FREETHOUGHT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 2687, 30 August 1887, Page 2

FREETHOUGHT.

: (To"the Editor.) Masterton, 29 August, Wp- : - Sm-Every step you take in this matter makes contact with you more and. more repulsive. You first insert a cowardly letter in effect charging me with' having offered to become President of the "Freethought Association, You next asserted that'to' your own knowledge your correspondent had substantial grounds for toe statement. Yon had at the time no such knowledge, but were trying to find someone who would lend, himself to the lie; The whole charge is a pure fabrication; without auy foundation whatever. David Stone made .the lie, your over garrulous reporter- 8. H. fickerson indorsed the ; lie, and you, J,, ij: Payton, published the lie,, You three combined to injure! me itfijfo opinion o( ! the electors; -Findingthj ground' slipping froin under your''feeti. you added a new charge of gross, JiyjQcrjsyi This.chailge you know'is false;but'as persons'in a more responsible.:position than yourself startedtbeohai-gelshall, if I am permitted to iise'thei evidence.

I have, deal' : wjth..themaj a further date. Yoq nqw jinsert a sort of apology whioh is so mean an4.'coi\fefjaptible in itg'dishonesty that it : <juiy adds to your offence, and, to cover your retreat jou publish another, deliberate falsehood signed D, SiPapworth. seen a mentor of'tha Fryhoughi committee and others whom I has not Been personally have been inter", viewed, I referredMiny firstletter toyow,to:letters.byiuepublished in January, 188ft|-in your ooliimns attacking Messrs Bacon; and K^sen-

berg on their' Freethought ; deli|sr-, anccs. lam assured that thoughfP it in committee and at the ings these were discussed at,||e'™e, neither Mr Bacon nor Mr KaisSnberg ■ nor any other member of the Society..; ever hinted that I hadatahy: tin)e-' expressed Freethought opinions,mubh' les3 offered to to President or. tjeen invited tp beopme President of the Association;- ■'. l;now call u£p'h you to ■ insert'.in your nest issue the Mowing. apology,"- ■ ?■ "1;'. •ohorgVjft^ the- effect' that Mi%wkin|prs to be President pla-Feeethougtylssocia-tion is false and; that 1 hate no evidence: whateyer.thftt' ho has ever peena •Freethinker J : apologise reader.'and-himself fot r hayingtgiTflni currency to the statement." Signed J.' A.': ftytotii; Editor WmmW Daily."- 'lndefault.ofjoursodjo'lng "Fsliall take''such steps' as Timty be idvised'to brand you as a common slanderer, a liar, and a coward. "; ',. '"'■'■ ! " latti,; • "■" ''M Robert To'J.A.Payton.V ■■. •••■' • ; . EditorWairarapa,Daily.

[The statements, in the abovo extraordinary letter are untrue. We can only regard it as emanating from a person whose mind is unhinged by _ passion and resentnient.-rED.W.D.]