New-York tribune., 1911-01-15
ROOSEVELT TAKES Up
cUDGELS FOR LODGE.
Accuses Congressman AmeS OF
Deliberately Misrepresent-
ing Facts.
HIGH PRAISE FOR SENATOR
Representative Had Told of AL.
legged Attempt to Sell Golfers
to Government at Cost
of S1,500,00O

Boston, Jan. 14-Ex-President Theo-
dore Roosevelt took a leap into the Mas
sachusetts senatorship contest tonight,
when in telegram addressed to Joseph
Walker. Speaker Of the Massachusetts,
House Of Representatives. he vigorously
championed the cause OF Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge and charged Congressman
Butler Ames with deliberately misrepre-
senting facts. The telegram. which was
sent from oyster Bay, was called forth
by the publication to-day Of an alleged
statement by Congressman Ames. who is
active in opposition to the candidacy Of
Senator Lodge for reelection. 1t reads
as follows:
oyster Bay, Long Island. n. Y, Jan. IA.
Hon. Joseph Walker. Brookline. Mass:
Story told by Butler Ames, reported in
newspapers as 10 the alleged converse
ton between me. Lodge and Newberry
about purchase of colliers, is a deliber-
ate and outra geous falsebood. l never
made any such remark and no such
conversation ever took place. During
the tventy-six years l have known Sen
ator Lodge he has acted on all occasions.
and especiallv on every occasion when
he has dealt with public matters or mat
ters having any connection with the gov
ernment's behalf not merely with apso-
ute honesty but the highest and most
delicate sense of propriety. | never mad
anv talk with him about these colllers
at all. II is shocking to think that Mr..
Anes should invent such an outrageous
falsehood about a public man or such
rigid integrity and probity, falsehood
d ~
foundation in fact.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Congressman Ames was quoted as say
ing that Mr. Roosevelt when President
reprimanded Senator Lodge in the pres
erce Of Truman L. Newberry, former
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, for an
alleged attempt to force the purchase OF
two golfers by the Navy Department at
a cost Of S1.5O0,OO0.
According to the published statement
credited 10 Congressman Ames Presi-
dent Roosevelt. after listening to Assist
ant Secretary Newberry's explanation
turned to Senator Lodge and said:
cabot. I told you not to monkey win
t,osa things Secretary Newberry is alb
llItSt lillilS"s
solutely right
Mr.. Ames said his information DIS -
the conversation came from MT New
berry.
Assistant Secretary Newberry re-
fused 70 buy the Golfers said con-
gressman Ames. 1T was clear case Oh
evtortion upon the part of financial IN
terests in Boston who had these t"o
boats the Suffolk and the fremont
living idle on their hands at the Fore
River yards, in Quincy
..Tbe boats were 10 be unloaded upon
the government at a cost far beyond
their real value of 100000.
senator Lodge deftIy engineered the
thing through the Committee on Naval
Affairs and afterward had the propo-
eition nut through Congress as an
a arnendn1ent to the sundry appropriation
bill -,.,- ,,
After learning of Mr.. Roosevelts COM
ment tonight Congressman Anles sdlu
'T am neither surprised nor disturbed
NJ nv initiation into the celebrated club.
T have invented nothing and have not
I,novinglv overstated or misStated the
cosa 'The fact that | should be initiated
into the celebrated club before pains
we're taken to get an accurate statement
from me. was TO be expected.
Il have given to the press this after
noon what I believe TO be true state
ment of the facts in connection with
those colliers. I was TO some extent IN
correctlv quoted in the morning papers
The latest statement TO which Mr..
Aroes refers denies that he ever men
toned the particular words ealing
down" or called down. in reference
TO Mr.. Roosevelts conversation WIN
SSrator Lodge. otherwise, the state
,,lnt does not differ essentially from his