The daily sentinel., 1909-01-28
ALDERMAN HERTZ MAKES
.ns. HIS POSITION CLEAR
But One Waid-Has Endcavored
TO be Faif and Square.

r workers into the various wards +
+ and by statements published by +
+ request in the columns of The +
+ Daily Sentinel, the ministers +
: and other anti-saloon workers 4
r are making every effort to com {.
+ bat the efforts being made to +
= get the voters in each precinct I.
+ to sign petitions calling upon +
+ the city clerk to have vote by +
= wards taken on the saloon ques- +
+ tion. In all of these efforts be- {.
+ ing made by the anti-saloon +
+ people Mr.. NJ. Hertz. owner of +
+ the wholesale liquor and delica- +
+ lessen house in this city. is I.
+ made the principal object of at +
4. tack. +
+ I. = + i. + 4. + + + 1. I.
Much comment was caused by the
statement made by Rev. Davis. for
the Ministerial Alliance, in The SEN
tinel yesterday afternoon, in which
Rev. Davis makes charges against
the so-called saloon workers and calls
ON Mr.. Hertz to act squarely and
fairly in the matter. Again today
Rev. Davis makes another statement
in these columns to the effect that
he didn't have to go to Mr.. Hertz for
information. that he was perfectly
satisfied with the other information
he had and then proceeds to repeat
some of the statements he made in
his article yesterday
To all who have called on Mr.
Hertz, whether they be allied with
the anti-saloon people or not. he has
made STRAIGHTFORWARD, plain and
courteous statements.
This morning in discussing the at
tacks being made on him and the
statements from the Ministerial AL
liance Mr.. Hertz said in part:
II have all along acted fairly in
this matter / have no reason to act
otherwise. These ministers and anti
saloon workers are mistaken when
they. declare that / am at the head of
the movement to keep Grand juno
tion from going dry and l cannot
understand why they should direct
all of their attacks and denunciations
at me. / want to say this | have
had nothing whatever TO do with the
employment of the workers for these
last petitions in any ward save my
own ward. the First ward. ! took a |
personal interest in the First ward |
because my property interests and |
business are in this ward and in the
interest | have taken | have followed |
my honest convictions and best be-
liefs, am not responsible for any
thing said or done by workers in any
ward but the First ward. | had a
right TO do so. | acted open and
above board in the matter / secur-
ed men to take the petitions around
and | endeayored to get honorable
men to do this work. | told them
positively not to misrepresent facts,
to say that the petitions were for the
purpose of trying to get vote by
ward. ! made IL plain that | wanted
no misrepresentation INDUCED in.
AS far as | can ascertain they carried
out my desires in this matter. Mr.
Gardner. accused by one woman and
said to have been accused by one or
two other persons, declares to me
that he did not misrepreesnt the mat
ter. He is ready to make an affidavit
TO that effect. He says he might
have been misunderstood but that he
tried to be clear at all times.
Il wonder if some of these people
still think l have workers out
will say that the men in my ward
with the petitions were at work only
IL hours, completed the canvass. got
n large number of names, reported 10
me and were discharged. They had
done their work. They presented the
petitions TO the various voters in this
ward, got what names they could and
scores willingly signed. AS for the
other wards l am not responsible. 1