Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-09-13
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ii.

Dallas, oregon, Sept. :, 1912.
Polk County Observer, Dallas, Or
egon.
To the Edftor:-T want to thank
you for printing my letter of the 3lst
of August and since you did not
criticise the punctuation which you
assure your readers you printed as
written, I guess you were satisfied
with that. ! was a little surprised
that you took 50 much space in your
valuable columns to discuss me per-
sonally and to describe me as a
"self-called leader of the other six
BullmoOsers of Polk County Have
you stopped to think, Mr.. Editor,
that you have many readers whom
you class with "a cOnglOmerate mass
of disappointed office seekers, repu-
dated office holders, sorehead Re
publicans and backsiding Democrats
with a few politically honest men
scattered here and there" who are
actually honest in their opinions and
give others credit for being honest
even though they differ from them?
OF course, there are many Of them
who are supporting Mr.. Roosevelt
because he advocates certain princi-
pies. You say notwithstanding the
fact that Mr. Roosevelt hasn't clean
InOuBHI III his IIllIlus III gOul ODlIllOIj
that your paper would have support
ed him If the bosses in the Repub-
lican convention at Chicago had told
you to. Aren't you glad that you are
not suffering from such a handicap
so that you can tell some of us who
read your paper what a monster
Roosevelt really is? 1t certainly
would have been awful to have to
suppress the facts that you glibly
A....1,
bold matter, maybe | was hasty, but
I remembered that this same Arch
bold and the rest of his bunch gave
Testimony" to the effect that the
Standard Oil company was not guilty
of giving rebates a few years ago
and that it was proven to the salts
faction of the courts that they lied,
or that they did give rebates. Prob
ably it was presumptious, but !
thought I'd rather take sides with
Roosevelt even though Archbold
with his record for Sworn tcsti-
mony" didn't quite agree.
You say that there is nothing to
this third-term movement but Roose-
welt. Why don't you publish the
platform of the party and then shoot
it to pieces? You say that Roose-
welt forced his candidacy ON the peo-
pie. / wonder what pressure was
brought to bear, in all the states
having presidential primaries, last
spring, to force the voters to give
an expression Of confidence in The
odore Roosevelt and such poor
vote for Mr.. Taft, These same VOt- |
ers win be voting in November and |
assure you there will be as many |
as six in Polk county,
/ don't aspire to be a leader not |
withstanding your would-be-funny
statement and your attempt to hold |
me up to ridicule by reference to |
"Col. CherringtOn" as typical Pro-
gressive. Didn't you attempt to be
nasty when you wrote that THE
Observer would have been surprised |
had he adopted any other faith?"
Your readers are not interested in
what your paper thinks Of Tom Cher
they have known him for
twenty years-longer than you have
i'm fact-but they are Interested i'm a
fair discussion of the political issues
without dirty personalities,
! hope you viii do me the favor of
this poor attempt to meet
some Of the words of your ready pen
and I assure you that | have the
most kindly feeling for you and your
opinions, though we don't agree.
Respectfully yours,
\. J. CHERRINGTON.
As Is usual i'm controversies Of the
nature which Mr. CherrngtOn seeks
10 continue, the merits Of the real
discussion are lost sight uf i'm person
olities, The Observers good friend,
In the above "reply" to our com
ments on his article of a week ago,
levotes practically all his commuui-
cation to himself. But Progress
i've" has abundant precedent for that
position because his leader makes
speciality of il. Just why Mr.. Cher
rington insists i'm CHASING himself
among the "sorcheads" aud the
''hacksliders" rather than the "few
politically honest men" mentioned
as members of the Roosevelt party,
Is not clear
our critic is attempting to befog
the issue. We believe that the lead
ers Of the third term organization
are men who have always been mall
contents in the old political parties