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_Honorable Thomas E. Watson, Thomson, Ga._
DEAR SIR: In your “A Call to Action” in January issue, you have
forstalled my wish, in part only.
As soon as a reasonable number respond by sending their names
to Mr. Forrest, I want you to sink all personal desires by
asking Messrs Hearst, La Follette, Folk, Douglass of Mass.,
Johnson of Minn., Garvin of R. I., and such other men as you
know to be loyal and true, and insist upon their coming to the
conference, as it is high time that all good men and true,
combined to destroy the Grafters.
This meeting should be held about the time of debate on the
question of opening of the ballot boxes in New York and having
a fair count; this will give us a chance to hang the members of
the Legislature who refuse to give us an honest count of the
ballots cast on November 7th last.
Every leader like Hearst, Folk, La Follette, and possibly
Watson—et al, has the Presidential Bee in his bonnet, and each
is afraid that the other fellow will get it; but do you not
agree with me, that in a issue like this, all personal feelings
should be secondary? Let us by some means get all of these men
to line up at the conference.
Sincerely yours,
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