The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-21
Defeated Candidate Issues Threat
ening Letter Based on In
accurate Report.
SORE AT A STATEMENT
CREDITED TO JONES
However, He Seems to Have
Taken No Pains to
Verify It!

The people Of Minneapolis will be
surprised to learn that DR.. U. G. Will
iams has issued today the statement
quoted below. A typewriter copy of
it was brought to T h e Journal and
it seemed so improbable that he. would
issue a statement of this kind that he
was at}Qnce called up on the telephone
and asked if he had authorized the adj
dress 'FTo the Public and Williams
Supporters and directed its delivery
to The journal office; and if he
that the statement was his and that he
stood for it. The statement is as fol
lows:
porters:
sEIt appears from the returns that
David P. Jones has been nominated.
You may desire to know my attitude
towardssthe:. successful candidate. The
following report Of speech delivered
by Mayor Jones Sept. !, 1906, at the
Lake Harriet pavilion is submitted for
your consideration, and for you to de-
termine whether or not the statements
contained therein are true.
eff you should conclude these state
ments to be true, then it would seem
highly improper for Mayor Jones to
accept your support; if they are false,
it would seem to be equally improper
for YOU to support Jones.
reference has been made in the
Daily News of Sept. 20 to ante-primary
a surprise to me inasmuch as I made
no such promises; my stand in this
particular having been noted by the
Jones supporters and used by them as
An argument against me. .ts-
"Mayor Jones' statement at Lake
Harriet:
"Mayor Jones said that his Eop-
ponents are made up of the brewing
interests which control the. retail
liquor trade Of the city, the gamblers
who have been driven out of business:
pointed office seekers, discharged po-
Gcemen, people from whom special
privileges had been taken away, polit-
ical renegades who are fferninst the
k'''' N'''A'' a@U. &. T Williams
Jones Did Not Say IT,.
The first point to be considered is
that Mayor Jones did not say what is
from the report in morning paper,
which had previously so misrepresented
him that between its morning and it's
noon edition it had corrected ITS own
report. What Mayor Jones said in eff
feet was that the brewers, the retail
liquor trade Of the city, the: gamblers
and the vicious classes generally were
opposed to his administration. Every
body knows that: to be the case. But
Mr.. Jones did not say then, or at any
other time, that all those who opposed
his administration were of that class.
On the contrary, he distinctly said then
that he did not wish to be understood
as saying that all who were opposed
to him were of the classes described,
but to emphasize the point that he had
the opposition Of those elements in this
campaign, which is true. :t:e
Furthermore, what Dr. Williams
quotes in his address to his supporters
is not something which he heard, but
something which he has taken from the
columns of an unfriendly newspaper
which was not assuming to quote ,ac-
curately the mayors words. Appar-
emily without taking any pains to YER
ify the Tribune report, DR.. Williams
adopts it, and sends it out to his sup
porters and to the public with vir'
This is something new in republican
politics in Hennepin county.