| Summary: | Haney warns against candidates who claim to be Republicans but work against the party once elected. He focuses on Judge George H. Craig in particular, accusing him of abandoning Republican principles and favoring white constituents over African American. For his strongest evidence against Craig, Haney discusses the case of Clarence Crenshaw: "The time is coming this Fall, when we have got to select bold, fearless true men to carry our State....Yes; men who will not sell out our party in the hour of danger, men who will not let off Crenshaw without a trial, after he shot a colored man. I wish that poor man whom Crenshaw shot had not died, so he could tell you the kind of men you want. His name was Jim Lane, but he is gone. He will be a witness against Craig and Crenshaw at the Judgment bar. I ask you not to forget this poor man's life. He was a true Republican. I am told that Craig has been saying that I am persecuting him; that he says I am telling stories on him; but I ask you to hear him deny these things where I am. Appoint a meeting, that he and I can each have a say, and see who is right."
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