Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-10-28

and country, puts AMERICA OVER
ALL,
High above the welfare of any
land or earth in his true and loyal
heart, stands fast the welfare of the
dear land Of his birth and his citi-
zenship.
And If YOU don't want the votes of
such Americans. Mr. President. you
surely must not want the votes OF
the majority of loyal Americans.
Not England. not Germany, not
France, not Italy, but the Republic
of the United States, Mr.. President,
is first in the affections and the 10y
atty OF your countrymen who are At
TO wear the bright and honorable
badge Of American citizenship.
We reprint below the kilograms
exchanged between Jeremiah o.
Leary and President Wilson, because
they deserve serious discussion.
New York City, Sept. 20
Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United states.
Elberon, n. j.
Again we greet you with a popular
disapproval of your pro- British poll
cies, last year from the Twenty
third New York Congressional Dis
trict and now from your own state
and from the voters of your own
party Senator MARITIME won be-
cause the voters of New Jersey do
not want any trucking to the Bri-
tish Empire nor do they approve of
dictatorship over Congress. Your
foreign policies your failure to Sc
cure compliance with all American
rights, your leniency with the Bri-
tish Empire, your approval of war
loans, the ammunition traffic are is
sues in this campaign.
Do you know that William S. Ben
net. a republican congressman. ran
in the democratic primaries in the
p. llts s-third New York Congress
ional District and polled sc per cent
Of the total democratic vote against
his egular democratic opponent.
Anglomaniacs and British interst
may control newspapers. but they
don't control votes. The people may
be readers. but they are not follow
ers of the newspapers. When. Sir,
will YOU respond to these evidences
of popular disapproval of your poll
cies by action? The MARITIME cleo
tion and the Bennett vote prove you
have lost support among democrats.
Every vote for MARITIME was a vote
against you, as was every democratic
vote that went for Mr. Bennett in the
democratic primaries in the Twenty
third Congressional District.
JEREMIAH A. O'LEARY,
President American Truth Society
And this is Mr. Wilson's Reply:
Shadow Lawn, Elberon n. ]. Sept. 20
Your telegram received. would
feel deeply mortified 10 have you or
anybody like you vote for me. Since
YOU have access to many disloyal
Americans, and have not, | will ask
YOU TO convey this message to then.
WOODROW WILSON.
Jeremiah a. O'Leary then sent the
following scorching reply to the
Presidents attack
I'm your telegram Of yesterday
you have evaded every question that
raised. In acting thus you have
followed your usual method of carry
inc m q nnpfrOvarcr rvJ{b ~, nnnn,,
ent Now you seek, by an indirect
charge Of disloyalty-a charge which
you dared not directly make-to es-
cape the questions which you cannot
answer.
II challenge comparison, both by
heredity and environment. Of my life
and antecedents with yours. While
three Of my uncles were dying in de-
fense of the Union, those of your kin
who dared to fight were struggling
TO destroy it,
I'm my brief contact with public
affairs, / have sought to follCw the
advice and example of Washington,
of Jefferson, of Lincoln, and Of the
other great Presidents to the end
that all Americans might stand upon
one plane of equality and fraternity.
1T has remained for you to break
new ground as a President and to
seek to divide your countrymen into
racial and religious groups. The word
'hyphenate' was never heard i'm
American public life until you coin
ed ii TO insult your hosts, real Ameri-
cans of Irish blood, at the dedication
OF the Commodore Barry monument
in Washington.