Arizona republican., 1915-04-29
Colonel Roosevelt on Sev- enth Days Examination Tells Why He Conferred With Senator Platt on Many Occasions
MAY CONCLUDE HIS
 TESTIMONY TO-DAY
At Close of Long Examina- tion Former President is Full of Vim and Spirit and Tells the Jury Many Things
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SYRACUSE. April 2S.-Theodore Roosevelt on his seventh day on the witness stand, amplfied the answers he made 10 questions asked on cross- 1 examination by counsel for William Barnes, plaintiff in the suit for libel against the former president He told why he conferred with Senator Platt. while governor. vice president and president, and related how he threat cned Platt just prior to the Philadelphia convention in 1900 that he would fight
 for the New York gubernatorial re
 nomination if the easy boss" made good his threat to keep him out of the race as a punishment for not accept ing the nomination for vice president. The colonel told these things and many others on redirect examination.
 The minute his cross examination was ended the colonel sat up alertly in his chair. The solemn expression that enshrouded his features during the last two days of cross-e examination gave way to jolly smile. He leaned toward the jur.; he squared his jaw: raised his voice, lifted his open hands and brought them down upon his thighs. He pounded with his clenched fist upon his open palm. He used every gesture and every movement at his command to make his words forceful. As he stepped from the witness stand al the end of the day he laughingly said: T am not tired" Speaking of Platt. the former president of the United States said he conferred with him on matters legislative. administrati tive and political because he considered the senator's wide experience valuable and because he realized that the organization con trolled in the legislature and that the senator controlled the organization.
 T did not want to disrupt the repub- lican party" said the colonel. "as long as l did no wrong act in preventing it. Then. too, I wanted to get affirmative action in Albany. I could prevent wrong being done if I broke with them, but could not get affirmative right done. When there was doubt in my mind I conferred with the senator as the head of the organization while at the same time, primarily. doing what the interest Of the state demanded I found when there was apt to he an issue between me and the state senate it was advis- able to go where the power lay and not to talk to men who merely carried out the bidding of Platt. I consulted Platt on all important matters that came up."
 The colonel was asked many ques- tons about spondence which
 passed between him and Platt. which was read during the cross eXamnat ton.
 He tried tn explain to the jury state ments made in the correspondence about the franchise tax: about Barren
 Island: about appointments; about Architect Trowbridge and the chance he wanted to bid upon government work: about breakfast meetings with the senator and about disagreement over the renomination of Governor Hughes. He corrected testimony about the campaign fund of 1914: and he claimed as his own campaign speeches in which he said things about Barnes. Tomorrow may be his last day on the stand. His own counsel said tonight they would conclude the redirect eX- animation of their client early in the forenoon session. The consensus of opinion among the attorneys seemed to ] be that the additional cross -eXamina- ton by Counsei for Barnes will be brief. At the conclusion of the proceedings Colonel Roosevelt had been in the wit ness chair for a total of nearly 35 hours.