Saint Mary's beacon., 1884-07-31
COMMUNICATED.


fund Of slang and exclamation points
seem inexhaustible. Will therefore
commence to review "*'s" wonderful
production and reply to such of
"Wack's" thoughts as can be discov-
cred in the ocean of chaf he presents
his readers.
/ will not soil your paper by any
attempt to handy epithets or exchange
billingsgate with pot-bouse politicians
or their imitators. Whenever ma
licious ealumny is published concern
ing me / shall unhesitatingly charac-
terize it as such; beyond this pro-
pose to deal with facts and the most
natural deductions TO be drawn from
them. In SO doing will endeavor to
be as concise as possible.
| ask, in the name of all that is
reasonable, if it would not have been
more in accordance with common sense
and common deoency to have made
some effort to prove the falsity of my
assertion that men had been repeat
edly endorsed and elected who had
betrayed and deceived the Local OPP
tion interest instead of prating 80
much Of what he ("*") claims to have
done or hiedto do for me These were
foreign to the subject. / had in mind
another who bad been endorsed and
elected by republicans who is now
neither an official nor republican.
Will also say that l had neither the
desire nor the expectation when | al
luded to the matter Of dragging in
anything extraneous. | condemned
"*'s" action to his face, when discov
cred, and in much stronger terms than
I have used in your paper. There
was no occasion for its publication un-
til Wack's peculiar articles brought
it out. ] must have spread myself
considerably in order to sit around
his table-presume this partially ac-
counts for his seeming callousness to
criticism.
Can any intelligent man name the
party that has not at some time en-
doraed and elected, and repeatedly
too, men who have betrayed certain
interests, and in fact some Of the fun
damental principles of the party it.
self2, If the great republican party,
whose career is 80 Teptete with grand
doed9 that millions freed by by IL IL will
procAim WF4h joyful acclaim that it's
mission is not complete, has not done
so, why rs action IL years ago ?
Why did he not support one repeat
edly endorsed and elected too by the
party, instead of giving his help to
member Of the democratic party !?
Was he right, or did he expect an Of
hce from the party he says hates him
80 much 2
In your issue of May 9th, l said,
that "our worthy Judge OF the Or
phans Court was as reddy and wtlksng
to tender me his support as he (*) was
to ask it," This trUth-loumg quotes
me thus "Mr. Jones was as anrious
to serve him (Junius) as JuDius was
TO receive Mr., Jones support" This
is fair specimen of his methods. Mr.
Thomas will likely say that we did
talk over the matter, that I explain
ed it, and perhaps stated that
thought ! could show the falsity of
KS position and correctness Of mine.
Mr.. Lloyd will probably say that
visited VS. house in the early Spring
or Winter of '76, and he might truth
fully add occasionally during the years
rs, IA and Fall Of '73. Mr.. Jones
will, | judge, say that he rendered me
his support for che position named,
that y mentioned the matter to him
as we'll as the others named, and
believe he said he thought would
get it. But will Mr.. Thomas say that
| commenced talking of the matter,
or that l said anything about giving
any one "Hail Columbia p He like
ly told =, after being questioned about
what we talked, that Junius thought
he could give him "Hail Columbia"
Will Mr.. Lloyd, or any other distir-
gatished witness, say that | sought =
complaining of my inability to obtain |
an office from one party and intima-
ting desire to join the other for one? |
Will Mr.. Jones say that y had any |
difficulty in persuading him TO sup
port me or the position he speaks Of |
rendered me in '792 If so 1et them
speak for themselves. y, one of the |
Commissioners who promised, yet af- |
terwards failed to vote for me, as well |
as others, said that they fell confident
| would get the same place in 'S3,
but l didn't. / had been appointed
road supervisor and election clerk un- /
der both parties without the help of
y. | had been appointed Officer
of Registration by two democratic |
Governors and have been recommend
ed for positions by prominent men Of
both parties. For their kindness in
so doing am sincerely thankful, yet
id not think that any can Justly claim
that this fact entities them to make
tool or puppet Of me. He has ac-
knowledged that be received pay for
his team; l only did so for my labor.
II 10 rather late to talk about not get
ting any part Of it. The other mat
ter that he connects with it needs no
comment from me. 1t is sufficiently
clear without it. He certainly said |
that he intended to discharge Mr..
Lloyd because he was not doing his
duty. Whether he would trust him
with cross-ties or not is another mat
ter. Whenever the fact of my being
gentleman or not is up for discus