre
and twenty-on is a majority of I'll
house of representatives and twent.
one is a majority Of the senate.
Congressman Ames and his lie
tenants scott at the Lodge clair
and state that besides good spri
king of Democrats he will have thir
Republican voters In the house a
senate.
The combined Republican streng
on joint ballot is 1853. If thirty r
publicans should vote for Ames Tue
day and Wednesday it would me
that the legislature would be des
locked on the senatorship.