Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-02
Warning Factions of Pye and
Hull Reach No Agreement
In Their Controversy
THE T.-R. COLUMNS ARE CLOSED
Each Side Given Final Argument To-
day, and Neither Is Any Further Ad
vanced Than When the Controversy
Arose-Huli Will Debate Braden Only
on Conditions Named-The Finale.

The closing chapters of the Pye-Hull
controversy are presented by the
Times Republican today, and as far as
this newspaper is concerned it's col
umns are closed to the controversy
from now on.
Each side today was given the OPP
portunity of making its final argument,
with the result that neither is any fur
Their advanced than when the disagree
ment arose primarily. 4 debate under
the present conditions is out OF the
question, as Mr.. Hull will not debate
with Mr.. Braden, only under the con-
ditions named heretofore in his COM
Rlunications. Mr.. pye will not meet
MIR. Hull, personally, on the forum, and
there the matter rests.
Mr.. Pye, in answer to the communi-
cation of Messrs. Vail and Andrews,
published yesterday. says:
"Messrs. John d. Vail and I. +. AM
drews, Marshalltown, Iowa--Gentle-
men. In your article of yesterday you,
in substance. say that Moses Hull will
not meet Clark Braden in debate, be-
cause of Braden's falsehoods I'd con-
corning Hull, and that I am the proper
person to meet Hull in the proposed
debate. Now, gentlemen, you issued
the challenge, naming Moses Hull as
your champion. Remember, you did
not assume to defend yourselves in de-
bate. but named another as your rep
resentative. Now. gentlemen, in all
candor and fairness. when you named
another to defend you, did not nave
right to do likewise? IT not, Why
not? Your naming some one else to
defend you gave me the privilege 10
name some one else to represent me.
Had you challenged me to meet you In
debate l would not have been at lib
serty to choose another as my repre-
sentative. but when you chose an adj
vocate to uphold you in discussion
had an equal right.
Now as to the matter of the So
called ISLANDERS of Braden against Hull.
YOU say Braden has slandered Hull. but
pray why not prove the truth of your
statement? You say that the charges
of Braden against Hull are false; why
not prove that they are false. Clark
Braden. like the honest man he is. pro-
roses that Hull reduce his ISLANDERS to
writing and sign them: then that Hull
select n dislnterested man In whom the
public will have confidence. myself an
other, and the two n third. He CBra-
den) viii meet such committee and
prove the faisity of Hull's charges. He
will also prove his charges against
Moses Hull.
Now, gentlemen you are obliged to
do one of two things, either prove that
Braden is falsitier or admit that the
charges against Hull are true.
"NATHANIEL PYE.
"MarshAlltown, Iowa. March 2, 1904
In answer to the above, Mr.. Hull
makes a brief response, as follows:
"Rev. Nathaniel Pye: II you refuse
to meet me in discussion that ends the
matter SO far MS you and ftre con-
cerned For reasons already named. /
will not meet Mr.. Braden. When he
makes specific charges of immoral con-
duct against me and specifies the par
ticular acts OF immortality, the day and
date OF such act. then and rot until
then will it be my time to act.
1T is enough for me to now say |
that will not meet Clark Rraden on
conditions other than those already
mentioned.
Respectfully,
MOSES HULL.
"Marshalltown, March 2, 1904. 407
East Main Street"