The Worcester spy., 1898-11-07
10 VOTERS.
Bottonnly Has
His Say
IN AN OPEN LETTER.
Cherry Valley Man Explains
His Independent Candidacy

to the voters of the district. In this
letter, which is printed below, Mr..
Bottomly shows the reasons that have
led him to stand in opposition to the
republican nominee, and seeks the sup
port of the voters in his, position The
letter follows:
TO THE VOTERS OF THE 9TH WOR-
CESTER REPRESENTATIVE DIS
4 TRICT:
In behalf Of my independent candi-
dacy for the Office Of representative in
the general court, and in justification
Of the course I have taken, respectful
ly submit the following statement of
facts for your consideration, feeling
that the unusual and unfortunate con-
dltions and developments in the pres
ent representative contest warrant me
in taking a step which is distasteful.
and to which it would not have been
necessary for me to resort under any
ordinary circumstances. I believe |
am fulfilling duty to myself and the
district in hereby attempting to put the
voters in possession of the truth, and
If | succeed, | have no fear of the re-
suit on Nov. 8.
One year ago, at the largest republi-
can caucus ever held in Leicester, re-
oeiyed over Mr., Boardman a majority
of the votes cast, and was duly elected
as your representative in the general
court. Is it not most significant
fact that since the nomination of Mr..
Boardman and throughout the active
agitation in behalf Of his candidacy,
and the bitter opposition to my own,
there has been no adverse citicism
whatsoever of my record in the house,
H. ~
possible effort has doubtless been made
| to discover something therein on which
s such adverse criticism could be based?
There has been, and there could just
ly be no doubt raised as to my honest
/ and impartial representation of my en-
lttire constituency. So it would seem
that the only object in an opposition to
me was to satisfy the spite and jeal-
ousy which resulted from the disap-
( pointment of the defeated faction last
} year, and which reasonably should
! never have survived that election. 1
deem it in the nature of a compliment
: that it was considered impossible to
} bring about Mr.. Boarduan's nomina-
: tion over me by any means other than
stealth and strategena. 1t was well
known that l WAS q candidate for re-
: nomination, and Leicester had the nom
ination this year for the express pur-
? pose of continuing the practice which
: is wisely and almost universally fol-
! lowed throughout the state, of return
[ ing a representative for second term,
? since he is obviously better qualified
and ought to be more efficient his Sec
ond year 1t was the generally ex-
pressed opinion that there would be no
opposition to my denomination, and by
inquiry, none could be found. Mr.
Boardman stated at meeting of the
republican town committee that ne
; should not make himself conspicuous
this year 1t was announced in two
Worcester papers that no opposition to
Z my denomination was known. On Mon
! day, Sept 26th, two days before the
| caucus. [ received a letter from Mr. A.
r. Smith. from which / Quote l am
, glad to be informed by Mr.. Boardman
I that he does not propose TO make any
/ contest this year, and L trust, Tor the
. good of the party, that your IrlGnOS
who win make UP the delegations will
give all sections of the town q fair rep
rasentation on the delegations. AS
, look at it, our party must unite, or soon
go to the wall in this town
This letter was taken in good falth,
/ and why shouldn't it have BEEN Ndf'
Smiths relations with Mr. Eoacdman
were such that no better aulhoflty
was needed OF asked for to convince
me and my friends that there was TO
. he no opposftion. What was the re-
i sultq on the night Of the caucus but
few Of my friends We're present. Inc
cries Of mo opposition, The nQlnlna-
tfon is sure for Bottomly, and the IKE
had resulted in a confidence tilat was
/. mistaken Never was a caucus more
boldly or unfairly packed. After the
| moderator had been CHOSEN, and When
the motion had been made to Instruct
the delegates to the representative con-
vention to vote for Bottonly, signal
was given and the Boardmah men
came into the hall in a body, ana with
noisy cheers eonsunmated lhe Trick
whereby they captured the nomination.
Most Of these men were from kochdaie.
and many of them We're not Tepubf-
cans But that which surprised me
most of all was that Mr.. Smiths name
headed the list of Boardman delegates
on September S0th, two days after the
caucus / received a second letter from
Mr.. Smith, in which he represents him
self as not knowing of the plo1 which
resulted in capturing the caucus, in the
, 1 following language He (Mc. Board
mani told me today that Wednesday
, morning (the day OF the caucus) about
s o'clock some of the Spencer delegates
came down to Rochdale, and told him
+hev were strongly in his favor, and
after s o'clock. last Wednesday morn-
ing, the whole job was put up in Roeh-
dale. | knew nothing Of it, Had no
part in il. These are the facts. You
can Judge my conduct" Without ex-
pressing the conclusion / have reached
bv Judging Mr.. Smiths conduct as he
asked me to do, I leave it With my
readers to reach one of their own,
merely stating that, although it was in
tiinated to Mr.. Smith that it would be
proper and consistent, after such ex
PLANTATION. for him TO decline to act as
a delegate yet he refused 50 to do,
. and has strongly and continually cham
, pioned Mr.. Boardman's cause,
You have been asked to sanction and
ratify at the polls next Tuesday the
! nomination secured by the methods I
, have attempted to set forth in this let
Ter. So long as such methods are sue
! cessful so long viii they thrive and
, their repetition become more frequent.
This is much more than q personal
!. matter. The opportunity should never
J be wanting for right to triumph over
II wrong and that opportunity being now
presented to you, way should You nor
Improve upon it by placing your mark
| of disapproyal on such methods and
! such injustice? The YNerdict is in your
hands. and l shall abide the result, be-
, lieving that, although it may be inn
: possible to make the whole truth
: known, vet could it be known by all
the voters my whole course would be
: justified, my election doubly sure. Your
obedient servant,
Jerome Bottomly
Cherry Valley, Mass, Nov. 3 1898.
Women with pale. colorless faces. who
I faal evaalr and dier0t1rapp1 will fncatNn