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q Washington. D. c., Jan. 16.-
United States Senator William ].
BRYAN this morning addressed the
following open letter to Frank Harris,
editor of the Ocala (Fla.) Banner:
b Hon. Frank Harris.
i Editor Ocala Banner,
Ocala Fla.
Dear Sir write you the follow
lng Open letter because | do not know
YOU we'll enough personally to know
whether YOU would have the fairness
! 10 publish the same. in your paper or
not. bat have concluded, from your
Unfair and widely copied comment on
ny incorrectly quoted statement, that
YOU may not do so.
On this date l have seen, for the
first time. a copy of recent edi-
q toriai in the Ocala Banner upon my
appointment to the United States
Senate by Governor Broward, and
Especially commenting upon two sup
posed statements of mine Your edi-
torial credits me with saying as fol-
lows:
Il am going to make the people of
my State the best Senator any State
ever had" Also, Some day | shall be
the Oldest Senator
4 did not make either of these two
statements. could not have said.
Without an unimaginable change of
by nature, any such silly or sense
5s things What l did say was,
at | was going to do my best, de-
tie every power and faculty of body
4nd mind, to making the State of
#lOrida as good Senator as it was
r. my power; that the question of
ace was a mere incident and it was
Hst a question of time before
could be as old as anybody / had
1othing to say about being the best
Senator ever seen, or becoming the
oldest Senator
These statements were corrected bv
NE in interviews in Pensacola on or
about the LIST of January, and in all
The Tampa daily papers on or about
NE @rd of January, and in at least
SIX northern papers since then.
You state that you have seen no
contradiction or denial. l do not know
when your editorial was published,
o1i if published since those dates the
reason that you did not see them
must nave been that you did not
want TO see them.
In the course of your editorial you
use the words young" fresh"
ioIthful, seven times. Apparently
therefore, your objection 10 me is be-
eauSe of my youthfulness, or fresh
Hess. as you, in that wise way of
yours. so characteristic, define it.
i Poor Information.
You state so far as we know" and
80 lar as we are aware" | have
never made any great speech or
made any profound contribution to
any newspaper or periodicals on any
OF he yeXing questions or absorbing
Problems Of the day. II is we'll that
you make frequent use of such eX-
preSsions as so far as we know" and
so far as We are aware" because,
mis- same editorial. this profound
Contribution" of yours. in which you
maze such frequent and unpleasant
eerences 70 me, my youthfulness and
OaggadOciO. you display the crudeSt,
OhmDneSt, crassest ignorance imagi-
liable in anyone who purports to edit
newspaper. You say that some of
az States have had Senators whose
greatness has been rejected in near
every page of the Nations history
:; - You mention Rock
Neu Hoar as a Senator from the state
Massachusetts. For your infOrma-
,oh ! desire to inform you that
'' AWeN Hear never represented the
'.a,e of Massachusetts in the Senate
the United States.
Not a Good Historian.
Further on in your malieiousIy
"uraI diatribe, miscalled an edi-
"''aI, YOU commit so many errors
mat It is inconceivable how you could
ra'e edited Il paper as long as you
II ave and hpan as ignorant as Won