Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-08-25
BUTLER'S BETRAYAL
OF THE POPULISTS
A cAMpAING LIE EXPLODED.

A CAMPAING LIE EXPLODED.
Dubuque, To-, Aug. 4. 190O.--To the
Editor: In the Dubuque Herald OF
Saturday, July 81, 1900. is to be found
the following:
statesmen ARE FOR BRYAN.
They Send Kinkly Greeting and Prom
ise OF Support.
"A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch says the
first visible evidence Mr.. Bryan has re.
celved of the support OF travelling men
came with the visit OF Mr.. J. M. Kern,
OF Baltimore, Md, represen' at.ve OF q
house that employs 357 statesmen. At
q recent dinner given TO these sales
men their preferences were taken as %
their personal choice for president, ami
upon q roll call II was found that 351
Of those present we're for Bryan and G
for Mckinley. The result was SO
pleasing to the statesmen that they sc
lected MIR. Kern 10 visit Mr.. Bryan to
offer the greetings OF the travelling
statesmen OF Baltimore. Mr.. Kern al
80 assured Mr.. Bryan that 95 per cent
OF the travelling statesmen OF the coun-
try will be identified this year.
whatever that means.)
Considerable more follows In the ar
t!cle, but the above Is sufic.ent for my
purpose.
Believing 1t to be a campaign hot air
story, | wrote to Hon. b. F. Parlstt,
collector of internal revenue, Balti-
more, Nd, and gave him a synopsis OF
the above statement and asked him to
have the kindness to investigate tails
mar Kern and see whether the Du-
buque Herald or Mr.. Kern were telling
the truth. AS a reply to my letter, I
have received this morning from Mr..
Parlett the following.
Concerning the subject of our cor
respondence relative to the misrep e.
sensations OF a certain Kern, | beg to
hand you herewith a letter from the
secretary of the Republican state cen
trail committee, Mr.. Henry r. New, In
regard to his investigation OF the mat
ter. Mr.. New Ia a gentleman OF In
tegrlty and regarding very highly both
commercially and politically, and hii
sense Of honor would permit him to
make no statements which are not
based on the actual facts as found by
him. Very respectfully,
b. r. Parle.t."
Mr.. Henry +. New, secretary OF the
Republican state central committee,
whose Office Is at No. As, North Calvert
street, Baltimore, Md, writes a letter
which completely explodes the hot air
balloon which was recent started by
the Herald and Is as followst
In reply to your request OF the 2sth
ult,, permit me to say that | have made
the matter one Of personal interest, be.
lievihg, as I did from the first, that
the statement contained in the publish
cd article was an express falsehooj-
In plain words, a campaign lie.
my position for many years as pres
ldent OF tho Wholesale Grocers' asso.
citation. OF Maryland and vicinity, ena
bles me to get certain informal on
which 10 unquestionable. | can assure
you that there Is not a house in Balti-
more that employees 357 statesmen on
the road and inside, and by the secre-
tary of the Commercial Travellers Pro
tective association | am informed that
the house having the largest numbe'
Of statesmen In the city has only forty
statesmen on the road and about the
same number OF statesmen, bookkeep -
ers, clerks and boys on the inside. This
house has In It's employ one joan M.
Kern, a travelling salesman, who Is an
Democrat, but travels Oh
lily through the eastern shore OF Mary
land and Virginia.
The statement that n dinner was re.
Gently held in Baltimore which was at
tended by the 357 statesmen canpot b.
traced or located, and | am sure was
pictured by an enthusiast who was in
spIred by the sight or pre- ence of the
great 16 to l Bryan.
MY intercourse with the financial
and commercial interests OF the city
assure me that they are almost unani-
mously in favor OF Mckinley. Recent
statements as published In the daily
press by the Hon. Lloyd Jackson, who
four years ago directed the campaign
In the state for Bryan, and by ex-May-
or Davidson and ex-Mayor F. G. La
trobe, who served the city as mayor
for seven terms, that they would this
year support Mckinley, and pred CT
majorities, clearly indicateJ the
drift OF the sentiment In favor OF the
reelection OF Mckinley.
Should you desire any further in
| shall be glad to furnish it
upon request. Yours very truly,
Henry, F. New, Secretary"
II is really pitiful to notice the ex-
IRENE straits that our Democratic
see INTO be driven to, but when
attempt to deal in such wholesale
as that which was published in
the Dubuque Herald Saturday, July q.
think they should be called down, AMI
am pleased to have been able to sift
this story to It's foundation and have
proven II to be a fabrication pure and
I was a travelling man for twenty
years myself and no one can make me
that as a class they have so
little sense as at the present time to
want to vote for w. j. Bryan, or any
of his kind. Yours very truly,