Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1912 — U. Z. Wiley Testifies as To Composition of Highbulls. [ARTICLE]

U. Z. Wiley Testifies as To Composition of Highbulls.

The Oxford Tribune heads the appended article about U. Z. , Wiley, “Guest or Barkeeper?” Ulriob Z. Wiley was nominated for congress on the Bull Moose ticket last summer, but real progressives made it so hot for him that he withdrew. He later made a speech in Rensselaer, which proved that he was not -very well posted about the things his party stood for. Our faith in IT. Z. Wiley was destroyed the first time we met him. He had come over from Fowler to preach one Sunday at a local church. That afternoon the writer had occasion to call at the home where Wiley was a guest. The host served a round of highballs and the Rev. Wiley was a liberal patron. Since then his sermons, his temperance lectures, his defense of women and his confession of faith in .a reform party have sounded tolerably hollow. Last week he was a witness at the Caldwell will trial in Fowler and the Oxford Tribune makes the following pertinent remarks about his testimony, given at his old home town, where some years ago he posed as a preacher and temperance man: “Wasn't U. Z. Wiley a peach of an advocate of “God, women and temperance” in the last campaign? He testified at Fowler Wednesday that he drank highballs at “The Richland” with the Caldwells, and he further testified, as an expert, on the material make-up of highballs, cocktails and mint-julips. The question bothering the temperance people of Benton conn* ty is whether Wiley was at The Richmond as a guest or as the barkeeper. But he never, paid back the $lO he borrowed in 1876. A friend has figured the interest and if Mr. Wiley will pay the debt before January Ist, it would be> about S3O. But a check for half the amount will get him a clear receipt.” - -