Show ROOSEVELT S IMPALED ON PITCHfORK Fierce Denunciation of the Chief Executive by Sen Senator Senator Senator ator Tillman RIPPED UP THE TUE BACK AND DOWN THE FRONT SENATE SCORED FOR SERVILITY HOUSE ACCUSED OF BEING A MERE MACHINE Washington March 16 With a cau caution caution tion unusual for him Senator Tillman today read a part of his speech in the senate in which he denounced executive executive executive tive encroachment on legislative power With this apparent caution he proceed proceeded ed to deliver one of the most direct and denunciatory addresses ever heard in that bOdy b d He was given a careful Bearing Most of the senators on n both Ides of at the chamber were in their places and the galleries were filled with visitors Hia Hla speech was based ba d don on his resolution instructing the com corn committee committee on finance to inquire whether national banks of New York are In the habit of furnishing permanent capital for speculative enterprises etc The resolution was adopted Power The subject of Mr Tillmans speech was vas executive upon the legislative branch of the government and he be traced graced what he termed a 1 swinging of the pendulum from the regime of when can gress assumed control almost to the th exclusion of the president from legis legislative influence to the administrations that followed which he declared wit witnessed witnessed witnessed a growth of at presidential power Now he said the house has de Into little more than a re machine to do the will of the I speaker and his lieutenants Freedom Sat f debate In the old and true sense has disappeared from that end of the cap Itol Hol In the senate servility and now how cowardice ardice are the order of the day he de declared declared dared und and while freedom of deba still exists the shadow of ot the executive executive executive tive hangs over all and the presidents wishes are almost the only law Compelled to Silence it There Is he proceeded to say 1 me show of resistance affecting aff the multimillionaires and the great corporations The president writes scolding messages and makes Inflammatory speeches appealing to the unthinking and Ignorant masses He has bas the potent influence of the press at athis athis athis his command he has used u d the news newspapers newspapers newspapers papers and magazines In exploiting my policies with a kIli and daring that compel admiration While sena senators senators senators tors denounce his hi radical ideas in private private private vate and oppose In every possible way vay the measures which he clamors for by bythe bythe bythe the passive resistance of no noone noone noone one of the dominant party p dares lift his voice in opposition or denunciation bit the executive Influence is the only S1 l f oe in evidence while the senate in silent resistance The cause ause of this condition declared Mr Ir Tl TUman Tilman Iman is federal patronage The theory that the senate must advise and consent before laws arc are made he said is of or little or no mo me moment moment ment when senators show such want of courage and and bow sub Bub submissively submissively to orders tram from the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House The Th members of the minority party part are f course largely ignored Appointments In the s uth where the Democracy retains control are in the hands of referees who fill the offices for the sole purpose of al machines Afraid of Roosevelt The senators of the dominant party are afraid to resist the th executive will et they themselves should fall fail to ob obIn In the patronage of their states They ave ve also he declared a dread lest they should be forced Into retirement When clashes have come between the president and senators or representatives tives the people have in almost every instance sided with Ith the president The people poor simple souls reading the special pleas and sophistical abuse of ot Republican editors are led to think the president alone is honest and patri patriotic patriotiC otic said Mr lIr Tillman Tiliman They believe religiously that the senate Is corrupt and the house debauch debauched d arid aid that the policies My policies which are so ex cx exploited exploited d in the press pre must prevail and amI become law before any relief can be obtained Senators who do not agree with the executive and refuse to t abide by his will must not be reelected Congressmen who refuse executive die dic dictation tation are replaced by those tho who will wili Ob oby y lb un tn the mad rush to placate the ne vote we may expect to see before the ih Chicago convention meets to quote a ow England newspaper the he the president presIdent president dent reviewing the reenlisted negro battalion on the White House green after atter which there will be luncheon at atthe atthe atthe the executive mansion The presidents action in that matter was hasty and unjust d inasmuch as the innocent were punished along with the guilty but It ItI Ia I a pitiable spectacle all tle tile same to see the mad rush for tor negro votes President LoudMouthed Mr Roosevelt Is always loud loudmouthed loudmouthed loudmouthed mouthed and vehement In the procla procIa proclamation mation of or his own purity purIt of purpose patriotism He has absolute ab lute faith Ain in his own infallibility and is apparently apparently so drunk with power that ho un unconsciously unconsciously consciously slY lapses into the imperial we and sends cablegrams about me mc and my people But these things are of small moment vagaries es of a noble and Impetuous spirit and we wo could pass them by were It not for Or the ex existence x of ot show how executive responsibility for many of the faults which exist exl t without dispute Paul Morton as vice president of the Santa San Fe railroad said Ir Till Tillman Tillman Tillman man in the rebate cases laid himself open op n to Indictment for and liability to Continued ed on P ge 2 1 I i ROOSEVELT IMPALED ON PITCHFORK S Continued From Page 1 personal punishment but the president peremptorily refused to prosecute him Wall Street and the Panic Mr Tillman Tiliman reviewed the events of the recent currency crisis and charged Wall VaU street st str et with many misdemeanors The profits of this notorious stock mongering have he said found their way into the pockets of the very men who with the evil results of their fraud manifest pose po e as saviors and uncrowned kings and are lauded to the skies when they try tT to save themselves from disasters which threatened to overwhelm them along with their de deluded deluded victims One of those saviors had done more moro than any other of the money kings to deluge the stock mar market market market ket with watered stock j Referring to recent conferences in the White house to consider legislation Mr r Tillman Tiliman asked why U It t was vas that rhia Tm the th leaders of the Republican party in the senate had beeh beeb ignored Who is going to be bb the spaniel mes messenger messenger messenger to bring these bills here de tie demanded the senator looking about the senate as if waiting for a reply I am going to watch to see sec lie he add added added ed ell amid laughter from front all aU parts of or orthe the chamber I Beveridge Butts In I Mr Ir asked the if f fhe he would name the radical legislation 1 he had skid uld the president i is sending sanding to t the senate He replied that ho hI dis dl breed with the doctrines to permit railroads to S Mr Beveridge asked whether Mr fr r Till Tili Tiliman nan man ulan favored the labor legislation l pro proposed proposed posed by b the president I shall never liever yield that on Oni one man shall Hhall say ta to o 0 another that he shan shall not Work wor declared Mr Tillman Senator Beveridge made a spirited de defense fese 6 of ot President Roosevelt and the tile Republican party part that what had been termed the of oC Republican senators was w s merely an ev cv evidence evI I or of of harmony the president president i iI I dent and his ills party arty in l By a on slip of the thC tongue Mr Jr Bever Beveridge idge characterized the South Carolina senator as the lawyer awyer Mr M 21 Tillman TUlman objected to that title tithe but a Vl ed ad that he was mighty fond of corn cornbread cornbread cornbread bread breadS A long review revies was ls as given by Mr 11 S of Democratic lc policies and lie he de declared decare care that a conference had been b cn held in this city eft for tho the purpose of ot coming to a pan for asking Mr Bryan Bry n not notto notto notto to again be a candidate on the th Demo Democratic Democratic cratic ticket but when Mr Bryan nan came cam came he e tid not one of them had the cour courage age ae tp tell him hint what they had planned d to Q o do This statement called forth de denials denial nials nial from froni Mr 11 Tillman Mr McLaurin mid and nd Mr rr Rayner all of or whom declared that there had uld never neer been any Idea of or asking Mr Bryan not flat to run on in 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