Since your election your attitude on every question has been deplorable, and although I am of the opposite party I may say that in this view I am in no sense actuated by party feeling. This is a matter too serious for the bitterness of partisanship.
I repeat that in my opinion you have frequently employed the blustering artifice of a rhetorical hireling.
Unless I hear from you within half-an-hour I shall send a copy of this letter to the Press.
Yours faithfully,
A. B. C. Wentworth-Coke.
P.S.—Could you oblige me by letting me know who was the originator of the phrase?
N. Y. Z. Thomson-Thomson, Esq.
Sir,—You have totally failed to substantiate the serious charges you made against me, and I am sorry, for the sweetness of political life, that you have not had the courage or the fairness to withdraw them.
I am glad that we have been able to conduct this correspondence on the courteous lines which have ever characterised our public careers.
I have sent a copy of this letter to the Press.
Yours faithfully,
N. Y. Z. Thomson-Thomson.