Show CRITICISM OF jj ROOSEVELT Southern Souther Railroad President resident Delivers Delvers Sharp Shar Speech at Banquet at New Orleans New fW Orleans Dec 15 President Mil MU Milton MUton 1 ton H Smith of or the Louisville Nash Nashville rule ville vie railroad speaking on TIme The he Great Railroads of the th South at ot a banquet of the New Ne Orleans Union said tonight ht Tho Time cost of and maintain maintaining ing ug railways has lIs been increasing with wib leaps j aIs and bounds boun s To add to t tn aux anxiety iet the owners of railway properties are threatened threaten el with possible confiscation tion ton by the people who are re to nn arm ex ea extent extent tent debauched by political leaders T who ho for selfish reasons denounce cor corporations corPorations falsely charging them with mining the country President Roosevelt has in two an annual annual annual nual messages sharply criticized two of the federal federl judges because they have tendered decisions unsatisfactory to t thim him He and the thE department of or Justice have lIve In effect pursued d a course of f in intimidation intimidation not heretofore ru attempted When it is considered that the president president dent appoints the judges which in includes eludes their promotion it is not too much flinch to characterize characterise character o his conduct as dastardly His plaint is that the gov government government has not tho the to appeal and anti that the tle decisions which he de tie denounced deI I flounced were final final Are Aro judges at fault because laws of the he country do donot donot donot not provide for an appeal in criminal cares cafes ca cs Since Sinco the creation ceat of the gov tho time law has been that a man accused of crime crimo and acquitted acquited cannot be again trie for the same samo saro offense his life and liberty may not again be jeopardized Tho The justice of lf such a law lawwill will H not I think bo be denied |