The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-08-30
A CAMPAING LIE Exploded

SnhA ANU LIE EAfLODED.
Dubuque. To-, Aug. 4, 19OO.-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
Use of Support.
"A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch says tn >
nrst visible evidence Mr. Bryan has re-
ceived of the support of travelling men
came with the visit of Mr.. j. M. Kern,
OF Baltimore, Md, representative OF a
house that employs 357 statesmen. At
recent dinner given to these sales
men their preferences were taken as to
their personal choice for president, and
upon roll call IL was found that 351
or those present were for Bryan and 6
for Mckinley. The result was so
pleasing to the statesmen that they Sc
lected Mr.. Kern to visit Mr.. Bryan TO
offer the greetings of the travelling
statesmen of Baltimore. Mr. Kern al
SO assured Mr.. Bryan that IS per cent
of the travelling statesmen of the coun-
try will be identified this year.
whatever that means.)
Considerable more follows in the ar
ticls, but the above is sufficient for my
purpose.
Believing 1t to be campaign hot air
story, ! wrote to Hon B. F. Parlstt,
collector of internal revenue, Balti
more, Md, and gave him a synopsis of
the above statement and asked him to
have the kindness to investigate this
rtha
buque Herald or Mr.. Kern were telling
the truth. AS reply to my letter, /
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, l beg to
hand you herewith a letter from the
secretary of the Republican state CEN
trail committee, Mr.. Henry F. New, In
regard to his investigation of the mat
ter. Mr.. New Is gentleman of in
tegrity and regarding very highly both
commercially and politically, and his
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. F. Parlett"
Mr.. Henry F. New, secretary of the
Republican state central committee,
whose Office is at No. 45, 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 follows:
I'm reply to your request OF the 26th
ult., permit me to say that have made
the matter one OF personal interest, be.
lieving, as ! did from the first, that
the statement contained in the publish
ed article was an express falsehoo1-
in plain words, a campaign lie.
My position for many years as pres
ident of the Wholesale Grocers asso
citation, of Maryland and vicinity, ena-
bles me to get certain informal on
which is 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 I am informed that
the house having the largest number
of statesmen in the city has only forty
statesmen on the road and about the
same number of statesmen, bookke ep-
ers, clerks and boys on the inside. This
house has in its employ one John M.
Kern, travelling salesman, who is an
enthusiastic Democrat, but travels on
lily through the eastern shore of Mary
land and Virginia.
THE statement that a dinner was re-
Gently held In Baltimore which was at
tended by the 357 statesmen cannot be
traced or located, and I am sure was
pictured by an enthusiast who was in
spired by the sight or presence of the
great 16 to 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
large majorities, clearly indicates the
drift of the sentiment in favor of the
reelection of Mckinley.
Should you desire any further in
formation shall be glad to furnish 1t
upon request. Yours very truly,
Henry, F. New, Secretary"
II is really pitiful to notice the ex-
treme straits that our Democratic
friends see INTO be driven to, but when
they attempt to deal in such wholesale
stories as that which was published In
the Dubuque Herald Saturday, July 81
1 think they should be called down, and
am pleased to have been able to sift
this story to its foundation and have
proven it to be a fabrication pure and
simple.
was a travelling man for twenty
years myself and no one can make me
believe that as a class they have so
little sense as at the present time to