Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-22

in Washington and possibly in Oyster , Bay, too." Colonel Roosevelt was shown two
 letters, the contents of which he sad he had discussed With MT. Barnes.
 Now, what were the conversa- i tions?" asked Mr. Bowtrs.
 | "The conversations 1 had," the wit
 ness answered, were Ill regard to
 Mir. Barnes domination of the party. NOW, judge, they were conuinued con- versarions. l talked over letter 1
 wrote in 1900 to Senator Platt. l re- peatedly referred to the domination
 of the party by Senator Platt and l MT. Barnes. 1 discussed the right
 eousness of boss rule. uaughter by spectators.)
 T told Mr. Barnes that prior to my becoming governor, MT. Platt had
 asked me Q come to see him in New York. It was between the time I was
 elected and the time 1 assumed of i flee.
 Il told Mr. Barnes that 1 told Mr. Platt-rather, l expressed surprise 1 that committees were being appoint cd when the speaker of the assembly had not been chosen. l also told Mr. Barnes Mir. Platt told me no speaker would be chosen until man who
 was satisfactory to the organization was found. MT. Barnes replied that MT. Platt was right, even after 1 said such government was bound to lead to rotIenness.
 ! .I told MT. Barnes Senator Plat. had told me he had decided upon a superintendent of public works who was satisfactory and that Senator ] Platt had congratulated me upon getting such a good man." Mr. Wins objected because no name was being given for the super i intendent of pubic works. MT. Bow CTS said:
 "I don't want MT. Wins to act tnis way. He is trying to interrupt the continuity of this testimony" 7"I can't stop. this witness continu- j, ity," replied MT. Wins, while the crowd laughed
 Well" Colonel Roosevelt went on, "the man was Francis Hendricks of Sayracuse. I told MT. Barnes l did not intend any man should say whom
 I should appoint.' y$'
 As the colonel said this his jaw
 squared and he pounded on the judges bench.
 Offending Language.
 In his complaint in his suit against Theodore Roosevelt, MT. Barnes quotes the following statement by MT. Roose- velt, made on or about July 22, 1914, during the campaign for the nomina- ticn of governor, all of which he says is untrue and libelous:
 "1n New York state we see at it's worst the development of the system of bipartisan boss rute.
 "In New York state the two politi cal machines are completely dominat ca, the one by Mr. Barnes, the other
 by MT. Murphy.
 The state government is rotten throughout in almost all it's depart ments, an dthis is directly due to the dominance in politics of MT. Murphy and his sub-bosses, acting through : such entirely Nubservient agents as 1 Mr. Dix and MT. Glynn, and aided and abetted when necessary by MT. Barnes apdt he sub-bosses of MT. Barnes. '"Mr. Murphy and MT. Barnes are exactly of the same political type. The interests of MT. Murphy and MT. Barnes are fundamentally identical, and when the issue between popular rights and corrupt and machine-ruled , government is clearly drawn tie two
 bosses will always be found fighting on the same side, openly or coyertly giving one another such support as can with safety be rendered. "These bosses do not hold public
 office themselves. They act through the holders of public offices whom
 they control Yet they really form the all-powerful invisible government ; which is responsible for the malad- ministration and corruption in the public offices of the state. By means of elected officers, whose negatively
 good personal character offers little surface ground for attack and whose fundamental weakness or insincerity and double-dealing render them fit in
 struments through whom the masters
 of the machine can work, these ma chine masters secure the appointment to office of the evil men whose activi- ties so deeply taint and discredit one whole governmental system.
 'lt is idle for man to pretend that The is against machine politics unless he will, with straightforward good . faith openly and oy name attack MT.
 Barnes and MT. Murphy and pledge
 himself to do all he can to eliminate them from the control of political af- fairs, ana in destroying them to de- stroy the system which renders possi- ble such pernicious activities as theirs"
 Portraits of Big Men.