He
added that there were at least three million members of these
patriotic orders, constituting at least three fifths of the
Republican Party, and that their membership was being added to
daily. Mr. Evans also said, what was absolutely without
foundation, that I had said, "We need a Father Confessor."
That gave me my opportunity. I answered with the following
letter in which I stated my own doctrine as vigorously and
clearly as I knew how.
WORCESTER, Aug. 5, 1895.
T. C. EVANS, ESQ.:
_My Dear Sir_--One of the great evils, though by no means
the greatest evil of secret political societies, is that foolish
and extravagant statements about men who don't agree with
them get circulated without opportunity for contradiction
or explanation. You seem to be a well-meaning and intelligent
man; yet I am amazed that any well-meaning and intelligent
man should believe such stuff as you repeat in your letter
of August 3. I never said, thought or dreamed what you impute
to me. I don't believe there ever was any report in the Worcester
_Telegram_ to that effect. Certainly there is none in the
report of what I said in the summer school at Clark University
the morning after, and there is no such statement in any of
the other Worcester newspapers.
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