Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-02-28
Hon Mills Gardner and the Hamilton
Telegraph.

Hon. Mills Gardner and the Hamilton
Telegraph.
The Hamilton Telegraph, for some rea-
son, best known perhaps to the editor,
has for several weeks kept up a constant
misrepresentation of the acts and position
of our Representative in Congress on the
currency question. Mr.. Gardner, not
wishing to allow the editor, ignorantly or
otherwise, to misrepresent him to the
readers of the Telegraph, has written let
ter for publication in that paper in refu-
tation of the misrepresentation by the
Telegraph. We transfer the letter of Mr..
Gardner to the columns of the HERALD
without comment, but ask all our readers
to read the letter for themselves:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON D. c., Feb. 9th, 1873. :
Editor Of the Telegraph, Hamilton, o.:
DEAR SIR: In your issue of the 9TH
inst. 1 find the following:
Hon. Washington Mclean, of Ohio, has
telegraphed the treasure of the congress
sionaI Silver and Greenback League to
draw on him at sight for 5000 to enable
the league to circulate documents favOra-
BILE to the repeal of the resumption act and
the reconciliation of silver Washington
ID. O. Star.
Mr.. Mclean is the proprietor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, and the Hon. Mills
Gardner is the executive committeeman
of the Greenback League for Ohio. 1t is
not often that the publisher of demo
cratic paper contributes funds to be ex-
pended by a F!republican" congressman.
BY the way, has anybody knowledge of
any republican publisher contributing in
oo f7.oo .Aft tha 1oO1nora fin n
League, whereof Mills Gardner, "repub-
| Iican, of Ohio, is a member?
Last weeks issue contained long arti-
Gle on the same subject, together with
sundry other matters of complaint against
me. In order that you may be set right,
and do yourself and readers, as well as
myself, justice in the matter, write this
to inform you that am not a member of
the Congressional silver and greenback
league;' nor am it's executive COM
mitteeman''-I have.no connection with it.
1t is true, however, that, upon invitation,
1 attended the caucus called for its organ
ization, and that [ was named for mem
ber of the ''executive committees" but it
is also true that I declined to be mem
Der of the organization or of the commit
tee.
have no reason to believe that you
want to do me any injustice. L am con-
tent to be criticised for all say or do,
and certainly have no reason to COM
plain of a want of attention, in this re-
gard, from the Telegraph. The third dis
trict has had no representative in con-
gress to whom the Telegraph has given
so much space and attention as 1 have re-
ceived at its hands; and while very thank
full for the notoriety and prominence il
has given me, I desire to keep its criti.
cisms in the bounds of truth and fact.
did vote for the repeal of part of the
third section of the resumption act;
voted for the silver bill and for Matthews
silver resolution, and voted for the bill
providing "that on and after January 1st
1879, legal tender notes of the United
States shall be received at par for all Gus
tom duties.' Whatever of objection yol
have to these votes, you not only have tn
. right, but it is your duty, as a journalist
to speak of them freely. But I do no
concede the right of a journalist to pu
words in my mouth never spoke, or t.
, charge me with doing what never did
Nor do think that you would knowing
, ly do so. For the purpose, then, of COZ
recting any wrong impressions or info1
nation you may have received, 1 hav
ventured to ask place in your columns
! Upon the silver question think ever
q paper in the district, except the Tele
graph, is in accord with me. A majorit
= of the republican papers of the distric
together with the Cincinnati Gazette
. the republicanism of which suppose yo
: will not question-are with me on til
- question of the resumption act. There
not word in any republican platforl
;. that commits me or the party to tht
act. What objections you can have to m
+ vote to receive legal tenders at par fl
custom duties after the 1st day of JAM
, ary, 1879, l am unable to see. If the +
. sumption act is to be enforced and leg
tenders are to be redeemed in coin at p
on and after the 1st day of January, 1S7
why should they not be received at p'
for custom duties at the same time? WI
a may not the government redeem them
ID payments for customs as well as in coli
i
In sumption act does. Ii believed as W
I'd do in the wisdom of the resumption a,
le and our ability to successfully carry
s. into effect on the 1st day of January, 1S7
Ill should be the more confirmed in t
n, wisdom of my vote on that question.
ed Upon the general charge that am
inflationist, repudiator, ETC., beg lea
&, to say, that have never, at any time,
he any way, by word or act, done or 50
ut anything to justify the charge. ha
uniformly, by word and act, opposed
additional issue of legal tender notes, a
Ia SO expressly declared in my speech
ne congress and in all my speeches on t
cir stump. have not sought to interf,
to with the national bank currency in a
for way, by vote or act. believe that
red true financial policy is, to stand firm
against an imitation of the currency