Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-23
BURTON is FREE;
WILL PUBLISH PAPER
Quits Jail With Determination
to Write and Talk.
he HAS MALICE TOWARDS NONE

Gays mat ne Will EDIT a newspaper
and Take Lecture Platform to Let
the Public Know that He Is In
nocent.
Ironton, Mo-, March 22.-Joseph
Ralph Burton, who until his convic
ton in the federal court, was United
States senator from Kansas, was Fri
day morning released from the county
jail here, having completed his seq
tence of six months, imposed when
he was found guilty of violating a
federal statute by appearing before a
governmental department as the paid
representative of an alleged 'getrich-
quick concern of ST. Louis.
Burton entered the Jail Oct. %,
1906. His release is due to the law
which provides for a deduction of the
sentence for good behavior. Bur-
toms sentence also included a fine
of So, 500 and the statute under which
he was convicted debars him from
ever holding an office of trust or re-
Enumeration under the federal govern
ment, The fine, which has not been
paid, will be held over him as a civil
judgment.
On leaving the Jail Burton gave out
the following signed statement:
This is the first signed statement
I have made for publication since
the day was indicted. The impress
sion has gone out that I propose to
live for revenge. This is mistake
I have no such purpose. The wrongs
done to me are the wrongs of others.
Vengeance is thought to be noble only
by the ignoble.
Vengeance is mine saith the
Lord, is the philosophy to which I
have always subscribed in the past
and to which I shall adhere in
the future. [ am thousand
times more solicitous that I shall
not wrong another than am CON
cerned about the wrongs others have
done, or may do, to me. In saying
this, however, do not pretend to
have more than two cheeks. Nor do
l think that 1t is wrong to rebuke
hypocrisy.
Il return to my home at Abilene.
brimful of life and hope. Only my
body has been in Jail. My mind has
been at all times free; sustained with
the knowledge that I am innocent. I
shall take up my LIES work with NAL
Ice toward none, and charity for all.
L shall talk and write. With pen
and tongue I shall stand for policies
and principles that I believe will
make for the general good and oppose
such as I think are bad. It is had
pollces that make bad men and bad
government; while true policies Aake
good men and good governments. Nv
fight shall be against measures rath-
er than against men. I shall have
charge Of a newspaper unless there is
fraud order issued against il before
can arrange for its publication, It
viii reflect my ideas. 1t is to he
one OF the agencies in the work 7
nope to DO. shall talk when am
not writing and shall write when T
am not talking. The history Of nv
0""J prepared, VIII appear In
serial form. first, in the paper. The
story vii! not be sensational; it will
be truthful. interviewer with Tho
history and a necessary part of it will
be discussion OF certain conditions
IN our legislative, administrative and
judicial government, that, I think
nave escaped the attention of the av-
erage citizen.
i will not now go further into NV
case nor my plans and purposes The
fist statement will be made IN Cat
uHday evening to my home people:
then there will be more to follow
(Signed) y p,,u4