A Reply To Curtis

Mr. David McLauglilin, of Grand Haven, has sent the following letter to George "William Curtís : To the Hon. George WlUlam Curtís, President of the Civil Service Iieiorin Association : SiR.-l have the lionor to aoknowledge the receipt this day of your circular for ülllce-holders, dated Auf. 2G, 1884, in whicli you say thatyou " understand tliat a circular has receutly been sent to federal office-holders by authority and direction of the rcpubliciin national comtuittee, asking for contributions for funds to be used by said national coimnittee in the present poütical campaign; and it is lald thiit a circular of the same general charactcr has been issued by democratie imtional committee.'1 In your circular 1 ani kindly informed that I am Hable to severe pnnishmen't if I make paymentof moneys to any federal officials. I thank you most heartily for your consideration of, and tender watcufulness over, my politica] moraüty. Of course 1 understand that you mean to put me on my guard agaiust payiug money to the democratie committee. It ceftainly is right that I should help to sustain tUe republican party, and I feel, sir, that 1 ought to do all I can, ünancially and otherwise; to help to continue lo power that grand party of whleh a delégate from New York to the republican conventlon held iu Chicago in June last said: " We uever tire of repeating the story of the republican party." "We are coufrooted by the democratie party veryhungrj, and you may well befieve, very thirsty; a party that went out of power, iu a conspiracy agasnst human rights ; a party that would sneak into power, a conspiracy for plunder and spoils." These, sir, are grand words and tme, and 1 feel like doing iny utmost to defeat the infernal contpirators with all iheir aiders and abettors. " By the grace of God " I came into office a free man, " and by the grace of God" I claim that where the goyernïneut pays me for services rendered, and I desire to contribute part of my arnlagt to a county, state or national committee for the purpose of assistinir in the campain, " by the grace of God " I will do it without asking the consent or advice of any side-showman, blower or striker of the hungry, tliirsty, pure, moral democracy. I think, slr, not long ago, at a meeting in the city of New York, you stated that the issues of this campaign are purity of character and ïnoraU rather than politics. I am glad you so clearly couiprehend tlie conditiou of affaire; but nevertheless I willchoose my owu teacher of moráis, and I can assure you, sir, he will not be the gentleman of Buffalo who isdescribed as a "champion libertine, an artful seducer, a loe to virtue, an enemy to the family, a snare to youth and hostileto womanhood." No, no ; give yourself no uneasi ness about me. I like to repeat the " spendid story." I glory in sustaining the grand old party. I admire sucli grand and gallant leaders as James G. ÏJlaine and John A. Logan. Continue, if you please, your homage to your Bull'alonian Saint, and just leavc me to my idols, and you will greatly oblige, Yours verv resDeo.tf ullv. Uustorn Hunne, Grand Haven, Mich. Sept. ÍU, '81.