I wonder how many of DeFrance’s dear friends will follow him into that Mann-hole.
The letter makes the modest request that a few thousand ardent admirers of DeFrance buy stock in the Side-Door concern at $10 per share.
DeFrance tearfully ejaculates, “I don’t ask you to donate the Money. Far from it.”
How far from it, he doesn’t say. The confiding individual who bites at that bait, and pours ten dollars into that Mann-hole will see a good deal of ice in August before he will ever see his money again.
Think of the impudent falsehood of the assertion made in this circular letter:
“The magazine, while not yet profitable, has nearly reached that point.” Therefore, send your money to the Side-Door concern right away. Yet, in the next breath, he claims that Col. Mann lost $180,000 in less than two years on the Magazine.
To cap the climax of his wrong-doing, DeFrance actually signs the Begging Letter as Secretary of the People’s Party National Committee.
By what right?
Under whose authority does he act when he thus prostitutes that office to the service of Col. W. D. Mann?
What will our National Committee think of it when they behold their Secretary standing at the Side Door of the Town Topics building and hear him calling for Populists to walk up and enter the Mann-hole, to the tune of “Ten Dollars admission fee, please”?