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DB STEBBINS TOE DE CHAPIN. 



To the Editor of Ths IlepubUcan:— 



In your issue of the 20th there appears 

 this item: "Mayor-elect Hayes haa talked 

 with six physicians who signed a petition 

 for the reappointment of (^iiy riivsician 

 Chamn, and only on,, is willing to stand 

 t>y the petition, the other five saving thev 

 signed It merely as a matter of courtesy " 

 I rejoice that there was one wise, to five 

 foolish a poor showing Uiough it be. One 

 alone had the courage of his convictions- 

 the other five have confessed they had not.' 



it the hye who signed Under conditions 

 named, call it courtesy, I fancy Candidate 

 Vv Chapm would much rather the cour- 

 tesy had been withheld. I was not one of 

 the SIX physicians the mayor-elect tallied 

 with, so I can do just a little talking on 

 ;uy own account. I signed Dr Chapin'si 

 .metition, although his bearing toward me 

 ihas always seemed to have been ahythihr 

 Tbut courteous and coniiai, but I cliarged 

 «his up to his account of personal peculiar- 

 l^ties, of whic_h have .our shajieXTEiS' 



? ^'S" petition? Because, from 

 m Chapin s long experience and faithful 

 attention to the duties devolving upon him 

 as city physician, I felt assured beyond 

 question that he was the best qualified for 

 the place, and ought to have it, not for his 

 own sake, but the city's good. 



G. S. Stubeins. 

 Springfield, December 20, 1899. 



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