The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-07-27
HOT SHOT FROM LENTz
70 P0MEREME
Columbus (SpeCiaD Hon. John ].
Lentz, Former Congressman, Issues
an Open Letter to Atlee POmerene
as Follows:

cate Of candidacy for the United states
senatOrshlp Oh the Democratic ticket,
since which time ] nave been entirely
eLgrOssed with the business Of the AmeT-
Cal ILSufa.Cr tnICH and tie building OF
the university Of the Loyal order Of
Moose al AlLgsehCart. During the last
hye Weeks Atiee PU4eFenr has been busy
with the assistance Of some Of his ap-
| puintees %ED '4ie violating. at his request,
the civil service regulations governing
postTnasters and other federal appointess
BY carrying cp "A campaign Of SANDER ana
HDei not uh-. aS3lnsr myself, but also
against HCs- FtaIn ;. Monneu. one Of
AtIee pOmeTer . UYerZealuus pOstmasters
Is p.oStIut!uB me ClSl service and paying
Tor his appointment by printing twice in
lls ntWspa pei the same editorial furnished
by Alice Peue! enc, making false and
malicious ATTACK upon MF. MOnnett ana
myself cluinGg that Pumerene is Too
good Democ,at to suit either of US
lie charges as both with a purpose To
embarass Wilson in November" He
charges as with having assumed the
role Of cuief aids to the Republican
party anu wanting to rule OF ruin the
Democrats ot ONO, calling them wilson,
POmereEe' D--Hyctals, Notwithstanding
the fact that M wants the gates OF the
kepubhC 10 sWits oLt while he drives out
the hypheEatcd Irish Americans and
German An., rilans. He falsely repre-
sents tnst rresiuent wilson endorses MIN
Tor the sel dtOTShlp. lie furnished his
editorial to all the Democratic newsp3 perS
Of TIA" state and about lrtuen reproduced
IT, ti'.tby ucC, iviI.g their leaders into
the belief that their own local editor made
ttr"e talSe Charges against MOnnett and
L.. Elf Thank" 10 the fair play Of TWO
hundred Democratic editors VINO, refusing
t. be used IS POnerene ; CatSpaws, con-
sgned his hbeOus stun to the waste
basket.
resent Atlee Pomerene's ward-heele
campaign through his civil service ap-
pointeeS against myself or any other
Democrat who objects to his six-year
record. The older Democrats know my
faithful, active and long service to Demo-
cratic principles and candidates, but
many young men are deceived. Upon
what meat doth this our Caesar feed that
he is grown so great that no one of our
$4,000 Democrats can be a candidate
without his consent?
The Democrats of Ohio owe it to Presi-
dent Wilson to resent POmerene'S un-
warranted claims, because everybody re-
members how the Republicans of New
York TeSented President Arthur's dictat-
ing the nomination of Judge Folger for
governor, and how it resulted in the
election Of Grover Cleveland by a ma
jority of 10000, and later gave Cleve-
land the electoral vote Of New York and
made him President of the United States.
deny that President Wilson authorized
any one at the Democratic state cOnven-
ton or elsewhere to say that he desires
Pomerenes nominatlun, because the
spring primary shows that Pomerene
would be a handicap to every county,
congress .Unal, state and national candi-
date in the November races.
The Democracy OF ONO brands Pom
erene's claim Of being d presidential pet
or hyphenated Wilson PCmerene" can
didate as cheap and beggarly and beneath
the dignity Of United States Senator.
Let the people OF Ohio rule in Ohio Is
good Democracy. Why didn't Atlee ROM
creme give the people Of Ohio more de-
mocracy by enabling them to elect their
pOStmaSters as well as their senato torsp
Senators and congressman ought to go
to Washington 10 legiSlate on national
and intelnation2l questions and not to
parcel out garden seed, horse books ana
postOH1ceS as political graft and spolls.
Atlee Pumerene begs SIX years more Of
Democratic favor On the ground that he
has been working over time helping Will
son. What Republican in the senate and
What Democrat has been less faithful to
the President in his policy of American
ism? The vital question is whether Atlee
POmeIene has been Democratic repre-
sentative OF the people Of Ohio and not
whether he has been presidential cuckoo.
Democrats and Republicans are agreed
on Americanism. It was proclaimed
dependencies ii was written in letters
of blood from Lexington to Yorktown; it
was shot into British redcoats by Andrew
Jackson at New Orleans; it was estab-
lished in the Monroe Doctrine in 1928; it
carried the stars and stripes into Mexico
in 1916; it i!nmOrtalized Lincoln in war
that liberated our slaves and it glorifed
our Republic in a war that liberated
Cuba. | favor an Americanism that will
be as characteristic as the Monroe Doc
| trine, and still more positive in estab-
fishing freedom Of the high seas for
all neutral nations, and enforcing
equal and exact neutrality toward all
foreign nations engaged in the European
war,-a neutrality that shall be equally
exacring in protecting American citizens,
American commerce and American mails
l favor that Americanism which refuses
| to be a parry to any foreign alliance or
| ENHANCEMENT ana / refuse TO be q party
| to any domestic alliance or entangement
| with that invisible government which lies
| back of political machines and bosses.
My candidacy is supported by record
| of SO Years gratuitOus campaign services
| in almost every county of our state and in
| many states east and west from Maine to
| Oregon; from the election Of George
| Hoadley and Grover Cleveland in 1888 and
| 1884 down through my two terms in Con-
| gTess and up to and including my approval
and endorsement Of the Democratic plat
FORM nominees and speeches of Governor
| Glynn, Ollie JONES and William Jen-
nings Bryan at the ST. Louis con-
vention. I have supported Tariff Re
form, Currency Reform, Income Tax,
| Election OF United States Senators by
direct vote of the people, Postal Savings,
Parcel Post, Free Rural Delivery and
| other reforms that must be secured before
the people come into their own.
| invite comparison of my Democracy
| with that of Pomerene. Was he support
ing Democratic principles when he voted
| against the Democrats in favor of seating
| Stevenson, the Re publican multi-million-
aire corruptiosist of Wisconsin, who
bought seat at price of S107, 900 ?
| Stevenson needed an alleged Democrat to
make a speech for him and he found one
| in Pomerere.
| Was Pomerene supporting Democrats
| principles when he Tepudiated the plat
form of the Dayton Democratic state con-
| vention endorsing the Sherwood pension
bill? Was he supporting Democratic
principles when he spoke against the
Sherwood pension bill and defeated it in
the Senate, thereby antagonizing the old
soldiers, their sons and grandsOns and at
the same time exhibited petty envy and
jealousy of General SherwOod'S great ma
tional career as a soldier and statesman,
and at once demonstrated Pomerene'
real brand of Amercanism, which repudi-
Was he supporting Democratic principles
when he spoke and voted against the
| Webb Kenyon bill declaring it uncOnsti.
tutionaL unfair and unjust, or when he
Taft's veto of the law? Didn't he demons.
trate that his judgment against the
| Webb Kenyon law was legally, morally
| and politically unsound as many courts
have since decided? was he supnorfint
Democratic principles in his six years
failure to introduce a bin for presidential
! primaries and a bill TO rthe election Of
postmasters by the people
Is he supporting Democratic principles
when he undertakes to subordinate thC
Democrats of Ohio to political machine
and goes so low in his campaign method;
) as to claim that President Wilson Is bu
cog in this Ohio political machine
Doesn't he confess in this his first ap.
pearance before a popular primary thai
he is afraid of his record, realizing thai
his only chance to be nominated is by
slipping in under the coat tails of Wood,
row Wilson? | agree with the Democ.
racy of Ohio that much of Atlee Pom.
erene's long term has been wasted il
leaving undone those things which HI
; ought to have done. and in doing thos,
things which he ought not to have done
/ Hence submit my name at the Sth O.
August primary, that a dissatisfi anC
disappointed Democracy may expires.
their disapproval of Pomerene's recor(
and give me an opportunity TO make an
other Democratic record at Washington
: Yours faithfully,
John T.ENTz
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