The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-05-08
HANDS It OUT
HOT OFF REEL
Does Ollie James, Dealing
With Percy HaIy.
REPLIES IN VIGOROUS STYLE
To Charges of Haly, Which
He Calls " Contempt
ible FalsehOOd."
WILL FIGHT ALL MACHINES.

Washington, May "a smash
ing blow at Percy Haly and the ele-
ment behind him in Kentucky DEM
ocratic politics was struck by Rep
resentatiye Ollie James to-day, in
reply 10 Mr.. Hays statement that
ne believes the Senator-elect had
some part" i'm the bulletin issued
last week by the Harmon head
quarters and now fercely in con-
trOver3y. The stern and angry
language with which Mr.. James in
vested his interYiew---te-day- shows
better than anything he has said in
the campaign thus far that the
First district Congressman was new
er reader for a fight in his life. He
apparently welcomes all corners,
and the merciless manner in which
he handled Mr. Haly to-day shows
it.
Mr.. James points out that Mr..
Hays rage rises, not at the officials
of the Harmon headquarters, who
issued the contested statement put
ting him and Mr.. Mayo in the Har-
mon camp, but at Mr. James, who
ventured to believe the truth OF the
statement. Why doesn't Mr.. Maly
denounce those officials who, like
C. A. Cottrill, tell a circumstantial
story about the alleged visit, is
what Mr.. James wants to know.
rs he afraid that they will give
the public some information rela-
tive to his transactions with them?"
asked Mr.. James. curiously. THE
issue Is not whether he was in
Washington.
Mr.. James in his statement says
fatty that he believed, and still be-
lieves, that the Harmon headquar-
tiers had authority for it's bulletin,
because the Haly denial is not con-
elusive. The Senator-elect harks
back to a letter said to have been
written by Mr.. Haly before the Nc
Creary campaign, about playing
prohibition in the country and whis-
key in the cities" the authorship of
which the General Indignantly de-
MED.
The James statement follows:
81 have read the statement issu-
ed by Mr.. Haly, in which he denies
vigorously that he was at the Har-
mon headquarters; but it will be
observed that when he talks about
the Harmon headquarters, which
issued the statement, he puts on
the soft pedal. His wrath only rises
when he refers to the fact that |
believe the statement. Why is it
that Haly doesn't denounce the of
ficials of the Harmon headquarters
as liars and falsitiers?
us he afraid that they will give
to the public some information rel
alive to his transaction with them?
Does he fear the publication of
some letter or letters that he may
have written? Does he fear that
they will tell of some telephone
communications? Is he alarmed
that they might disclose some con-
versations had with them, when he
has been in Washington, relative
to the Harmon candidacy, and de-
claring that he was for Harmon for
President?
"Haly seeks to dodge the real is
sue, and that isis he undertaking
to set an uninstructed delegation
from Kentucky, TO act in the role
of a small Murphy and deliver it
to Harmon, or some reactionary for
whom the people Of Kentucky, il
they had the opportunity, would not
declare, and has he communicated
these things to the Harmon man
ayers and did they issue this state
ment, relying upon the truth of his
statements to them? The Issue is
not whether he was in Washington.
He denies that vigorously. But he
remains singularly and ominously
silent upon the other questions.
why did he not make his denial
sweeping and conclusive by saying
he had never talked to the Harmon
managers. had never written Har-
mon headquarters, had never COM
municated with them by phone,
rad never said he was for Far~"N~.
that he Is not for Harmon, and that