The daily sentinel., 1909-03-02
STILL STANDS AS TRUE.

General dcnunciations and
promiscuous use of the word
liar will not break down the
truthfulness of The SentineI's
account of the action taken at
the Friday night meeting of the
board of directors of the Cham
ber of Commerce. What The
Sentinel has said in its account
of that meeting was the truth, Z.
MIR. Chcrrington and the yellow
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
MIR. Cherrington is one of those
men who believe that all IL is
necessary for him TO do is to yell
Liar" in his official position and
the people will swallow his dec
Iarations. But the people are
not so easily mislead.
MIR Cherrington ought to know it
by this time. In delivering its bitter
attack on The Sentinel this morning
statement bearing the semblance of
truth. the Yellow and Mr.. Cherring-
ton to large extent admitted the
truthfulness of The Sentinel's ac-
count of the meeting.
When the Yellow says that Mr..
Cherrington at that meeting COM
mented to the effect that the action
of dropping the charter convention
fight in no way reflected on the mer-
its of the proposition, the yellow
deliberately lies. Mr. Cherrington
made no such statement when the
action in question was taken or dur
ing the course of the meeting.
When Mir. Chcrrington through his
personal organ denies that one or
more of the directors present stated
that the Chamber of Commerce had
pushed the matter too far, he tells
an absolute untruth. When the mat
ter was called up there was a gen
eral discussion and Directors Todd,
I Turpin, Delaplain and perhaps one
or two other directors expressed the
belief that the Chamber of Commerce
had done its duty in the matter and
should allow the people to decide
without the Chamber of Commerce
board taking one side or the other.
Director Delaplain in the course of
his remarks declared phatically
that the Chamber of Commerce
should drop the matter and then de-
clared that he believed that the
Chamber of Commerce had already
gone too far, that owing to the short
period between the bringing of the
matter up for agitation and the cleo
tion he did not believe the people had
an important matter and therefore he
was of the opinion that the matter
had been pushed too rapidly and too
far at this time. Director Delaplain
further declared that he believed the
Chamber of Commerce, before taking
the action it had taken, should have
called in representatives or commit
tees from various civic, municipal and
general social organizations and
heard all sides of the question before
going ahead and pushing the matter.
Mr.. Delaplain was most emphatic and
forceful in his remarks. Several of
the directors by brief comment APP
parently endorsed Mr. Delaplain' s
declaration yet Charles E. Cherring-
ton declares that when ii is stated
that any director made such state
as Mr.. Delaplain made, lie is told
The gentleman is wrong, the individ-
uual who says that no such state
ments We're made at that meeting is
the one that is doing the lying.
Following the discussion by Direc-
| tor Delaplain and others, by a unani-
nous vote the board decided TO drop
the fight, that 1t had done its duty
in the matter and then discharged
the committee. These facts the min
/ utes will show.
Mr.. Cherrington attempted to give
the lie to The Sentinels report of the
meeting. The Sentinel called Mr..
Cherrington and then this morning
following the double column outburst
of dirty Safeguarding against The
Sentinel's editor.
One of the largest audiences of the