A DISAVOWAL To the Editor of the Guardian Sir, - Knowing your consistent advocacy of fair play, I am confident that you will allow me a small apiece in your valuable paper in which to set myself right in the opinion of those who may have been misled by the statement being circulated by “certain lewd fellows of the baser sort” (whose imaginations are evidently as vile as their statements are false), to the effect that I am the author of the petition, and am circulating the same for signatures, for the purpose of having Driver McSweeney removed from the district. Also that the Rev. Mr. Winter, Mr. Howson, and my wife are associated with me in the movement. Now, sir, emphatically and utterly deny the statement on behalf of myself and those charged with me in the matter; and while being quite able, personally, to combat and refute all such efforts to defame and injure my character and standing, I feel it to be the bounden duty to express my indignation and regret that others should have been so vilified. I hereby challenge my traducers, one and all, to produce one iota of evidence, direct or indirect, or any other matter bearing on the removal of Driver McSweeney from the district, has ever emanated from either myself or the other persons mentioned, or has at any time formed the subject of conversation between myself and any other person. Thanking you in anticipation. – Yours, etc., Oliver H. Potts