Somehow I can’t seem to rest quiet under the idea of your voting for Blaine. I believe you said something about the country & the party. Certainly allegiance to these are is well; but as certainly a man’s first duty is to his own conscience & honor—the party & the country come second to that, & never first. I don’t ask you to vote at all—I only urge you to not soil yourself by voting for Blaine. When you wrote before, you were able to say the charges against him were not proven. But you know now that they are proven, & it seems to me that that bars you & all other honest & honorable men (who are independently situated) from voting for him. Bread & butter will compel many men to vote for him who do not want to

It is not necessary to vote for Cleveland; the only necessary thing to do, as I understand it, is that a man shall not smirch himself shall keep himself clean, (by withholding his vote for an improper man,) even though the party & the country go to destruction in consequence. It is not parties that make or save countries or that build them to greatness—it is clean men, clean ordinary citizens, rank & file, the masses. Clean masses are not made by individuals standing back till the rest become clean.

As I said before, I think a man’s first duty is to his own honor; not to his country & not to his party.

Don’t be offended; I mean no offense. I am not so concerned about the rest of the nation, but——well, good-bye.