Show An Epistle by SpeakcrJKccd WASHINGTON March 1Ju5t before the shooting affair at the capitol yesterday Speaker Reed showed Representative Stewart of Vermont a letter which the latter thought too good to keep private and gave its contents to several colleagues through whom it in turn reached the press to the discomfiture of the speaker The letter reads as follows Mr DEAU Mu CARUTH shall not accept the invitation tendered me by the Blue Grass club The reason is very simple not that Jay F Durham is president Now Jay F Durham assured mo during the late disturbances that if they hart mo in Kentucky they would kill me Knowing Sam Durham to bo a journalist his declarations to mo import absolute veracity I do not wish to bo killed especially In Kentucky where suchan croatia too com non to attract attention For a good man to die anywhere is of course a gain but I think I can make more dying later and elsewhere Verytruly cl T B REED |