The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-29
THEHOLT-PRICE
fAM0USLfTTER
Editor williamson Challenges
Denial of its Authenticity
POSSESSES THE PROOF
Severely Condemns Both Holt and Price
Voters Should Beware OF This Dan.
gerous Combination

SO much has been said about that
Holt Price letter for the past few
weeks that we have decided to give its
history to our readers.
In our issue of April 2, we published
this letter and the attending comment.
Well, we have. from Mr.. HOlt-Mr.
Pleasant A. Holt, manager. ct cetera,
Of the whiskev campaign, a free and
unlimited confession as to the anthem
ticity and genuiness of that letter. We
tried to suggest that it was forgery
and fake, and that he had entirely too
much sense to write any such stuff, but
he was Just as persistent in assuming
it was a true and correct copy of his
original letter to Price.
We suggested that it might make in
teresting reading for the subscribers
of the FIoridan And then the 'angel
child" caught on!
He declared the letter was only d
private letter, and that 1t was sur
rept ciousy stOlen!"
We reminded him of the fact that he
had confessed in the presence OF Mr..
Odom, that he had written such a let
ter to Mr.. Price, and we told him that
there was no power in the Heavens
above, the earth beneath, nor the
waters under the earth, that could keep
Us from publishing that letter if we
could only live long enough to get it.
We've made good! We have again
exposed lot of infamy and rascality
the like of which had caused us to get
shot up into doll rags some ten years
ago.
The man who says he questions the
authenticity of this letter is either a
lllnatic or liar!
We had the proof of its genuinen ess
before its publication, and If we had
not been possessed Of that proof we
would never have published it in the
columns of this paper.
No decent man who knows us, wilh
for one moment, question a positive
statement We may make!
The great and good Times Union con-
tinues to talk about the alleged let
ter" They have alleged copyrighted
and stored away in the same safety de-
post vault with Mr. Pleasant A. Hollis
''surrepticiously stolen !.
BIT as a matter of fact, the letter
was not stolen.
The man who makes such a statement
is either a knave or a fool.
The truth of the matter is just sim
Div this-Pleasant A Holt and his Will
liam Hines Price Were both so mfia-
ted with their own inordinate vanity and
conceit, that they imagined they were
cit" and that the people of Florida
were in it or mot in it, as the afore-
said dlvinities and dignitaries might
decree.
They imagined they could kill all the
timber on both sides of the road all the
way bet ween here and Mariana.
We are not going to. waste all our
ammunition in the first round.
Pleasant A Holt, with all OF his
brazen effrontery, will not deny hav-
ing written that letter. And when
William Hines, alias William Hines
Price, denies having received it he
may get the United States Government
on his trail and prove HIM to be the
liar he is.
So thus we say to you, Mr. Price,
YOU are out of your class; And COM
mon decency demands, that you resign
as a member of the State Executive
Committee and especially as it's chali'-
man.
You may swear till you are black in
the face about never having received
such a letter, but the evidence we have
against you, will brand you as liar.
So we tell you again, you had better
stop your "four-fushing!' We've got
the cards, and we know there are, not
too many of them in the pack
If YOU were not common tool and
hireling Of Mr.. Holt and his whiskey
interests, why did you leave Wur'place
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