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TILLMAN A NSW 101 IS KOOSKVHLT. ? f Continued from page 1.) expressed a wish for an investigation; and on his request the Post- ' oftlce Department, through its in- 1 epectors, made such an investiga- I lion. Me stated in reference to litis circular: 1 "I have not bought any land anywhere in the West nor under- 1 taken to buy any. 1 have made 1 some inquiries, as one naturally would, in roaming through the West. 1 simply want the people of the country to be put on notice that litis swindler at Portland lias no warrant whatever for endeavoring to inveigle others into his game." The President then goes on to state: This is a confidential report of a type usually not furnished, but in this case the matter is so serious that f feel I should put it in-mi r > mi. i ciicioj-c yon aiso as ox hi hits 1 > 1. I):', 1)1 and 1)5, photographic fac-siinllles of lettors and envelopes and telegrams from Senator Tillman and hi, agent, William 12. Lee. I do not <1 nv the anl hont ici*y of the lei l r or the telegram, of which photographs were made. 1 presume the htter from William 12. Lee is also a correct copy, hut I was not aware of its existence until now, and I am not in anywise responsible for Mr. Lee's ideas expressed in it. The President says: On October 110, 1007, Senator Tillman wrote a Pier (I2xhihit 1 >rt ) to Messrs. Render & Walkins, of Marshlleld, Ores., who were attorneys representing people who were applicants for the purchase of certain wagon-road and grant land; Do-r was a land agon' making his filings through ltoed >r &. Watkins. Senator Tillman's letter runs, in part, as follows; "I wired you from Wausau, Wis., as follows, ami write to confirm it; 'William 11. Leo, my agent, will see you about land. I want nine quarters reserved. Will forward signed replications and money at once. Members of my family are entrymen. Letter follows. (Signed) It, it. T. I wri'e now to say 1 wired Mr. Lee, who resides at Moscow, Idaho, to go at once to Marshfield and see you about the land, to locate quarters for the seven members of my family who are of ago, and one for my private secretary, J. It, Knight, whom I desire to let into the deal, and, of course, ho wants a quarter for himself." The letter continued, stating in detail what was to ho done, in order to enable the Senator to get the land. II will ho noted that l accused Dor in the Senate of being a swindler and asked the Postofllce ! moartment to issue a fraud order against him Don- declared in his circular: So sure is Senator Tillman ?>! our success that he has subscribed and paid the necessary foes for a quarter section for himself and 10 other quarter sections for 10 of his nearest relatives. It was this t?o!d and outrageous iHisennou, inaintv, that cause I me (o denounce Dorr as a swindler, a.' well as to declare in the Senate that he had no warrant for the assertion. The sleuths which the President put upon my trail have made their report, and a perusal of it will show to any fair mind' that so far from endeavoring to justify yh? fraud order against Dorr, they were really put to work to investigate me, and endeavor, if possible, to discover something to my discredit while the President directed the investigation. I say this becaues it is hardly possible that a postoillee inspector wouid set about get ling pholographich copies of the latter of a United States Senator and trying to convict him of lying if the orders did not come from a high source. Let us suppose for a moment tha* J was guilty of a falsehood in do elating that I had not undertaken to purchase any land. What did that j have to do with Dorr's transparent and open use of tiie mails to induce men to send him money to purchase land? Doors declaration that I had paid the fees is an absolute falsehood, and the postodico inspectors, while they searched the records for entries at Conmile and noted tiiat Reeder & Watkins had tiled "several hundred applications," nowhere mentioned that any hid been filed in mv name or for me Therefore the falseluod is proven on ' Dorr, and yet the President doclar- ! .. ed: The assault whioh Senator Till- ( man made upon Mr. Dorr was. ' according lo tho inspector, a wan- ' ton assault made to cover up Senator Tillman's own transactions. ' No such statement was made by ' the inspector. In fact, so earnestly 1 Intent on convicting Senator Tillman 1 is the President, ho actually com 1 ml La himself lo this proposition, to ^ wit: Tillman voluntarily and with- r out any compulsion from any source ' and with nothing to conceal brought K up a matter in the Senate which he need not have done to cover up 0 transactions which were absolutely unknown to anyone except himself '' and "his correspondents, Hoed or & " Watklns, and were entirely honor- ? aide and clean. My exposure closed w out the swindlers. Dorr, when his VVy - J nail w us not delivered, retired roni the land business nud became i fruit mower, as reported by the * spectors. The swindlers had secured a good nany thousands of dollars before he exposure in the Senate stoppe-. >eople from being duped, ami y ,f l'heodoro Roosevelt, who poses as he only rc.valning honest man in public 1 i f??, in the face of these facts lias fell called upon to attack the character of a man whose in:e;? rit.y has never before been questioned, and whose oillcial position is second only to his own. In doing this he makes a false declaration, for the inspectors nowhere say any such thins as above quoted, which can he proven by a 1 examination of tlicii report. Now, about the lying: My letter of February ir>, of which t.lie President secured a phoi ographich copy, antedates by four da; s niv statement in the Senate that I nnd not bough any land, or undertaken to buy any, and the President considers this positlve proof of falseheod. l did not say ! had not considt ?'od the purchase of land; 1 di 1 n 1 ..ay I lrad not contemplated purchase of lanl, because | had don" both. In my conversat ion with the At toriiey-(?eueral in regard to the l-csnlnti/iM which I introduced, mid which ue himself prepared nfiei we had talk? d over the whole land situation, 1 distinctly remember t< lling him that my interest in the matter had hern f-rst aroused by mv desire1 to purchase1 some of tin1 timber land, and that my coming to him was due to the fact that I discovered upon investigation t-hat 1 could not. buy it even by a lawsuit, because I was a 1vised by very able lawyers in th 1 West, among them the Hon. (leorge Turner, of Washington, that in attacking the holders of those Ian I grants no one would have any stand ing in court except the grantor, the lovernment itself. See Nichols v. Southern Oregon Co., Fedora] Keporter, vol. 1 p. L'3 I.) I was perhaps disingenuous; hut a moment's thought will eonv'nej any honest-minded man that?as I had not signed any papers, had not paid any money, had taken nohody s receipt, usual processes by which one "undertak< s" to hoy land?I waspeaklng accurately and not falsely Everything hinges on the moaning of the word "undertaken" and mv use of it. Did 1 mean to conceal tin fact that 1 was anxious to buy aomc of this land? Not at all. Did ) moan to attack Dorr as a swindle! when I myself was engaged in a dishonest and dishonorable transaction? That is what (he President would have the people believe. Can 1 he just 1 v charireft won f-, , m ...?? lUioriUMUl when if 1 hud told the Senate of tin entire transaction it would hav<. made no difference whatever, whih I would have been charged with intruding my private affairs into n public discussion? .lust what law did I break? What wrong did I hi or contemplate? According ti the report of the Attorney-Clonerai, in answer to the resolution which I introduced and which passed th" Senate, Ifarriinan, the President's dear friend, still holds in defiance of law upward of 2,Odd,000 acres of tlie best lands of Oregon and Call fornia and refuses to sell them at any price. 1 never expected, and .could not under the terms of the law as 1 construed it. get more than seven greater sections for myself and family, one for my private secretary, and one for Mr. Lee, making nine in all. This, in the aggregate would mean that I would obtain through my activity here, as the President's charge is, nine quarter sections, or fourteen hundred and forty acres, at a cost of $-l,r>00. \V II the President undertake to say thai I have lost my right to buy land because i am a Senator? Can the President deny that my activity secured the passage of the resolution instructing the Attorucy-Cioneral to bring suit for the recovery of thin land for the use of actual settlors? If llarriman and others like him an made to disgorge by reason of these suits, shall the fact that t wn? <>" deavoring to buy a little pittance of the land b'1 used as tho basis of a charge of being a liar and a corrupt Senator ? to be digraced? To sum up, this is a brief re sumo of tho entire transaction: While in Spokane, Wash., in October, 3 1)07, I first hoard that there were timber lands in Oregon which were being bought through Reeder & Wat kins, of Marshllold. On October f> I wrote to Reeder & Watkins, asking for information, telling them of my desire to purchase lomo of the land if possible. Desiring to find out if the conditions >f the grant to the State of Oregon uiiiue il possible lor "purchasers'* ind not "actual settlors" to buy at f2.r,0 per acre, I wired the librarian >f the Senate for a copy of the act. ''hiding that that part of the statenent received from a gentleman in Ipokane was correct, 1 notified Rood r & Wat kins on October 2 0 that 1r. Lee, whom I had seen at Mosow, Idaho, in the meantimo and alked with on the subject, would :o to Marshfleld and investigate in orson. I authorized I-.ee to draw n me if he found that the land* 'ere what they were represented to e. Lee's authority as my agent ever went beyond an examination f the land and, if the application as filed, to see that I got good mber lands instead of rocks and J J marshes. lie wired mo not to be in a hurry, as there were obstacles ( < iti the way. In the meantime 1 hi / . < talked with lawyers who were familiar with the military road land grants, and they informed me thai under a decision c-f the oircuit com i private parties were not permitted to sue for those lan's. Still daunting whether I could purchase tielands \.*iih any hope of successful litigation, 1 wrote to Senator (Jeorgo Turner, of Washington, to get hH opinion and iix-idi-nt ally t-o make inquiry about lands on the Columbia river, in that State. He gave t h same opinion that 1 had already re. coived from the other lawyer. Realizing after 1 got to Washington, I). in December that it was a very doubtful proposition, 1 let thel matter diop until Mr. Dee showed I me a letter from Roeder & Wat kins, which has been stolen from my desk in my committee room along with other papers in this ease, probably by some of t lie Secret. ServJc* sleuths, and when they indicated their desire that 1 should exert in> intluenc" in the Senate, I wrote the letter of February la, of which the I'resdent obtained a photographic copy. in the meantime and before that letter was written, from my investigations and after a conference with t he At tot ney-CJenoral, I introduced the two resolutions of lantiarv 1. one calling on the Attornoy-denoral for information, and the other (the joint resolution) which became a law, instructing him to institute suits. My olilcial activity then is shown to have taken form in the Senate before I knew anything about Rooder & Watkins' attitude or expectations and I was in no wav influenced by t hem. I was still anxious to obtain sonm of the land if it could be done legally, and wrote Render & Watkins to that effect, but my faith in them and in the whole scheme died when I received the circular of Dorr, which came to me on February 17 and IS from three different directions, show ' ling the widespread distribution made of them. Also Mr. Lee's report to me had led me to believe i that Reeder & Watkins were not of the caliber and character to bo emi ployed in a matter of such magnitude, except probabiy as to their ; familiarity with the local conditions ' and their ability to locate quarter sections which were well timbered, > as they were in the possesion of a [ cruiser's map. Dorr of whom I had never heard before, was evidently pushing his scheme of getting suck - ors to invest and using my name, as I 1 i ? * i i iiu>< inuicaiou. wnnout authority i | Iichuiso I had not paid any fees to I hint or written to him or tiled any > applications. I therefore felt it in> omnbent on me to expose the swindle ? in the Senate, which 1 did on the 19th of February, and asked the i postolliee authorities to issue a fraud ' order. I pressed the passage of the joint > resolution in the Senate, and on , April 30 it became a law. March I ?> I was taken ill. and on May 1 0, after a partial recuperation I sailed for 10urope, returning October 21. The President's sleuths, set to do the dirty work of spying on a Senator when that Senator had exposed a fraud which was being perpetrated on the public, reported to him on July 27. 1 had nothing whatever to do with the chance in the law of which the President complains in regard to the Secret Service. So the President's animus Is nor against mo on the same ground for which ho has attacked Messrs. Tawney, Smith and others in the House but one of personal malice engendered by hatred because of my course in the Senate during the last seven v> KU\ I ft. I have not attempted to deceiveanybody; 1 have not told any falsehoods; I have not. otoken any law. 1 have not been guilty of any immoral conduct. I had the right to purchase the land if I could, bir. my judgment told m v it was unsafe as an investment. I would like to get some of it yet. and if the Attorney-Goneral and his successors shall not die of old age before anything is done it ntnv bo possible that ! | I 1 will have the opportunity to purchase some of those timber lands of which he made mention in his report. (rf Doc. No. 27D, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) Through my action attention has been directed in a compelling way to the need of prompt action by the Department of Justice. Whether I ever get any of the land or not does noc mater if liar i .1114 111 .mil uuhth or mac 11k are i mado to disgorge tho large holdings i which they have stolen and are attempting to hold. 1 The President sayv: i On October 20, 1007, Senator Tillman wrote a letter to Messrs. Ueeder & Watkins. of Marshlleld, Oregon, who were attorneys representing people who were applicants for tho purchase of certain land-grant land. Dorr was a land agent making his filings through ltceder & Watkins. c This statement is misleading an.l l calculated to deceive. The report of ( the postofllce inspectors gives the c actual truth. It says: e Among the most active agents in r this matter is tho firm of Ueeder & li Watkins, of Marsh field, Oreg. Mr. t Ueeder is a real estate agent an I a Mr. Watkins an attorney. They t have associated themselves togethor r in locating applicants on these lands, fi ) Farther, Render & Watkins, by i circulating & shrewdly worded clr- t cul.'.r long before IX>i i appeared on j tin- scone, sought to make mouey by t having persons pay them '$21 in t cash for filing an application with t the clerk of court uud tendering to I i be company $400 ncr quarter wt- 1 tion, which the law originally con- i templated hh the p* ice of land, t They were to receive $100 additional i whenever the Southern Oregon i Company should convey the title, ] and they knew that no one could 1 compel thiH conveyance except the I'nited States (Government, because a similar case had been decided in the I'nited States eoutt so declaring, i (See Nichols v. Southern Oregon Co., Federal Reporter, vol. 135, p. i 234.) I commenced to investigate on the 5th of October, and 1 made direct application to Ueeder & Watkins, by telegram and by letter, on the 20th of October. Dorr old not appear until early in 190X, as shown by tlie report of the postolTico inspectors, and ltis career ;is a swindler was brief, as I exposed the whole tiling in t he Senate on February 19. Tin? President had the papers and knew ail this. Render & Watkins were receiving $2 1 for the insignificant work of making a tender to the hold ing company and filing a notice wltn the clerk of the court. Dorr was to share in this comnussion, or whatever you term it, fo?* whatever bus iness he brought, and yet the President would convey the impression that these Mings were merely such ..s are usual in purchasing government land, when he knew or could have easily found our from the Attoriiey-fleneral, that all such propos ed purchasers could not thus bring any suit. In the i'gbt of the evidence as presented to the President himself, the scheme was a swindle to obtain $2 1 in cash, and must he apparent to all. Hut the President acquitted Dorr and convicted me. Hy this time I had found out the legal status, and decided I would not sign a contract, tile an application, or pay any money, and my only reason for writing to Iteeder & Wat kins on February 1 "> was to have them understand that Leo misconceived my attitude in the Senate, and that I was not to be considered as a tool, but acting in tbo interest of the public. Remember I knew nothing of Mr. Dee's letter till sent in by the President. At the same time I was willing to use them in locating desirable quarter sections, if later on I found that the action of Congress would make it possible to restore tinland to the public domain by the cancellation of the patents. The President lays great stress on the statement of mine made the lath of February in a letter to Recdor & Watkins. lie italicizes the words "as well as myself," as though it were unlawful, immoral, or Improper for a Senator to buy any land or to act in nils Chamber < n any question affecting his personal interest. I fail to see any sense or reason in this position, hut I must submit that to t lie judgment of the Senate and the country. I had not become a party to any litigation; I was not interested except as a private individual wanting to purchase, and as a Senator desiring to enable others to have the opportunity to do so. Of course, the President is sure that I have done something very discreditable and outrageous. lie hates me and would destroy me if he could. The President gloats over the fact that mv letter was written "just four days before lie announced in the ' Senate that In* had not undertaken ( to buy any land in the West" as ^ clinching his contention that I have lied to the Senate. The records show that in the interim i ho Dorr circular had been sent to me, for on February 1!), when 1 made the exposure of Dorr,, 1 said in tlie Senate: ' in the last day or two I have ' had my attention called to a scheme of swindling, etc. * It is easy for those who are them- ? selves vulnerable to convict others f on the most flimsy evidence, and the a President seems to work on that theory. \ On reading Dorr's circular the whole scheme and combination of swindlers?Render & Watkins, in Marehllcld, and Dorr, in Portland; i did not know anything about Conro , ( and Schaefer?flashed on my mind; and remembering Lee's somewhat dubious report as to the character and qua 11 float ions of the firm of Uoeder & Watkins, 1 decided at once to see to it that my name should not ? be used to inveigle others into their crarne. Hence my action in the SenRe. The President dismisses with a wave of the hand any possibility of my honestly by saying: It is unnecessary to comment on his proposal made in this letter to use his influence as a Senator , to force the Government to insti- ' tute a suit which would make it easy for him personally to obtain fiomo of the land. It might he well to inquire whethtr or not the Attorney-General ha* icon ordered not to obey t no law of Congress passed last April?which 1 all the "Tlllman-Ilonaparte" law? *' rderlng suit to be instituted for the ecovery of these lands. My culpa- j illty is of such magnitude in conomplating the purchase of 1,440 ores of land at $2.60 an acre in he eyes of this stickler for official ectitude in others that it may he ound that he is determined to block J < ny so-called "nefarious transacious. The man who announces to Con- j| (ress that he, Theodore Roosevelt, ii?uiiip? the rlkht to permit the 8teei rust to absorb Its greatest rival con:rary to law would doubtless uot hesitate to help bis dear friend Har K riman in holding 2,000,000 ucres of f' :he public domain, because lien Till- # man lias contemplated and wanted t< to buy 1,4 4 0 acres. The President ^ having convicted Tillman, proceeded P to clear ixirr in both cases contrary h to the facts and smilingly retires -4 from the center of the stage, which w it is his greatest delight to occupy, t and complacently looks to have the c American people and the Senate give a their approval to Lis verdict. 1 r await the verdict calmly and without l fear, and will gladly abide by it. u In conclusion, Mr. President, 1 t court the most searching investiga- r ton. Nay, i demand it. I declare 1 most emphatically 1 have never t sought to conceal my efforts to buy v land; I spoke to the Attorney-Goneral about it; I explained to the agent. I to the secret service the whole trans- <J action when I gave him the Dorr clr- c cular and the letters which had been v sent me concerning it. The question r of motive will at last control and it ? cannot be shown that I had any e reason to conceal anything. 1 invite comparison of my private life and my public work as a man an.I a Senator with Theodore Roosevelt ov \ any other man and feel absolutely sure of the ground upon which i s stand. (j c POIND HIM (iliuv. , ( Failed to Practice What lie (Maimed to Preach. Spartanburg, Jan. s.? S. S. Tin or, president of the Law and Order 1 League, at Pacolet, and who wa? ii candidate for the Legislature in t Ho last election, was convicted of manslaughter and carryin concealed weapons today. Sentence has not been imposed. 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