The Adair County news., 1916-07-26
An Advertisement.
To the Editor

~ OhAS h"ONA"i PAOSuHpClOuJ yOu ID
ther, and in which the Hon. Harvey
Helm is charged with "deserting the
President" in several instances
From absolutely indisputabIe au-
thority 1 gather the following, which
shows the error CT your charge, and
which l trust you will, in your usual
fairness, give the prominent space in
your paper that was given the article
making the charges.
Mr. Helm is charged with desertinp
by failure to support the "great Bank
ing and Currency Act" On Septem-
Der l6, 1913, Mr.. Helm delivered a
speech in the House of Represent
atives, advocating this measure and
urging its passage, stating among 9TH
er things that it was an Insurance
against panic" The speech was
printed in the Congressional Record
of that date. pages 5OO3.4, and was
printed in pamphlet form at his own
expense, and mailed to twenty thous-
and people in this district, including
those who are now attempting to de-
ceive the people by Misrepresentation
of his record. What higher evidence
OF support could a member of Con-
gress give measure than to advocate
its passage in an appeal to lis COL
leagues in Its favor?
In the second place Mr.. Helm is
charged with "deserting the Pres
ident" in the passage of the Immigra-
tion Bill, measure, which the writer
says was designed to exclude a great
| many illiteIateS and undesirable for
eigners from making America a
Breeding place and Asylum for
crime', which bill the writer now
discovers Mr. Helm voted for, but
which the President vetoed. If the
bill possesses all the virtues the writer
ascribeS to it, what crime was there in
supporting it, the President to the
contrary notwithstanding?
The charge of desertion on the An
I'll Trust Bills is labored and over
strained effort. Mr.. Helm, before
leaving for Kentucky on the funeral
committee that accompanied Senator
Bradley's body. had voted for the rule
that made these bills party measures,
thereby lining up with the President.
His unavoidable detention in Ken
lucky at the time of their formal pas
sage is the sole and only basis for the
charge Of desertion, which to a fair
minded man must seem as ERRONEOUS
as unfair. There was final vote on
these bills when the conference re-
port was adopted IN the House on
October Sth, 1914 Mr.. Helm was
present and voted for report, as shown
by Congressional Record of that date.
On the fourth and last charge of
desertion: namely, the Panama Canal
Tolls Exemption Act, Mr.. Helm voted
in accordance with the specific plank
in the Democratic platform adopted
at Baltimore, standing with Speaker
Clark, Majority Leader Underwood
and all the other House party leaders.
He explained his position on the floor
of the House in speech delivered on
March 81, 1916, twenty thousand copies
of which he sent to the voters of this
district, and thereafter was renomi-
mated for Congress without opposition.
Out of a thousand or more record
votes Mr., Helm has cast, the four
above enumerated are the only enes
in which the writer can pick even an
alleged flaw, and it, is record of
which any Representative should be
justly proud. Borrowing an express
sion from Baseball lingo, 1t is a bat
ting average of above a Thousand,
which places him in class above the
star performer Tyrus Cobb. 1 be-
lieVe that the fair minded readers of
the Central RECORD will agree with US
that ever Ghe four instances do not
justify or subStantiate the charge of
desertion, but, on the contrary, that
there is something about the charges
that suggests the death rattle of the
cause the said writer seems to be
championing.
Furthermore, if it be true that Mr.
Helm was not, and is not an Admins
tration Democrat, it is passing strange
that the press dispatches from Wash
ington to the Kentucky daily papers
have not disclosed Cho fact long before