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a very large following
and he has won it by
his own personal efforts,
and as I read the
morning papers I was
impressed with the
conviction, that his
honorable and upright
course was a strength
in his behalf that
stand out conspicuously
in contrast to the
bargaining and selling
of many of the candidates
in the field.

My voice in the
R.R. Co. would be
last beside the one
voice of its President.
I have already express-
ed my sentiments but
it is like chaff before
a high wind.

The President
rules; and he has
his choice, and it is
very pronounced, but
he may fail his
time.

The die will
soon be cast, our
state is under great
excitement over it,
but who will get it no
one can tell. Sometimes
God rules in these