If you cannot conscientiously aid me in what I consider to be a perfectly legitimate demand for additional franchises, you will, at least, not go out of your way to publicly attack me.

I will put these letters in my safe, and there they will stay until the next campaign is over, when I will take them out and destroy them.

I have no personal feeling against you--none in the world.

I do not ask you to sign any ordinance which the council may pass giving me elevated-road rights.

What I do wish you to do at this time is to refrain from stirring up public sentiment against me, especially if the council should see fit to pass an ordinance over your veto.