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stated, you had not been able to make up

you wished, and you stated that if had ,nly been present you believed that an aonest and fair report would have been made upon the lines which were substanti- lily agreed to on the Fist of January in he meeting at the Allyn house. You then requested me to meet with the eonns nittee in one of the upstairs rooms at the capitol, for the purpose of assisting the committee in making up the report. Other members of the committee joined with you in the request. stated that next train, but you especially were so urgent, that consented. We went up stairs and there were present all of your republican associates. am again quite willing that. your associates should prepare and make public 2 written statement con- corning what took place iaceL on the afternoon of Tuesday, JairtaryR7;s fn relation to a re- port. It is suf6cignt atasthis sstage of the controversy for. me to. state that again you were opposed to keeping the democratic candidates for lieutenant governor, score tary and comptroller out of office, as 8 club to.affect the senate, and neither you nor any one else suggested at that meeting that report should be made finding that there had been no election of lieutenant governor or secretary of state. Neither at that session nor. at the meeting of Janu- ary 21, was any attempt made by any one to influence. the opinions or conc1u- sions of fact i: which any member of the committee had arrived at from the evidence that had been presented. was tos suggest the proper form of report to state the facts, which the committee had found, and the opinions which they held. I~ ot,o uof froo oo uO1rca1f f0 opinions, and they were all in accordance with the views contained in the Palladium editorial on December 3. l.. left your com mittee in session in that room as soon as you would permit me to leave you, after giving you such information as I could concerning the proper method, under the Connecticut legislative practice, of making a report; in such cases, My connection with your committee begun and ended with the meetings of January 21 and Jan uary-27. A report was drawn up in your handwriting on the afternoon of January 27, and you left the room for the purpose of putting it, as you stated, into type written form. That report was very diff ferent from the one which was presented to the house the next day, in which you found there had been no election to any office but that of comptroller, and as to that office you proposed to keep Mir. Staub out until the senate would join you in an investigation. Your associates in the house soon compelled you to abandon that illogical position. I have no knowledge concerning what influence led you to change the findings and, conclusions of the report which you had drawn with so much care on the afternoon of January 27. The report was exceedingly surprising, especially it's conlusions in relation to the offices of lieutenant governor, secretary and comptroller. I did not hesitate, after January 28, to tell you, as we'll as others that I looked upon the report as dishonorable; that I had been cheated by you, and had been betrayed into taking part twice in council with you on the subject, when you very well knew, by what took place on January 7. that I would have nothing to do with the controversy in any manner, nor take part in any council on the subject, if it was sin- tended to take the unfair, unwise and inn polite course which was suggested.
 The report that was finally made went further than was suggested in: November and December. You knew, as did many others, that the republican party would not sustain you for any length of time in keeping out of office men who were elect ed, merely because the democrats refused to do what the republicans believed to be right in the matter of the governorship. You are believed to be responsible for changing that report between the 27th and 18th of January. Tn making that change you did not dare to follow the lines of boldness suggested in November, but you imposed upon the honest members of the house by making report which, in the light of all the events since that time, is clearly and unequivocally false.
 DT. Alsop did receive majority of all the votes lawfully cast for lieutenant gov srnor; and John J. Phelan did receive 8 majority of all the votes lawfully cast for secretary. believe that MT. Sanger re- ceived 8 majority of the votes lawfully cast for treasurer; and it is certain that there is no sufficient evidence to show that he did not.
 The facts which, have given in detail are absolutely true, and I challenge you, if you are disposed to deny. them, in any material particular, to submit the ques- tions at issue between us to Senator Shum- way of your county, who is at the present time, the republican leader in the senate. Either before him, or any other proper person acting as tribunal between us, will prove substantially all that is above stated, out of the mouths of your repubi- can associates upon the committee on cleo tions.
 do not ask you why you changed the report. It is quite certain that neither General Merwin, Dr. Brown, or MT. Nc Lean, or any one authorized to speak for them, aksed you to make such change It is equally certain that nothing has been gained for General Merwin by it.
 By some means or other your associates were induced to sign the report which you changed. The republican members of the house accepted that report as true, be- cause they had confidence in the commit tee The only way by which the republi- can members of the house could be in duced to sustain you was by your making @ finding of facts, the inconsistency and falsehood of which was not understood by the house at any time prior to it's adjourn ment in April. The republican members of the house, all or nearly of them acted ignorantly and in good faith. You knew better, however. It is said that there is forgiveness for those who sin ignorantly, but for those who sin against light there may be no forgiveness in this world or the next.
 am republican, and believe in fight for all they are worth. Politics is some times said to be game; but it should be played by gentlemen in an honorable way. When beaten in the game, pay up, and don't try to steal the stakes. ' ' 's '-@
 Upon this question the Palladium stands upon solid foundation of truth and equi- ty. The views it has expressed upon this subject are those that are intslligently and held by it's managers and it's editors. Upon this it is eternally right, and you arc everlastingly wrong
 You are quite disposed to question mo- tives. It is of no consequence to the in jured parties, if the effect of what you do is wrong, whether your motives are good or bad. For most men it would have been dishonest to have taken the course you followed -5=.: s,,!s e-Ai5 g--'s.,s--
 The republican, party in the pressnt house of representatives would not have sustained yoti if you has reported that Messrs. A1sop and ,Phelan were elected, but that you proposed to keep them out of office until proper action had been taken by the senate. Yet, if such 8 course had been followed, it would at least have had the manliness of the robber barons of the Rhine, who took what they pleased in open day, and with strong hand. By i'm posing upon the house report reciting as facts that which was not, and is not. true, many members of the house innocently and in good faith, supported you, but the effect of your action has been contempt ible piece of political robbery.
 So much of your articleaas charges the Palladium, or me, with endorsing Mir. Walkers demand for the unconditional or being ready to give to the democrats all they ask for, is as absolutely false as was the charged report which you
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