The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-18
LITICAI.
ROORBACKS
Deliberate Lying the Last Re
sort Of Unprincipled News
papers and Politicians.
TO GUARD AGAINST DECEPTION
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From this fine until the election the
wise citizen will be on his guard
against exaggerated reports, lying re-
ports and dagrant 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 econscienceless reporter had attrib-
uted to Judge Parker the saying that
"a dollar a day is enough for labor
ing man. This particular liar lacked
inventive genius and had to borrow an
old lie, for the same saying was attrib-
uted to Mr. Beecher years ago. He
was also Il stupid liar, for he ventnred
to state when and where Judge Parker
said it, ana the supposed witnesses
straightway came forward with ex-
plicit denials. The New York Evening
Post a few weeks ago published as an
editorial letter which 'Mr Roosevelt
might have written and put his name
to 1t. A crimlIlally careless reporter,
or, more likely, a shrewd liar, seized on
this fictitious letter and gave it circu-
lation as one which Mr. Roosevelt real
~ did write
A New York journal few weeks
ago reported that Mr.. j. Pierpont Nor
gan had visited oyster Bay in his
yacht. that the president and Mr.. Nor
gan had conference and that as a re-
suit of certain pledges then made Mr.
Morgan promised Mr.. Roosevelt his
support. The whole story was a liz
without even thread of truth In it, 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 a fabrication from beginning
to end. SO is the story published edi-
torially in the New York Times that
Mr.. Cortelyou. the chairman of the
Republican national committee, is col
lecting campaign funds from great cor
porations, with implied .or expressed
pledges that the contributors shall be
exempt from legal proceedings If Mr.
Roosevelt is elected. To be perfectly
explicit, its reported concrete In
stance" Is an absolute, unqualified
falsehood, with no grain Of truth III or
under it to give 1t even a sembIance of
reality. Another lie Of similar char
acter is one which we believe originat-
ed with the Pittsburg Post that Sin
some Of the southern states, notably
Alabama, the president has constitut-
ed board of white and negro politi
clans, to whom has been remitted the
control of federal patronage, with the
negroes In the majority" The story Is
pure fabrication. The only negro
with whom the president has consult
ed about appointments Is Booker 4.
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.
a white Democratic paper
WASHINGTON AND THE PRESIDENT.
II Booker Washington, as charged Is
really responsible for the presidential ap-
pointments IN Alabama, we have very lit
tie to find fault with him In the matter
of advice to the president on this score
We are basing this admission ON the pre-
sumption that the Tuskegee educator is
in fact sponsor for certain selections BY
Mr.. Roosevelt In this state credited to
Washington's intercession. The Times
will go further than this In admitting
that it does not recognize III Booker
Washington's compliance with the re-
quest for information about men In Ala
bama whom the president may consider
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