The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-09
ovERmYER ANSWERS.
Wastes 5000 Words on a Man Named
3. E. eBroWne.

David Overmyer is out in a 5000 word
letter in which he raises the fur on
E. E. Browne, the alleged promoter of
the Young Democrats conference to be
held at Hutchinson September 1. Among
other things which have been found in
this long letter are these words adj
dressed to Mr.. Browne:
You are a mere puppet in the hands
of designing men. Somebody pays you
for the printing and fine stationery.
And somebody pays you also for the
work you are DOING
Mr. Overmyer charges Browne of be-
ing in the pay of the gold bug element
of the Democratic party and also init
mates that Brownies plan is to disrupt
the regular Democratic organization in
the state. Mr.. OVernyer then says in
his letter to Browne:
without anyone behind you it would
be preposterous of course, for you to
call the Democrats together at Hutch
insOn, or at any other time or place,
and with only those behind you whom
you are afraid to reveal, the thing is
equally prepOSterOuS, for it can hardly
be that your stubborn refusal to give
the names of the promoters of your
scheme can arise from considerations
of personal character, for certainly
those who are able to have an executive
committee and private funds must be
e-ninently respectable persons simply as
such. There must be some deformity
in their political anatomy which causes
you, as their herald, their precursor,
of one crying in the wilderness, to hest
tate about giving their Names
Browne, after Overmyer had refused
to have anything to do with the pro-
posed conference. published a letter in
which he said Overmyer was with him.
Replying to this OVerymyer says:
with full knowledge that I was OPP
posed to your scheme you wrote that
you wanted me to give my honest opin-
ION in regard to it. You already had
my honest opinion regarding it, and a
statement of that kind from you was a
dishonest statement, a deceitful state
ment, a false statement. So your pro-
fessed respect for me was false and
yet you were willing to express it on a
cold typewriter page, where it will re-
main for all time to reveal your char
acter and to confound you. Only as
late as the 28th of July you wanted my
valuable experience; you wanted me to
be there and tell you about details
which you thought I, as one of the old
leaders, was familiar with, and which
you admitted most ingenuOuSly and in
nocently, were entirely new to you; and
you also wound up by saying that you
knew of no other man who could be
of greater help in harmonizing the diff
ferent elements of the party, and yet
in your interview you say of me: His
power is on the wane in Kansas; by
the time that get through with him
he will find that I am not easily crush
ed. He takes me for a pebble which
he thinks he can crush with the press
ure of his hand, but before get through
with him he will think he has tackled
boulder
What a transformation From youth
full humility and almost filial confidence
and reverence to fierce self-reliance and
reckless defiance. You are mistaken.
I did not think you were a pebble; 1
thought you were a gall stone You
say you are a boulder; wrong again.
You are a buffer, also a duffer"