The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-11-04

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upon their country, rather than with
the man who, publicly branding an
other as responsible for the assas-
sins bullet which made him presi-
dent, has within a few years there
after, because of what he deems to be
his political necessity of the hour,
struck hands and made political al
lance with the man whom he had so
branded.
; But for Assassin's Bullet.
! "Let his friends take which ever
horn of the dilemma it suits their ef-
fort and his vanity to choose; my op-
ponent's nominator either shamefully
and shamelessly belied fellow citiz-
en- when he had Mr.. Root make the
Utica speech of 1906, or he now de-
serves the condemnation Of self-re-
specting men in making an alliance
with one but for whom, if we believe
his own charge, President Mckinley
might have lived to serve out his elect
ed term Of office and his successor
might never have been president OF
the United States.
Brands Roosevelt Falsifier.
"I asked this man last week for
the apology which one man owes an
other for even involuntarily misrep-
resentation. His answer has been to
repeat, and now charge, wilfully and
knowingly to repeat, in as many
places and to as many people as his
voice would carry, the statements
which I now publicly brand as false
hoods.
"I withdraw my request for an
apology and 1 say with all the
emphasis at my command that a man
who has been president of the United
States who would do the things that
he has done during this campaign,
merits only the pity Of decent men.
Rebuke for Dictator.
"I am neither a prophet or the son
of a prophet, but I venture the pre-
diction that after November 8, 1910,
my opponents nominator will have
stamped upon his innermost con-
sciousness the knowledge that the
people OF this State are able and
willing to manage and control their
own public affairs, without either in
reference or dictation from any man
who would try to erect new nation
alism' upon the ruins Of the institu-
tions founded by OUR forefathers in
days of stress and sacrifice"
Mayor Gaynor's Letter.
Mayor Gaynor's letter was address,
ed to Herman Ridder, president of the
Independent Business Mems league.
It follows in part:
"Nine-tenths Of the voters OF each
party are honest and true. They want
honest and intelligent government.
When their party fails to give it, they
know that the time has arrived when
their duty and also their intellectual
self-respect requires them to vote with
the opposite party. To keep govern
ment up to the mark, one party should
not be kept in power continuously. 1t
would be fortunate for US If our poll
tical parties in State and nation were
more evenly divided, 80 that one party
could be put out and the other brought
in.
Relief in Democracy.
"While the long standing corrup-
ton was being revealed from day to
day in Albany last winter, many in
telligent Republicans made up their
minds that it was time to let the DEM
ocratic party come into power for a
while for the common veal, and they
are of that mind still.
"And, happily, Mr.. Dix is man OF
such integrity and fitness, and let me
add, freedom from Objectionable in
luences, that there Is no reason for
any fair and intelligent man to cast
mere party vote against him.
"A Democratic convention did a
service to honest politics by refusing
the alliance offered to it by political
scamps, who have no wish to aid in
good government, but only their vain
and selfish ambition in view and Tor
that alone. The ticket which it square
ly and fairly nominated should have
the healthy good will Of every one.
Dix Not Selected by Murphy.
"The assertion that Mr.. Dix was
selected and his nomination forced by
a political leader hereabouts, I kno"
Of my own knowledge to be false. 1t
lis easy to stand up a man OF straw
and then thump it over, and that is