The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-10-15

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il6A, Corporation Street, Birming-
ham, England, Sept. 23-DanielJ J.
,Campau. Chairman, Chicago Dear
.Sir,-1 beg to acknowledge receipt of
your letter for assistance" con-:
Tossing surprise that such a re-
quest has been adhered to me.
Although 1000 miles from the
Auditorium Annex, / hope that ab-
sence in the service Of my country
has not changed my character or
made me new reputation. lean
not comply, and, in courtesy, must
give you reason.
/ have not now and never have
had the slightest interest distant
or remote, in silver mine, and
never have been in favor of fiat
money or voted for any man who
was, 1venerate the supreme court
of the United States and would
not back it for any purpose. I
believe firmly iu the policy ofsup-
pressing violence, whether an, an
archist governor likes it or not:
I cannot see why tie federal gov
eminent should provide; that "no
state shallpass laws impairing the
obligation of contracts" if it is t'
do soitself upon . scale more g.
gantic and ruinous than any rec
ord in. the copious annals of dis
honesty. Appeals to class inter-
est and to that sectional feelings.
which, for long time, made our
people not friends but enemies,
have been, to me, the most hateful
things in our politics. I never
have consorted with men who, in
convention assembled, refused to
indorse. only in reality to condemn,
the one democratic president elec-
ted by the party in nearly forty
years; nor with those who unseat
and honestly elected delegation
from great state in order that
they may use places thus stolen
for the disrugtion and dis grace of
the party Why should I assist
in carrying out program which
includs all the evils? After TWEEN.
ty-fve years of undevoting DEM
ocrasy I hope that, although far
away, I know my friend and the
friends Of honesty and good gov
Such contributions. as
py: :i@eehs; permit h j. ~. alrea.dy
begin sent; 20 voluntary o&erin8s,
not in answer" to''sssessments"- to]
more than, ono stats:::i in: II no, case
will my modest check be, returned
to me after pay ment, Endorsed with |
the name of q chairman or a treas:
urer who is not q lifelong demo-
crat still faithful to his principles.
You say"There has always 'exis-
ted a great discrepancy in the cam.
paign funds of the two parties. II
have had official relations with
every national democratic commit
tee since 1880, and know that from
the day of Hancock to the days of
Cleveland each has been able to
command the money necessary to
carry on it's canvass in dignifed !
and energetic way and to pay it's
debts at the end. A just and pat
riotic cause giving it a cavse CIV
ing it claim upon those who be-
lleVed IN the principles OF the par
", it never appealed in vain.
Twice it won and twice it lost; but
in none was its platform of men,
ace to the country, a knife-ready
vhetted for the throat of Industry
ous into the reckless hands of a
candidate skilled in naught save
he arts of the demaeogue and the
'antistic. If you will look about
7ou in your NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
led as you are by the fotsam
brown together by the surface, and
etsam dredged off the bottom, Of:
very populist mud-puddle in the