The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-04-19


and Clerk Charles Clark said, Barnes
VS.. T. Roosevelt, libel"
Both sides answered ready and the
eighty talismen summoned for the iurv
were called. Thus without preamble
the most sensational political battle of
a generation was on. The selection of
a jury will consume the day.
Mystery deep and dark today en-.
shrouded the plaintiffs end of the $780,
600 libel suit. while the spotlight of
widest publicity played over the plans
OF the colonial's defense,
Barnes to Tell All.
Most OF the Roosevelt witnesses
nave been announced. The Barnes
forces have announced only two of
their witnesses.
William K. Ivans. chief Counsel for
the ex-chairman of the Republican ma.
tlonal committee, early today said Mr..
Barnes was trying to conceal nothing.
that for his direct testimony to prove
the utterance and punishment of the
alleged libel. wherein Colonel Roose-
welt had called him a corruptionist,
would require few witnesses.
The bulk Of the Barnes witnesses.
said 1vans, will be called in rebuttal.
and these wound depend largely on
the amount of Colonel Roosevelt's tes-
timony that Justice William S. An
drews will let in.
Reveals Old Skeletons.
Roosevelt is prepared to delve into
the family secrets of the New York G.
o. P. for twenty years back, il ths
court will sanction it. Barnes plans
and witnesses will be made known.
said Ivans, after it becomes apparent
how far the Colonel can CO.
Justice Andrews and Colonel Roose-
welt were Harvard classmates, and
Mr.. Barnes is Harvard graduate.
Thls is not political law suit at
all. 1vans said today. Mr. Barnes is
not trying to make political capital out
of it and l do not think Mr.. Roosevelt
will be allowed to. Usually when one
man assaults another, he is arrested.
In case where he cannot be arrested,
the next best thing is to sue him. That
is this case in nutshell Mr.. Roose-
Welt verbally assaulted Mr. Barnes.
My client sued him. doubt very much
if the court will allow in the record
anything but testimony on the spe-
cific alleged libel and the defendants s
refutation of it. The talk about bring.
ing in political secrets for two de-
cades back amuses me-"
Ignore Each Other,
1t is believed that the first broad
side of the battle will come as soon as
the jury is completed, when John D..
Bowers. the forty-two centimeter gun
of the Roosevelt battery. will move to
dismiss the complaint. He will argue
the motion at length, and Ivans, the
"seventy-five" Of the Barnes forces,
will oppose it vigorously
The first furry of the engagement
occurred at 10: so last night when Col
onel Roosevelt and Mr.. Barnes. accom-
panied by counsel. arrived on the same
train.
Roosevelt came off first with his
familiar black slouch hat, heraIded by
There's Teddy now," shouted by a
brakeman. He showed his teeth in a
Roosevelt grin to the waiting throng of
Syracuse people and posed for a flash
light picture.
Nothing to say" he said. any
thing from me in this case, except my
testimony, will have to come from Mr..
Bowers
Mr.. Barnes and Mr. Ivans followed
| the Colonel from the train. Fellow
passengers said that when Barnes and
his counsel boarded the train at AL.
bany and found their seats were in
the same car with the Roosevelt party,
they changed to the car ahead,