The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-06-16
WILL ANS SCORES
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the senior senator from Mississippi
yield to the Junior Senator from Mis-
sippi?
Mr.. WILLIAMS. do
Mr.. VARDAMAN. | decline to an
swer any question the senior Senator
from Mississippi may PROFOUND to me.
Mr. WILLIAMS. The Senator de-
clines beforehand? Very we'll, then,
Mr.. President. | am not astonished,
but l will say this: | am not to be
thrown off of my guard, nor off of my
temper, by any amount of bad feeling
shown by that utterance. OF course
there must be a great deal of bad
feeling in the heart of a man who de-
clines to answer any questions before
the questions are asked merely be-
cause they are being asked by given
individual, who has a right to ask
them in seeking the truth
Mr. President, as I said moment
jgo, am delighted to know that this
sheet, which has represented only one
side of this controversy, which has re-
ported the speeches of only one side
of this controversy, which has been
engaged as one of chain of papers
which has been doing that, which has
given in full the speech of every man
who was opposed to the repeal of this
law. and which has said that the 9th
ers on the Democratic side of the tolls
question only also spoke" has ut
tered falsehoods about my colleague
so absolutely diaphanous that they are
not even quite decent fiction, because
my colleague has just said that he ha.
INDUCED in no word of bitterness in
this entire controversy. But as my
colleague has said he has not uttered
any word of bitterness, then these
statements in this interview must be
falsehoods; and | want to put upon
record the falsehoods of this in
famous interview, so that all men
may know how it has slandered my
colleague. l wanted to do this with
the aid of my colleagues denial, but
as he refuses to answer | can not
have that great aid. The Washington
Post quotes him as saying
| He deplored the position Pres
ident Wilson has taken, and char
acterized Mr.. Wilson's canal mes
sage to Congress as an affront to
the intelligence and patriotism OF
every member of Congress.
1t Is a bit bitter to say that Dem
ocratic Presidents public address was
so weak and so unpatriotic as to be an
"affront to the intelligence and pa
triotism of Congress-" This is an al
legged quoted interview: | go on:
| | have no more respect for the
integrity of man who will vio-
late pledge made in the perform
ance of a public function than /
have for man who accepts
bribe to control his official con-
duct
Declared the Mississippi Senator.
Now, remember that this is right
after he is reported as having said
that he deplored the position taken
by the President and regarded it as an
affront to the intelligence and patriot
ism of every member of Congress. To
whom was he referring if not to the
President?
This paper says that my colleague
said that a man who would win office
on a platform and then violate it after
getting into office is an embezzler Of
power" quoting Mr.. Bryan, land guilty
of crime of as great moral turpitude
as a soldier who would betray his
country in time of war"
This is all in connection with the
position of the President, which my
colleague charges with being a viola
ton of the Democratic platform. 1t
can not be true,that my colleague said
that. Those would be bitter words, in
deed, and bitterly dealt and received.
This alleged interview, under quota
ton marks, goes on:
1T is not that love President
Wilson less" said the Senator,
"but that | love the people of the
United States and my obligations
more
"The President has made the
issue squarely upon the right of
the United States to control and
manage its own property in the
canal. The American people spent
$4Oo.OOo,OOo to build that canal.