The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-14
We Will Tell the Story Ourselves

movements and decimates forces.
We Will Tell the Story Ourselves.
A suppressed editorial article in Mr..
HEARsTs Evening journal Of Tuesday
last in defence and general eulogy Of
Governor-C Chairman ODELL contained
this passage:
The story OF the labor leader pardoned by
opRIL and dead ten days later ought to interest
some OF those advised to hate oDg1i. Wen tell
you that labor leader story later, perhaps"
The article containing the eulogy and
defence of Governor-Chairnan ODELL
and the foregoing reference to his pardon
of WILLIAM F. SHERLOCK, described as
@an innocent and dying labor leader
appeared in part OF the edition Of
HEARsT's Evening Journal of Tuesday
and was then withdrawn. Why it was
printed at ALL by whose advice or direc-
tons and for what reasons it was sup
pressed interest us not in the slightest
degree.
Contemporaneously the alleged story
OF the innocent and dying labor leader
pardoned by ODELL and dead ten days
later" is being put into circulation
through several channels. 1t appears
in the form of q statement attributed to
Governor Chairman ODELL himself and
published as a campaign circular pur-
porting to emanate from a New York
State Labor League, III Fifth avenue,
New York CITY," This Labor League
ia a fake. 1t has no authorized connec-
ton with Organized Labor in this State.
1t is an annex Of Governor-Ch Chairman
OpELL's own political machine and main
tanned on paper only for his own pur-
poses. The alleged story, again, comes
from the stump through the virtuous lips
OF the Hon. BENJAMIN B. ODELL, Jr.s,
friend and fellow tapewormer the
Hon. Luc1Us N. LITTAURR, otherwise
known as 1Gaunts." The Daily Leader
of Gloversville records political meet
ing at that centre Of the glove making
industry, tho principal speaker being
L1TTAUBR Part of his remarks are
thus rep orted:
Referring to State politics. the Congressman
paid a deserved tribute to the administration Of
Governor oDkA. saying that he had been unrea-
md mi crtticiafd IL n
fact which Is we'll known to every man In touch with
the political situation In this state. that Governor
opHll did not dictate the nomination Of Mr.. HIo-
orSs Mr. HIooINs was the natural choice Of the
party because of his long. honorable and successful
experience as legislator AT Albany. The attacks
| on Governor opsLL are unjust and untrue and are
| largely due to the fact that one newspaper has
pursued him bitterly because OF q personal grew
ance Of OF Its editors. During strike In the
| once Of TIE NEW YORK SUN few years ago the
| managers OF that paper secured the conviction OF
a member Of q trades union for conspiracy. After
the conviction, application was made to Governor
| opxla. for tho mans pardon on the ground that he
was suffering from fatal malady and his friends
wanted him to go home to die. TIE Sun repre-.
sentative fought the application for pardon and
Informed tho Governor that II he granted the par
don the paper would pursue him mercilessly. The
pardon was granted by Governor opEIa, the man
went home and died in q few days, and THE SUN
has kept It's word"
The statute of limitations does not
apply to this lie about ODELI, SHERLOCK
and THE Sun.
The story which Governor-Chairma
ODRLL and his tapewormers and his
bogus State Labor Leagues are telling
falsely. and which the suppressed arti-
Gle in HEARsTs Evening Journal PROM
ises to tell again falsely later, perhaps,
has been told only once, but truly, by
THE SUN itself in its own columns. We
don't mind telling it again.
SHERLOCK was convicted and SEN
fenced to the pententiary by Judge
i CowING. His sentence was affirmed by
the unanimous opinion Of the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court and later
by the unanimous opinion Of the Court
of Appeals. He was pardoned on April
20, 1901, by Governor ODELL, but not be-
cause he was moribund. When par
doned SHERLOCK went home with no
purpose or idea Of dying, but with the
purpose OF resuming the criminal ac-
Invites for which he had been convicted,
sentenced and imprisoned. And that
ia what he did.
SHERLoCK's death occurred on May
Is, 1901. twenty-five days after he had
been set free by Governor ODELL. In
this interval, after he had resumed the
criminal activity for which he had been
sent to the penitentiary, he died Of a
suddenly contracted disease bearing nc
relation to his condition while in prison
or to his capacity for further criminal
activity at the time OF his pardon.
The exact truth Of this and the abso.
Lutte falsity Of the statements by LIT
TAUER and Others in behalf OF Governor.
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