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Show denounced on the floor of the senate. The senator asks, "What wrong did I do or contemplate ?" If, then, the senator's moral perceptions are so obtuse, ob-tuse, it may be explained that the wrong he did layin using his official position and influence to "ralBe a howl," as his agent put it, for the purpose of advancing his private Interestthe In-terestthe Interest that he carefully kept concealed. The weakness of Tillman's tlefenso of himself is still further exposed by bis resort to the malicious 'gossip of the Washington purlieus against Roosevelt, When a man has no case he abiyses the plaintiffs attorney. TILLMAN'S DEFENSE. Pity tho sorrows of a poor old man. blundering around in a fog he hlm9elt has raised. The misfortunes of "Honest "Hon-est Ben" aro of his own making. "When a man takes pains to give himself the He to get clear of participation In a dirty little Job he might bo loft to fight it out, between the Tillman who wanted his share of a soft thing in Oregon and tho Tillman who denounced de-nounced bis partners In the same Job on the floor of the senate. Tillman's defense of himself Is no defense at all. He admits the whole case and tries to hide behind the dictionary. dic-tionary. An "effort," he declares, 16 not an "undertaking." Pshaw! Indeed, the senator may be left to describe the position himself and out of his own mouth he is condemned. He admits the , whole case against him when ho says: "I was, perhaps, disingenuous, but a moment's thought will convince any honest minded man that as I had not signed any papers, had not paid any money, had taken nobody's receipt, re-ceipt, the usual processes by which one undertakes to buy land I was speaking accurately and not falsely. Everything hinges on the meaning of tho word 'undertakes' and by uso of It. Did I mean to conceal the fact i that. I was anxious to buy Bome land? I Not at all. Did I mean to attack Donas Don-as a swindler when I myself was engaged en-gaged in a dishonest and dishonorable trapsectlon? That Is what tho president presi-dent would have peoplo believe. Ju6t what law did' I break? What wrong did I do or contemplate?" Of course, ho was disingenuous. Ho had not got a deed to the land or paid tho price, but he had undertaken lo buy it if it could be had, and was in treaty to that end with the man ho calls a swindler. He was in treaty with the man ho |