An Election Scandal in Mima Prairie

Having been informed by my political and personal friends that Thomas F. Berry is zealously engaged in circulating reports for the purpose of prejudicing the public against me, I deem it a duty to request the publication of this letter. The first charge is that I obtained my nomination by trickery; the second, that I have entered into an agreement to exchange votes with Joseph Cornell, the nominee of the Democratic party; the third, that I voted against Mr. Berry at our last annual election. I did not converse with any member of the Convention in reference to the use of my name before that body, and had not the most remote idea that the Convention would thus honor me. As to the second charge, I am willing to state under oath, as will also Joseph Cornell, that we have not agreed to vote for each other. I consider a true and honest Republican, though disappointed in his aspirations, will not resort to malicious falsehoods for the purpose of defeating the choice of the Convention.