Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-24

Did you include Mr.. barnes IN tnl
list Of lieutenants in 1882"
NO"
Did you include him in that clas
in 1899 or 1902"
mo"
If you did not so regard him win!
did You consult and associate will
him.
Barnes Above Average Run
Because thought he was above tn
average Of the run OF politicians.
believed he might become a most use
full citizen"
did you you discuss his mora
standards with him.
i did. expressed my hopes to him
So while you were ia Albany yo'
were acting as political monitor il
order to make q good citizen"
Il tried to get every man to &C
rightly. Most politicians had two ma
lures. however. I regarded Mr. Barnes
SIS DR.. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde. He hat
two sides, good and bad one, a!
other politicians had.
Barnes Appointment
White House stationery by Colonel
Roosevelt to Mr.. Barnes telling him OF
appointing him to Office.
Did you appeipt Mr.. Hyde Barnes OF
Or. Jekyll Barnes?"
Il wanted to get the DR.. Jekyll out
OF him The treasury department said
he had done his work well and deserved
Ireappointment
so YOU tried to cut the ligaWents be-
tween these Siamese twins-Jekyll and
HYDE"
absorb the other"
Mr.. WINS picked up Colonel Roose-
velt's autobiography again and read an
excerpt about some people dislikinS Mr..
Platt for esthetie rather than moral
reasons.
wi hen reformers' an excerpt from
the autobiography read in part wanted
to oppose Mr.. Plat they put up some
big business man or some man who
bathed every day and did not steal
know the silk stocknged refWmers and
the machine, too The SIX stockinged
reformers cannot be trusted
Several more excerpts were read about
reformers and about the witness trying
to get Mr. Plat to ceme to his way of
thinking. The witness said what he
wrote expressed his state Of mind at
the time of writing.
When did you last look over this
chapter about your governorship?"
About five months ago. think"
Then the similarity Of your testimony
here is due to phraseological persist
ence?'
Yes"
Formulate
"In fact it comes to assume the form
Of a formula"
Nothing assumes the form of a form
,ula."
do you believe two and 4xo make
fouN.'
"Oh, yes
Isn't that a formula?''
In reply the witness laughed heartily.
In your correspondents with Mr.
language you used In your autobio-
graphy?'
Il possibly did I don't remember.
That doesn't fall within my description
of a formula
Autobiography Excerpts
Mr. WINS read again from the au-
photography. He put into the record
an excerpt containing the quotation:
1T is easier to be a harmless dove
than a wise serpent The excerpt
went on to say in effect that he tried
to get Senator Platt to come to his
Colonel Rcosevelts) way Of thinking.
The colonel told also Of his meetings
with Platt, which he wrote. always
took place openly.
Another excerpt was:
Performers Of the Tom fool variety,
seeing these open breakfast meetings
between Senator Platt and myself,
and never following the sequence Of
events. would talk Of my conferences
with the boss, not realizing that I
was bending the senator to my views.
or failing, telling him frankly I would
fight him if had to-
Mr. WINS showed the witness a note
which the latter said was not in his
handwriting though he might have
dictated it. He didn't know when the
note was written.
IF Mr.. Barnes were to say he re-
ceived that note soon after you became
governor. would you say he was in err
ror?"
mo. I had many such letters writ
ten. My secretary never placed his
initials under my name when he sign
ed it, as he should have DONE
The note was on the. stationery of
the Executive Mansion, Albany, and
read:
Dear Mr.. Barnes: Can you come
around tomorrow evening about 9
o'clock?"
Il slow you series Of letters that
passed between you and Mr. Barnes
in 1899 and 1900. Can you identify
them?"
Identifies Letters
Colonel Roosevelt took the letters
and read them. He replied they were
all his letters. He also identified a Sc
ries of carbon copies Of letters, dated
1898, which he said he received from
Mr. Barnes. The carbon copies had to
DO with discussions or suggestions
made by Mr.. Barnes to Colonel Roose-
welt in regard to the latter's action on
legislation just prior to the time Col
onel Roosevelt became governor.
The first letter was dated Nov. Is,
1893. In it the writer said he had re-
ceived applications from certain Of