Page:Famous Single Poems (1924).djvu/317

 She entered the field with the following astonishing letter to the New York Sun:

Accompanying the letter was a copy of “What My Lover Said,” which the Sun obligingly republished, with Mrs. Jones’s name attached. At about the same time she had written a similar letter to the New Orleans Times–Democrat, which had also printed the poem with her name signed to it, and from these two sources it started on its newspaper travels once again, this time credited to the Abbeville candidate.

Mrs. Jones soon discovered, no doubt considerably to her surprise, that her rival claimant was not the deceased Horace Greeley, who could say nothing, but a very much alive Homer Greene, whose friends quickly rallied to his