The record-union., 1896-10-02

along with my campaign, ignoring your
frantic efforts and your very existence
If my fighting qualities have embar-
rassed you, console yourselves with the
fact that they have also embarrassed
Grove Johnson, Marion De Vries. the
railroad company, Mr.. Huntington and
the Roman Catholic hierarchy. With
out party, a Central Committee or
newspaper, I have made about the
best single-handed fight 1 know
how. I have "stumped' from dry
goods boxes, street corners, and from
any place where people would listen
I've distributed my cards and dodgers
! through the agency Of Wells, Fargo &
Co., for fear you had influenced
the Peoples party members to refuse
to advertise my meetings. One day
would be abused and yilified by the
Monitor" Examiner or Bee as an
A. p. A, railroad hireling, a decoy
duck for Grove Johnson; next day the
Record Union" would pour a column
and a half of vitriolic vituperations
upon my devoted head because I was
denouncing the funding bill and doom
ing it's candidate.
Ever and always / was running up
against your official anathemas and de-
nunciations 1t has been pretty fight
There was just odds enough against
me to make it real interesting. I'd like
to have seen the finish. I really had
not properly warmed up. I'd been in
dorsed by the Peoples Party Conven-
tion of my own county of Nevada,
where I have been known for twenty
four years. / had received the indi-
vidual pledges of more middle of-th
road Populists than you would be-
lieve / could get. ! have been prom
ised hearty support by farmers, miners,
A. r. o. men, Republicans who couldn't
vote for Johnson, and by men whom you
wouldn't suspect.
Every A. p. A. Council in the entire
district which has taken action in ad-
vance Of the report Of the Advisory
| Boards" has voted Solidly to fight for
me. Say what you please Of the A. P.
| AS, they are the truest friends I ever
| had at my back in time Of trouble.
think. l have convinced most of those
who listen to me that the newspapers
| lie as usual when they say 1 am work
| ing for Grove Johnson. Let me say,
| parenthetically, that I cannot see any
| sense in your wanting my resignation.
| if you really desire the defeat Of the
| funding bill. Four out of every five
votes that have been promised me are
votes that will go to Mr.. Johnson If
| | draw out. Just as the Catholic vote
| would leave me and go to Mr.. Johnson
| if l had the Democratic Endorsement,
| so will the American vote go to John
| son when you have had your way.
Fusion in committees does not neces-
sarily mean fusion at the polls You
n'f 6alivpr 17e 10,
gaining.
| Mr.. de Vries can win with me In the
fight much more easily than he can
with my resignation in your hands.
| could have held 10000 votes away from
Johnson that will never go to De Vries
| am glad you say you are not 'in-
fallible." Part Of your combination
claims infallibility, and you have
downed every A. P. A. whom the Peo-
pies uarty nominated for Congress
and put ''infallibles" or their SYM
pathizers in as fusion candidates. How
did 1T ever occur to you that I could
be coaxed? Was it because you could
not drive me? This letter Of yours is
the most supplicating epistle I ever
read. consider it the triumph Of my
life to have won such a letter from a
body OF men who had tried SO hard to
scare, bully and drive me out of the
hght. 1t seems marvellous to me that
after hghting me for weeks, supported
as you We're by the heavy artillery of
the railroad, the Catholic Church, the
Democratic party, and all the newspa-
pers, you should now fall on your knees
and beg, plead, supplicate that I give
you what we were fighting over, my
resignation. Why, Of course, T will.
Half this amount of pleading would
nave got it at any stage, of the pro-
ceedlngs. have been campaigning four
months and half, but if I knew that
my election to Congress was sure, I'd
hand my resignation to you in response
to such a prayerful appeal L am, yours
at last. G. F. MGLASHAN.