Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-11-06
soo Of Democratic Candidate
" far limited States Senator
: Is, issues St5fem67t'R5Ta
Circular Attacking Father
GAYS MOTHERS MEMORY
HAS BEEN DESECRATED
Political EXpediency Can Not
Justify or Excuse TheSeVIIe
and DiSreputabIe Methods
He Asserts,

.r,., ulsPErcs' 10 MORNING '"uHNNNI
s,1ta Ne Nov. 5.-The following
,.tsment was issued today by Vinent
y Jones 80 years old, eldest son OF
A Jones. from his home in East
Las Vegas
81 have lust learned Of the publ
c.aon and circulation by the republi-
,.ns of a copy Of letters alleged to
have been written by my mother
5nring her lifetime to her attorney
soa confidential advisor over seven
,ssn .vears ago. in regard to domestic
affairs in our family ] resent win
oy4ry fiber Of my being this descra-
top Of the memory of my dead moth
.r and know that if alive she would
resent and denounCe with all her
s,rongtb this absolute and unjustlila-
Ne violation Of her confidence. Po-
lrtcal expediency cannot justify or
eycpse these vile and disreputable
methods. Letters of this character
between attorney and client are priv
LEGGED and sacred, and an attorney
cannot disclose their contents without
violating his oath Of office and pros
dtuting his honor. Anyone who
would use letters or documents thus
privileged is even more despicable
than the attorney in question, be
cause his lips are sealed by death
and cannot utter .e protest that
these acts should bring forth.
These letters, if thsy are genuine
and | sincerely believe they are not
genune-were written in the heat OF
passion and engendered largely by
false gosspers and scandal-mongers
who carried to my mother every
thread of scandal or gossip they
could ferret out or imagine. 1t de-
vaoped that much of this gossip and
scandal carried to her, and which she
once thought to be true was proven
TO be false and the mere creature Of
the distorted and diseased imagination
of these tale-bearers, but all this hap
pened in the distant past and in hon
Or and decenCy should be forgotten.
This was over seventeen years ago
and that that time my father did all
that he could do with honor and dig
nifty to defeat the efforts of these
scandal-mongers and preserve har-
mony No one can in truth point his
finger to a single dishonorable or dis
reputable act of my father either in
public or private life during the sew
enteen years that have interviewed
since these events happened. Is it
not probable then, that the alleged
misconduct was grossly exaggerated p
Rcycrcs Mothers Memory.
Il wish to state most emphatically
that | honor and respect and revere
the memory Of my dead mother, and
have an abiding confidence that could
she speak. she would indicate the
stand now take. | spent all my boy
mood and young manhood with her
and know whereof | speak | like
wise honor and respect my father
and 1t grieyes me much that this
mere act of accepting nomination
OF an honorable office should subject
MN to the TRADE of abuse slander
ana VIllfication that has been heaped
upon him without justification.
Although | heard a few days ago
mat these letters might be published
could not make myself believe that
anyone would stoop to such methods,
ana valnly hoped against hope that
l and my family and others all inno-
vent people, might be spared the grief
ana humiliation incident to the un-
speakable methods.
There is only one person who
could in any manner profit by this
puoneation and / ask what sort Of a
creature must the man be who would |
,ouhtenance these methods and enter
ue sanctity of the home as a ghoul |
III me night. United States senators
SnouId be made of better stuff