Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-07-13
the samebarty, and of the result of their call.

the same party, and of the result of their cal
cnlationsat former elections.
In the spring previous to the election of
1920, Cd. Bond, having visited this county,
wrote tdhis friends in the southern and north
eastern jarts of the state, assuring them in the
stronger terms, from his personal observation,
that Mr. Kane would receive large majority
in this Ind the adjacent counties. MIR. Kane
too, hinself, was at this place the week pre-
vious b the elections; and on his return to
Kaskaskia he told the people of Randolph
that he would g risk his election on Madison
couaay''-by which we suppose he meant to
say, that if his election depended on receiv-
ing majority in This county, he was sure of it.
But what was the RESULT Out of eleven hum
dred and thirty -tYo votes, there was MAORI
| ty of seven hundre{ and t1uenty- four against Mr..
| Kane
| Like Misrepresentation were made respect
ing the prospects Of Mr.. MLean, previous to
! the election in 1892 And the individuals of
the same party, with a few exceptions, are
now busiy engaged in exaggerating the num-
Der OF their partisahs in the several sections of
the state, for the purpose, no doubt, of CATCH
! ing the votes of such as wish to be on the
strongest side.
On the former occasions alluded to, we eau.
toned the people against relying on those
statements, and our estimates of the elections
proved to be nearly correct In one instance
the result exceeded our expectation.
In thepresent struggle we can assure the
Friends of Freedom, that the prospect of
favorable termination of the contest was never
more cheering. Indeed we know that some
Of the prominent men of the convention party
have lately given up the question as hopeless.
Notwithstanding the prompt exposure the
fabricated letter which appeared in the Illinois
Republican OF the 18th May last, puuporting to
be from a Methodist preacher in Missouri to
another in Illinois, its authors have had the
baseness to print it in handbills, and it is now
secretly circulating in distant parts OF the state,
though none have been discovered in this
quarter, excepting one or two IN 81. Clair.
The letter bore the evidence of forgery
aon OF common dlscernment But indepen
aent OF TINS, the writer styles the person he
addresses as "brother preacher," and as the
author OF an article published iii this paper un--
der the signature Of" A sugar Greek PATRIOT
At mas been before stated Nat the author OF
uiat pubilcation is not a Methodist preacher
and we NOW repeat, that he is a very old gen
teman, soldier OF tie reyolut.onar, war, WHO
lever WAS preacher or any denomination.
Tins circumstance alone would prove the
letter laDfieatom, Ii IT mad the marks OF &C.
nuineness IN other respects.
The Rev. air. Dew demanded Of the editors
the Republican, The author OF the forged letter,
With malch they refused comply The toi-
lowing note from INN was written at the time
OF lis date, and ,he subject is AGAIN reviveo,
!, is now puo.iSl4ed
aiR. NAkREN,
L, viii DC seen that Mr.. Smith in his
single rs,nark' on my letter, has by some
means OF O.ner, OSCn led into an .egro-
sious lfror.' tie seems 10 think, lhal
lonsiuereu Int letter referred 10 I'D my
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES stismaon The Methodist
Gnurch: surely there Is nothing III my
''o'e ,hat would justly such an opinioii.
only atiirin thai inc ooJect Vi that letter
as 10 Tx Stigma OH the Methodist
church and Preachers; but, that con-
sioef 'this ooJect attained, 10 TO where
av>rred III my communication. 4 Can
assure Mr.. smith, that l never did So |
consider Ii, and, that nothing coming |
through that channel, against the Me-
De So considered. To establish this posi-
lIon, was ali had III view III addressing
,nat notc 10 that gen ,entan which thlnk
mas been FULLY done, by Mr.. Smith him
self III The course nc has pursued III reia-
lIon to that business.
In refusing 10 comply with my re
quest. Nit. ). has not evinCed the same
readiness 10 give up the names OF his cor
Respondents, as did his brother Editors
0. Kaskaskla, and Vandaiia in reference
10 the commune atoms oil w. X. and
Anthropos. Yet Mr.. S. has done me con-
siderable favor by publishing my note