The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-04
Former Whip Of the House Re.
sents the Expose of His
Pretty Little Game, Pub.
liShed in Palladium.
DENIES ANY ATTACK -
MADE ON BEVERlOGE
With Becoming Virtue He At
tempts to Set Forth the
Fact That He Was Not
Guilty of Any Treachery.

Indianapolis. Feb. 4.-James F.. Wat.
son last night made the following
statement for publication in regard to
the Rushville convention held on Feb.
I.
Il am not in the habit OF rushing in
to print. but. having been unjustly as
sailed by the Richmond Palladium,
deem it my duty to make reply. In
the first place. am not. as that paper
charges. a candidate for congress now
or at any other time would not ac-
cept such a nomination if it were ten
dered me. and my friends in the dis
trict know it.
In the second place. I did not set
up the committee on resolutions I'm
the Sixth District convention. nor did
l have anything whatever TO do with
| their selection.
Denies Accusation.
II did not ask a single man TO stand
, for election as a delegate to this con-
| vention. nor did sulicit any man to
become a member of the resolutions
committee.
The convention was on Tuesday and
did not leave my house from 5 o'clock
Monday afternoon until 10 o'clock
| Tuesday morning. nor was any dele
gate TO the convention at my residence
during that time. II would not he
| liSfi.,,lf tn
this convention and ask him personally
whether ! solicited him to do any act
with reference to this gathering. and il
would be still easier to ask each mem
ber of the committee on resolutions
! wheher or not solicited him to SD act
Many gentlemen reached Rushvills
Monday evening. and about = o'clock
called me by phone and asked me to
join them in the preparation Of resolu-
tions. but l responded that I had a Sc
we're headache and would not leave the
house that night and for them to
block out VII lat resolutions they
thought proper.
Division n Committee.
After the contention was called tn
order Mr.. Bassett came to me and said
that there was some division in the
| resolutions committee and asked me Ii
l did not think it would be proper to
endorse Taft. Bdveridge and Barnard
in general terms. and thus harmonic
all factions. and l told him that such a
move would be satisfactory to me, and
he SO reported to the committee.
! The gentlemen who composed II.
however. had ideas Of their own and
framed their resolutions to suit them
selves.
In the next place. Mr. Morgan. man.
aging editor OF the Palladium. was 3
member of that committee from
Wayne county and signed the report. 80
that the resolutions were unanimously
adopted. The Palladium's own man
approved them and I certainly am not
chargeable with having influenced
him.
In the next place I am charged with
having defended the administration
tariff bill. did. and I ahould have
stultified my self had done otherwise
The Palladium says:
Watson will stump the state max.
ing speeches defending the tariff. Il
is pointed out that this is calculated to
have a bad effect on the whole situa-
ton. and indicates that Watson is eth
er blind or wilfully intent on the de-
struction of republican success
A Remarkable Statement.
Men differ about the tariff. always
have and always will, but I regard the
above statement as among the most 70
markable political utterances ever
made.
To defend a bill passed by . repub-
lican senate. . republican house and
signed by a republican president: to de-
fend bill voicing the judgment Of
congress on a principle that has bern
fundamental in republican politics
from Lincoln to Tafe: to defend . bill
| which I personally believe to be what
President Taft called 1.-THE best tariff
bill ever passed by the republican par
ty'-that is treason and betrays . dis
position to destroy the party: Ger
tainly the very statement Of such
proposition is its own refutation.
Lastly. I am charged with having
conspired with divers and sundry 9TH
er citizens to smash Beveridge.' and
tlc SSlUeucc oilcfS1 - lnoS AAAoo =
| speech defending a bill that the senar
tor voted against.
4 commends stars Position.
yesterdays Star contained Q sensi-
Bile article on this phase of our polite
al situation that I regard n timely and
wise. and commend II TO de editor Of
the Palladium for his earnest consider
et;on exnressly disayowe6 anv in
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