Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-01-12 | Page 4 | Tillman's Defense

. - TILLMAN'S DEFENSE. Senator Den Tillman has failed to clear himself of the charges brought against him by Theodore Roosevelt. Counter accusations of wrong-doing may prove the President to be guilty of impure motives and may tend to reflect on the good name of tho chief magistrate, but that form or reply does not explain why Mr. Tillman, so scrupulously scrup-ulously exacting in his demands upon othci. should be a party to a dishonest dishon-est land deal in Oregon; or wny he, a senator, should be so eager to avail himself of inside information, supplied sup-plied him because of his official position, posi-tion, as to join with an unsavory gang in a questionable land deal. If there are many such JanuB-faced senators In Congress, the secret service ser-vice would be performing an inestimable inestim-able good for the country in exposing them to the same public pillory to which Tillman was cleverly led.