Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-29
CALLS PHILLIPS A LIAR
Candidate for Governor Reiterates To-
day What He Said Yesterday About
the Mooted Interview Printed in
Burlington.
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- ~ reiterate what | said in the .
$ Courier yesterday, ! was not inter-
g viewed by HaWk-Eye representa-
. tive" T. J. Phillips.

IFrom Tuesdays Dailv.l
The Burlington Hawk-Eye evidently
objects to having it's interview with
Hon. T. j. Phillips characterized as a
fake. The Courier yesterday publish
ed Mr.. Phillips denial that the
interview was genuine. When Mr..
Phillips attention was called to
the following article from the Hawk
Eye, he again reiterated what he said
to the Courier representative yestei
day and declared emphaJically that he
did not see a Hawk-Eye man on the
date in question, and that he positive
ly was not interviewed
Following is what the Hawk-Eye
says:
If the Ottumwa Courier quotes Mr..
Thos. j. Phillips, democratic candidate
for governor correctly, that gentleman
has begun his campaign with down
right falsehood. The Courier says:
Thomas J. Phillips, the democratic
candidate for governor, says the in
terview which was printed in the Bur-
lington Hawk-Eye last Thursday morn
ing, and which was copied by the Cour-
Ter that same afternoon. is fake. MI.
Phillips says he was not interviewed
at all during his trip to Galesburg. He
left Ottumwa at 11:40 o'clock on No. 2
Wednesday night. He says the only
person he talked to that night was a
Burlington conductor whom he knew.
Mr.. Phillips, when asked about his
stand on the democratic platform, to-
lp,, 1rrr,
delegation that the committee on reso-
lutions stood seven against the re-affir-
nation of the Kansas City platform
and four in favor of it. ! would have
preferred to have had the platform
say nothing at all about silver or re-
affirm the Kansas City platform.
81 understand Charles A Walsh,
Cato Sells, Fred White and ]. B.
Weaver were all working against me.
do not know why Walsh or Sells
should do this, as | have always been
friend to them, but as to White and
Weaver they had some grievances
against me on account of me opposing
their nomination for congress at the
Sixth district congressional conven.
ton, which was held in Oskaloosa four
years ago.
Now as the convention has ratified
the Kansas City platform of 1900,
will stand upon it as the nominee OF
the democratic party"
The Hawk-Eye representative who
interviewed Mr.. Phillips ON Burlington
passenger train No. 2, last Wednesday
night, makes the following signed
statement concerning it:
II not only met Mr.. Phillips, demo
cratic candidate for governor, on Bur
lington passenger train No. 2, Wednes
day night after the convention, but
had at least ten minutes talk with
him. In this talk he made the state
ments printed in the Hawk-Eye Thurs
day morning. He not only talked
with me, but conversed in my pres
ence for twenty minutes with a FRIEND
who happened into the smoking room
where Mr. Phillips and We're sitting
alone. 1t was after his talk with botf
of us that he had Drief conversation
with the conductor in my presence
/ told him l was Burlington Hawk
Eye representative and he warned me
not to say anything bad about him OF
he would get after me- This was
said in a joking manner and caused ;
laugh. We then shook hands and
got off at Burlington. am loath tt
believe the Courier has reported Mr.
Phillips correctly, for he certainl,
cannot deny that he talked with me fol
publication, and aid what was print
ed in the Hawk-Eye interview.
CIV. II. d."