Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-03
I. R. MERITS ONLY
DECENT MEN'sP|TY
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no right is more sacred to freemen,
and then upon the men whose every
thought and act demands the respect
and regard for lawfully constituted
authority and say which of these men
and their policies you would prefer to
stand.
Prefers the Plain Men.
81 say to you, my fellow citizens of
New York. that when the shouting and
tumult shall have died away, when
the verdict of impartial history shall
have been rendered, l would thous-
and times prefer to stand with the
plain strong men who shed lustre
upon their country, rather than with
the man who, publicly branding an
other as responsible for the assassin's
bullet which made him President, has
within a few years thereafter, be-
cause of what he deems to be his
political necessity Of the hour, struck
hands and made political alliance
with the man whom he had SO brand
ed.
Let his friends take which ever
horn OF the dilemma suits their efforts
and vanity to choose; my opponents
nominator either shamefully and
shamelessly belied a fellow citizen
when he had Mr.. Root make the
Utica speech of 1906, or he now de-
serves the condemnation of self-re-
speeding 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
elected term of Office, and Ms sue
cessor might never have been Presi-
dent of the United States.
Branded as -a.+e.
II asked this men last week for
the apology which one man owes an
other for even involuntary misrepre-
sentation. His answer has been to
repeat and now charge, wilfully and
knowingly repeat. in as many places
and to as many people as his voice
would carry. the statements which
now publicly brand as falsehoOds.
Il withdraw my request for an apol-
ogy AMI ] say with all the emphasis
at my command. that a man who has
been President of the United States,
who would do the things which he
has done during this campaign, merits
only the pity OF decent men.
II am neither a prophet nor the
son of a Prophet. but ! venture the
prediction that after November s,
1910, my opponents nominator will
have stamped upon his innermost soul
the knowledge that the people OF this
state are able and willing to manage
and control their own public offairs
x>-tsk ii s-t mr. f-fo -
ton from any man whofwould try to
erect new nationalism' upon the
ruins of the institutions founded By
our forefathers in days OF stress and
sacrifice"
Mayor Gaynor's letter was address
ed to Herman Ridder, president OF
the Independence Business Mems
League.
Mayor Gaynor's Letter
II follows in part:
'Nine-tenths OF the voters of each T,
party are honest and true They wan;
honest and intelligent government |
When their party fails to give IT. they
known that the time has arrived when
their duty and also their Intellectual
self-respec, requires them TO vote with 7,
the opposite party. To keep covers
ment up TO the mark. one party should
not be kept in power continually. ~
would be fortunate for US IL or 20
liticsl parties in state and nation were
more evenly divided so that one party
could be PIT out and the other
brought In readily.
While the long standing corruption
was being reviewed from day to day