Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-25


NC ROBERTS, Chairman.
Secretary. "A
Some Criticisms Criticised.
LIE Roy, Mimi, March 18th, U4.
EDITOR PLAIN DEALER:
would like to call your attention
to what believe to be a slight error
in your paper of the 18th inst, name
ly, in regard to your article pertain
ing to Theodore Roosevelt. In your
article it was stated that the portraits
of Lincoln and Washington were SO
distaSteful to Mr.. Roosevelt that he
had them dumped into the basement
out of sight.
In regard to this, permit me to say
on good authority that instead Of
being dumped into the basement they
were simply placed there by Mr..
Roosevelt, along with all of the other
portraits in order that they might
not be destroyed while the White
House was undergoing repairs, and
that they now occupy their respective
places.
Permit me also to add in regard to
the Lucy Hayes sideboard which
your article stated to have been pre-
sented to Mrs. Hayes by the tenn
perance women OF the country, I
acknowledge that the above named
piece of furniture was sold to a saloon
keeper. But how was it sold? There
is only one lawful way that it could
be sold and that by public auction,
and therefore it necessarily went to
the highest bidder which happenea
to be saloon keeper. But as t.
believing that Mr.. Roosevelt had any
part in the sale is decidedly absurd.
In closing permit me to quote Secre-'
tary Loeb when he published the
facts regarding the sale. He says:
"No sideboard was ever presented to
Mrs. Hayes but an ice pitcher and
stand long since placed in q Cincin-
natl Museum where it now is. The
sideboard was piece OF furniture
bought in the ordinary avenues Of
trade during President Arthur Is term
and Of no account on any ground"
Yours respectively,
RANSOM THOMSON.
We give the above article from Mr..
Ransom Thomson, but have grave
doubts about the correctness of its
statements. Our information from
the n0ost reliable source under date OF
March 9Th, left the port rai,s of Wash.
ington and Lincoln in the cellar and
in their places were the heads Of elk
and other animals captured by Mr.
Roosevelt and prepared at an expense
OF $1,000 for the people. II since
then they have been restored to 8
place along side of the elk's head ir
the White House we shall be glad tt
record the fact when it becomes {
fact.
We gathered the material for oul
statement from a Washington CITY
paper OF March 9Th, 1904:
f E
ssoLEANs OUT VALUABLE OLD
FURNITURE.
To make room for the PreSidentt
gew-gaws 1t became necessary thai
hundreds OF articles Of furniture
should be disposed of in some way o.
other. It was not necessary then fol
him to consult any one as to hi
manner OF procedure. He ordered
Colonel Bingham to make way with
them. He himself designated the
pieces that were eyes0res.
Among these was sideboard pre-
sented to Mrs. Lucy Hayes, wife Of
President Hayes, by the temperance
advocates OF Cincinnati. The side
board is Of the mostexpensive walnut
hand carved, and has engraved on i,
the shield Of the United States. II
was one of the beautiful utilttarian
articles that adorned the White
House. Mr.. Roosevelt knew well its
history. But he had it put up al
auction, and it was sold along witt
other valuable pieces to j. NJ. Frank
one of the proprietors of the Wash
ington brewery. For long time II
sat in cheap beer hall owned by Gus
w. Brahler,
Alongside OF the sideboard stood 8
book case, Of walnut, that is said tt
have come from q tree undsr which
Henry Clay made his first speech tt
his countrymen, in the Ashland Ky.
district. This bookcase Is as goo6
now as when President Buchanan nae
it made In Lexington in 1858. 1t tool
an old Hanover workman year Il
carve out its symmetrical pieces"
sBREwER BUYS LUCY HAYES
sIDEBoARD.
Frank bought the Lucy Hayes 's.de
board for ss5. He has been besiegeG
by relic hunters, by the patriotic
women Of Chic, ~ mstahsn u MI