know myself, am not more of a “disgruntled
politician’’, nor more “empty of human kind
ness”, nor tanked up to a greater degree with
“disappointed ambitions”. So far as “jeal
ousies” are concerned, they could more plausi
bly be charged upon the Editor whose paper
is going down, rather than to him whose pe
riodicals are growing daily.
Is Duckworth the same man whose friends
tell me, byway of disarming me. that he was
talking me up for the Senate, just about the
time I jumped him?
Same man, I guess. He was booming
Yours Truly, as successor to Senator A. O.
Bacon. Ask all the Union City boys (Bar
rett included.) if this isn't so.
He must have had a good opinion of me at
that time, or he was playing the hypocrite.
Which was it?
.If this question is not “vituperative”, let
him answer.
Since he was booming me for the Senate,
no crime have I committed, save that of ex
posing Duck’s Galveston break, and his en
tanglement with President Gompers.
As much as I love those who have proven
themselves to be my friends, I would antag
onize any of them, no matter who he is! if he
were to go wrong and betray the common
people, as Duckworth did.
It was a shame that, after the farmers had
furnished him subscription agents for years,
and had poured tens of thousands of dollars
into his pocket, he should try to decoy them
into the meshes of the Hannacrat Republi
cans.
Dr. Broughton Declines to Debate
Foreign Missions
(In his letter below, the Doctor says that
he “agreed to waive the things objected to”.
