The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14
It's Your Record Which Is on
Trial, Congressman Bill Hoe
ard. Slanderimg Watson and
the Pobmlists Is a Rmse
that Won't Work
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''My accuser has bad record"
And you lug in your various votes, excepting
the vote which damns you-THE VOTE WHICH
CANNON SAYS SAVED HIM
You say that the regular Democrats condoned
your offense by electing Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn,
a member of the committee on Rules FitZ-
gerald was chief of the squad of Deserters, and
you argue that his election to the committee
which will control the House puts the regular
Democrats into the hole with you. I agree with
you, Bill. In The Jeffersonian Of last week, an
editorial to that very effect appeared The regu-
lar Democrats who voted for Fitzgerald can no
longer point the finger of scorn at you. THEY
LOST AN ISSUE, AND INDORSED A CRIME.
They are bound to know that whenever Cannon
and the FLUTES want Fitzgerald, again. they can
get him. They got him last Spring, and they can
get him next Spring. In the last extremity, the
vested Interests rely Fitzgerald, the Stand
ard Oil crook, just they rely on you, Bill.
BY honoring this base deserter, Fitzgerald, the
regular Democrats have said, by actions which
speak louder than words that betrayal of the
common people to the corporations is mex
cusable act of dishOnOr.
NEVERTHELESS, YOU CROAK AT ME FOR
WANTING NEW BROOMS!
ROOSEVELT AND PARKER
You say that told the people to vote for Roose-
welt rather than Parker.
What | said was, that if we had to have Re-
publican for President, I'd prefer the genuine
ticIe, to just-as-good. Parker and Davis had
told the country that there virtually diff
ference in policy and principle between the two
old parties. That being the case, I preferred a
robust article, like Roosevelt, to lathe-and pas-
ter imitation, like Parker.
If you get anything out of that, Bill, crack
your whip. Personally, | like Roosevelt He is
not Solomon, nor Napoleon; and he shouts
the Golden Rule as though he had discovered it;
but he is red-blooded person, is Teddy, and I
like him, personally. Now faint, Bill. Politi-
cally, I would smash the life out of him. and he
knows it,
Listen: in 1896, when everybody else re-
Wiling Yours Truly, Roosevelt pitched into me- in
the Review of Reviews I wrote him letter of
remonstrance about it, and the warm-hearted man
Immediately apologized, in the most gentlemanly
manner. He did not stop at that. His unjust
reference to me having been publicly made, his
sense of honor suggested that the reparation be
made, publicly. Therefore, in the very first issue
of the same magazine that he could enter, he
came along with a manly, and generous atone
ment.
Inasmuch as Roosevelt is the only one of my
opponents who treated in that genteel
way, my gratitude is not unnatural
Would you prefer Wall Street corporation
lawyer-Bill Sheehan's partner-to Roosevelt for
President, Bill? If so, why?
Bill, you know of old, and you know that
I never hit below the belt. But you have done
it. You have referred to my private relations with
men. You ask what friend have 1 not wronged
or betrayed
1t will be time enough for me to enumerate the
childhood, boyhood, college, and manhood friends
who are as deeply attached to me as in the days
of Auld Lang Syne when you name a single
that have fOrsalzen.
Name your men, Bill
In my checkered career from af1uence in
childhood to homeless poverty, in youth; and
then to competence; and then to near-insovency
and then to financial independence again, there
are many faults to regret-but crimes, thank