Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-09-22
FORAN'S REPLY
TO DAVENPORT.

Benjamin Rush Davenport Cleveland author ad-
dressed a letter to Ex-Congressman Martin A foran
telling why he would vote for Hon John r. Mclean
His letter published i'll last nights Beacon. MI
Forans reply follows:
BENJAMIN Rush Davenport Esq, No. 81 Halsey street
City.
NV dear sir: Your letter to the public of September
49, reached this morning. 1t begins to dawn upon
me that the mistake that befe the traveller
in London:
"OId man, old man. for whom biggest
thou this grave in the heart OF
London town?
And the deep toned voice of the dig
ger replied: We're laying gas
pipe down."
The Democrat who mailed you the obnoxious postal
did not intend to dig the grave OF your priue
and vanity but he unconscously laid pipe in the
vicinity of your and thereby did great ser
vice in relieving the pressure upon your intellectual
diaphragm 1t quite apparent that the receptloho Oh
the card caused the wheels of mental machinery 10
revolve rapidly that the Thread OF your VerposlE
is finer than the staple of your argument But let US
calmly examine this incident with view to discovering
if there was it sufficient cerebripetal dynamlcs to
electrify molecular interplay and activities OF your
cerebrum-such exctant rritant as would neces-
sary transfer centripeta impressions exteriorly in
wards? The simple facts are these: Some gentleman
invited YOU to meet Mr.. Mclean at the Colonial hotel
You were asked to support or worship hIn-slnply
TO meet him. Was there ything in this TO which
EVENLY BALANCED MAN
Could object? Mr.. Mclean is gentleman who mas
received great party the nomination to the high
est Office great Any citizen, even OF opposite
politjca views could accept such invitation without
dscredt himself reflection upon his party loyalty
broad-minded man, having any conception OF social
ethics would quietly ignore the invitation or politely
decline It, he felt that he could not consistently accept
It, Surely it is extremely difficult in this triing
incident any justification for your headong Rush into
print To say the least, your conduct was hardly In
accord with the amenities of social intercourse or tne
cauous of good form. You may be greater man than
Mr.. Mclean, greater man than even Mark Hanna or
President Mckinley and yet you could afford to wear
without blush; flower plrcked from the climbing vine
that grows upon the line wall of politics But see what
grotesque figure you present. With a mighty
and supreme effort you gather yourself together nhe
frenzy rolling in the Deep dark blue of your flashing eye
and with majestic scorn mantling your JoVlan orow
YOU exclaim: "I Mclean! Ye gods. ia sooner
lose my ears by odds! Perish the thought; La sooner
be dog and bay the Democratic moon than SO demean
u,vsef" You perhaps had right to feel this way but
it was In very bad taste make such silly exhibition
YOUR PETTINESS
In the public press Who is Benjamin Rush Daven-
port? Who? The peerless Knight of the Unshaken
Hand who when invited to meet Mclean beloved ana
thundered in the words of Ben Jonson's SeJanus
"Cireat and high
The world knows only two-that's Rome and !;
NV house receives not; tbs air 1 tread,
And at each advanced step feel my head
Knock out a star in heaven
why should meet Mclean? who am an author;
vriter of books-a brain lord l. who have in my in
side pocket the manuscript of new book Ihe Schooi
of Expansion, which I know Mclean can't use' put
which fondly hope Mark can and perchance will. [
know Mark putocrat, but then, he believes In ex
pansion and have expansion wares for sale 1t is not
true said would certain candidate in
hell before would vote for him. 1 did say would,
in that
premium and thermometers discount, before would
support that candidate kept my word plunged into
hell-far down-for voted for the other fellow But
inasmuch paid the penalty in full it hardly brave
or manly throw the ghost of this political crime
at me and call it an argument All! but it intimated
of wndward anchor, called by troops OF the
pave whats in it, is carried by the ship in which
sail on lifes tempestuous The of evil mind
thinks evil Of his neighbor. We always see our
fellow in the mirror of
OUR OWN CONSCIENCE.
If that glass of inner moral sense reflects only
images that beautiful, pure and good we see these
beatiflc qualities in all human beings; but when it
throws upon of objective consciousness
only ugly, distorted, misshapen pictures-these, and
these only do verywhere around us. ain quite
willing to admit that Cuyahoga county Democracy has,
times In its conduct, kangaroo characteristics
but them the Cuyahoga county Republican baby ele-
phant quite often IAN amoosin little cuss Both ami
mails seem to be abundany supplied with cerebrfugal
nerves. It's toss-up which offers the better show
Early training bias consideration for self and inclination
generally decide for by preponderance of motives
perhaps, to which box office apply for admission
tickets but having decided it's foolish and silly make
faces and odd grmaces at the other show. Hugo Zola
the whole tribe of realist furnish for vu
garity. Indeed the combined genius OF the whole real
school render the odos of acceptable
any creature except the rats and vermin that inhab
1t and live upon its vieness.
sCopperhead." Et tu Brume?
1 am, with consideration and respect very truly
yours,