Why?
I'll tell you: because he's committed every crime and can't denounce one and goes about the country extenuating things and oiling people up with his palaver.

Now he says he is a lawyer--yes, sir, actually claims to be a lawyer, and brought his diploma into court two years ago, and they accepted it.

But I know, and the court knows, and the bar knows it was forged; it belonged to his dead brother back in Hornellsville, New York.

But Hendricks downstairs said we needed Lige in the county-seat case, so he is a member of the bar, taking one hundred per cent for collecting accounts for Eastern people, and giving the country a black eye.

A man told me he was on over fifty notes for people at the bank; he signs with every one, and Hendricks never bothers him.