shameless pretenders--were brought forward with strangely concocted the Bell patent. Other inventors--some of them honest men, and some real issue of legitimate business versus stock-company bubbles. adverse decision of the court. Several years after his defeat, he came All manner of injurious rumors were presently set afloat concerning the crusade. And a loud hue-and-cry was raised in the newspapers against blacksmith's apprentice, and risen to be a professor of Oberlin. He political factor in the Middle West, and its blind fear of patents and The most plausible and persistent of all the various inventors who hostile and irreconcilable; and until his death, in 1901, never "high rates and monopoly" to distract the minds of the people from the "monopolies" was turned aggressively against the Bell Company. A few renounced his claim to be the original inventor of the telephone. he filed a caveat on the subject on the SAME DAY that Bell filed the first invent a musical telegraph--when, presto! Bell suddenly turned made, during his lifetime, over five million dollars by his patents. In 1874, he and Bell were running a neck-and-neck race to see who could better telegraph instrument, Gray had glimmerings of the possibility of aside, because of his acoustical knowledge, and invented the telephone, inventor, a highly competent man who had begun his career as a forward with new weapons and new methods of attack. He became more The reason for this persistence is very evident. Gray was a professional sending speech by wire, and by one of the strangest of coincidences tales of prior invention. The Granger movement was at that time a strong snatched at Bell's laurels, was Elisha Gray. He refused to abide by the Senators and legitimate capitalists were lifted up as the figureheads of while Gray kept straight ahead. Like all others who were in quest of a