Show ROOSEVELT V If It anything had been needed to con confirm firm the conviction that President Roosevelt had betrayed the friends of or orthe the railroad rate bill and broken faith with Senators S TIllman and Bailey Baney the evidence would be complete lete with the V statement of Chandler given to Mr Tillman for use on the floor of the he senate It will wUl be remembered that Senator Lodge for the declared he had bad hadnot hadnot not referred to Knox Spooner and For Foraker Foraker Foraker aker as attempting to defeat the meas measure measure measure ure he desired This denial of ot Lodges was made on direct authority of ot the president In own words With characteristic em emphasis emphasis the statement was denounced as asa asa asa a deliberate and unqualified false faIse falsehood falsehood hood Naturally this raises an issue of ot ve ye veracity veracity between Chandler a Republican officeholder who had bad conducted the ne negotiations neV V with the Democrats for Roosevelt and the chief executive him himself himself self Senator Chandler In his written statement It says the president pr used the language attributed attributed to him and Chand Chandler ler Is the man whom the president tru trusted ted to convey his messages to Till Tillman Tillman Tillman man and Bailey the man who was trusted by all concerned d to act in good faith It takes no long memory to recall the fact that Roosevelt has raised similar issues before No man In public life Ufe has been quite so ready to accuse oth others others ers era of ot falsehood and bad faith When Judge Parker accused Cortelyou and Inferentially Roosevelt of soliciting and accepting campaign contributions from New York corporations Roosevelt denounced him In unmeasured terms for forbearing forbearing forbearing bearing false witness The insurance Investigations showed that Judge Par Parker Parker Parker ker had told the absolute unqualified truth that Cortelyou had received hun hundreds hundreds hundreds of thousands of dollars from the corporations and that Roosevelt owed Parker an apology which has never been made When Mr Whitney of Boston quoted V 1 he president as favoring tariff rev revion ion in the president dented denied the quotation and abused the Bostonian although he hewa hew wa w JS and Is one of the most highly es esteemed esteemed esteemed teemed citizens of the Bay state On the th Issue of o veracity Mr Ir Whitney was supported by the evidence of the two gentlemen who accompanied acc him on his visit to the White House and very few men in Massachusetts had any doubt as to the accuracy y and honesty of Whitneys statement V If this had been the first Instance I where the presidents word was ques questioned questIoned questioned if it he had never raised an issue of ot the sort before one might possibly think It was a case of confusion as to words or 01 misinterpretation of a a conver conYer conversion slon sion But recalling the Parker epi episode episode episode sode and the Whitney case remember remembering ing the tremendous importance of Chandlers errand the fact that he has been asked to act for the president in ina inSo ina a So vital situation the conclusion is in inevitable inevitable evitable that the president finding him In an awkward situation has chosen to repudiate his own agent and take refuge in abusing the men he had first enlisted as allies and then betrayed The corroborative evidence confirms the th belief that Chandler quoted Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt velt correctly A man who would ask his enemies to waive their party party prejudices prejudices prejudiceS dices in 10 order to help in a patriOtic patrI tlc cause and then break faith with them themis is entitled to no confidence If I he would do this as he did he would would not hesi heal hesitate hesitate tate to eat his own words and throw the onus of proof on the men who had literally befriended him The act is the more cowardly that official position gives him himan himan himan an enormous enormous advantage Though he is just lust a common man m n a common poli poll politician politIcian as events prove his place gilds his word ord with an assumption of truth protects him from meeting others on a common plane and loads the dice against any n opponent he may have An An honorable man would feel feGi fe 1 the obliga obligation tion of such a position Roosevelt has taken a cowards advantage of It An V honorable man pledge pledged llo to his hi hf opponents OP oppOnents n In a common cause C use would have baye f felt lt bound to V keep k P faith with them elt betrayed b them An le man mano lct at least have h v ig given fair warning if il he meant meint me nt to surrender Roose l opened q the e gates ga e in the dark rk and sneaked to the Aldrich dampen c ln the tho night nl ht V j After his own virtues of Q i truth and honor and love for the com corn common common cornmon V mon people all alf these th sc years yeara an an honor honorable honorable able man would have felt it necessary to live up to his own o n proclamations If only for appearances s sake Roosevelt has discredited r d every word he has ever uttered In platitudinous oratory or t and seems to think he hO h deserves praise for feir forit forit it Less than two weeks w ago he roared with the pompous arrogance of the Pharisee the liar la is no whit better than the thief and one wonders now if it he remembers his own words Meanwhile Mea the Democrats In the sen senate senate senate ate have kept faith not only with their own party declarations but with the demands of the whole nation In mag snag magnanimous magnanimous desire to achieve the best thing possible they agreed to support a measure which a Republican president had stolen bodily from Democratic plat platforms forms and let him have haye such credit as might accrue from popular approval of his act One of these Democrats Sen Senator Senator Senator ator Tillman Tiliman must have bave made a great personal sacrifice to forget his own o n In Injuries injuries juries at Roosevel ts hands long enough to act with him in a matter affecting the national welfare For the time being the only reward the Democrats have is the consciousness that they were more patriotic than par partisan partisan partisan better American citizens than politicians In the end they will have havethe havethe havethe the further satisfaction on of knowing that they have aided In exploding abut about ab ut the biggest humbug the American people have worshiped ed in the history of the country They The have hae lifted the blanket that covered the trusts and shown Roosevelt the trustbuster cow cowering cowering cowering ering under it holding hand and wearing the costume of the Knox reservation Indian In Ian Vs |