The Indianapolis journal., 1883-08-18

! the thing up. / have done more within the last
| three days than all my previous work here for
| the good of the cause. have done 1t among the
| best farmers of this county In fact my expert
euce in this shows me that there is only one way
! to make success of this enterprise, and that is
| TO first capture the papers, second, find farmer
who stands well as a careful man, and has the
confidence of the people; talk him full of it; hire
him to take You and Introduce you to five lead
| Ing farmers in each township; talk each of those
ye full OF IT. leave plenty of circulars aud papers
with each of the five: offer of the five in each
| township commission of 90 cents per share to
make business of talking for the scheme; stay
! in town Friday and Saturday, and let them come
| to you and subscriber give them thus time to
| think and talk among themselves.
"Fhis will so stir up the country that you can
| then capture the town people. After organizing
your board, hire the man who has been taking
you around to continue on and work for the
board and make business of it. If this plan is
| Followed, can organize good many
boards in year, and they will
weeks in each county.
| "tf this plan is adopted, one man could organ
ize twenty five boards per year. Work only the
counties on the projected lines of road at first,
and put enough men to work to do it all in one
year. believe this to be the only practicable
plan. The man you leave after you win not only
work 1t up, but will be valuable man when
stock-selling is over for some other position.
81 have also satisfied myself that the present
| circular Is not what Is needed to work on the
plan above outlined, and have prepared one
which exactly fills the bill II this above plan is
adopted, because II especially hits the farmer.
| OF course L should not have 1t printed without
| submitting it to you.
81 am also certain of one thing. 1t will GER
tainly be the death of this enterprise to sue on a
subscription. Stand on the dignity OF it and let
MIN forfeit what he has paid, and sell his stock
to some one else.
Next, am satisfied that this enterprise will
succeed, with a rush. as a great antlnOnopoly
movement. and no other way. Capitalists won't
| touch it, and you know 1t. Sweezys letter don't
convince me, nor HarringtOn's blow. They are
| both going to do hig things, but You will simply
| ma those men will not take that much stock.
| you can just mark that down. AS a great ma
| tlOnal movement against monopoly it strikes a
| popular sentiment which will carry it to success
and make you the greatest man of this century.
Any other plan will turn IL into a gigantic swim
Gle, and as such | shall draw out of it, for
don't propose to die violent death by mob law
just yet You may think this is pretty emphatic,
but II you was on the field Of battle you would
see it very quick.
"If this Will make it a popular thing, as can
convince you if you will spend one day in the
country, You need not fear but money in plenty
will be forthcoming TO complete the system on
the fly.
| of, after you have had q chance to test the
| truth OF this, and see if I am right about the
capitalists and business men not taking hold of
| IL (Hnd you can find that out within the next
two weeks), you don't see fit to adopt my plan,
why. want to quit; because 1 know that
| can't earn my money in any other way, and
know the scheme can't win on any other basis
| without turning into different thing from
what you originally intended, namely, swinde
on the people. Il can earn my living in a differ
ent way. talk thus to you because am your
i friend, ard you know it.
please to remit me money at once by return
mail for necessary expenses / will return the
| expense account, (leavIng out salary item) to-
morrow. .p y Yours ours @ truly F; II T. aoRT1E
demands, it will damage the enterprise here
| 81 900 in cash." ts--t =
The correspondent Of the Indianapolis journal
at Lafayette was instructed to see Mr.. Ruger, to
whom allusion is made by Horton, with re-
suits as follows: a' -t"a
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Aug 1.-THE Journal cor
| respondent to-day called upon John B. Ruger,
the enterprisng jobber and manufacturer of
| confectionery, and interviewed him relative to
| his connection with the People 8 railway project
| RumOr had associated him with the sohene aud
| there have been many stories afoat that his re-
| ations with the stupendous project were not of
| the most friendly character. In brief, Mr.. Ruger
stated that couple of months ago the agent, +.
L. Horton, came to him at his place of business
and endeavOred to enlist his name in a call for
meeting to be held at indianapolis for the pur-
| pose of organizing a peoples railway. Il was
very busy at the time,. said Mr.. Ruger and in
order TO get rid OF him signed a call for meet
ing. Upon second thought, however, declined to
havea any connection whatever with the scheme,
and the next day wrote to the managers to
| erase my name. L have no stock in the concern,
\ don't want any and Wouldn't have any If they
would give 1t to me. Sometime thereafter re-
stock was due and that If didn't paw up-send
| in the money by a certain timo-they would
erase my name. am informed that my name
has been used to further the object of the scheme.
| 1t is unauthorized. have no connection what
ever with it. Mr.. Horton came to me and made
verbal proposition to purchase $500 worth Of
| provisions from NE, but was first to pay 500
to the stook-a proposition which L very
| promptly refused"
| We submit ta any candid and respectable man
whether in the light of these documents, he
| can longer remain In doubt a. to the character
| of this enterprise. or can permit his name
| to be used in order to delude and ensnare other
people. We have regarded it as a grand hum
bug, too absurd in Its proportions TO gull anyone
with Intelligence or1experience above the grade
that become easy victims to, the regulation
| confidence" and .'bupko" man. In charity we
have thought IL possible that the originators
and projectors were simply the victims of a dis
ordered mind and diseased fancy; but in the
| light o: these confidential revelations between
agent and principal, it is question for each one
TO settle for himself whether it be not pur-
| posey planned fraud and swlndle. SO far
as this oty is concerned, the or
ganization is a burlesque upon the stilted
plans of the projectors. while, as in the case of
Mr.. Ruger, of Lafayette, many of the men
| originally named as connected with the enter
| prise, and who could possibly give 1t character
| and standing with the public, have mado haste
| to announce their withdrawal from the mon
strosty. 1t ia proper to add ALSO that after the ap-
| pearanee of Horizons slanderous card In the La.
fayette paper, Mr.. Kennedy again called upon US
and apoogized for 1t, saying that 1t was entirely
unauthorized by him, and pleading that we
! "should be as easy as possible under the oircum-
stances MIR Kennedy appeared for Mr.. Hor-
| ton, and. so far as We are concerned, they are
| par mobile fratrum.
| A WOMAN called on Cleveland druggist, on
| Thursday, and. presenting prescription, asked
| to have it filed at once. stating that the pre-
scriptfon for the relief or a sick horse. The
prescription called for nitric acid, mercury and
turpentne. The druggist looked at it moment