The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-07
LIAR" SAYS ROOSEVELT.
WIRES HOT REPLY TO n. "
EVENING POSTS SCORCHING
ARRANGEMENT.
"Ananias Club ReOrganiZed-Col-
OncPs Ire Nightly Aroused And
lie Says Real Mean" Things of
The Editorial Writer.

New York, Aug. 81. - Colonel
Roosevelt has reorganized the can
anias Club" and elected the Even
ing Post to all the offices.
In the current issue of the Out
look the Colonel replies to the Even
ing Posts scorching editorial of Aug
ust 26, accusing the writer Of "basest
dishonesty" and saying Of him that
little good can be derived from the
assistance of the liar"
"The statement Of the Evening
Post" declares the Colonel, sis not
only false and malicious, is not only
in direct contradiction of the facts,
but it is such'that it could only have
been made ny a man who, knowing
the facts, deliberately intended to
pervert them. Such an act stands
on the level with the worst act ever
performed by a corrupt member Of
the Legislature or city official, and
stamps the writer with the same NOR
al brand that stamps the bribe tax
err"
The Evening Posts article was
wired to Colonel Roosevelt while he
was enroute to Cheyenne, Col Up
on reaching there he wired his reply
to The outlook. which published it
under the caption "Medacious Jour
nalism."
The reply is as follows:
THE Evening Post is not in itself
sufficiently important to warrant an
answer. but as representing a class
with whose hostility it is necessary to
reckon in any genuine movement for
decent government it is worth while
to speak Of it.
Wealthy RefOrmcrs.
There are plenty Of wealthy peo-
pie in this country, and of intellect
ual hangerson of wealthy people, who
are delighted to engage in any move
ment for reform which does not
touch the wickedness of certain great
corporations and Of certain men Of
great wealth.
People of this class will be in ia
vor of any aesthetic movement; they
will favor any movement against the
small grating politician, against the
grating labor leader, or any man of
that stamp; but they cannot be trust
ed the minute that the reform as
sumes sufficient dimensions to jeo-
pardize so much of the established
order Of things as gives an unfair
and improper advantage to the great
corporation and to those directly and
indirectly responsive to its wishes.
"The Evening Post and papers Of
the same kind. and the people whose
views they represent. would favor
attacking gang OF small bosses
who wish to control the Republican
party; but they would, as the Even
ing Post has shown, far rather see
these small bosses win than see a
movement triumph which aims not
merely at the overthrow Of the small
political boss, but at depriving the
corporation Of its improper influence
over politics. depriving the man Of,
wealth OF any advantage beyond what
belongs to him as a simple American
citizen. They would be against cor
porations only after such corporations
had been caught in the crudest kind
OF criminalty.
"NO Place For The Liar.
II have never for one moment
counted upon the support IF the
Evening Post or Of those whom IL
represents in the effort for cleanji-
ness and decency within the kepub-
lican party, because the Evening
Post would support such movement
only on condition that it was not part
of large movement for the better
ment of social conditions. Tut this
is not all.
In the struggle for honest politics
there is no more a place for the liar
there than there is for the thief. and
in movement designed tn MIR ~