The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-23


 ling successfully tried and Is worth try ing over and over again.
  | dental election with Bryansm as the direct issue.
 "A man said to me the other day: I never have paid one cent to the dem j. cratic party in my life. 1 am a repub- liean and have contributed to the repub- lican party as a matter of principle. But
 what can l do under the terms of such a law as this? l shall simply have to do whatever is commanded of me- Just think for moment what this means
 to this great city of New York" In his reply the colonel wrote to Sen- ator Platt:
 = Tn the first place, my dear senator, let me express my sense of the frank ness, courtesy and delicacy with whi .h you write and with which you have is- variably treated me ever since my nom | nation. The very keen sense that l have of this makes it more unpleasant than can say to have to disagree with you. l am peculiarly sorry that tie most serious cause of disagreement should come in this way right at the end of the session. T feel the most profound indifference | to the clamor of the yellow papers I | think l showed it in my attitude in put | ting the militia in readiness in Buffalo to meet the strike Any applause 1 get from any such source would be too evanescent for a moments consdera- | tion.''
 Another Letter In another letter from Senator Platt | to Colonel Roosevelt in August, 1900 tte senator discussed gubernatorial timber and said he had not yet made up his mind whom he would select. In his reply dated at Oyster Bay, Col onel Roosevelt among other things, had 1 this to say:
 You say that we must nominate some | republican who will carry out the wishes | of the organization and add that T have not yet made up my mind who that man l 1s.' or one thing l am certain; that to have it publicly known that the candi- | date whoever he may be will carry out the wishes of the organization would in- | sure his defeat; for such a statement implies that he. would merely register the decrees of a small body of men. It | is not the business of a governor to carry out the wishes of the organiza- | tion' unless these wishes coincide wirh | the good of the party and of the state. l "I am a good organization man my | self. as I understand the word organ | ization. But it Is to the highest degr ss | foolish to treat any man or any small group ef men as embodying the organi-
 zation."
 l The letters in the record, MT Twins re- turned to the questions of righteousness. | He asked:
 | Has not every man an equal right to determine his own rule of righteousness and his own time for applying it?" He has, replied the witness, If he has got the root of righteousness in him. l If he is wrongdoer, he has not" "WlO Is the judpp. yOll or hao' l Tt may be that I have to be judge, or him." said the colonel, heatedly. eff I
 had to be the judge I will give exact example: Senator Burton---' You need not" interrupted the law yer, who was himself interrupted by Mr
 Bowers, chief of Colonel Roosevelt s counsel, who said: Why not?''
 l MT. Wins replied: q did not object | to his answering I object to his man. ner."
 "Oh, that is it. is it?" replied MT. | Bowers sarcastically. I .~"I do not want to be eaten up here | right now MT. Wins replied, and Mr. Roosevelt said:
 q will gestculate to the jury" You can say it to the jury without being so emphatic" replied MT. Wins. l q feel emphatic about it. said Colonel 1 Roosevelt, 'but I will try not to be em- phatic. For example Two of my earliest associates and supporters when I be- came President"
 T object to it as not being respon- sive,'/ v said MT. Wins. "It is. sir, if you will let me answer, about the ruling of righteousness. re- | piled the witness.
 l The court interrupted the examination at that point Later it continued. | Now, during your entire term of gov | +oI xrrif I, Mir. Platt, did you not, as a leader of l your party?"
 "rhe whole time I conferred and con- suited with MT. Platt with a genuine purpose to do what he wished whenever
 I honorably could with regard to the in- 1 terests of the party. with genuine desire | to keep the republican party together and minimize the centrifugal influences within the republican party to prevent | it from flying asunder.'' l T congratulate you upon your" said l MT. Twins.
 That" replied the witness, happened | to be an expression I used at the time
 in a letter to John Hay, in which !
 spoke of my relation to Platt on the one side and to the independents on the other.'
 1 AS a matter of fact, you have used phrases. built them up. formulated them,
 finally got them into ultimate shape Wncn Was satlslactory to you, nave you not?"
 Sometimes. Sometimes I have struck them off by accident
 AS a matter of fact you began the formulation of the publication of which we complain in speeches which you be. l gan to make as early as 1911 and the l formulation was not finally reached un. | til we complained, was that the fact?' | "No. the formulation of part of that
 was reached only after I had consulted with Mir. Loeb as to his experiences as to what Mir Platt had told about Mir. Platts doing in connection with the gov ernment at Albany An Organization Man
 Later on the witness repeated he was an organization man. MT. Wins replied | You need not treat me as mass meeting. as I am not" :! You have had no controversy with ! Mir. Barnes or MT. Platt because of the
 fact of his organization and hOse-abiu