Clipping:Day responds to the suggestion that he might jump to the PL
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| Date | Wednesday, February 5, 1890 |
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| Text | “Let me say once for all that I deem such a suggestion an insult to my business reputation. Last autumn I refuted a similar insinuation by declaring that there was not in my nature any of the characteristics of a Benedict Arnold. Should I accept any such cowardly advice there is nothing that could be said in condemnation of my course that would be too severe. “I have, as a member of the New York Base Ball Club, business partners who suffer equally with myself in this ungrateful conspiracy of our well-treated players to ruin us. If I were contemptible enough now to desert these partners—sell them out, betray them and join hands with the men who betrayed us, and who now add insult to injury by making such a suggestion to me—I should deserve the odium of all men. “Besides, as a member of the New York National League Club, I am indirectly, and have been for seven years, a partner of the owners of other League clubs, whose interests, friendship and business confidence I should also betray were I to even think of accepting such an invitation. Let it be understood, once for all, I am not a Judas who will sell my friends for so many pieces of silver. “If the players, whom we treated so generously during the years of our mutual success, succeed in their efforts to ruin the business we have built up, that they may divide the supposed profits among themselves, I will suffer equally with the men who were betrayed with me, though I do not believe the uncalled-for rebellion will result so disastrously as all that to the New York Club. “These men, who now invite me to sell out a lease of property for $20,000 which cost nearly $60,000 last season to condition for use and to invest the $20,000, or part of it, in the purchase of the stock which they have already taken from em, are not lacking in assurance. “Yet is it nothing more than should be expected of men who saw the club expend this money on new grounds, while they were secretly conspiring for the club's ruin, who, without a cause for complaint against the club's treatment of themselves, as they have frequently confessed, planned for the overthrow of our business while under contract with us, actuated only by a selfish motive of a hope for further gain. |
| Source | The Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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