Show BETTER BEAR DEFEAT IN SILENCE THE 91 liberal organ to la endeavoring to pit 0 W powers against calvin brice on a ques question tiola of veracity that may do ve very well as an a little needed en coura 9 ement to the battered chief of the but to the public at home and abroad jt it in ia only an exhibition of impudence on the part of the organ aforesaid Powe Power rais sIs apparently ready to do anything and ana say anything to account for his big total defeat at C chicago other than the plain and simple elm pie reason for it the idea of comparing the two tro men on acques a question of veracity Is ia bold and audacious but it to is at the same time ludicrous and on the verge of lunacy with the record of higan before and after his hie divent to this terr territory ory and of the celebrated Ch altano f the democratic bemo cratic national committee any statement made by the former in reference to the probity of the latter will have not the force of a ummer summer zephyr against t a solid stone wall the truth is in that the case against the Tuso was so go plain that it had not the ghost of a chaude e as an soon as an it could be considered it stood self belf condemned by its ite own showing before men accustomed to look for facts through the dust dual of sophistry and aad the pamphlet circulated for the purpose of deceiving the convention as to the claims of the tuscarora delegates contained the very proofs of their endeavor to gain what not the slightest right to powers had bad better say nothing in his case at present silence is golden and when he and his republican organ tries to call calvin brice a liar because that gentleman did not puffer himself to be blinded by tuscarora tinsel nor tell the would be delegate to his face that there was no earthly chance for him to win powers helps his hia lost cause not an iota but only provokes contempt where other there would be commiseration A gentleman on the california train who was asked to read the statement of the case prepared by theat raight democrats replied that he be want to he had read the other side and that was enough when importuned importuner to examine both sides aides he answered 1 41 I have read pamphlet and it shows they have no case there is no do need for one to read anything further they give themselves away 01 that is the fact and all attempts to charge that the committee or any of its that decided the controversy were influenced by anything else than the plain and patent situation as presented from both sides aides are as futile as they are false falee and as senseless as they are scandalous powers told some of the party after the contest cout cat boys I 1 made a big fight and I 1 lost im done I 1 shall go home and practice low law and quit this sort of thing 11 he had better keep beep his bis promise instead of impugning the word of a man whose reputation will not suffer by comparison with his own defeat was galling gal liale no doubt but there are some things that may be worse than defeat |