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Show EX-SENATOR JONES. A Letter from the Unbalanced Statesman from Florida. To the Editor of the N. Y.Sun. Sir: I shall continue to write and speak until the last word of my story of wrong and injustice is told. I am today and have been for years . penniless, homeless, friendless, living pu husks iu the language lan-guage of a journal hero, with but ouo suit of. clothes, my feet on the ground, In this tho boasted Christian indeed, the greatest C'atholie city of the West. This is my apparent, but not my real condition. But this is tho condition to which the comspirators against my life, my happinoss, and prosperity intended to reduce me when they brought me here. That I am uot iu tho stato they intended to place me is no fault of theirs, and iu tho law and morals they are just as guilty for what they have done and the sufferings they havo put upon mo as if the conspirey Tiad been a success. This they shall learn from a man who is still true to his profession and knows something of the law. Every agency that was calculated to deceive my honest, hon-est, confiding heart was employed by the villains in tho execution of the plot. Political, social, race, and, worse than all, religious associations and Influences were employod here to ruin me and my dear children and for what? To prevent pre-vent my marriage to Miss Palms and keep Jones out of the affairs of the great estate. Tho poor fools little imagined the kind of woman or the kind of man they where dealing with. The oue was a heroine of tho Roman stamp, tho other a Colt of the light hair, which, as Judge Daly can tell you, is the true mark of tho unadulterated Hibernian, who was never known to desert a just cause, betray a friend, or do an injustice injust-ice to au enemy. Whon 1 can sufllci-cntly sufllci-cntly impress the Christian ministry of this city of all sects with the truth and justice of my cause, and satisfy the high society here that Miss Palms is my wife, and is not in Nice attending to the nine months' baby, the outcome of tho fraudulent divorce suit instituted to ruin hor character, I mean to call a great meeting of Christian people and expose tho most gigantic piece of villainy vil-lainy of modern times. Then I hope The Sun will send on a trusted reporter to report me, for Jones can still speak. Chas. W. Jones, ex-Senator. April 10, 1890. |