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1 Temporarily at Bay Shore, L.I. on a short vacation address always letterhead 1890 Sept. 20 Dear Muir; The combat
thickens, John P. Irish being on the warpath. I have just received two editorials from the Oakland Tribune and an intervening
letter from Irish, all which you've doubtless seen. Every time he puts pen to paper he gives an opportunity to the friends
of reform. I shall write a brief reply and after it is written perhaps I'll send it. You see the trick; to try to make votes
by pretending to defend California's sacred honor reputation which privately he is besmirching. I hope you'll go for him.
In the next Congress we shall probably have to face the question of recession of the original grant unless your legislature
does something and Irish could throw 2 a good deal of dust in the eyes of the average M.C. I hope you'll expose the game
in such a way as to defeat his election. He is probably put up by the Washburns as a friend to defend them in Washington.
His letter is one of the funniest pieces of pettifogging I have ever seen. Did I tell you that I learned the other day that
Irish wrote to the Editor of the Times a long letter of abuse of Mackenzie Robinson you and me -- which was thrown in the
waste basket, I believe. Of course he is furious. Pixley is too shrewd to stand and take the fire. Now is the time to get
ahead with the King's River Canon diacritic article. I've written to stir up Robinson. Meanwhile can you send me a description,
by town ships (from a Land Office map) of the territory desirable to be included about this canon diacritic . I had a most
vexatious time getting the proper description for the present limits of the new park -- spent a whole morning at the Land
Office sketching it out from the surveyor's notes. I got the Public Land Committee to abandon the park east of the ridge of
the Sierra which some