The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-04-23
GEN. JAMESON wITHDRAws
And IN letter Gives Some Pointed and
Terse Reasons for 20 Doing.

And IN a Letter Gives Some Pointed and
Terse Eeasous for 70 Doing.
Gen. j. O. Jamison has withdrawn
from the race for delegate TO the Kan
sas City convention His reasons for
so doing are given in the following
card
To the Democrats of Logan County
When the Democratic national COM
lnittee selected Kansas City as the
place for holding the national conven-
tion | exp1 essed q wish TO oe dele
gate, and gave some OF the reasons
which influenced my candidacy. My
appeal was TO the Democrats of Logan
county. As the Populists hae called
county and territorial conventions and
appointed delegates TO attend ma
tional convention called by their
nationsl committee, did not suppose
that that party would participate in
the Democratic primary 10 elect dele
gates TO Democratic county conven-
tion; but 10 this IL appears that / was
mistaken, and my opponent seems TO
have been the beneficiary OF such coal
ition, even to the extent OF the editor
OF the Populist paper assuming the
championship of Mr. Wisby.
In addition to this and the snap
game played in several of the city
wards--in the calling OF the ward
meetings at different hours--in
electiog aud instructing the dele
cations ia some of the wards,
even in advance of the
hour named in the call, by the hench-
men of my opponent, they sent broad
cast over the county the charges that
l was the candidate Of certain news
paper, that was anti-Bryan, dead set
against the Chicago platform, gold
bug Democrat, and lastly, that my
fealty to the Democratic party and
its principles were not sufficiently
plastic TO ft me TO sit as a delegate in
the Democratic national convention.
/ This last charge being elaborated and
em bellished by the Populist organ,
whose editor held Mr.. Wisbys um-
brella in the primaries. All these
were used in certain localities and in
whispers where il was thought they
would do the most good, but in none
of them did the circulators of these
malicious falsehoods assume their
authorship, but invariably whispered
/ them into the ear of the listener that
/ they came from perfectly reliable
sources" The author OF the lie that
was a candidate of a certain element
knew that he lied when he uttered
! the falsehood, as he knew il to be lie
when he gave prominence TO the story
that was not for Mr.. Bryan and the
Chicago platform, for 1 can, without
| egotism or arrogance, say that have
written and published, under my own
name and editorially, more in favor of
Bryan and the reaffirmance of the
Chicago platform than any other one
man in this territory, even insisting
that the national delegation should be
instructed for both.
have never before solicited politi-
cal favors from the territory or Logan
county Democracy, or played to the
galleries for a ''vindication" from
something or somebody as an excuse
to lnfict myself upon the party, being
content to serve IL in the ranks, and TO
which have devoted a life service and
for which have no pangs or regret
Chronic sores who are continually be-
fore the people are not unusual in par
ties and they appear periodically upon
the surface and begin TO tester and eff
fervesce whenever the atmosphere
shows signs Of being impregnAted
with the odor of an approaching elec-
tion, and at once they become imbued
with the idea that they are entitled 10
a "vindication, and forthwith start
the prelude to the'galleries while the
procession passes in review.
/ aspired to be a delegate through
the suffrage of my fellow Democrats
and not from the adherents of any
other party, and since it appears that
this was not the rule, and as / have
nothing from which care TO be "vin~
dicated," my name will not be presen-
ted TO the Logan county convention
on the Goth Of April.
J.C. JAMIsoN.