Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-09-10

Hollinshead,s Falsehoods About ms
Friend and Neighbor" Governor
R.msev...Lying Bill Wincing!
In the Pioneer and Democrat of September
LIST, is published the Speech of VIM. Hollins-
head, Esq, of the former law firm Of Rice,
Hollinshead & Becker speech principally
filed with slang and falsehood. In this
speech, in order to help his particular friend
and protege George L. Becker, Democratic
candidate for Governor, this man Hollinshead,
who is the same the Pioneer in 1854 styled
the "man who led ON the Philadelphia Church
Burners in 1s43,"-resorted to unblushing,
bare-faced lying upon Alexander Ramsey, Re-
publican candidate for Governor. He profa-
ced his mendacious stab, by hypocritically
calling Governor Ramsey, my neighbor and
friend" and then proceeded to lie nbout his
''neighbor and friend" in the following style,
charging him with having uttered deliberate
falsehoods in his speech at Hastings, ON the
2Sd Of August. Here is an extract from Hol-
lnShead's published speech:
"The first fact stated by him TGov r. is that
the Democratic party, in the first six months Of
its power in Minnesota has exhausted the loan o.
$25o,ooo, originally fixed by the constitution as
the amount Of the State debt.
This is serious charge, and it comes from q
responsible source. II true, 1T SHOULD depriUe the
Democratic party Of the con fdence of the people.
If false, it should discredit the Republican can
didate for Governor, now and hereafter, because q
man who has been a member of Congress- a Gov
ernor of Territory, and who is a candidate for
the office of Governor of this State should at least
speak the truth.
have taken care to make the necessary inqui-
res of the Treasurer Of the State and here assert
UPON HIS WRITTEN AUTHORITY, that the allegations
of the Republican candidate for Governor are
false, and that nearly one-half of the $250. 900
went TO pay the territorial indebtedness which the
general government would not pay, the present
Republican candidate being Gorera.or of the Terri
tory for -four gears of the time during aohich SUCH
INDEBTEDNESS accrued!
That ends that charge. Where is the "dignity
Of truth" of which the Governor speaks?"
To this the MINNEsoTIAN replied, by quo
ting from the laws passed by the last Demo
cratic Legislature, and from the several appro-
priations therein, giving page and date, and
showed
That the aggregate sum appropriated by
the Democratic Administration, in the first
six or eight months of its rule, was almost
tseice the amount alleged by Gov. R. to have
been expended that $417, 900 was about
the amount this Democratic administration
had really exhausted" and how much
more nobody knew, for Democratic maneu.
vering had prevented a settlement of the
books for two years or during their whole
term of office!
That of this amount only ST., 800 was
for Territorial indebtedness
That Gov. Ramsey's administration of
Territorial affairs ended over six years ago /;
and that none of this small amount of Sill
600 had accrued" during his incumbency
of the Office of Territorial Governor
That, also, of that $417, 900 appropriated
from the Treasury by Democracy in the first
six or eight months of its rule of the State,
there was 100000 Appropriateness for Ter
ritorial matters-but to pay the expenses of
the State Convention to form the Constitu.
ton.
That deducting these two sums, amount
ing to about ST, 900, the balance of about
s356,OO0 was the amount really expended by
the first State Legislature for State purposes
being 100000 more than the sum alleged
by Gov. R.!
That, therefore, the innuendo and point
of Mr.. Holnshead's whole speech, that Gov.
r. spoke an untruth when he stated that the
S25O,0O0 loan was exhausted by the Demo-
cratic administration in the first six months
ofits power utterly failed; and that Gov. R. did
did not go as far as he might have done, nor
charge the Democrats with as much extrava-
gance as they were really guilty o.!
That Mr.. Armstrong, the State Treasu-
rer, had denied to gentlemen who called on
him, that he euer authorized Hollinshead to
convey the idea, that any portion of the Ter
ritorial indebtedness" paid by the Appro-
priation bills of 1858, "dccrued" during the
time when Mr.. Ramsey was Territorial Gov
ernor!
And that, consequently, Mr.. Hollinshead
had misrepresented Mr.. Armstrong lied
about Governor Ramsey-and that he did so
knowingly, with malice prepense; for he had
the public Session Laws before him, or in his
Office, at the time he was writing his speech
laws which showed to the contrary to his
falsehoods.
Well, here the matter rested few days.
But even the thick hide of Brandy Bill is