• simply m Keeping witn uis lamons io ^ record.1-v)ti.The Only Ileal Independents. ■ is-l i DeSmetNews. ■ 1!*—a Mr. Macdonald: I see by the News Ii '-0_a that the article in the Capital as to aj~i-e 1 9par with Loucks, is copied It needs ti some corrections, which I sent to the a Capital, but were not published, i, ! 1st. Mr. Loucks’ remarks made,'-M_ - 1 just before supper, were concurred iD by three other fellow-boarders (independent-), Cummings, of the Rural-ist; Gardner, of the Black Hills; and1 x Wardsll. who was himself nearly ] ^ starved to death in Belle Isle prison, j -’9 but got a flood of new light (?) at Ocala. Fla., last fall. My language was—“That is treason! and I won’t sit and hear it,” and got up and weDt; to my room.2d. As De Sm6t people know, the late Mark Brown was my only son. ; Two nephews, James Hudson and *-7 . Clarence Wilkinson (the latter of «— whom lived with me in bis boyhood) i3031f died at Slone River. Both were sicka39-of typhoid pneumccia. got up and fought through the battle, when both returned to their bunks and died.Mr. Loucks occupied the same room with me two weeks. Is an in valid and a great snflerer. A Cana dian of narrow views and narrow information, but a “boss” of the Ca nuck John Bull type. I never saw a set of “innocents” so completely! »—u-42—43—dominated over, and watched lest 146-they be corrupted by boodle, or mis- itinformed and led astray, as have been the “Independents” by Loucks, Cum mings and Wardall, so that a well : known, honest man like Mr. GleasoD could not assert bis independence without the terms “rascal,” “traitor,”freely applied (as they were in my presence) to him, and to every one who would not be whipped in.The only “independents” here have been the republicans, not one of whom could be “bull dozed,” and have no leaders to attempt it.Yours,Edward Brown.18—49-Tbe Chicago board of educationAforl nnonimnnclr nnt fn ronnira f.Vi u50-JoltorthegraGoten of ] inti pai