The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-05-09
SAYS WELIES
DID SAY 1T
BLISS aEiTeRArEs HIS PRE-
vious ASSERTION REGARD
ING wELLEs.s OPINION
or MS BOOK.
Editor Pensacola Journal:

Editor PENSACOLA journal
note the card of Mayor Welies IN
Sundays Journal in which he chargesi
that write regardless of the truth
and that what I stated he said about
my book being the best that he had
ever read was a deliberate falsenood.l
Fortunately the assertion OF Mr.,
Welies does not make or unmake incl
facts in the case.
Mr.. Wslies did not only make taei
assertion that the book on strikes was
the best book that he had ever read
IN his life,s but he repeated the as-l
sertion several times, and that volun-
tarily. l thought sucn an assertion
without any qualifications whatever
was rather extravagant, but ! accept
ed IL as an unqualified compliment
The first OF these utteranees was
made on the wharf and the repetitions
were made in the Office in the pres,
enee Of other parties. Not only DID
Mr. Welies unqsalifiedly endorse the
work, but he ordered hundred COP
les and the very first money that A
received for the work was IRON nun
that very day for this order Not only
did he purchase these works. but ne
gave them away and insisted on his
| friends reading them. These are the
facts in the matter which many can IN
doubtedly verify, SO that the RESPONSE
bility for any deliberate falsehoods'
| in the matter does not rest on me.
/ regret that Mayor Weiles has
| forced me to put him into box which
Is altogether too tight TO leave nun
comfortable. but IL Is his own tauit.
The political combination of which ae
| Is chief knew TO a cert ainty that they
could not defeat me for mayor In
| fair and open contest on my platform
1 They tried to eliminate the platform
| by adopting it several weeks after l
| had announced IL. Then mcd-sling-
| ing. insinuatory process was begun 90
1 turn the people minds from municipai
ownership and substitute the iapoF
| question, hoping to deceive and MS
4 lead enough workingmen TO enable
4 the anti-municipal element, with the
4 negroes and purehasable white voters
4 to defeat me. All kinds or anony,
4 nous communications have appeared
in print Although they were mostly
4 written by the same persons the an
I onymous names were changed daily
4 TO make it appear that there was 2
1 terrible political upheavai but not a
single man was proud enough Of his
4 cause to come ear over his own name
Then an anonymous pamphlet makes
its appearance prepared by precisely
I the same people, without doubt, anc
having precisely the same object, has
been scattered amng the working PEG
pie. This pamphlet, made up OF gar
bled extracts snern of the, qualifying
context, does not bear the name o.
its author and even the printer was
ashamed ID put his imprint upon IL
Perhaps Mr.. Weiles Is not responsible
for this kind OF a campaign but he Is
evidently acquiescing in 1t by hi'
silence and now he gives color TO 4
by denying doing the very things tina
he did do.
4 I wish II distinctly understood tina
4 1 do not care a pinch OF white sanc
| whether Mayor WelIes endorses m.
book or not. I did not ask ais advie'
or the advice of any one else whel
III wrote II and II is immaterial t.
me what he may think OF It or whal
he says be thinks of it
The book is not a question in thl'
campaign and mas no more to do witt
1.-THE real issues than does last years
. birds nest. But when Mayor Welle.
} changes front for purely poiitica
} purpose and hopes to continue n
administration by proxy by binding
the workingman and prejudicing III
uniformed he viii md me at my pos
prepared to let the people know th'
real facts in the matter.
CHAS. H. BLISS.