The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-07-12
WHEN ROCUES FALL OUT ETC.

The various p!undering rings of the
Republican party have been seriously
dislocated by the election of Mcmillan,
and they have mosved their wash-tubs
into the front yard and are now washing
their dirty linen in public and fighting
over the suds. This is the way the
stencil presents itself in late number
OF the Minneapolis Mail. A Republic
can correspondent in St. Cloud writes to
that Republican paper as follows:
Those frauds consisted in the location of i'm
mense quantities OF forged "half- breed SCRIP"
which was permitted by the land officers, tney
knowing the fraudulent character OF the s. rip,
| and it is universally believe, having an inter-
| est IN the same in direct ccntraventlon of ex-
press provisions of law. There is verv little
doubt here that the partners in that Wholesale
robbery were Gilman, T. G Mcclure and N.
P. Clarke, the last three being brothers in-law,
| and all four having spent last winter trying to
| re- elect Senator Ramsey. scheme was con-
cocted by which many thousand acres OF mCst
valuabl. pine land not yet in the market was
secured by this infamous ring under the pre-.
| emption law. Men in large numbers were
hired by N. P. Clarke to file their declaratory
| statements on land indicated by him, and then
| go up and work through the winter getting out
| pine logs said lands tor Clark Il Eastman
| before starting entered into an agreement with
Clark, or him and Wait, to pre-empt the I6O
acres OF land thus filed on. work on it through
| the winter getting out logs for Clark Co., at
| $50 per month, theE in the spring and ut the
expiration oi SIX months to prove up and pay
for land, Clark Il Co. furnishing the money
| and rking quit-claim deeds Of the land, not
UithSta nding these men had all s,OOrn that
| they took the Land for their oDn use and benefit
and for the benefit Of no other person or persons
riiOnlsOcUer / am reliably informed that no less
than sixty OF these fraudulent pre-emptions were
made, and the land d. eded 10 Clark & Co., at the
st. Cloud and Alexandria lsnd Offices, the Re-
ceirer at AAzandria being a Cousin If II. G..
Wait, and member 9f the ling.
In u e spring of 1872 Gilman was notified
that his resignation would be accepted He
Therefore went to Washington and was by
Senator Ramsey permitted to dictate his sue
CO. sor in the person Of H. l.. Gordon, be-
tween whom and Gilman there no doubt was
| ali agreement to share the ipoils, but Gordon
proved to lie ,co sharp for them ali, and
skinned friend or foe indi6erently. During
that summer Hon. Willis DrummOnd, COM
missioner Of the general land ofic~, came to st.
Cloud TO investigate these and other charges
which bad been made by the st Cloud J0Hy-
nal. Mr.. Drummond stated that Gilman had
been compelled by the department to resign;
hat n had ample proof to show Gilman's dis
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show that Gilman was utterly unfit to hold any
position OF honor or tiust. He ls.gged that
investigation be postponed until 1ier the
presidential election then pending, and that il
tue last that has been heard Of the mstte..
Shortly after Gordon's appointment cams
the public land sale; and it 10 q notorious fact
that at that sale combination was form. con-
sis!ing Of Gilman, Clarke, Wait, Mcclure.
Gordon aid certain other PERSONS not rcsi-
dents Of II. CloHd. The portion OF ri, e land
which each should have was fixed beforehand
and AN agreement was mad that not NOR. than
Si25 per acre should be bic. for any trnct.
This agreement was carried out, and MANY
thousand cres Of the bezt pine land in the
state, worth from Is TO go per acre, were sold
for el.25. Or this Senator Rau,sev ,cas duIs
informed, bit failed 10 interfere.
Gordon does not deny his completely. and
publicly boasts hat he made both The Minne-
apois and 81. Cloud pine land rings ''come
down, by which process he Z eeived patents
for over one hundred million fe.t OF the best
pine In the State, and holds them to-day.
The IT. Cloud ring il now bitterly hostile TO
Gordon BIC us4, as they allege, he cheated
them in the ''diyide %
Now we don't vouch for the truth of
all this, and we would be glad to open
our columns to Gilman, Mcclure, & Co.
to show mp the Minneapolis ring. We
have no doubt they could give rs some
rich and racy reading.
Come to the lore, gentlemes-