The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-30
Correspondence.

Views on Ma tiers ard Things,
and Also Rises to a Question of
Privilege and Makes a Personal
Explanation"
EDITOR REPUBLICAN-In your paper
of October %, notice a letter from DR..
Faulkner. lam truly sorry that have
felt it my duty to write any thing
that would grieve him, for l consider
him one of my best friends, gentle
man and scholar, to boot, and | know
of but one fault, and that is that he is
too generous and confiding; so much so
that in the simplicity of his generous,
unsuspicious nature, he allows design
ing political tricksters to influence him
too much, in the place Of acting on his
own good Judgment. l have no fault
to find with his account of that meeting
i do not see that it materially differs
from mine. There would be nothing
strange if he should remember some
things that | do not, or that should re-
member things that he does not. He
saws 1--WE agreed to ascertain the feel
ing OF our communities and meet July
~ 1--WE" of course means the commit
mittee. or. does it mean the members Of
the little ring that did meet on the 9TH !?
1t certainly does not mean those that
participated in the meeting. | heard
nothing of there going to be Il meeting
on the 9TH, except the County Grange
was to meet and organize at that time
The Council was disbanded to meet no
more There were others besides my
| self in that meeting who did not know
| there was to be any other. | saw Mr..
| Rankin few days before the 9TH and he
! told me he was not a member of the
County Grange. and knew of no other
| business, and he would not be there
! Squire Holmes told me after the call
was made that Mr.. Rankin said, under
/ the circumstances, he was opposed to it.
! Under the circumstances, as | under
stand them. | don't see how they could
| feel authorized to do so by the vote OF
the June meeting and my appointment.
! | could find but very few. after the call
was made, that did understand where.
when and how the committee got their
authority. had a sort of vague idea
of where they pretended to get it, but
didn't know.
In regard to the Doctors not knowing
that BraytOn was seeking an Office. nv
explanation of his unsuspicious, ,confidng
nature explains this. No one else is that
easily gulled | believe the Doctor
thought he was doing right. but he
should not, because | find fault with the
little ring that controlled him, think that
/ am attacking the Peoples party
There is vast difference in the two
though there appears TO be some that
can't tell the difference. If | couldn't,
might compliment myself with IT,,
knowledge that the great Peoples party
WAS writhing under the exposure OF it
rottenncss.
The Doctor would not have written
his letter, but Brayton has been up tha
way and | expect went to see him
likely staid all night with him. Bravtol
was in trouble, the Doctor sympathizej
with him. and in the kindness of hi:
heart promised to help him. and thci
remembering his friend Petree, it woulc
not do to lnjurc him, consequently h,
couldn't say anything for his tricnC
Brayton and say less than he has agains
me. If WAS not quite 50 busy with my
work would take a pilgrimage up tina
way myself, and see if couldn't do bet
ter than that. Perhaps | could prevail
ON the Doctor TO give us IL synopsis o
the very interesting debate that wa
. / -,
or the 9TH Of July. 1t would be inter
csting reading.
Notwithstanding Brayton's avowa
that he would pay no attention to any
thing might say, hear that he pay
me compliment once in a while, whcl
he gets off where he thinks | will no
hear it. Between him and his poodle
have been pretty badly used up. Wht
would have thought that the little rln.
was in such Il strait AS to compel it to re
sort to such measures is it does. Though
| stay at home and attend to my owl
business, | can still hear of some thing
that transpire Il few miles away, and
furnish you, for publication, Il specimen
of some Of the intelligence that | get
1t does one good to be abused little
once in while. just to find out how
many warm friends person has. The
writer of this letter Gas you can testify,
is as honorable Il man rs there is in thu
county, and has been intimatcl,
acquainted with me for upwards of sev
enteen Years, and his testimony in M
favor will do me a thousand times NOR,
good than anything such IL contemplate
scrub as Saunders can say will do M
harm. don't want tom" or any o
my friends to ''whip him" or lay fin
ger on him. wouldn't have Il fricn,
do job that was too dirty for me to dc
myself. couldn't be induced to strik,
him under any consideration. unless ii
self-deiense, when | was in danger o