The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-11-12
gardless of politics, entertain the sam
feelings that l do.

gardless of politics, entertain the sam,
feelings that l do.
Il tell you these things because | pro
pose to fight along these lines, and in or
der to place you on notice that you vii
meet this and be confronted with these
declarations on my part before Mr.. Han
ma, Mr.. Mckinley and the national party
wherever l come in contact with it in
counsel assembled, so you may as well
be prepared to meet it, because it is COM
ing. l felt the sting of the innuendos
quietly and confidentially expressed, and
in the same spirit communicated to me-
and l want to you to know that l am
cognizant of your frequent acts in that
capacity, and not only am l aware of
that, but ev,:y true republican and every
friend of Mckinley feels as l do about
it. l had been made aware of your in
tended line Of assault upon me and the
policies you proposed to pursue, but |
want to tell you now that l have never
made a fight in my life that
have not won, simply for the
reason that invariably l have justice
on my side and do not propose to make
an exception in this instance. Justice
and right are mine and my people and
the people of Texas are with me-repub-
licans, sound money democrats and pop
ulists-and l will guarantee to negative
any misstatement that may be made, and
l will furthermore guarantee to get the
true facts as they exist without embel-
lishment, for they need none. as the naked
truth is bad enough before those who will
be in supreme control. The state of Tex
as is my home, Texas people are my peo-
pie, and their interests are my interests,
and L propose to fight for their rights
and to defend their wrongs, and you will
find when the case comes up for trial that
there will be 100000 people in Texas will
ing to testify to the injury sustained by
the innoculation of our recent movement
with political prostitution, incompetency
and reckless disregard for the common
rules of decency, equity and justice.
have worked in this campaign as l have
never worked before, for myself or in
any capacity, hoping against hope that
might be enabled to carry this state for
Mckinley and Hobart, even against your
methods but the exercise of the civil
rights of the people at the ballot box
evinced the fact that they were capable
of melting out the proper resentment.
You have Informed me and many of
my friends that you despised gutter,
new term added to my vocabulary by
you, but will guarantee to prove to your
mind, as | have proved to Mr.. Mckinley
and Mr.. Hanna long before l knew you,
that am not much given to quitting, and
l think you will discover when | get
through airing your conduct and the con-
duct of those connected with you in this
campaign that | am very far from
gutter and l rather think when you
get through with the results of this cam
paign you will be little careful how
you go into other states and attempt to
coerce the people into submission to your
yapOrings. | furthermore resent your
letter from the fact that l regard it as
being an assault upon my intelligence,
in the light of your conduct from the
characterized by Il series of insidious and
characterized by series of insiduous and
clandestine assaults upon me and upon
anything that | have advocated. You
have, however, invariably in my pres
ence acted out the spirit of friendliness
and in my absence have tried to apply
the knife, and now you seek by this letter
to dlsarm me and convince me by pretend
ed friendship on your part, concealing
at the time dagger under your kilt, but
you can not deceive me, know you and
your methods and am prepared to meet
you. L know your plans and policies and
l have you on record on every proposition
that care to prove and l am satisfied. l
have been working now day and night
of Texas, have brought order out of
chaos, have created something from
political vacuum. A year of that time
| have been working day and night for
William Mckinley, and no one knows it
better than he, and if you think you can
deceive him after my arraying myself
for him against the combined forces of
Texas, | think you will find before you
get through that you are as far from the
truth as you have been in nearly every
thing you have undertaken in this cam
palgn, except to disgrace yourself and
everybody connected with you.
81 propose, before this matter is through
with, to absolutely stamp out of existence
the present vermin that have infested
the recent campaign in Texas, those of
the state and those out of the state. You
have made yourself the laughing stock of
the people of all parties in Texas. and
think the spontaneous sentiment of the
people of this state will satisfactorily
prove that to Mr.. Hanna and Mckinley
without any assistance from me. You
can take your detectives, your bouncers
and your superannuated politicians back
with you and realize that you will leave
in your wake wreck of something that
had you kept your hands off of it. would
have stamped upon victory instead of de-
feat. The S72 hotel bill | have paid out
OF my own pocket, as l have been paying
the expenses of every character, form
and description since my induction into
office as state chairman two wears ago.
My address is and will be, Sherman. Tex.
at which place you can see me at any
time you desire. Yours truly.
JOHN GRANT"