Show TO SET HIMSELf RIGHT AT HOME Colonel Sterrett Tells Ohio Pa Paper Paper Paper per All About His Trou Troubles Troubles Troubles bles in Salt Lake REFUTES CHARGES MADE NEWSPAPER REPORTERS HIS PARTICULAR ENEMIES In a letter sent to the Miami Union of ot Troy 0 O and published in the issue of ot that paper for Sept 9 Colonel F t M 11 Sterrett who acted in the capacity of ot executive director for the national encampment of the Grand Army Ahoy of the Republic held at Salt Lake makes what purports to be a cor ocr meet statement in regard to the contro versy brought about following his de from this city cU The letter was sent to the Union fol lowing the publication by another paper of that place of an article said ald by b Col onel Sterrett to have been copied from a Salt Lake evening paper and which he says 85 reflected on his integrity His letter of explanation which is intended to n set him and the members n of his of or n flee fice force right might with his neighbors at home starts by mentioning the amount of work which the annual encampment of the Grand Army and Its allied organ entails Up to June this work Colonel Ster rett says ys Is ig ordinary office omee work but after that date it requires much cal endurance One month before the time tune of encampment the letter Jetter says SIlS the work becomes enormous and at least sixteen hours a day are required to clear elear the desk of the executive officer Colonel Sterrett says saS a Ii constant stream of people is continually seeking the head of the office and In nine cases out of ten the office force can answer the questions presented During the last month of the encampment he says he has heretofore placed a placard in the tle outer office on the door of his private office bearing the words It is nete sary ary to state your business in iii the outer omee In this outer office at Salt Lake Miss Mis Kathleen Shannon a niece of Past Com Corn John S Kountz of To ledo 0 O who occupied the same ame position last test year in Toledo was In charge charse act ing as official stenographer and ane secre tary taI Miss Belle Bell Warner arner acted as mail ing clerk and Miss Pansy Pans Warner as file clerk these two being nieces of or Col onel Sterrett both being with him last I year in Toledo in the latter Jatter part of the work Colonel Sterrett says that be fore leaving Troy last December it had hadI I boen agreed in writing that he should select his own office force and the sal ary SF was fixed at the same time He says these three young women did the v work ork that occupied the time of or six men at Saratoga and did die it much quicker and better Newspapers of Salt Sait Lake Colonel Sterrett refers at some gome length to the attitude shown toward him by the Salt Lake newspapers saying that the morning papers papan treated him in a fair and honorable manner but that the afternoon papers have said some very ugly and absolutely ab untruthful things about him Colonel Sterrett said that when the very ery busy time came lie he h endeavored to fix the time tinee of noon to see the reporters of the afternoon papers and 8 S p m for the morning papers He says ys the re porters portera insisted on coming to his room desi ite the fact tact that their thir could coma almost invariably have been n an by the office assistants Working under a heavy hewy strain he says I was not as Diplomatic and suave as I 1 usually was waa when reporters entered my office against the protest of my outside official force without stat ing lug their business as was requested and a W as was necessary He said the recep tion lion the reporters of the afternoon pa pers pen received after bolting into his of flee made them his enemies Colonel Sterrett calls attention to the fact that at each encampment he has drawn up and submitted to the local ocal ex committee a set of rules and regulations for the government of or that body and says the rules adopted by b the executive committee in Salt Lake con slated of paragraphs Shifts the Blame In the light of certain paragraphs in these rules Colonel Sterrett in his let ter examines R Into the various chIn against his management made in Othe the articles to which the letter is a reply II He dismisses the charge in regard to the grossest favoritism in the matter of or letting contracts by saying that the executive committee let Jet all contracts In regard to statements that bidders for concessions had been misled and de and that there was favoritism In the securing of bids for tor badges he lie says the one concession let Jet for a souvenir I book was wu let t by resolution re of ot the ex cx f committee and that he lie did not t have charge of the letting of contract I I r for tor badges had r I I Regarding Charge 4 to the effect erred j that the two nieces of or Colonel Ster rett Belle Warner Var r and Pansy Warner i were designated by prominent persons as being Insulting snappish and gener ally disagreeable dl agreeable Colonel letter Itter says The people of Troy Tray know kno these girls as refined rf and cultured young oung ladles ladies and mid know them incapable of being rude to persons who properly conducted themselves When Miss Pan Pansy y was as I poked In the ribs rib by b a lecherous old devil with leering eyes of course she j resented it The name of or this old mash er will be given at the proper time and place with the names of such nesses as will make the evidence in I dubitable Shame to say h he was a mem mom ber her of the executive committee Con his statements about some ome of the newspaper reports Colonel Sterrett says sas There was not an expert in any de department department department of or my work at Salt Lake ex except my personal office force and this expert help is being criticised and lied about bout a by a reporter thor thoroughly thoroughly o Ignorant of the fact that the ex cx executive cutin e committee even cven was j I by b rules of their adoption and amI was I guilty guilt if at all aU of oC every Item with which I was charged One of these young ignoramuses es came to me for a list of the chairmen of committees and yet the full list was at the entrance in large black letters and had been there for months and had also j I been published in booklets and in j I every ever newspaper of the city eft Another Reporter I Another youngster oung ter says ay Colonel Sterrett bearing broadly on his coun the pellucid smile of asked me at what times the executive committee held their meet ings For an answer to such questions these the ducklings passed through the out er office against the protest of those in charge who could have Jave answered answer d fully and saved the interruption of my work In another place Colonel Sterrett says There were a few honorable and capa ble newspaper men acting as reporters in Salt Lake but as a rule I have never come com in contact with as great a paucity of ot brains as WI is represented in this calling in that city I actually experienced nausea in my endeavor to consider them worthy of attention Colonel Sterrett says those who know him will understand that he has just be gun his vindication and that it will wili be wise wlEe for certain persons to stand from under He closes clones the letter by saying I cannot refrain from expressing the tile thanks which well up from a heart full tull of grateful emotion for tor the sweet and tender letters and speeches of ot which I have been bet n the recipient It is worth while to have lived to know that the ordinary human heart beats true to jus Sue tice |