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is quite clear he prefers not to bring his action in a neutral State, the State of Pennsylvania the State in which I work and live and whence came those spoken editorials to which the Governor takes exception.
"Thus the Governor has laid down a challenge within the confines of his *wn sphere of influence so we pick it up and put this challenge back down on his desk that if he has so good a case let him come to the State of Pennsylvania and initiate his action it is only 27 miles away from the New Jersey State House let him file his action in a dispassionate non-partisan place where we may both stand before the court of Justice not as Governor on the one hand and plain newspaperman on the other but as man to man, individual to individual and let the stories be told on an equal footing. By filing his present action in the State of New Jersey, the Governor well knows he can obtain no service upon me and I and no other, was the writer and speaker of those editorials written in the capacity of honest, decent and truthful journalism to which is accorded the inalienable right under our own constitution to freedom of the press, freedom of speech and the right to question the propriety and criticise the official conduct of every officeholder in the performance of his public acts. Knowing then that he can obtain no service on me does he expect me to walk like the convenient fly into the web neatly set for it by the spider into the sphere of his juris¬ diction? Hardly. Thus, if he fails to accept the challenge I lay before him to debate his case in another State where we may stand on equal footing, man to man then the only interpretation on his Jersey action left open to accept, is that the move is a political expedient in face of the Fall elections and that he is afraid to accept the proposal I just made.
"But actually and factually, this is no issue between Carter and Hoffman. A far greater principle is Involved a prin¬ ciple which touches the very foundations of government in the United States and reaches back to the days of the Magna Charta, when the common man overthrew the shackles bound around him by the feudal lords and won for himself his first fruits of the freedom of a democracy. The Bill of Rights was fought for by the English.
It became a heritage of the Anglo-Saxons. It was brought to Amer¬ ica by the early settlers. It was immortalized in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the organic law of the land in the first five amendments in the American Constitution. Freedom of speech and the press have been jealously guarded heritages of the American people. The issue here is Hoffman versus the freedom of the press and the freedom of the radio. The essence of honest, truthful journalism is to report as the journalist sees and honestly believes the facts. "
"Look how officials have used radio in other nations, killing civil liberties and destroying the very foundations of democratic government. In America the fight to maintain the free¬ dom of the air has been carried on since inoeption of radio.
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