Sharp County record., 1908-01-24

; you read into my letter a prop
, osition to leave the selection ol
the Senator to Randolph county
alone. | am sure that TO the care
FIJI reader my letter contains
nothingbut proposition to let
the Democratic voters Of Ran
dolph coun Y determine between
use. H. Henderson and DR..
Horace Ewing Ruff.
Indeed | never could have con-
templated any thing else, for can
didates may announce from the
other c.5unties and | know, as
we'll as avery other person knows,
that ouf little agreements could
not posibly bind them. My letter
was notaing but just a friendly
offer to leave this matter, as far
as we two are concerned, to the
votessqaN our neighbors; ! was
willing 10 it and you are not and
so thero the matter must rest.
You wiz not deny, | assume, that
you have repeatedly stated that
you preferred that this matter be
left to- this county? If you
deny it do not have to depend
upon MY own word to establish
the fact that you did say it--any
number Of the best citizens Of this
county have told me that you
said it to them. | thought, of
course, having said that you pre-
fered this, that you would; | find
now that in the parlance Of the
street that you were merely "four
flushing"
Doctor you 60 to great lengths
to prove that you have nothing to
fear from a contest with me in
this county, but need | say any
thing further than that was,
when | made the offer, and am
yet willing to leave the whole
matter, as far as we are con-
cerned, to this county to prove
to you that fear you not? You
may assert it until you fall from
exhaustion but you never will
convince anybody with the in
telligence Of an ape that you
really believe that you can defeat
me in Randolph county. Your
action proves you have no faith
in yUyr own words. Anybody
that knows you, knows full well
that did you but believe that you
could defeat me in Randolph
county that you would not waste
two seconds before you accepted
my proposition.
Your remarks about the votes
that were received in other cam
paigns appear to me to be rather
gratuitous in this correspondence
and fail to see the application
Of the same. judge, however,
that you are trying to make
capital out Of the small vote that
elected me in 1893, Indeed ! need |
not call any other witness than
yourself-for you happened to be
one Of }. 7 these 9 sssl,lJtd dGGGaGdwhet some
nine or ten candidates in the race
and everybody got some votes
II remember correctly, ! was
ritst with $40 votes; Maynard
was second with 5l3; while you,
my dear Doctor, was either
seventh or eighth with 1876 votes
to your credit. | would mover
have told this, but inasmuch as
you gave the vote in your letter
Of both Maynard and myself, !
thought you would perhaps ap'
preciate having your memory re"
freshed with your total vote on
that year.
You stated correctly when you
said that was defeated the year
following, ] was defeated by my
former law partner, Y, W. Camp
bell, by something less than 100
votes. II | remember correctly
you tried Campbell in the next
race and he defeated you some"
thing over $50 votes, Is this not
correct? You have been elected
since then and, if the statement
of those who opposed you are to
be believed, there was no short
cut, no practical politics, no ad-
vantage that you did not avail
yourself Of. ! may not get from
you such treatment as you ac-
corded to them but If this first in
stance Of our campaign Is any
criterion OF what il to follow ]
certainly can expect from you
nothing in the WAy of fair treat