The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-10-26
POLITICAL RO)RBACKS
Deliberate Lying the Last Resort
OF Unprincipled Newspapers
and Politicians.
An Independent Publication Urges All
People to Guard Against
Deception.

TFrom the Outlook Ind
From this time until the election the
wise citizen will be on his guard
against exaggerated reports, lying re
ports and fragrant fOrgerieS. 1t is easy
to set these in circulation; 1t Is impos
sible To kill them when once they are
started on their travels. For example,
some constituencies reporter had attrib-
uted To Judge Parker the saying that
IA dollar Il day is enough for a labor
ing man This particular liar lacked
inventive genius ana had to borrow am
old lie for the same saying was attrib=
uted 10 Mr.. Beechcr years ago. He
was also IL stupid liar, for he yentured
To state WHEN and where Judge Parker
said IT, and the supposed witnesses
straightway came forward with eX
plicit dcniuls. The New York Evening
Post II few weeks ago published as an
editorial Il letter which mir. Roosevelt
might have written" and put his name
10 il. a criminally careless reporter.
or, more likely, n shrewd liar seized on
this fictitious letter and gave ii circu-
lation ~ one which Mr.. Roosevelt real
~ did write
A New York journal a few weeks
ago reported that Mr.. j. Picrpont Nor
gan had visited Oyster Bay In his
yacht, TINT the president and Mr.. Nor
gan had II conference and that as Il re-
suit of certain pledges then made Mr..
RAnGaUah 10
support The whole story WAS n lie
without even Il thread OF truth in 1t. Mr.
Morgan had not visited Oyster Bay no
conference had been held between Mr.
Roosevelt and Mr.. Morgan or between
any representatives of these gentle
men, and no pledges of any Kind had
passed between them. The whole sto-
ry WAS II fabrication from beginning
to end. So is the story published edi-
tOriallY In the New York Times that
Mr.. GartelYou. the chairman of the
Republican national committee. Is col
Letting campaign funds from great cor
poIations. with implied or expressed
pledges that the contributors shull be
exempt from legal proceedings if Mr.
IopStAtil ~ fltfiftl 10 ne perfectly
explicit. lis reported concrete in.
Stance" Is an absolute, unqualified
falschood, With no grain of truth in or
under II 10 give II even II scmhlance of
reality. Another lie of Il similar char
acter IL one which we believe original
ed with the pittshurg Post TINT lin
some of the southern states, notably
Alabama. the president has constitut.
ed "A honrd of white and negro politi
ciuns. To whom has been rrmittcd the
control of federal patronage. with the
negroes III the mn iority," The story is
IL pure fabrication. The only negro
with whom the president has consult.
ed about appointments is Booker T.
Washington What the best southern
people think about his appointments In
the southern states. notably Alabama"
and about his consulting with DR.
Washington is indicated by the follow
ing recent article on this subject from
the Montgomery Daily Evening Times
II White democratic paper:
WASHINGrON AND THE PRESIDENT.
II Booltcr Washington, as charged IL
pointmouts in Alahlml, we have very lit
tie 10 lind taull with him In the matter
of advice To the president ON this score.
We are busing this admission ON the pre-
sumption that the Tuskesce educator ls
in fact sponsor for certain selections by
Mi. Rnus.Velt in this state credited to
W ashinstuns interccssiou. The Times
Will 20 further than this In admitting
that II does not recognize In booker
Nasllngtous compliance with the re-
quest for information about men in Ala
huma whom the president may consider
worthy of office as "dabhling In politics. Z"
Ii Is a matter that any white m or
Democrat would dignity with a5tcnt.o on
II called upon To that end by TIE prrs-
ident. .ihe Times will say this Gr air.
Roosevelt. as II has before had occasion
10 say: That no Republican president
since the MAI has been more considerable
at Alabama IN selecting incumbents for
the federal offices In this state. If Book
er Washington has shared in the exercise
OF "A privilege that has made him u party
To this result the Times Tor one recognizes
no predicate FOR II criticism which pre-
SCENTS linn in any other lSht than that one
In which he is r'1lected to us as a teacher
who has tr'.iucd the followers of his race
In paths which thread to better ends than
those which load through the dangers and
ruin of politics.
When Horace Greeley was editor of
the New York Tribune he printed some
statement in the editorial columns of
that paper and accompanied it with
the following laeonic reply: You lie.
you villain The men who invent
political roorhaeks in Il campaign are
liars, and it were wen il all reputable
people stgmutiZcd them and their
false reports accordingly.