Washington sentinel., 1900-07-21
Justice to NTessrs, suIzer, Rupert
aud O'Farrell

anu - n dIAtAAs
On our first page we publish the
report OF the committee appointed
to audit the accounts OF the treas.
urer of the fund donated for the
reception and entertainment Of the
Boer envoYs.
The citizens of Washington
wished to show their sympathy tor
the cause those ENJOYS pleaded.
They were so deeply interested in
that cause that they wished the
FIRST public appearance OF the en-
voys to be here at the Capital.
Funds were solicited to provide for
the proper entertainment and the
necessary expenses incidental to
the visit and public reception OF
those gentlemen-and Tor these
purposes only, as the circular
stated. Funds were provided and
were so expended.
AS a matter 81 oijustice to the gen
tleman who acted as treasurer Of
the fund this audit was necessary.
In justification ol his right to ex-
pend the fund as he did, no audit
was necessary. His course in the
matter was laid down in the circu-
lar soliciting contributions. He
was expected to receive the ENJOYS
as gentlemen and to treat them as
such during their stay in our city,
and he did so. ANY other course
were an impossibillty to the gen
tlemen in whose hands the ENJOYS
were placed. This is all that is
necessary to be said on this point.
AS to the charge that a fund
raised for the widows and orphans
Of the Boer soldiers was diverted
for another purpose, it is only
necessary to read the circular So
Letting contributions (Which is
published IN full in the article on
our first page) to see that money
was asked for the entertainment of
the ENJOYS only, any surplus to be
applied for the widows and or
phans Whatever surplus there
was, was so applied. The con
temptIble charge that collections
made for the widows and orphans
OF Boer soldiers were used to wine
and dine the delegates and those
who had them in charge is false,
and was known to be false by it's
dissemInator when he made it.
Itis not strange that an explana-
ton should be asked regarding the
receipts and expenditures, but that
a charge should be made that
moneys solicited for the widows
and orphans was diverted to the
entertainment OF the Boer dele.
gates is incomprehensible, when
that charge comes frcm the very
gentleman who wrote the circular
asking contributions tor the latter
obJect-not the former. Certainly
he should have known better.
This is the same gentleman who
subscribed SIS to the fund, and
when asked to make good his sub
scription, first claimed that he hid
given the sum directly to the en-
voys, and when this was found by
the treasurer to be false, then
said he had remi ted $50 to the
Boer headquarters in Europe.
Perhaps he did. but il every man
who subscribed to the entertain.
ment fund had done likewise,
Messrs Sulzer and Rupert and
O'Farrell would have been placed
IN a nice position. A particu-
lar request OF the Boer represen
tatives was that no political sIgnif.
canoe should be given their visit. !
In this respect the committee in |
charge was careful to defer to their
wishes. Not so, however, with |
the gentleman referred to above,
who rushed into print With his
Scandalous story on the eve OF the
assembling OF the Kansas City
convention, to injure, many be-
.ieve, the candidacy OF Hon. VIM.
Sulzer.
No man who paid his contribu-
ion into this iund need haye any
-eason to regret his action. The
'lsiting delegates while they were
II Washington were made to feel
hattheY we're among friends-and |
Likewise Hon. Jacob
Rupert, Hon. VIM. SuIzer and
,aptain Patrick O'FaTreIl, and the
her gentlemen associated with
lem on this occasion, need not be
'orried over these spiteiul attacks
the source and cause Of which
re known to them. The task
lese gentlemen were selected TO
erform was a delicate one Il