d offer the same assistance to the accused parties, if
they had been the victims of an assault and suspicion pointed to
Smith and the Alliance as its instigators.

"MERIT LONGEWAY.
"_Sutton, October 15th, 1894._"

[Illustration: Lead Pipe, Rope and Hat.]

"To the Editor of _The News_:

"SIR,--Permit me to reply to some of the statements of 'Fair
Play' in your paper of October 12th. First, I should like to ask
what is meant by poisoning the public mind?

"If Fair Play means enlisting the sympathies of the public on the
side of the temperance party, all that is needed is a clear
statement of the plain, unvarnished facts. There need be no
'unwarranted assumption,' or charges without evidence, for
members of the liquor party before that assault at Sutton
Junction, and more especially since that time, have themselves
acted in a way that has estranged some who have been their warm
supporters, as they have procured the discharge of Mr. Smith from
the employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, whom he had
served faithfully for fifteen years, and have also threatened the
lives of other peaceable citizens, because they chanced to frown
upon violence and lawbreaking.

"Furthermore, Fair Play declares that the Temperance Alliance and
its friends, of which he plainly is not one, are charging divers
persons in this county with the commission of a grave crime of
which they have no reputable evidence. Thus does this very brave
apostle of 'the other side' fearlessly assert, with no proof for
his statement, that all the various persons who have given
evidence in this case in Mr. Smith's favor are disreputable, and
their testimony of no value. Truly this is a bold statement, and
it would seem that sometimes pens as well as tongues need
'curbing.' Although Fair Play declares that he 'offers nothing in
the defence of lawbreakers,' yet his entire epistle is plainly in
defence of just that class of people, for it is written in behalf
of the hotel keepers who have repeatedly broken the law, and were
convicted of liquor selling in court, not long since.

"Again, this 'believer in fair play,' in speaking of Mr. Smith,
says:

"'Did his person bear evidence of murderous assault? No, etc.'
Either the writer of th