AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PENNSYLVANIAN
With assurances of my high regard, and grateful appreciation of your kindness, I beg to remain,
- Very faithfully yours.
Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker,
- Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, Pa.
Letter received. We are in a crisis and need all support. If Philadelphia fight is not won we will have a contest all over the state. If we win we will probably have no trouble for some time in Pennsylvania. We confidently expect to win Philadelphia contest but must make every effort until election day. I am convinced that no party conditions in the state can be injured by your presence in Philadelphia and it would greatly help in our contest. If I do not hear to the contrary from you to-night or to-morrow morning, I will have announced that you will be present at Academy of Music meeting on the eighteenth. You suggest that you will have to speak out on certain matters. I will have to leave this entirely to your best judgment and discretion, with full confidence in your loyalty to the cause and your sincere interest in our local success.
My dear Judge:
Accept my warmest thanks for your goodness in the matter of Jacobs. Your prompt kindness has relieved me from a position which I thought it right for me to take, but which without your help would have been very distasteful.
As regards your nephew's application I have had a talk with the chairman of the committee and from his statement it would appear that the applicant is not only outside of the letter of the rules but of their spirit as well, and this on a liberal construction of them.
However, I am to have the record sent to me and shall look into the matter to see whether there is any rightful way of modifying this conclusion.
I may now congratulate you upon holding your rightful position as the properly chosen guide and leader of the Republican party of the commonwealth.
Carson will tell you that in the very rush of the flood of abuse,
