Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
"No Place for a Liar"

have never for one moment counted
upon the support of the Evening Post
or Of those whom 1t represents In the eff
fort for cleanliness and decency within
the republican party, because the Even
ing Post would support such a movement
only on condition that it was not part of
larger movement for the betterment of
social conditions. But this is not all. In
the struggle for honest politics there is
for the thief. and in a movement design
ed to put an end to the dominion of the
thief but little good can be derived from
the assistance Of the liar.
OF course, objection will be made to my
use OF this language. My answer is that
am using 1t merely scientifically and
descrtptively. and because no other terms
express the facts with the necessary pre-
cision. In the article In which the Even
ing Post comes to the defense Of those in
present control of the republican party in
New York state, whom 1t has affected to
oppose in the past. the Evening Post.
the article. practiced every known form
Of mendacfty.
Probably the Evening Post regards the
DecAiogue as outworn:- but IL ii will turn
to II and will read the eighth and ninth
comma ndments. 1t will see that bearing
false witness is condemned as strongly
as theft itself. To take but one instance
out of the many in this article the Even
ing Post says: st was Roosevelt who
asked Hartman to come to the White
buy votes in New York. and who after
ward wrote to My Dear Sherman'-yes
the same Sherman-reviing the capitalist
to whom he had previously written. say
ing, You and l are practical men,"
"False, and Known to Be So"
Not only is every important statement
| To-, eel bat tt,< ,r1x,
wrote 1t knew it was false. AS far as 1
was concerned. every man visited the
White House openly, and Mr.. Hartman
among the others. took no money from
Mr. Hartman secretly or openly to buy
votes or for any other purpose. Whoever
wrote the article In the Evening Post
In question knew that this was the foulest
and basest lie when he wrote the SEN
tence. for he quotes the same letter In
which / had written to Mr.. Hartman as
follows: What I have to say to you
can be said to you as well after election
as before, but / would like to see You
some time before 1 write my message"
I am quoting without the letter before
me, but the quotation Is substantially, II
not verbally. accurate
That statement In this letter to Harri-
man is. of course, on its face absolutely
Incompatible with any thought that was
asking him for campaign funds. for it is
Of course. out of the question that
could tell him equally well what l had to
say after election II 1t referred in any
possible way to getting money before
election This is so clear that any pre-
tense OF misunderstanding is proof posi-
tive Of the basest dishonesty In whoever
wrote the article in question. AS mat
ter of fact. when Mr.. Hartman called 1t
was to complain that the national COM
mittee would not turn over for the use
of the state campaign in which he was
interested funds to run that campaign,
and to ask me to tell Cortelyou to give
him aid for the state campaign. Mr..
Cortelyou 10 familiar with the facts
Deliberate Perversion of Facts"
In other words. the statement Of the
Evening Post is not only false and ma
Iicious. is not only in direct contradiction
OF the facts. but is such that II could
only have been made by q man who.
knowing the facts, deliberately intended
to pervert them. Such an act stands