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SUMMA UV OP TILLMAN OA8E. The People to Judge President's Charges and Tillman's Reply. (Zach McGhee te The 3tate.) "Washington, Jan. ll.-Senator Tillman, having now made his an swer to the indictmont of the Presi dent, the caso rests with the Ameri can people to determine, not whether 8ti;ator rillmaji is legally guilty of fraud or of violation of law, for he is not so accused, except as to the insignificant matter of a 2-cent stamp, but whether he is morally culpable. Laying aside alike the opinion expressed by the President th,tJ culpability and tin- cry ol' lJgP>nal persecution by Senator Till man as both insignificant, unimport ant, and wholly extraneous, I Bhall give as judicious a statement of the actual facts in the case as I am capa ble of giving, together with an un biased statement of the contentions of each of the parties to the contro very as I understand those conten tions. It is no matter, let it be empha sized, that Tillman aud Roosevelt are personal as well as political enemies; it is no matter that the President has been misusing the secret service agents ot the government; no mat ter that Tillman has a wide reputa tion as the "one honest man" in the United States Senate; it Is of not the slightest moment as touching the real Bint ot the ec nt rove ?oj, that the President, to use Tillman's own words, "has felt called upon to at tack the character of a man whose Integrity has never before been questioned." Nor is' it worth while or germane to the case at all whe ther Tillman is correct in declaring that his "integrity has never before been questioned." It is not, more over, of any importance to the main issue that the source of the charges now made is the President of the United States, and the repuation of Theodore Roosevelt for juggling tlfetB, distorting language and mak ing reckless charges cannot weigh in tho slightest if one would arrive at the fundamental and one important truth involved, which whether fJena ' tor Tillman, who twice was elected Governor ol" South Carolina and three times elected to the United Senate by overwhelming votes of the people Of his State, has now proved unwor thy of the honor heaped upon him and tho trust reposed in him. It is ttot for me to say. Here are the tacts: The Land. lu 1 '>68 Congress granted to the State of Oregon certain lands In So.i.le '-n Oregon "to aid In the con Iru non of a military wagon road.") II >yn stipulated in the act of grant i Thal the grant of lands hereby made "hall be upon the condition thal r.<e lands shall be sold to any one i ..'?son In quantities not greater li n one-quarter section (160 acres), j ti I .<> a price not exceeding $2.50 ! lier aero." ? Short? after that the State of Ore- 1 gon " ^ranted tho same lands to the I ly ?Wagon Hoad Company for j th? vrpose of constructing the j road with the same stipulation thadi by Congress regarding the sale. The < oos Bay Wagon Road Company ? i ? neted the wagon road, hut kept i he lands, refusing to sell them on ! any >. rms whatever. But after a j long ::<.psc this company did trans- I fer hq whole of tho lands, which ! had i ?ven become among the most j [liable timber lands lu Oregon, to ' ?'> ithern Oregon Company,which | ? tn rally still holds the lands and ' ; refuses to sell them upon the ten " of the original grant. Nu I tm persons have made efforts to >nie of these lands in lots of 160 D res at $2.50 an acre, and cor I'ltlll attorneys and timber companies in Ol gon have advertised that they would locate quarter sections for lu lls and bring lawsuits against h otithern Oregon Company to compel thom to sell ?t the price stip I by tho United States Congress grant to the State of Oregon In the regrant by the State of Ore i u to the Coos Bay Wagon Road < . fi iny, and which the Coos Bay i Road Company turned over to th< Southern Oregon Company arly In violation of that stipula-' rion. lands aro not "government laud i" In the usual sense. They are not held by the government, but >' ( held by this Southern Oregon Cottl! my contrary to law. Vvli.it Tillman Wanted to l>o. Senator Tillman wanted to get Sot the land at tho stipulated price of $2.50 an acre. Since ding to the terms of the origi nal grant he could not buy for him self more than one-quarter section of 160 acres, he wanted to buy one quarter section for each of his fam ily, one for J. H. Knight, his secre tary, and one lor W. E. Lee, his agent, nine in all. All of this ho had a right to do, beyond any question of law or ethics. Mind you, tho Sou thern Oregon Company would not ' sell the land, so that In order to get it it was necessary to press a lawsuit against them to compel them to sell at $2.50 an acre. Dealings with Attorneys. Among those who propoud to bring lawsuits against the Southern ' Oregon Company to compel them to sell was a firm by the name of Ree der & Watkins, of Marshfield, Ore. Senator Tillman wrote to them, and on Octobor 15, 190Y, telegraphed them from Chicago as follows: "W. E. Lee, my agent, will seo you about lnnd. I want nine quarters reserved; will forward signed application and money at once. Members of my family are entrymen; letter." Tho telegram and a letter to the same Import of the samo day are submitted by the President. It does not appear that Senator Tillman evor sent tho money. Mr. lk> went out to Marshfield, saw RlTodor & Watkins, and wrote Till man advising him that the thing was "a good gamble," and said that ho (Leo) waa willing to go into it. Hut while Reeder & Watkins had the tel egram and letter saying that he, Till man, wanted the nine quarters re served, that, so far as any evldenco submitted, is as far as the corres pondence went. Tillman's Acts in ino Senate. Now, the next thing that occurs is that Tillman upon his return here in the fall introduced a resolution in the Senate calling on the attorney general to show catlee why the Uni* ted States government had not brought suit against the Southern Oregon Company to make them sell that land at $2.60 an acre. Mr. I^ee, acting or pretending to act as the agent of Tillman, jhst a few days before had written to Reeder & I Watkins that thty should be sure to reserve the best quarter sections for Tillman, declaring that "we intend j to be of more value tlian any of the others in this matter." Says Lee in the same letter: "In case Senator Tillman gets in on this deal with some good laud in the eight quar ters we want, 1 am satisfied that he can be of great help In getting matters started from Washing ton, and cause the government to get busy and do something along the line you desire. He will set up such a howl that it will be impossible to do other wise." . That is what Lee, Tillman's agent, wrote. Tillman declared in his speech to-day that he was not respon sible for what Mr. Lee said and that 1:G never knew of the letter until the President submitted lt. But Till man did set up the howl. He conferred with the attorney general, and he pressed his resolution in tho Senate. He, however, wrote Reeder & Watkins, telling them that his ac tion in the Senate had nothing what ever to do with his personal inter est in the matter, but that he was doing so to "make lt easy tor others as well as myself to obtain some of the land." The President in his statement given out puts the words "as well as myself" In italics, and charges Till man with using his influence as a Senator to get the government to press a suit which would enable him to get some of the land, lt is clear that Tillman meant the emphasis on the words "for othery." To read the letter fairly one must inevitably ac quit Tillman of telling Reeder ft Watkins in that sentence that he was pressing the suit so as to get some thing out of it himself. But in the same letter he does say something which the President does not refer to which looks a little queer. He says in that letter: "I will be glad for you to hold in reserve eight of the best quar ter sections of which you have definite information, and I will in the meantime press the inves tigation and other work here, which will facilitate the final purchase and in effect obviate the necessity of your making any case In the courts at all." The Second Charge. The next charge which the Presi dent makes against Tillman ls that Tillman falsified when In the Senate on February 1!?, 1908, he declared: "1 have not bought any land any where in tho West, nor undertaken to buy any." Tho President claims that the telogram to Reeder & Wat kins shows that Tillman had "under taken" to buy land in the West. The truth ls, Reeder & Watkins had no land to sell. All they evet offered for sale was ? lawsuit. Il the lawsuit succeeded, then Tillman If he closed with them, was to get hil oight, or nine, quarter sections of th? land upon the payment of $2.50 ai acre. Tillman could not, therefore have undertaken to buy any lane from Reeder & Watkins. In his statement in the Senate he d?clar?e that he had made Inquiries spout th? land, but he. said nothing about hil correspondence with Reeder & Wat kins, nor about his having asked th? Marshfield firm to reserve him niue quarter sections. In his speech to day Tillman said that he did noi think himself warranted In imposing a recital of his personal affairs in th? Senate, and that therefore he did no say anything about how far he ha? gone in his "Inquiries." He further said In his speech tba Attorney General Bonaparte knov that, he was trying to get some of tin land, and, furthermore, that the pos office inspectors whom he asked th? postmaster general to send out t.< Oregon to Investigate one conceri under the management of a mai named Dorr knew about his effort: to get some of the land. ' The President makes much of tin report of the post office inspectors. 1 was Tillman who asked that they b< sent out, and instead of finding any thing fraudulent in Dorr, they fount that Tillman had been trying to ge some of tho land, and that he was ii communication with Reeder & Wat kins, tho same men who were actlni for Dorr, a thing which he in effec denied In the Senate, or seemed ti deny. But Tillman says that ho toll the post olfico Inspectors before the went what he had done. Tillmai accused Dorr of taking people's $2 .and giving nothing In return. After Tillman telegraphed to Rec dor & Watkins, asking them to re serve the land for him, Reeder Watkins, it seems, told Dorr, where upon Dorr gets out a flaming clrcu lar advertising the scheme, statin that Senator Tillman had taken som of tho land, In consequence of whlc Tillman would press the matter to conclusion In Washington. That circular, Tillman declares convlneod him that these agents, lr eluding Reeder & Watkins, wer fraud ni mt and that ho dropped th whole natter there, gettr g up i tho Senato and denouncing Dorr fo trying to get suckers to send him $2 on false pretenses. As to Prevarication. Tillman ls accused of using his lr fluence as a Senator to promoto hi private Interest, and he is accused c prevarication about lt. The lettei which he admits having written coi viet him of the first charge, but h pleads that ho was urging the Un tod States government to do whe would benefit all citizens alike wh wanted to buy lands In tho Wost. ? ono has ever questioned tho rlgh eousness of the action which li as Senator was urging. To tli second charge of prevarlcatlot he admits that. To quote: ' was not as full and explicit In m statement to the Senato as I mlgl have been," but submits that Y would have been intruding his pr GOOD NEWS. - Many Walhalla Readers Have Heard It and Profited Thereby. "Good news travels fast," ana the thousand* of bad back sufferers In Walhalla are glad to learn that prompt relief ls within their reach. Many a lame, weak and aching back is bad no more, thanks to Donn's Kidney Pills. Our citizens ire tell ing the good news of their experi ence with the old Quaker remedy. Here is au example worth reading: Mrs. R. D. Oelkers, living on W. Main street, Walhalla, S. C., says: "I hope that others suffering from any symptoms of kidney disease will try Doan's Kidney Pills. ? speak from my own experience when I say that they are a most reliable remedy. For some time I suffered from at tacks of headache and pains across the small of my back. I felt weak and nervous, the secretions were dis ordered and irregular in action. 1 Anally learned of Doan's Kidney Pills, procured a box at Dr. J. W. Bell's drug store, and the relief I de rived from their use was entirely : satisfactory. I am still using them { and feel that lt will only be a short : time before I am entirely free from j kidney complaint." Fur Hale by ali dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-MUburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the Uni ted States. I Remember the name-Doan's ; and take no other. vate affairs upon the Senate tc have stated all the facts. He says he has never concealed the fact that he want ' ed some of the land, but his state : ment in the Senate last February, "I i have not bought any land in the i West, nor undertaken to buy any," was misleading. Whether he intend ? ed lt or not, the public waa led to believe that his resolution in the Senate respecting the Oregon land was wholly unselfish, In the Interests of justice and the public. As to whe ther or not Dorr had warrant for the use of Tillman's name on the circu lar, there Is bound to be difference of opinion. He seems to successfully Impeach the veracity of the Presi dent, but that ls neither new nor to the point. 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This property, it was thought, would control the diamond Held, but the discovery of this gem a number of miles from the syndicate land indicates that the fields are considerably larger than at first Indicated. There's nothing so good for a sore throat as Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil. Cures it in a few hours. Re lieves any pain in any part. THE REBUKE MAY COST A LOT. Congress Will Spend About $-15,000 Distributing Record. Washington, Jan. 14.-Unless the present plans miscarry, it will cost the government just about $45,000 to lay before the country, ns fully as Congress desires, its rebuke to Presi dent Roosevelt on the secret service cont roversy. The House of Representatives, ap preciating the fact that the Presi dent's secret service message was carried in full hy the press and that its rebuke necessarily was curtailed In the press accounts, ls considering distributing 2.000,000 additions] copies of tho Congressional Record of Friday last. Monee the cost. IA For Infants and Children. 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