The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-07-30

In Reply to Silvers' Attack N
on Judge DickinsoI
Congressman Dickinson is in Wash
ington without opportunity to pel
sonally answer the reply Of H0r
Thos. w. Silvers, published as an I'D
!. vertisement in the Star-Journal. Mi
! Dickinson is looking after the inter
est OF the people at Washington !
the request of President Wilson, VIII
wants to carry out his program. 4
his absence and without consultation
with Mr.. Dickinson make this ans
wer to Mr.. Saver's reply.
deal with the matter on the basi,
of mutual friendship and esteem, fol
T. w. Silvers has been my friend fol
many years. He was kind and flat
tering enough to me, during the Lat
ter part Of Judge DeArmond's tern
to come to Clinton and ask me if
would not run against DeArmond.
He was for Mr.. Dickinson when he
was nominated at Butler and contin-
ued to be for him until he became a
candidate himself.
Answering the matters in his re-
plying, it is not true that Mr.. Dickin-
son endorsed for postmaster man
at Harrisonville who had never voted
the Democratic ticket until he voted
for Woodrow Wilson. Harlie Clark,
the postmaster at Jacksonville, COM
menced voting for William ]. Bryan
at the same time Woodrow Wilson
did. He was endorsed by the chair
man of the Democratic County Com
mittee, who is member of the DEM
ocratic State Committee, as we'll as
by other leading Democrats and sub
stantial business men and patrons of
the Jacksonville postoffice and by
the greater weight of endorsements
over the other applicants. No petit
ton or application was made to Con-
gresham Dickinson for a primary
until he had acted on the letters and
petitions, which was the method
adopted by the candidates and the
patrons of the Jacksonville postof-
flee until Mr.. Dickinson's endorse
ment was secured.
At Greenfield all the candidates
withdrew in favor Of Hon. Charles
Newman, whom MIR. Dickinson en-
dorsed, and this includes the cone
armed man" who is good man and
who at once became the Democratic
candidate for County Clerk and who
will be nominated without opposition.
At'Osceola none of the applicants
asked for primary, neither did the |
people generally. A petition for a |
primary with less than five per cent
of the patrons was signed, but the
other ninety-five per cent preferred
that it it be settled on letters and Pc
titions. Mr.. Dickinson pursued at
Osceola exactly the same method as
Judge DeArmond did.
At Everton the vacancy does not
occur until next December. At the
of the Silvers people petit
lion was signed very recently asking
for primary on July 10th. Mr..
Dickinson has answered that petition
in way that is satisfactory to a rea-
sonable man who doesn't want the
to take his time and at
IGNITION now needed and asked by the
President and give it to postoffice
appointment to be made in Decem-
Der.
John S. Smith at Ell Dorado Springs
md Frank Church at Stockton were
endorsed by our congressman be-
:ause of the fact that they had by far
he strongest endorsements of the
patrons of their respective postoffi-
les. They as well as the appointes
It Jacksonville and Greenfield sup
ported him for nomination and election
n the special election of 1910 when
he prospects for the election of a (
Democratic. President were not flat I
ering. They would be supporting
linn now even if he had endorsed
'ome other applicant. And any sug- (
!estion to the contrary is false and
Unworthy.
In the contest for postoffices in the
district Mr.. Dickinson has followed
he same method as the one pursued
t Butler and endorsed by the con-
luct Of Mr.. Silvers, who did not then
SIX a primary, but helped to secure