The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Facts for Dodgers.
CowLEs, NEB Oct T., 1902,

TO the Chle1:
Mr. EDlToR:-In the Nation of the
9th, | notice "A heading, 'Pitney An
swers." He then goes on to say:
Il have read the Hopkins letter. A
portion in fairness, another Il ing me
a great, or rank injustice"
Let us see We look over the Senate
Journal and We find that Mr. Hopkins
tells the truth all through his letter.
and when he says 'Pitncy, from our
dist let. was one that made its defeat
assured" %(meaning the Oils bill. he
Il y just what he found in the Journal
and that is the truth Mr.. Pitncy says
he has "no excuse to make but he
did make an eNcuse to get renominated
when charged with dodling. he told
the convention that hc was not there
to vote on the Oils bill; that he had
received IA letter from home saying his
family was sick. that lac left the night
before the last day The journal
shows that Mr. Pituey answered roll
in the morning. mud again iu the after
noon of the last day; that DE voted ON
nearly all bills Ia lae, day; that he
voted ON the Till called just before the
oils bill: that thi. wasot SHIP mn of
the last day Yet. Mr. Pituoy told us in
the convention that he wa- mot there
! Deny it IL you dare, Mr. Pituoy. and
can produce the n statement
signed 10y a member who was there and
heard you make the above statement.
Mr.. Pitney then put, up the
school boy plea that had the four
not voting voted still they would have
lacked two votes The above is not
your first falsehood, Mr. Pitncy. your.
self and Mr.. Householder stole the
nomination for Mr.. Pc siger from the
county convention by stating Il false
hood. This. we would have no trouble
in proving, by the convention and
house journal. Then he tells us of
receiving a letter from Mr.. Oils. the
father of the Oils bill. We have
heard of this Mr. Oils before. He
wrote a letter to Mr.. Peisiger and in
that letter hetold he was the best post
ed or smartest man up there So this
Mr.. Oils, of Valley county. has been
corresponding with you, Mr.. Pitney,
and telling you that there were only
three senator's on the fusion side that
gave us any trouble on corporation
bills, and that none of their names was
Pitney. This latter was probably true
as Pitney had skipped Mr., Oils then
says to Mr.. Pitney that he was over in
the senate engineering that thing
, calling his W bill a "thing"). He
then says: "If your vote would have
= saved us, we would have made a cal
/, of the senate, if it had taken a week. >
10! Lucifer! Come down a notch
, please!
Mr. Pitney then says he always agi
lated reform measures. But he die
not vote for them and that's wha.
9 counts He then says his faith is still
, u~nwavering, that railway propertie
, must pay taxes. Dodging again, Mr.
Pitney Hopkins said nothing abou
=. taxes, He says we are pledged tomak,
n n reduction on freight rates, This i
n true You were pldged two years age
@ and you lodged, He then says tn
4 fusion forces, if placed in power ar
pledged to remedy thes evils n
more so now than heretofore. Fun
thermore, we cannot expect to remed
these evils by sending traitors an
q dodgers to the legislature
~ Independent voters, remember thi
when you go to the polls, Yours r,
n pectfully. ED GlLFoRD,
's Peoples Independent committeema
or Pleasant Hill precinct, Wobstt
'ounty, Neb,