At present I have only one suggestion: I observe that your editorials concerning Halloway's renomination are something lukewarm.
"It is very important that he be renominated, not altogether on account of assuring his return to Washington (for he is no Madison, I fear), but the fellow McCune must be so beaten that his defeat will be remembered for twenty years.

Halloway is honest and clean, at least, while McCune is corrupt to the bone.

He has been bought and sold, and I am glad the proofs of it are in your hands, as you tell me Parker found them, as directed, in my trunk, and gave them to you.
"The papers you hold drove him out of politics once, by the mere threat of publication; you should have printed them last week, as I suggested.
Do so at once; the time is short.

You have been too gentle; it has the air of fearing to offend, and of catering, as if we were afraid of antagonizing people against us; as though we had a personal stake in the convention.

Possibly you consider our subscription books as such; I do not.