Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-02-03

Wnlcn employ MS services he has
elected sheriffs in Passaic county
who would assist him in devious
ways to protect his pet corpora
tions and prevent the courts deal
ing too seriously with them.
Gourley has never been known to
predict victory for his party or
any of it's candidates since he as
sumed control of its machinery.
He would look upon a democratic
victory as a public and a private
misfortune.
The real democracy of New Jer-
sey has borne with Gourley up to
the limit. and his attempts to de-
liver them to the Cleveland-O -Olney
movement, coupled with his insult
ing reference to the South, sound
ed his political death-knell in the
Garden State. He will soon re-
ceive such a humiliating lesson as
few public men have been called
upon to bear, and he will deserve
all that he gets. GourIey is fit
ting champion of Cleveland for his
highest ideal and deepest hope is
to destroy the party which he so
falsely claims to lead. l prefer to
throw. bouquets rather than brick
bats in this correspondence, but if
| have to hurl the latter | know
how to hit a bullseye.
Several weeks ago l wrote a
paragraph in this letter about the
Hon. Jesse Overstreet, of Indiana,
and accused him of doing the very
thing which Mr.. Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow had
inveighed against in his report,
that of members of Congress ask
ing for an increase in some country
Post Office and placing some fav-
orite in the Office TO draw the in
crease as a salary. j was given
this information 10y a man here in
whom / had confidence or / would
never have used il. Since it was
published / have seen and talked
with Mr.. Overstreet and he assures
me on his word of honor that the
act attributed to him is not true,
and that he never has made request
for any post office outside of his
district in all the history of his
legislative life. have known Mr..
Overstreet here for the past seven
years and when he tells me that |
have been misinformed and have
accused him wrongfully, and know
ing him TO be an honorable gentle
man, the only thing for an honest
man 10 do is TO retract the accusa-
ton, To be sorry for the spread of
the misinfOrmation and regret that
he has done any man an injustice.
l am playing politics in writing
these letters, but | never will i'm
pose lie on the readers of them
if | know it. This is the first in
stance in year that any man has
said 10 me that l either misquoted
him or accused him wrongfully.
| am sincerely sorry that it has oc-
CURED and l hope that every paper
which published the statement
about Mr.. Overstreet will do me
the favor and him the Justice to
publish this retraction.
The late speech of Hon. William
j. Bryan. in the city of Lincoln,
Nebraska, in which he outlined his
position on the next Democratic
platform and advocated the ratifi-
cation and reaffirmation of the Chi
cago and Kansas City platforms,
thereby making the money issue
again the leading issue in the cam
paign or at least one of the leading
issues, has attracted much atten-
ton here among the leaders of the
party in Congress.
A careful poll of the democrats
in Congress fails to reveal any
considerable number of them who
agree with Mr.. Bryan. More than
nine-tenths of them are opposed tC
making the money issue promi-
nent in the platform or even men
tioning it at all.
They say that the money issue
for the present is closed issue.
That the influx of gold to this
country on account of the new
gold strikes in the KlOndike and
other places, the failure of crops
in older countries and the money
dumped into circulation on account
of the late Spanish-American war
has proved conclusively the demo-
Gratis contention in those two plat.
forms-that there was not enough
metallic money in circulation to dc