Show I CASTIGATING CUIiIO3I The following letter addressed to the Illinois light of the Republican party is a fiting rebuke to Republican Repub-lican methods in argument Senator Culloms impudent assertion is but a sample of the manner in which Republican Repub-lican sophistries are usually foisted upon the public Starting with a bold and bald and beardless falsehood they are carried on with cunning craftiness I and perverted facts and figures until I they pass with the masses as incontrovertible i incon-trovertible verities This letter takes I away the basis on which the Senator I from Illinois founds his argument in iI i j the Forum Hon Shelby M Cullom Washington II D C Dear Sir1 had just finished reading I William E Russells article in the May I Forum A Year of Democratic Administration Ad-ministration and I began your article on the eime subject in the same magazine mag-azine I got to where you say President Pres-ident Cleveland received from President Presi-dent Harrison a solvent treasury I when I stopped Without casting any unfair reflection upon your statesmanship I statesman-ship I am compelled to express my regret i re-gret that in this great opportunity to overcome the Democratic advantage over our party we are constantly being I be-ing plagued and damned by just such unfair and untrue statements as this I We have enough legitimate arguments I in our favor and against the Democratic Demo-cratic party without resorting to such i questionable statements The public i are not fools and they well know that I whatever good our party may have done while in power it at least did I not leave a solvent treasury and I that to lie about it only makes it I worse for our party Verily a wise I enemy is better than a foolish friend As for the balance of your article I shall not read it I have always found a man who will purposely misstate facts to be a man who is unsafe to I follow I beg to emain a better Republican Re-publican than you are AJ HOFF I Williamsport Pa April 30 r |