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ROYAL. BAKING POWDER Co, NEW ro@Il
Ir. Easoat's Reply.
n, C2ocenoe j .S4uh:
A. 6eoN of no other Geputy Official
having his residence, legal or other
wise, in The thIrd district, | presume
that Sou refer to me IA your c0mmu-
iicaion in the Banner Of week before
last, iu speaking Of a deputy official.
That particular part ot your article is
eratulroas as tho statement is ineor-
rect, assuming ttat the reference is TO
me.
You are ki0d enough to say that you
supported me when . candidate for
office, l beg to remind you that you
told ne at that time that you We're
sorry not to lie able to support me, but
as Il matter OF fact you had left Mr.. a.
r Griffin un6er he impression, be-
fore meeting me, that you would sup
per. him, ana that, under the circum-
Stances Xou Iaflly fell free to support
me. | fully agreed with your view,
and dia not press tie matter in the
slightest decree AS . matter of fact,
A,r. Griffin did set one or more votes
in your precinct, Yon viii also re-
member that was hardly any more
lucky in the Lake Weir precinct, get
Ing only three or four votes, nearly all
Of my friends refusing to subscribe to
the obligations IMPOSED by the execu-
tive committee as necessary qualifi-
cation for voting, and voting in side
box, and that all Of these votes were
promptly thrown out by the execu-
tive committee and not counted, near
~ all of the regular vote of the pre-
cinct going TO Mr.. +. 7. Williams.
Was my tremendous vote three or
four the result of your ardent sup
port? ! hope you did not vote in the
side box, in view Of your present stand
for strict party obedience
On this line again: When A. d.
Mitchell was candidate for county
commissioner before in our district, at
his request, I introduced him to you,
you being at tha1 time executive COM
mitteeman for Lake Weir precinct j;
and az that time yOu told Mr.. Mitch
ell, in my presence, that he could alb
sulotelY rely upon the vote of Lake
Weir lrecinci ;ss you would certainly
vote for him. Aud yet, Mr.. Smith,
when the executive committee met,
you were Conspicuous by your alb
sence," and your proxy voted, not for
Mr.. Mitchell, but against him. Unless
am greatly mistaken, you have since
then told me that you instructed your
proxy to vote for Mitchell, and in
castiug' the Lake Weir vote against
Mitchell lie acted contrary to your
wishes and instructions. But your
proxy, unless l am again mistaken,
has also told me that you did not in
sfruct him to vote for MIR Mitchell.
men ion this rs another instance
Of the practical cute me of your sup
port, and think that you ought to par
don me if, under the circumstance $, ]
am rather forclbiy reminded of the
prayer Of the man who wished to lie
d livered FROM MS friends.
Further, Mr.. Chief Justice Of the
Lake Weir precinct, as it happens, I
have not gone into this comm issioners
fight, and your "patrotism," so far as
am concerned, is decidedly unneces-
sary. Asa matter Of fact, do not re-
member to have spoken to a dozen peo-
pie in our district about the matter.
Not, however, because I have no opin-
ion or preference in the matter. I
have no hesitancy in saying TO you
that I am distinctly in favor of A. D.
Mitchell being tie uoEt county COM
missioner from q trict 40. 8, because
there ia principle involved, and one
Chat is the very cornerstone of all true
democracy, and tbat is the right of
the najoriiy to govern-the plain
peopl There is 10 doubt in my
mind That Mr.. 1litoheu is the choice
of q decided majority Of tile district,
and do not believe that Mr. Clarence
%. emith doubts it. II he does, re-
1 spec'fully suggest that good way to
tile any doubt is to fe!egate the
/ whole matter hack tc the people, and
/ let them say, III primary election in
each precinct in our district, who is
their choice. Did Sou, as committee
man, give the people Of your precinct
any opportunity to say whom they
wanted?
Finally, 1 want to say, in /allusion
to an intimation of your article, that
/ do not propose 10 abate one iota OF
my independence of thought or action
for all the offices ever created, your
valuable services included, and ]
4 again cali your attention to the entire
lack Of any necessity for bringing me
4 into this matter. Respectfully,
PERRY II. NUGENT.
Two years ago r.. ]. Warren, drug.
gist at Ple.sant Brook, n. Y, bought
4 small supply of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. He sums up the re-