Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-01-13
TAMMANY
Tells Their Side of the Columbian
Broi.
A SIGNED STATEMENT

From K. ID. Heironimus About the
Matter--The Entire Case Reviewed
and the Reader is Asked to Judge
as to Which Side is Right--The
Statement Must Not be Taken as
the Views OF this Paper but is an
Advertisements and Paid for as
Such.
The following article was written
as a reply to the article in the last
issue of the Athen@um signed An
ti-Tammany. No trouble was antic-
ipated in getting the paper that
printed tue attack to publish the de
Tense. But after getting the article
in their possession, and after show
ing it to those whom they thought
it might reflect upon, they decided
not to publish it Consequently we
are compelled to buy space in this
paper in order to show our position.
What do you think of this treat
ment. students
Before sentence is passed upon a
criminal, by the judge, an opportuni-
ty is always given him to state any
reason which he may have as to why
punishment should not be inflicted.
Likewise before the public is per
mitted to condemn the action of
certain members of the Columbian
Literary Society," relative to the re-
cent trouble which took place be-
tween its members, for what they
sincerely believed was right and
which they still maintain with as
much earnestness, as they desire to
do what their conviction suggests, |
desire to say few words as to why
we, the so called Tammany Faction,
should not be censured.
Let me say in the beginning that
this statement of facts would not
have appeared had not the impetu-
Gus article, signed Anti Tammany
have been published in the last is
isue of the Athen3um. But it con
tanned so many copied maxims, Latin
phrases and English words which
had no meaning, bearing on the case,
that it is easy to see how the public
who do not take the time to look up
IL these expressions might take too
much for granted. | shall use PLAIN
English in what | have to say hav-
ng in mind the saying of a noted
educator that, learning is not wis
dom and fool is not genuine fool
till he has studied Latin
We do not desire to prolong the
fight. We have been generous
enough to accept the good advice of
an enemy-we have buried the
Ratchet And have come to the con-
clusion that defeat is better than
uncertainty. And while we deny
that there were those among US who
were striving for self glorifcation"
we frankly admit that we were all
ambitious. No personal ambition
possessed US, but because we thought
that we knew what the best interests
of the society demanded we were
ambitious for good reasons and
the end thus considered fully justi-
lied the means adopted.
This year ''the same cabal as of
yore' 5 in the saddle and tried to
ride the society through green fields
and fertile valleys as they had done
before, but the accession to our SO
society in the way of new members
brought new ideas, Harrison, Hamp-
shire and Barbour counties each
sent their representative who were
not long in telling the society where
they had travelled, what they had
done and what they wanted. They
found those who needed their help
and of course there sprung up,-not
as springs up the wild but the cul-
tivated flower -amicable relations.
The girls too became their allies.
They were getting tired Of the old,
and as girls sometimes do, gave them
up for the new. BY this means they
established themselves and by utter
disregard of the constitution of the
society, in securing the votes of
those who were not entitled to vote,
they elected themselves.
Had the Daily papers of Morgan
town been fair and the article to
which this is reply been truthful
there would have been no necessity
for me to state the facts here, in
volved in the trouble. / was just