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to the reading public — and this had much to do with the number of names 

 signed to the "high license" petition. This vicious policy culminated at 

 last in a boldly slanderous article by W. H. Storms, city editor of the Daily 

 Union, against Dr. Reid as chairman of the committee. Dr. Reid went 

 directly to Mr. Storms in person, assuring him of the falsity of the accusations, 

 and asked on whose authority he made the statements. Mr. Storms de- 

 clined to give an}^ name. And' the next day the following document was 

 formally served upon the "Union Publishing Co. : " 1 



To the Proprietors or Stockholders of the ^' Union Publishing Company'''' of 

 Pasadena, California : 



Gentlemen : — Your paper, the Pasadena Daily Union, of date Sep- 

 tember 4, 1888, makes certain grave accusations against me as chairman of 

 the "Enforcement Committee," with this declaration — "and which, if 

 necessary, we are prepared to prove.'''' 



Gentlemen, that article is libelous, is slanderous, is scandalously false. 

 It is injurious and damaging to me in person. And it is due to myself — it 

 is due to the twelve reputable business men who constitute the " Enforce- 

 ment Committee ' ' and made me their chairman — it is due to the seven 

 large churches and other organizations which that committee represents — 

 that your editor's pretended proofs should be produced to us at once, or else 

 that the slanderous article be retracted through your editorial columns in as 

 broad, unqualified and public a manner as the accusations were made. 



This I require, both on my own behalf and on behalf of the churches 

 and people whom I represent. 



Respectfully, H. A. Reid, 



Dated September 6, 1888. Chairman Enforcement Committee. 



We consider Dr. Reid 's requirement above to be reasonable and just — 

 that the proofs which the editor of the Union claims to have, should be 

 produced at once, or else the accusations be retracted as unqualifiedly and 

 publicly as they were made. 

 Signed : 



Reynolds Bros., Lyman Allen, G. A. Swartwout, 



O. H. Conger, A. K. McQuilling, J. H. Fleming, 



B. F. Ball, J. M. Glass, P. M. Green, 



Delos Arnold, D. Galbraith, W. T. Clapp, 



F. R. Harris & Co., W. Aug. Ray, M. D. Painter, 



G. E. Meharry, H. G. Bennett, Henry N. Farey, 

 Stevens Hardware Co. H. D. Bennett, L,. C. Winston. 



The name of informant was still withheld, but ample proof promised 

 very soon ; so that evening's paper contained an affidavit from one John 

 Gorthy, a drunken loafer then temporarily in the city, who had reported an 

 interview, false in every detail, which he pretended to have had with Dr. 

 Reid. The next morning Dr. Reid got L. C. Winston, notary public, to go 

 and procure statements under oath from E. H. Hyde and A. A. Chubb, who 

 were present all of the time on the only occasion that said Reid had ever 

 seen John Gorthy. [The statement of Geo. Hazzard, who had also been 

 present, was procured some days later.] And the result was that John 



