Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-28

asked whether they were authentic,
Col, Roosevelt said they were.
A recess was taken at that point.
Steel Corporation
did you while President in 1909 or be.
fore direct the attorney general of the
United States to bring any action against
the steel corporation"
q did not
did Mr.. Prick, Judge Gary and Mr..
Perkins contribute to your campaign"
Yes"
Were they connected with the steel
corporation.
Yes
did you ever instruct the attorney
general to bring any action against the
New Haven road"
There was an objection. Mr.. WINS said
the evidence was designed to prove that
Col. Roosevelt himself did not frown
upon alliances between politics and bust
ness.
Mr.. Bowers argued that there was no
evidence to show that any action should
have been taken against the steel corpor-
alton or the New Haven Railroad The
objection was overruled.
Col. Roosevelt answered the question in
the affirmative.
did you hear Of the Tennessee Coal
& Iron Co..
ST did.
Did YOU approve Of the acquisition
by the steel corporation of the Tennes-
/ see Coal 81 Iron co..
II did,
| ibid you ever order an investigation OF
the American Harvester Co. ?"
"No"
Was Mr.. Perkins in that company"
''He was
statements by Barnes
Mr. WINS had brought into the room a
pile Of photographs of newspapers
''Do YOU" he asked, remember max
ing a statement to reporter Of the Her
aid? I'll show you the article. Do you
remember it?'
Col. Roosevelt read the article and re-
piled:
You show me something Mr.. Barnes
said about me and ask me if l said it."
Mr. WINS got another photograph.
Then he asked: Well, do you remen-
Der seeing what Mr.. Barnes said about
| you?''
I 81 do not remember" replied the
! colonel
/ Mr. WINS handed Col Roosevelt pho
tograph of a page from the New York
Times of Sept. 3, 1910. Mr. WINS asked:
did you see that statement by Mr..
Barnes"
II think ! saw it,
! Hes asking YOU said Bowers,
F.! whether you see it now
I'm not, replied Mr.. WINS indie-
1 mo- NIL N hi Iy,, iotp 70
! course he sees it now"
! Peais Of laughter came from tine
! spectators.
! Names Bosses
From then on for the rest of the aft
I ernoon, there were read parts of arti-
! cles which appeared in New York
! newspapers and which purported to be
correct reports of speeches and state
ments made by Col. Roosevelt before
| and after the Republican convention in
/ Chicago in 1872. In nearly all the
statements the Colonel assailed the
| bosses" and he named Barnes Of New
York" Murphy of New York. Pen
! rose Of Pennsylvania, 'Guggenheim
Of Colorado, Cox of Ohio '.Lorimer
! Of Illinois and several others.
In enc Of the articles, Col Roosevelt
made this statement:
| Mr.. Barnes stands for the worst form
Of bossism,' and then he describes Mr..
, Tafts relations to the boss" and
SPECIAL interests in business
| "A vote for him (Barnes)" said the
Colonel in one place, is a vote against
decent American citizenship"
Justice Andrews said that the arti-
Giles were admitted as tending to show
the state of mind of the Colonel at the
/ time he wrote the articles and deliN-
! cred the speeches quoted. The state
ments were material, the court ruled,
. cnly insofar as they might, if they
did, reflect upon the Colonels state Of
! mind when he published or caused the
publication of The alleged libel.
The articles were all read from pho
tographs of New York newspapers.
The Colonel would be handed each one
by Mr. WINS and asked to read 1.-THE
Colonel seemed TO have considerable
difficulty In reading the photographed
type as in fact, the lawyers and Justice
Andrews also had A magnifying glass
nearly a foot in diameter was resorted
/ to by all concerned The Colonel admit
ted and apparently with some dis
play Of pride at times that he had said
virtually all the things accredited to
him ia the newspapers
Counsel for Col. Roosevelt entered
| objections to each Of the articles be-
4 ing read but all the objections were
oyerrllled by the court.
II When q recess was declared, many
/ photographs stin remained upon the
\ table occupied by counsel Tor L.
i BArnes.