RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



the very sport which this Board is organized to pre- 

 serve and protect." 



Notwithstanding the forcible words of Mr. White- 

 head, President Grant announced that it was the 

 unanimous opinion of the Board that the hearing 

 should be continued to the Chicago session. Mr. 

 Edwards was annoyed by this decision, and, under 

 date of December 30, 1885, ^ e wrote to me: 



;< While heretofore I have been opposed to the 

 proxy business, as carried on in the past, I feel now 

 that we should quietly go to Chicago with all the 

 proxies possible. We got a letter a few days ago 

 from Bemis, asking for our proxy, which shows me 

 he will make every effort possible to control the nom- 

 inations of the trotting congress. I wrote to 

 Archer and Powers to get all possible proxies, and 

 to work quietly. I have had Fasig write to all the 

 associations in this State, that, if they were not going 

 to attend the congress, to give us all their proxies. 

 All I want is good, straight, honorable men elected. 

 These we must have, or go to the wall. You can see 

 how Dunbar is working up his case, while we have 

 kept entirely still. I want to win, as I believe it 

 just. If Dunbar is allowed to go free, it will hurt 

 the trotting interests with respectable men. I be- 

 lieve the Board in New York should have sustained 

 the expulsion." 



The proceedings of the trotting congress in Feb- 

 ruary, 1886, at Chicago, were stormy, but the best 

 elements controlled, and the rule in regard to de- 

 corum was made to fit the Dunbar case. Any driver 

 or other person " who at any time or place shall use 



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