The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-04-25
AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE
w. LORING.

known tact, and yet there would not
seem to be any good reason why
they should be either political lepers
or malicious liars. That you are
both is, however, well understood,
and men submit TO be dictated 10 BY
YOU for the simple reason that they
fear to come in contact with as unscru-
puous fellow as they know You to
be. Not SO with me, for | will not be
maicously lied about without throw
ing the charge back into the liars
face, and branding him as unfit
to associate with men VINO make
the least pretence TO moral decency.
In the matter of the late Repub.
lican city caucus you made q person
al fight against me, and lied TO every
man you approached. You said, or
caused it to be understood, that the
convention called to elect the dis
trict delegates to Chicago, and for
no other purpose, as you very well
knew, held at Saginaw on Tuesday,
was 70 place in nomination can
didate for representative in Congress.
This you knew to be false. You
stated 10 men by the score that was
opposed to the denomination Of Mr..
Horr as Republican candidate for
Congress in this district, and every
time you told that story you knew
you was telling malicious lie. For
in answer to direct question from
yoS, | told you when you was in
Washington that was for Horr
against the world, and that | did not
intend 10 let the question of who
should be postmaster at some CROSS
roads influence me in matter Of
National importance, and you knew
thatI meant Just what | said. You,
also, know, and ought know that
know you are only telling these lies
that you may spite me because l
would not be your tool in the matter
of the appointment of the Owosso
postmaster, and for no other reason.
1t is true that all kinds of knaverv
and trickery are sometimes practiced
during political campaigns, but
have never yet known good results
to follow such despicable means
either to tine party or the individual
who made use Of them, and | think
there will be no exception TO the
rule in your case. Trades, as they
are called, are sometimes made by
would-be party boSses by which the
people are sold out for the personal
aggrandizement of the party traitor
who engages in these public outrages,
and this kind of knavery is some
times styled practical politics" by
the corrupt men who engage in it,
but that by no means makes it what
I they are pleased TO call it any more
than it would become h0ReSt did
they choose SO to designate it,
You, Mr.. George w. Loring,
ought to understand that political
work does not require man to for
get his manhood, and become stencil
in the nostris of the community.
There is sharp distinction between
legitimate, hard work for the success
of the party, because the party is the
representative of principles one be-
lieves essential to the National pros.
perity, and the work done by trick
sters, knaves and robbers of the
rights of the people though what is
designated as '"practical politics, i"
Tor personal ends only.
Again perhaps you can explain
why you worked all election day to
defeat the Republican candidate for
alderman, in your own ward, nomi-
mated in caucus of which you was
a member, and the Republican can
didate for constable in the I'd Ju.
dicial district, and then lied to these
gentlemen in charging me with do
ing the dirty work you had been en-
gagged in, when you knew that all
day long ! worked persistently for
the Republican ticket. But you
could not make these men believe
! your story because they knew you of