Show THE CROWNING IGNOMINY In sonic SOllIe thousands of words rods written to Senator Allison tha ex ax pi plains or triM tries to e explain plaiR his bad faith on the railroad rate bill bUl Incidentally he evades the J issue ue ot of veracity raised by hs his own on remarks about Knox S Spooner I and Foraker whom hom he be accused of attempting te t defeat the lull by In arguments In effect the president SS says th the first overtures for fer su an alliance with the Democratic senators came from Sn Sen Senator ator Tiliman through h some seine unnamed third person The records show See Sec Secretary Lochs Loeb letter s shows that Roose Roosevelt ose velt elt invited Senator Chandler to confer with kim him first Chandler himself says in writing that the president asked Chandler te t see Tiliman and Bailey that the negotiations originated with the president that Attorney General Moody was authorized i by the president to formulate the administrations plan for tor a a bill that tbt this man was VaS ac accepted Dy the Democratic senators senator and the was in line Une V with th Roo W ts awn These a t are e plain enough The sequel is known wa The president be betrayed his friends s both Republican and Democratic who sincerely hoped to secure an hOn honest t effective fair rate bill bAIL The betrayal was made without t a word Ord of warning and the first an announcement of at it came am from the pres president president ident himself in l his convocation of the Washington newspaper Even in his own party newspapers the astounding reversal of position could not be concealed Although Roosevelt declared he had bad won his fight his 1 knew better At the first opportunity Sen Senator Senator ator Allison who had bad been named as the author of compromise surrender to Aldrich et aL took occa occasion don sion to say he had not been treated fairly and added amendments to th e compromise which showed he meant what he said Then came the presidents denial through Lodge of his langu language ge about Knox and Foraker and alid de denial denial nial which is still discredited by the written statement of f former S Senator Chandler a Republican and the pre ld nis accredited envoy to the Democrats No ingenious special pleading of any length can conceal the tact that the president has broken faith falth with friends of the rate bill no shifty language can hide surrender to the Al AldrIch combination No amount of eva evasive dye sive rhetoric can gloss over the cold truth that Roosevelt was willing to ac accept accept Democratic aid ald for tor a fall fair rate bill billand billand and then betraYed his allies and ac accepted accepted a compromise prepared by a Standard Oil senator for the express purpose of o emasculating the railroad measure I If there had peen been no evidence of pres presIdential presidential heAl bed faith if his denial ot of Chandlers statement could be accepted at Us its face value it if he bad never sought Democratic aid and Then ihen betrayed his friends it f be had done none of these things his abandonment of the rate bill and his surrender to Aldrich would still sUIi stand as the crowning ignominy of his admInistration the most pitiable of a long Jong series of f humiliations and de def defeats f feats u |