The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-10-26
A GAME OF BLUFF.
Such it Seems to be That Boss Graham is
Playing-The Last Letter on the Debate
Matter

! Such it Seems to be That Boss Graham If
PIaying-The Last Letter on the Debate
Matter.
The republicans dare not debate
candidates. Chairman Graham has
now jumped from DIR. Maeser and Pro-
lessor Keller (both parties he assumed
to namel to S. r. Thurman and j. NJ.
Zane and attempts to claim there was
a challenge on the part of the demo-
Gratis to have these two gentlemen de-
bate. No challenge of this kind eyer
passed, and the republicans Of this
county who are afraid of their candi.
dates, still dodge the issue and try to
bring in strangers to defend their
cause.
The fact is they dare not debate.
The following is the last letter on the
subject;
PRovo City, Utah, Oct. 26, 1894.
John G. Graham, Esq.
Chairman Republican Central Com
mittee.
DEAR SIR am in receipt of yours
of the 23rd inst. Your last letter is as
evasiye and lnsincere in relation to the
debates proposed as the previous ones
you sent me.
Three times. each with increased
emphasis, l nave proposed debates De-
tween your candidates and ours in this
county, or between nOn-candidates or
non-reSidents. Each time you have
refused TO accept my proposition and
propose something else by way of bluff.
That IS cheap. it Is game that any.
body can play, but one which self-res-
pectlng people seldom resort to. [
make this charge of bluff upon the |
ground that in your first reply, instead |
OF accepting any one of our very fair
you named q candidate |
On your ticket and one on ours whom
you knew would not Join in debate.
And now you propose discussion be-
tween 5. h. Thurman and John M.
Zane L am informed by Mr.. Thurman
hat few days ago, in private con-
IerSatlon With you, he asserted that
le would debate with no man who was
Tot candidate for some office, if not
or the office for which he is running.
lie demanded that when he should
tand before an audience with an
opponent, that person as well as him
elf should be confronted with men
Who would either vote for or against
i'm. And l now believe that it is this
cry information which leads YOU to
II. 0se this last bluff. Ignoring all
ur fair and liberal propositions, YOU
rop0se others which are unfair and
npossible, and that, L believe, is why
GU make them.
1t is sad commentary upon YOUR
You pay poor tribute to
lelr ability when you refuse, abso
ltelY, to match any one of them
gainst any one OF our candidates, but
to distance tor some irresponsible
neutrality-suspicious. in the sense that
Is hot candidate for any office, is
ot a representative OF his party, and :
aE no power whatever TO bind it by
lythIng he might say or do. Certainly
le g. q. pts not so barren and desti-
tie OF ability among It's candidates in
us county, as to find it necessary to
outside and get man who is not
indicate at all.
I GU still assume that a DEBATE was
ranged at Salem between Mr.. Thur.
an and Mr.. Zane. have said to you
VI re and repeat it, that no PROPOSE
IN has ever been made for such a de- n
lie SO far as this committee knows or
far as Mr., Thurman knows. :
FINALLY, want to repeat that you
We repeatedly refused all our p,op-
ltlons; you have declined to accent
challenges; you dodge and eyade .
e point, and the responsibility must Y
1T with you and your party in this z
1nfy for not discussing the issuss of
DAY before the public. n
now conclude by reiteratinp nv "
II challenge: You name any can
ate on your ticket in this county. g
ect the time ana place, and We will !!
ct you with one OF our candidates: 9
sou can name dozen candidates on
II ticket and we will match them Il
n candidates On our ticket.
iome now, don't "dunk" as Won
e in the past. Your game of bluff
p, show your hand. F
Very respectfully,
i. A. WILSON, Chairman,