Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
Persecution of the Republican Candi.
date for Secretary OF State.

Persecution of the Republican Candf.
date for Secretary OF State.
The Pioneer, week or two ago, was loud
in abusing the Hon. j. H. BAKER, the Repub-
lican candidate for Secretary of State of Min
nesota, alleging that when he filed the same
Office in Ohio, he was concerned in the enor-
nous frauds of RRss1lN, the Treasurer of
that State.
In reply, we showed the very positive Pio-
'aeer that BREsLIN was the Democratic Treas
urer Of Ohio, and that all Mr.. BAKER had to
do with the BREsL4A frauds was to help Gov
CHASE to ferret them out and expose them
The Pioneer, upon this, shut up its mouth,
and sang dumb.
tits determined, however, to make out Mr..
BAKER guilty of something or other very
naughty. Being so corrupt himself the $4O,-
600 State Printer cannot believe in the posi-
bility of public virtue or honesty.
On Sunday, which is its fayorite day for
publishing its grossest lies, our contemporary
again assailed Mr.. BAKER on another tack
1t now charges that when acting in New York
City as Fund Commissioner of the State of
Ohio, in company with the Auditor of that
State, he was bribed with $4,000 to award
the Ohio State Loan to H. A. JOHNSON & Co.,
Wall street house, at less figure than he
might have obtained for it!
The evidence adduced in support of this
charge are the hints, deductions and M5ored
abuse Of committee appointed by the Leg
islature of Ohio on purpose to find, If posi-
ble' something done by the Republican off.
Gals which might serve to offset the Demo-
cratic rascality and defalcation of BREsLIN.
their State Treasurer.
The Committee was composed of three
men-two of them Democrats, who were the
real Committee, and Mr.. REMMELiN, a Ger
man of Cincinnati, of no active politics, and
devoted nearly exclusively to literary matters.
The two Democrats on the Committee HAP
PENED to be two er-members Of the same Dem
ocratac State administration to aohich Breslin
belonged!
In due time they made their report, which
REMMELIN heedlessly signed, on their ASST
rance that it was "all right The Report,
on examination by both parties, proved to be
an eIectionesring document, gotten up to screen
the corrupt Democratic administration to
which the majority of the Committee had for.
meriy belonged ! 1t attempted, by playing
the game of stop thief" to divert attention
from themselves by an assault upon the con-
duct of the Republican State officers who had
negotiated the State Loan. Their charge
against Mr.. j. H. BAKER was in effect that
which we have already stated above. 1t was
"esustaaned By any evidence, and was admit
TED on all hands, by the fair men of both par
ues' TO be reprehensible effort to make DO
lltlcal capital by perverting what, at the
"orst' was but an error of judgment, into a
corrupt use of official position.
Mr.. BAKER, the Report alleged, mi1ht have
got more for the State Bonds than he did :.
and the report deduced the unfair inference
that because the Wall Street House which
purchased them, afterwards sold them at an
au''nce-a common thing-Mr. BAKER had
therefore contingent interest on the adj
vance!
so unfair, indeed, was the whole report con.
sldered that public indignation was at once
excited throughout Ohio. The motives for
getting up such slanderous onslaught upon
Mr: BAKER were scrutinized. The result was
that documentary ecidsncs, in the handwriting
OF the majority of the committee of investi-
CATION, were found in the State departments,
proving that the Democratic Committeeman
'oeTe couple Of coucummate scoundrels, acho
md long kno~n and long concealed Breslin's
psculations on tile State Treasury, and who
had most probably shared in the spoils ! as
would be proved if BREsL1N could only be got
to speak!
Their report was therefore plainly new
edition of the robbers expedient of crying
" stop thief" after decent men, to divert at
tention from their own rascality.
The whole Of this exposure of their dupli
city, mendacity and rascality was published
at the time in the New York Tribune which
the readers Of that paper must readily call to
mind.
The public will understand that the amount
OF Mr.. BAKERS offence is just eractzy the !
same as Mr.. SIBLEY's, when he negotiated the
per cent Bonds of the $25O,OOO
Loan, in the New York Market, at much
less figure than itappeared afterward he could
have gotten for them: the New York House
hat purchased them having sold them out at
! profit! Did Mr.. SIBLEY baye "contin-
cent interest," in those profts9
This rascally Committee of the Ohio Leeis.