The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-06
T.R. Says Accuser Told Him
Officials Who DisObey
Are Punished.
CALLED PLATT METHOD
"ABSENT TREATMENT"
More Evidence Introduced
to Show Ring i'm State
Printing.

SYRACUSE. May 5.-Col. Roosevelt
sprang back into the ring late this
afternoon to take final swing at Mr..
Barnes. and he put all he had into the
punch.
He told the jury he had had II
straight from Barnes himself that
legislators and public officials were
forced to do the will OF the Republican
machine and were driven out Of public
life IL they refused.
He gave this testimony. the most
sensational Of the whole trial. imme-
diately after his lawyers had produced
evidence that bills TO eliminate waste
full printing had been killed by Repub-
llcan leaders and after they had
proved that thousands Of dollars were
handed by the J. u. Lyon Company to
Mr.. Barnes's journal Company for no
apparent reason except that Mr..
Barnes's political influence had to be
paid for.
With all Of the vim and vigor Of his
forceful personality the Colonel as
sured the jury that Mr.. Barnes by
his own statements had admitted that
he was eminently materialistic in poll
tics. had sneered at the notion OF the
'rffraff' attempting anything with
out boss rule and had disclosed the
secret workings and the wheels within
the wheels of the party political ma
chine.
Court Room Electrified.
MIR. Roosevelts testimony. every
word of which snapped with inten-
s.ty, electrified the court room and
aroused all hearers from the sleepi-
ness induced By hours of essential but
dull printing evidence. His final APP
pcarance on the stand In his own de
fence was the browning achievement
Of his lawyers in trying to show that
there was connection between
Barnes the boss and Mr.. Barnes the
beneficiary from printing graft.
Beating time with forefinger to the
fall of every word Col. Roosevelt.
talking straight at the jury. recalled
Mr. Barness explanation as to why 1t
Was possible for Senator Plat to be
an easy boss" AS Barnes confided 1t
-
simple enough.
Most legislators and public officials
had sense enough without blue print
IN front Of them to see that without
specific orders from Plat or other
bosses they must do what the machine
expected of them or take their pun
Ahment. They quickly found out for
themselves that, unless they knuckled
under 10 the boss's will. they couldn't
get their bills passed, they couldn't
get denominations for office and they
couldn't get a share Of campaign cash.
Heart Of the Boss business.
A Mr. Barnes drew the picture for
the Colonel. Plat, the shrewd and i'm
placable, stood smiling in the deep
background as he silently projected
his will this way and that like the
waves OF the wireless. The very heart
OF the boss business. as the Colone,
reported Barness sentiments, was ex-
pertness in administering the absent
treatment.
Imagine. II you please. what was the
dramatic effect OF this testimony on a
topic dearly loved by the narrator
The Justice ceased to make notes o.
printing facts and figures and :urner
toward the Colonel. apparently eager
10 catch every word or shaded mean
ing The Jurors instantly stirred.
leaned forward. cupped their ears,
smiled, frowned and displayed the
keenest interest.
Mr., Barnes at his counsel table, sit
ing where he could not see the wit
ness. was a study in scorn and anger,
MS face frankly revealing the thoughts
mat made his eyes flash and his lips
cur.
The Colonel was recalled at 3:4H
=. VI, after Mr.. Bowers with craft and
perseverance had laid the foundation
upon which the Colonel was to build.
had created the impression that the
DIG printing companies of Albany
could not have got millions Of dollars
worm of business for which extrava-
giant prices were charged unless they
MAI mad Mr.. Barness political pull az
'htlr disposal. 1t had been he hard
'et weariest kind OF wo.S, hut a task
tor which Mr.. Bowers seemed FER
'tctly ri'ted MS ps 'nco and peril
hacity winning success against the !e-
'alci'rance and reluctance OF wit
htSsos friendly TO Mr.. Barnes.
Colonel Eager.
TIE Colonel went to the stand with
hf"'ncss shining in his eyes. Justice
HO''fVs in the course oil preliminary
epul ring by the lawyers intimated that
NJ could hardly see how conversations
nc"een Mr.. Barnes and Col Roosevelt
j" I''' and 1900 could have much bear
ny a. showing Mr.. Barnes's politica.
ophIons In later years at the time the
" 1t'ng profits were so good But the
."'u"l Wrestling the explanation from
t' lands of Mr., Bowers, Informed the
Just" that there were many such con-
'''sdt"ns after he became President
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