Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-22
BITTERLY ATTACKS
COLONEL IN HOUSE
Representative Campbell Is
Wildly Cheered During De-
nunciation of Roosevelt.
BRANDS HIM AS GREATEST
POLITICIAN SINCE CAESAR
Following Napoleon's Plan for OBJ
tanning Imperial Power.
CHARGES TRUST AFFILIATIONS
Kansas Member Declares Lincoln
Pointed Out Just Such Danger
as Former President
Now Is.
Following Napoleon's Plan for OBJ
tanning Imperial Power.
CHARGES TRUST AFFILIATIONS

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With bitterness and vehemence which
Is seldom equaled on the floor of the
House. Representative Campbell of KAN
sas today assailed Col Roosevelt for
thirty minutes, terming him a demagogue
politician without equal since the days
of Julius Caesar, and a man, who is un-
dermining the confidence of the people in
their most cherished and most sacred in
sti-ution
Representative Campbell's speech was
interrupted time and again by the widest
cheers from both sides OF the House, for
as he decried Col Roosevelt in one SEN
tence he praised President Taft with an
other.
An unusual demonstration took place
on the floor of the House when Mr..
Campbell accused Col. Roosevelt of an
underhanded connection with the United
States Steel Company the Harvester
trust and the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company. The cheering of the demo-
cratic side drowned the efforts of Speak
er Clark to bring the House to order
and the democratic members were help
ed in the noise making by some of the
republicans.
Has Been Repeatedly Flayed.
For some weeks past" said Mr. Camp
bell. Col Roosevelt, receptive candi-
date for third term as President, has
taken occasion to fay me before the
American people. He did this in letter
TO Senator Dickinson. which was given to
the press before it was mailed TO the
Senate. He flayed me in his Carnegie
Hall speech. in various parts of New Eng
land, and elsewhere throughout the coun-
try.
He continued his methods throughout
the west and in Kansas, my own state.
he began early in the morning and con-
tinued all day long to make me the prin-
cipal subject of his addresses.
Il happened to be a candidate for men,
bership in this House. and Col. Roose-
velt's grievances arise from the fact that
In my speeches / have exposed the
idiocy of his proposal to appeal from q
court decision to the crowd which gathers
In the courtyard 1 declared that cer-
tain appeals in such cases were like ap-
pealing from the umpire to the bleach
ers.''
Representative Campbell then read from
q newspaper giving an account of
Roosevelt speech in Kansas. where the
colonel had accused Campbell of saying
the people are unfit to rule.
Reads ColoneIs Writings.
And yet that statement is not made
by ward politician said Mr.. Campbell,
but by a candidate for the presidency.
Il confined myself in my Concord
speech especially to discussion of
Roosevelt's Columbus speech, and his
favoring of the appeal to the people on
constitutional questions. / had authority
for making a reply to the absurd Theo-
dore Roosevelt proposition, and l noticed
the colonel has begun to see the absurd
ity of these same propositions. l had
been reading Roosevelt and / know his
estimate of the value of judicial deci-
sions.''
Representative Campbell then read from
some Of the writings of Col. Roosevelt TO
show that Roosevelt had high regard
for certain men who know how to hand
out judicial decisions.
THAT was Col. Roosevelt when not
third term candidate exclaimed Mr.
Campbell
paragon of original virtue. He has as
sailed men who disagree with him on
: any question and brands an infamous
scoundrel any man who happens to op-
pose him. The democratic applause was
terrific at this point.
Lauds Taft's Administration.
Representative Campbell continued:
Il have been told that l would take
my political life in my hands by assail-
ing the colonel on the floor of the House
after the colonel had attacked me in my
own state. l would despise myself il 1
did not reply to him, and my political
friends and foes alike would despise me
also.
Il was told that my life was in my
hands when 1 assailed the Standard OH
Company, when l assailed the bucket
chops; and 1 was told the same thing
WREN 1 assailed the INSCRIPTIONS manu-
facturers in an effort to enact laws for
the protection OF the people: and I have
been told the same thing today because
resent the insult which Roosevelt gave to
Kansas last Friday, when he assumed
the people of that state did not know the
difference between a shrewd political
campaigner and a judicial decision"
Representative Campbell went into a
discussion of the initiative and referen-
dunn for several minutes and then began
to throw barbed arrows at Col. Roose-
welt.
The people Of the United States de-
mand Of their public servants protection
against the trusts that not only control
business. but politics as well. The Presi-
dent of the United States has responded
to this call and has brought more indict-
ments against these illegal combina tions
than did his predecessor.
Let me ask Theodore Roosevelt only
: Did you or did you not send a note
to the Department of Justice asking that
further prosecution Of the Harvester
, trust be discontinued?
Cheer Like College Students.
No sooner had these words left his lips
than the cheers in the House Of Repre-
sentatives were as loud. as boisterous and
as enthusiastic as those of a winning side
at a college foot ball game. and Repre-
sentative Campbell continued, as II speak
ing directly to the colonel.
ibid you not fay the malefactors Of
great wealth, in public, and then in the
night did you not hold secret conference
Sith the heads Of the United States Stee
Corporation and the heads of the Ten
nessee Soal and Iron Company
Speaker Ciarks gavel worked like a
riveting hammer, but the cheering men,
vbers gave their enthusiasm full vent.
Mr.. Campbell gave several examples oi
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