The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-28
Roosevelt Identifies Letters and Newspaper Articles
 in Court
PLATT AND TEDDY
 ON FRIENDLY TERMS
Opposing Counsel Have Heated Ar guments at Times During Sixth Day of Famous Libel Suit.
 Roosevelt Still Fresh

Syracuse, April a7.--Morc hitherto unknown chapters of political history We're revealed in the supreme court here today when confidential cores pondence that passed between Theodore Roosevelt on ono hand and William Barnes and former United States Sen ator Thomas C, Platt-'.the boss'-an the other, was ready to the jury
 It was the former Presidents sixth day on the witness stand in Barnes s5o,ooo suit for alleged libel
 The colonel identified the letters ard wound up the day by claiming as his own the speeches and interviews pub lished in New York newspapers in which he said some things about the men he called the bosses The names of Barnes, Murphy. Guggenheim. Cox, Lorimer. Penrose and others were scat tered through the articles
 The letters that passed between Col onel Roosevelt and Senator Plat showed that the two continued to con suit on Friendly terms while the for mer WAS governor, vice president and then President In a telegram sent to Colonel Roosevelt while he was gov ernor the senator urged the signing ia bill for exempting from the fran ohise tax grade crossing of steam roads and said that our friends of New York Central' and Senator Depew were anxious" Colonel Roosevelt re- piled that he had received the tele. gram too late" and that anyway ne considered the matter was one on which he should take the "advice Of the tax commission unless it could le shown that they were wrong
 Boss Shows Power
 In another telegram when Senator Platt insisted that Colonel Roosevelt, then governor. attend the meeting of commission the colonel after pro- testing, agreed Co do 50 and added. hut you are not an easy boss
 The colonel when vice president asked that his friends be taken care or by the senator. In other letters appointments were discussed, while m enc written hy the senator after Col- onel Roosevelt was in the White House, the cabinet to be selected y the mayor-elect of New York, Seth Low, was written of
 The name of William Barnes, the colonel admitted. did not appear once in all this spondence.
 The letters between MT. Barnes and the colonel covered a period between 1904 and 1910. Their tenor was en- tirely friendly and at times they al- most bordered upon the formal The appointment of men to office and Il. variety of political affairs were dis cussed and "Dr. Jekyl and Mr Hyde clements said MT. Barnes had in him were the subject of questions which resulted
 Lawyers Hostile
 Hostilities broke out between the op- posing lawyers several times The Roosevelt counsel fought against the admission of the newspaper articles Then when the colonel was asked about campaign contributions from men af- filiated With the American Powder company, the New Haven railroad. Harvester company, the Steel corpora tion and the Tennessee Coal and Iion company, whether he, as President of the United States, had ordered tho At torney General to investigate to bring action against the concerns, the attor- neys clashed.
 The Tennessee Coal and Iron com pany and competition by the Steel cor poration was under discussion when
 
 Colonel Roosevelt. said;
 Now, please stop with that We will be all summer trying this case
 We may replied William Wins chief counsel for Mir Barnes. We did not start this game"
 'N es. you did declared MT. Bowers, heatedly.
 "colonel Roosevelt made the first pub lication."
 Then the court intervened.
 The belief prevailed here tonight that the cross examination of the for mer President would end sometime to- morrow MT. Barnes was in court again today.
 which appeared in New York news- papers purporting to be correct reports of speeches and statements made by Colonel Roosevelt before and after the republican convention in Chicago in 1912. In nearly all the statements the colonel assailed the Murphy bosses' and he named Barnes of New York Murphy of New York; 'Penrose If Pennsylvania" 'Guggenheim of Col orado," Cox of Ohio.'' "Lorimer of Illinois, and several others.
 In one article Colonel Roosevelt made this statement:
 MT. Barnes stands for the worst form of bossism, and then he dis cussed MT. Tafts relations to the bosses and special interests in busi- ness "A vote for him CBarnes)," said the colonel in one place, "is a vote against decent American citizenship
 In statements issued after the coli vention Colonel Roosevelt was quoted as saying that the bosses stole delegates and that Barnes. Penrose and Guggen- helm would have looked well standing under the oaks in that Michigan city where the republican party was first born 56 years ago" In another state- ment Colonel Roosevelt mentioned Barnes. Penrose. Guggenheim and company" In still another the colonel had this to say;
 "We can be loyal to the republican, ism of Lincoln only by forcing aside the republicanism that dances in the letters of corruption under the whips of Penrose, Barnes and Guggenheiri."
 Colonel Roosevelt admitted. and ap- parently with some display of pride at times that he had said virtually all tie things accredited to him in the