The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-24
JEROME NOT GOING TO SULK.
HE'S FOR THE PLATFORM or DE-
CENCY AGAINST INDECENCY.
Hounds" Clerical or Other. VINO Have
Been Abusing Him Can Have Ills
Services for the Cause This Tfme-NO
More Such Alliances for Him. Though.

Been ABUSING Hlnl IAN hANc IsN
Services for the Cause This Time-No
More Such Alliances for Him. Though.
District Attorney jerome, who returned
to the city yesterday at the end OF his six
weeks vacation. was appraised of the action
of the Republican and Citizens Union con-
ventions at his Rutgers street house. He
said he did not think the news called for
any comment by him.
Mr.. Jerome" asked a reporter, will
you support the ticket on the stump?
Il assume that the platform of the fusion
movement" he said, -in its general ten
dency and trend will be what it was in the
last campaign-that is, that it will be
drawing of the line between decency and
indecency.
That platform did not in all it's details
express my views nor did then give entire
assent to all its propositions as framed,
nor do ! now. To that extent l shall most
certainly and in every way in my power
aid the movement.
A man who tells you that he is indifferent
to the dsapprobation of his fellows is either
fool or a knave. He is a knave for lying
and fool for thinking that you believe him.
1T is no pleasant task, nor is it grateful
to me- to have words used in connection
with my honor as man which not one
of the hounds who has used them dare
to have used to me in person unless pro-
tected by his cloth or his years. But
Men of long enduring hopes
And careless what the hour may bring
Can pardon little would be popes
And BrummelS when they try 10 sting
at is hardly conceivable that persons
who in the past few days have been wing
with each other to exhaust the vocabulary
of the English language for epithets which
ought to be offensive to gentleman would
look for aid from man at whom they
have addressed the epithets their resources
have discovered.
But if, VIXEN the business of the Octo-
Der term of the courts is reasonably we'll
in hand, it should be that an incorporate
and abusive person, one whose words were
so vapid and inane az to destroy themselves,
can ever be of service to a cause for which
he has worked, why then that which has
been said. and known when it was said
bv the persons saying it, to be untrue,
will prove no barrier to me from sup
porting the cause that to my mind is too
great and valuable to allow it to be pref
udiced so far as | can prevent 1t, by the
words of the weaklings who are simply
irving to advance it.
II should be discouraged more than !
have words to express did I believe that
we had heard the sincere and untrammelled
expression of the delegates in those con-
ventions.
4 have not based my Judgment 17 upon
the expressions of weaklings like Fulton,
whose feeble defence, If | am correctly
informed, there was not even the courage
TO hear on the part Of those who crushed
him unheard, but upon the information of
men good and true and loyal.
1--WE made my fight, such as 1t was. I've
mot ,fV,| s<Ff
Everything have said is absolutely true,
and is known to be so. will fight the fight,
if such man as can be Of service, to the
bitter end
and when it is over I will shake the
dust Of it from my feet. and until l can
find leaders to whom truth means more
than sham and hypocrisy, and to whom
faith means more than even TictcrT. l
will stand as have stood to-day-aloue.
Those who heard this statement last
night remembered that DR.. Parkhurst had
been abusing Mr. jerome almost constantly
for three days.
Some such announcement as the Dis
trict Attorneys closing statement has been
expected for some time from those who
have followed his course OF thought in the
fight against Lows nomination. -
Tie said repeatedly that he cannot quit
in the middle of n battle-but there will be
no more battles for him in the reform army
until there is an entirely new set of leaders
with an entirely new equipment OF morals
and methods.
In the afternoon Mr.. jerome said:
in all the newspaper discussion OF the
state of affairs revealed by Mr. Fulton's
letters, I find the same disinclination to
discuss the main issues that existed with
regard to my own personal statements
about the situation.
Il have been unable to find any rational
discussion. l see from the editorials Of
this evenings newspapers that the same
policy is to be pursued toward the state
men.s contained in Fultons letters,
'There is to be no examination into the
question as to whether Mr.. Fulton told
facts in these letters. They are TO be
met simply by unlimited abuse of Fulton. y
Mr.. Jerome observed that even Mr.
Cutting, in his letter to Mr.. Jerome. did not
specifically deny the truth of Fulton's
statements as to disaffection in several
described quarters. Interviews with Mr..
Cutting tending TO deny Fulton's state
ments were offered to him, but he brushed
them aside. saying
"All know is what has come to me from
Mr. Cutting himself. stand on his letter
More than one Citizens Union leader 70
prominence called Mr.; Jerome on the tele,
ph one during the afternoon and asked
him to go TO last nights convention and
lead them
They were told that he was not a mem
Der of the Citizens Union organization ar d
that he did not intend to become one and
to be bound by the action of the conven-
ton by "butting in as a proxy
They knew, they were told, whether or
not he was telling the truth about the ex
is'elce of sincerity in their organization.
and if they did not have the courage TO
speak up and say so their troubles were OF
their own making