Evening journal., 1894-10-06
JUDGE gAYNoR.

cd to mo that ! should have sOme part in
this great contest when it came, bat il
that is not to ba / still hope / may be able
to feel that / have done not much ID is
true, but yet something TO movo my day
and generation forward at least a little
and to bettor tho condition of this com
munity ia which my lot has been cast
1T might stop here but IL ] did i
would seem to mo that I had left some-
thing appropriate unaaid tn Hew Of recent
events. I nm not without feeling aL3
cannot refrain from acknowledging VII
hraton az pain that organizations avow-
odly working unseldshly for high politi-
cal methods ana for hottor government
should aflrmatively refuse to indorso my
nomination in advance Of my acceptance
or refusal
ON tho other hand. the wholly spon.
taneous manifestation Of the general Do
mocraey Of the state toward nae, which
never expected to 500, and which I can
only interpret MS a full approval Of my
past public conduct, has made upon me
an impression too profound to be over
effaced circumstances do not permit me
to accept tho nomination they have ten
dered to mo, but my head and my heart
60 out to thom all the same.
openly objected as an individual citizen
TO political methods which ! deemed low
base and unmanly, and to official acts
which / doomed heartless crimes, involy-
ing as they did spoliation Of the people S
hard earned money for the enrichment Of
q few who followed politics as a trade and
made public officials their mere tools.
Gross Wrongs TO the People.
II folt that | had a right to speak for
in the face Of gross wrongs TO tho people
among whom ! lived ! had sat silent for
$ years, and silence often gives tho right
TO speak but furthermore, from an inn
pulse which I cannot define or q reason
which is too inscrutablo ta assign, / found
myself unable to SIT silent longer. The
history 90 tho four years ~ effort which
ensuod by appeal TO courts and to public
opinion ] cannot now cven summarize,
but In this hour Vi which my name is be
ing tossed back and forth by confronting
political factions and in which ! have
broken asunder tho bonds of my porploX
ity and seen my duty clear ! beg TO soy
in Justice to myself and 1 trust Will
due mildnoss and without amy egotism,
that throughout 81 In / was never helped
in money or otherwise by any politician
or political organization or faction what
/ ever, and that Il in tho end / finally Pre-
| vailed it was solely because the people
honest ana unsaldsh, understood me ans
recognized that nt an events I was trying
| to do right
Owing nothing therefore to politicians
or political organizations and remember
! ing that whatever little ! have done &
/ lift governments UP was done as q private
] citizcn, / 10 not value any office 50 higl
as to wish to achieve it against the oppo
sition Of those whom I had suppose,
would be niy friunds.
"If I Thought that the withdrawal o
! my namo would iniure Senator Hill'
canvass, ] would try TO SEQ some way &
allow it 60 remain, for his recent develop
ment in the national senate places hin
with the foremost public men Of lis day
Between him and his opponent he should
and ] trust VIII, prevail
Though this letter takes me away fron
a promotion IN the limo Of my taste,
havo written it without regret, for
keeps me in line with my past. I writ
It to tho hurt of no man. but in justice t
all mon, to truth and TO myself.
"'ro thine own self he true.
And il must follow, as thc day the night,
Thou canst not then be lalsa ia any man.
tWs j. GAYNoR.n