Hutchinson gazette., 1901-03-21

this to you emphatically at the time.
| know you will not deny that you
made the lnsinuation as above stated
The fact Is, that the men you men
toned are the very men who stopped
your company from getting rake-off
on the city printing You knew when
you wrote the falsehoOd that they
were against you and you hoped there
by to poison them againat me. l take
pleasure In assuring you that 1t did not
work. Your reputation for saying any
thing aud promising everything In
sight is too well known In this COM
munity for your assertions to be taken
seriously.
OF course care nothing for your In
situations as to my egotiem, Itoccurs
to me, however, that the State printer,
county printer, and would he city
printer, 10 not In position to hurl
stones at other people. You seem
with your fellows, Mr.. Morgan, to be
pretty much the whole thing, although
you confessed to me last Monday that
you we're powerless TO do anything
offered to meet you more than half
way but you informed me that you
could not even come step In our -dl.
rection. !
II you will stick to the truth, Mr.!
Morgan, your ammunition will soon be
gone, However as there are two
weeks more Of the campaign, l suppose
you will continue to draw upon your
imagination, and in that way create,
an inexhaustible supply. wish, how
ever, to notify you now that you can
not divert my attention from the issue
by personal attacks, shall have oc-
casion between now and election to
explain fully to all who wish to hear
me what the issue In this campaign Is.
shall refer no further to person
alities Of any kind. You may say what
you please; shall ignore 1t.
wish to add In closing that do not
pretend to be any better than should
be. 1 freely admit that there Is plenty
Of room for improvement. am not
running for mayor on my personal re.
cord for goodness.
1t is true that your convention con-
taIned some sixty or seventy delegates
l know several men who were elected
delegates to that convention who never
heard of 1t until the convention was
over. 1t istrue also that your conven-
tion declared in favor of the enforce
ment Of all law. About the same dec
laration was made two years ago.
You put on portion Of the same
men and thereby endorsed the admin
istratiOn Of the republican party in
this city for the last two years, You
are simply insulting the party and the
men who belong to 1t by insisting now
that it should stand forth in city poll
tics as the ony sponsor for the enforce
ment of law.
l see that your recollection Of what
said In my letter Is as bad as your rec
collection Of what said to you in per-
son. You arraign me for failing to
make 1t clear that have always been
in favor Of the republican party being
responsible for the enforcement Of the
law. II you read my letter you will
find that did clearly and plainly
state my positition, Your opposition
and the opposition Of the men who
are now demanding that the republi-
can party stay in the contest, have here
tofore prevented that plan from being
success.
One thing is gratifying and that
Is that your candidates cannot
succeed unless they do come out
and add to the weight of your platform
by declaring openly and unequivocaly
that they are for the enforcement of |
law, and If they should then succeed
the temperance people will be in o po-
sition to demand Of you and the party
the fuliillment of that pledge. This
of course you could not do without
the support of the organizations that
nominated our ticket; there would be
some qualification at your discomfort,
and your punishment for failing to do
so.
II your ticket is successful the tenn
perance people will aid it in the en-
forcement Of law to the uttermost.
Will you pledge your great temperance
daily to stand behind the other ticket
for the enforcement of law IL it is sue
Cessfulp
Yours for law enforcement,
+. l.. MARTIN.
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An honest Medicine For LMGrIppe. |