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shown themselves to be guilty of doing anything for the sake of money,are not fit persons to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Since your communication was addressed to us we are warranted in concluding that the Ministers referred to are the members of the Methodist Preachers Meeting. To you and to the public of Baltimore we declare, that in no public speech,by resolution or otherwise was there reference made made in the meeting of December 15thf1902, whose action has been communicated to you,by any member of that Meeting,to the character of the witness for the prosecution of the Harford County liquor cases to which you refer in your letter,nor is there a hint of any such action in our letter to you. The Preachers Meeting dealt not with such question at all. You have therefore assumed as a fact what never occurred,that is an endorsement by us,of the character of certain witnesses for the prosecution in Harford County liquor cases; and having from this taken a position,which,if true,greatly impeaches impeaches the character of Ministers, have assailed us as persons unfit for the sacred office we hold, reaffirming that the character and work of such witnesses,and especially of Detective Wein,the witness whose testimony Captain Pumphrey so greatly interested himself to impeach and destroy, was not even referred to by a single member of the Preachers Meeting; we now call your attention to the opinion of his Honor Judge Henderson,of the Montgomery County Court,before whom similar liquor cases v/ere tried,where Mr.Wein appeared as witness and where he was assailed as in the Harford County Cases by Captain Pumphrey. We quote from the Evening Star of Washington of December 10,1902, the Sun and the American of December 8th,1802. Judge Henderson said, "That the jury was right in crediting Wain as there was no reason why he should have misrepresented the facts." Referring to the charge that Wien was an Anarchist and unworthy of believ,Judge Henderson further said,"There was some talk hereabout anarchists,it was said that Wien was an Anarchist. This traveser is an Anarchist. He is running a bar in open violation of the law of the county, a law that has been in existence over twenty years. Anarchism has prevented its enforcement.
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