The gold leaf., 1910-10-27
LETTER FROM CH'MN FULLER.
Takes the Gold Leaf to Task Fol. What
1t Said Last Week About .he Ooings
of the Various Sessions of the Re.
publican County Conventions.

publican County Conventions.
Mr. EDITOR:-
In your account Of the doings OF Ire
various sessions OF the Republican county
conventions, in issue OF Oct. Goth. you
seem to do US an injustice. If | forget
not | asked you to publish our ticket
that is the one put out by the convention
of Saturday afternoon, Oct. 18th, with
out comment. | find that you decided
not to do SO, but instead you arrange
your account of another so-called
Republican meeting in a way and
manner that seems to belittle our entire
effort. Now. | am asking you to ex-
plain this matter to the interested pub
lie. And in order to enable you to make
such explanation beg to submit the fol-
lowing facts:
First, Mr.. W. II. Cults was not nomi-
mated by any convention except our own.
Second, instead of saying that two
thirds OF the votes cast in the Republi-
can primaries Of the county were cast
for James H. Ball, you would have come
nearer the truth to have reversed the
statement, and said against Ball.
Here are the true figures:
Primary vote for Ball-79
Primary vote for Fuller-117.
Please give US our dues in your own
way and time. Yours truly,
CHAS. E. FULLER. .
As to the vote for Mr.. Ball, or the
strength claimed for him in the con-
ventiOn. the GOLD LEAF got it's in
formation from printed poster call
ing for a Republican convention to
be held at the court house in Hender
son on October 18th, 1910, at 10
o'clock ''fOr the purpose of nOmina-
ting candidates for county officers
and the Legislature, and the election
OF a county executive committee,
&c. That call bore the names of no
less honorable and worthy men and
citizens than G. w. Faris, 0. II. Par
ham, G. T. Ayscue, H. I. Garrett,
Thomas J. Garrett, c. W. Finch, A.
G. Hoyle, P. J. Stainback, S. P.
Phipps, W. A. Bradford and Nj. B.
Harris; and read as follows:
Whereas a large majority of the Re-
publican voters who attended the pri-
maries October 1st, 1910, were in favor
of Mr.. James Fl. Ball for County Chair
man, and two-thirds of the delegates
elected to the convention were in favor
of him for County Chairman, and where
as large number OF said delegates were
unseated and there was no legal election
of Chairman, and no ticket was nOmi-
nated," &C., &c
That, Mr.. Fuller, was our authority
for writing that two thirds OF the dele,
gates were in favor OF Mr.. Ball. Acting
upon a call signed by a number of those
who favored the election of James H.
Ball for county chairman as opposed to
Mr. Fuller, affirming that two thirds of
the delegates elected to the convention
were in favor OF Ball. a large number of
said delegates having been unseated,"
&c. This was the language employed
and if it is not true the GOLD LEAF not
responsible for it. We had no purpose
to misrepresent or belittle any one, and
we hope we may be given credit for
having too much sense il not too much
honesty to deliberately pervert facts
knowing the truth can so easily over
takeu US.
Upon enquiry we find that we we're in
error in stating that Mr.. Cults was
nominated by both conventions. But
we were so informed by several persons,
one of them a gentleman Of veracity
whose name was signed to the call for
said convention (the Ball adherents)
anu III lHtU lie dUleuU6l Iuc Iu66U-
ing and knew what he was talking
about We accepted it as fact and SO
published. Possibly there may have
been a misapprehension on the part of
one or the other as to which of the "vari-
Gus conventions" was referred to.
Still we cannot see where Mr.. Quits
cause would have been weakened if he
had been nominated by both cOnven-
tiOns. If he is a fit man to be sheriff he
ought to have the united support of his
party, and as the nominee of both fac
tiOns his chances of election would GER
tainly be better than with a divided
vote.
One other point and we are done, with
apologies for having said this much
about SO trivial a matter, whether this
explains to an interested public ornot.
Mr.. Fuller says when he gave the GOLD
LEAF their ticket to publish he asked
that it be done without comment. We
appreciated the gentleman's thoughtful
ness in furnishing the matter in ques-
tiCn. 1t saved us the trouble of ascer-
tanning the information elsewhere, and
coming from the source it did we knew.
it was "officiaf' and authentic As to
what Mr.. Fuller meant by publishing
without comment we did not under
stand it as request, but as a sugges-
| ton that in printing the ticket we were
not expected to endorse it. However,
it would not have altered the question
in the least as we would have reserved
| the right to comment or use the matter
in any connection that suited our con-
| venience-and this without unnecess arily
giving offense to any one.
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