The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-20
SheWaIter to Vandiyer.

To Major C. H. Vandiver.
In n communication in the News on
Thursday last without authority and in
a manner not justified by any of the
courtesies which prevail mons gentle
men, you take occasion to use my
name in the contemplate and silly
newspaper controversy which you have
engaged in voluntarily and forced upon
your opponent. This is my excuse for
writing You this letter. II is true that
| am IL friend of Samuel j. Illusions.
1t is true that | have supported him. 1t
is also true hat | have lone so gentle
manly, and in the proper way that
every citizen has the right to support
another. And, although, some of your
friends, especially DR.. Fulkerson of
~HigginsvIlle, have written quite
volumiously in your interest, as it was
their perfect right to do. | have care
fully RETAINED from engaging in any
newspaper controversy over your can
didacy and intended To do so until the
end. Now You attack Nh. Huston in a
communication because he is from
Ohio. Now pray where are you from,
aud where do you live at PRESENT. You
certainly dc not understand one thing,
wherever your residence may be, that
especially at this time you cannot
excite democrats against democrats by
holding up to them that your opponent
was raised north of the Ohio river and
came from n state that produced such
democrats as Allen q. Thurman and
others. Now you say in your commu-
nlcatiOn as an excuse for your silly
Ifnal UNnr NJ. " II
Shewalter once in the court house said
MIR. Huston was too recently from Ohio
to give advice to the democracy. You
know perfectly well that when You
wrote your letter that you had never
heard of that incident, and if YOU had,
and were fit to represent the people of
this or any other district, you will
make your statements upon your own
responsibility, and not seek to hide
your responsibility behind some one
else, who is mo- n candidate or asking
for any office. Your attacks upon MIR.
have been malicious. In the
place you became IA candidate after
MIR. Huston and thus got up this local
controversy, and under such circum-
as forces the conclusion that
consented to become the instru-
nent of the spite and malice of others.
concluded TO become a candidate to
he national convention. | supposed
mad the right to do so without asking
he privilege from two or three small
yOuld-be bosses. Mr.. Huston had the
light | take it to support me, but it /
seems from the action of some of your
supporters at this place, and the direct
of some OF them, that in
so he committed an unpardona-
lie sin IN their estimation. And now :
sir come back, and as an excuse i
or Your silly attack on Huston seek to .
lide under the use of my name, used i
without my authority. Whatever may {
ave been my statement about Mr.. !
inston | will say 10 Mr.. Charles II. l.
yandiver that you are too recent a con- :
ert to the silver cause to become the \
representative of the party in a politi- t
office. The midnight circular shows 7
Orth your services as a delegate to the I
ifferent conventions. 1t omitted to y
late that at the Higginsville conven- a
on you were a member of the COM d
on resolutions. 1 was chairman h
T that committee and wrote the plat n
You made a motion which was q
OF seconded to strike out about two y !
of it. Your convention has been II
bout as sudden as that of Paul and as
as the devil when he fell from n
eaven to hell. My advice to you ms a Of
irginian, iron which state | came, v
.hough not from the mountains of the ~
lleghany) that hereafter before you L.
,e a pentleman's name "a q shield fOr -,
'ur own utterances, instead of man. a,
lily standing responsible for your own CT
atements, you ask his permission. 50
Respectfully; ",
j. ID. SHEwALTER. q"