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Show WAS ROOSEVELT : ALSO ABIG BOSS Syracuse, N Y., April 23 Gazing fixedly at the jury which will decide de-cide whether he has libeled William ( Barnes to the tune of $50000, Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt announced this afternoon after-noon that for corporations to give $:!,-000,000 $:!,-000,000 to his campaign fund was precisely like giving money to the Y. M. C. A. The corporation nicn who raised; this colossal sum to elect him presi- ! dent in lftm included I P. Morgan & I Go. George Perkins, E H. llarrl-man, llarrl-man, Charles S Mellon, for the New Haven road. Andrew Carnegie, the t steel crowd of Pittsburg, and many Others who later were classed as malefactors male-factors of great wealth. The Standard Oil company also chipped in a hundred thousand, but this, the colonel insisted, was Indig nantly returned. Mr Roosevelt later admitted that Thomas F. Ryan s gift of half a rail-1 lion to the campaign of Parker, who was the Democratic candidate in 1904. was also in the nature of a Y. M- C. 1 A. donation This got the fact into the record that Parkpr had also been ! helped by big business Makes Savage Defense Unruffled under the strenuous attempts at-tempts of Barnes' attorney, Ivlns, to i show that he had not only accepted , corporation favors like any boss, but had actually been a ruthless and uncompromising un-compromising boss himself, the colonel col-onel waged a savage defensive warfare. war-fare. And when the court adjourned for 'he week he appeared to be satis fled that his lines are still holding. In answer to charses direct or Implied. Im-plied. Mr Roosevelt made the follow-ing follow-ing denials. 1. That be had hossed the Chicago convention that nominated Taft Tie admitted, however that he had contributed con-tributed very largelv to the result. 2 That he had ever been Influenced Influ-enced hy dictates of any boss or had dickered with any boss for anything whatever. 3. ! That eithei Bliss or Cortelyou, who collected the $3,000,000 tribute in 1904, had ever asked him to tako any action in behalf of any of the , contributors. 4 That he "even lifted his little finger" to secure the Republican noml nation in 1904 Barnes a "Jekyll and Hyde." Also he said that he regarded Barnes as a "Jekyll and Hyde," In response re-sponse to a question which gave him that opportunity. "I appointed Mr Barnes to office" (surveyor of the port of Albany), tl.e colonel told the jury, "and until 1910 1 hoped to get the Dr. Jekyll Barnes upward I did not abandon that hope until 1911 " By way of another rap at the plaintiff, plain-tiff, he said tnat he regarded him as at least on the same level as the average av-erage business man of the times. He said that he distinctly did not Include Barnes In a list of Piatt lieutenants of "most efficient men of high moral character," which appears In one of the colonel's numeroub books. From the beginning of the cross-examination today Ivins went at the colonel hammer and tongs, with the clear purpose of convicting him of all the charges he had made against Bame6. Mr. Roosevelt was moved to say that the corporations' gifts to h campaign fund was like unto offciings to the Y. M f a. when Mi Ivlns1 ! had broiiRht out that nearly every cor. ; ' potation engaged q big business had dispensed free-will offerings into the! hats passed by Mr Cortelyou, chair- man and Mr Bliss, treasurer, of the1 campaign fund in 190-1 "Did you invite Mr. Barnes to the White House in Washington''" Yes." "You did that In spite of bis mistrust mis-trust of the people anil the Invisible empire? " "Yes." "Did you ever discuss invisible government gov-ernment with Mr Barnes in Albany0' "I did not discuss the specific phrase. I did discuss my official dnt and contributions to the campaign cam-paign funds by big business interests." inter-ests." Mr. Ivins read a sentence from the autobiography about Mr Piatt's most efficient lieutenants being men of the highest standing in the community. commu-nity. "Did vou Include Mr Barnes in flies" lieutenants in 1913 ?'" "No." "Did you include him in that class in 1S99 or 1900?" "No." "If you did not :-o regard hiin. why did yol consult and associate with him?" "Because I thought he was above the average of the run of politicians I believed be might hecome a most iseful citizen Barnes' Moral Standard. 'Did you discuss his moral standards stand-ards with him?" I did I expressed my hopes to him." So while you were in Ubany you were acting as a political monitor in order to make him a good citizen? ' "I tried to gel every man to act rightly. Most politicians had two natures however, I regarded Mr. and a bad one as other politicians Barnes as a I r lekyl and a Mr Hyde He had two sides, a pood and a bad side " |