Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-22

as good as Carter's and probably you was
yer see him again. soon convinced the
Governor that saw it in different light.
He then said if you don't want 10 do that,
you can state that you had ali the money
there WIS made insthe mess, and tn
will clear me. Tsaid.: Governor, should |
do that, people will say Ihave told lie to
exonerate you. | also told him that my
own folks very well knew that what Capt.
Carter states, told him. and it is true
and that he must find some other plal TO
get out of it. He then said he would give
me what he made out of the transaction,
and then | could say that had ali tn se
was made, without lying, | satisfied the
| Governor at once, that had no mercena-
ry motives and that he could not buy m
also told him that when | published a
| fdsehood to shield another, it would be
for truer friend than he had proven him
| self to be to me. lie then asked me II
would go to the city of Madison that night
and talk the matter over in the presence
of lawyer, with q view ofgetting up some
reasonable plan to exonerate him and
haYe it look the most plausible. | told
him L would meet him. He SAID he had
to so over to his farm, and if | went first
to Madison, should cut green bush and
| lay 1t across the road on the hill this side
OF Galllgher's, and if he went first, he
would do the same thing. | went first
and cut the green bush.as agreed upon.
At s o'clock that evening, wen: to the
| executive chamber, according to appoint
ment, and found the lawyer on hand,
alone in the Governors office. The Cows
ernor soon came in, apparently consldera>
bly, excited, and passing around his table
opposite that distinguished lawyer and to
the right of me, he Remarked: Well, Farr
says we did buy some soldiers for less
than two hundred dollars, and now he will
make statement to the effect that he had
all there was made out of the transaction
] corrected the Governors last remark
by saying, that had not promised to make
any such statement. The lawyer then
said: "Mr. Farr, how many men did you
and Governor Taylor get at this time p
answered about sixteen. He then asked,
wv hat did you pay them?" I answered
from one to two hundred dollars; to those
men residents of the Town we paid two
hundred dollars, and to these who were
not residents Of tho Town we paid from
one hundred to one hundred and fifty dol
lars each, with few exceptions, and we di-
vided the profits, or to that effect He
then asked, "What do the Town records
shown" replied the town records show
that the sixteen men cost the Town So
227, and that w r. Taylor charged the
Town fourteen dollars for his services. At
: this juncture, the LAWYER arose and asked
the Governor to step out into the other
room.
In less than three minutes the Governor
returned alone. | asktd, Where has the
Lawyer gomez" The Governor answered,
pre- sumo he has goie home, said:
thought he came here 20 help you get up
some plan to exonerab you; Taylor said
we'll he says, this is a matter betwe cen you
and I; and if you will make statement
that you had all the mney there was made
out Of the transaction, that will be suffi-
Gent. I then asked, did he recommend
me to make such statement. The Gov
ernor said. he said, if y,u are willing to do
it, that will clear me. 1 then said, Gov.
Taylor, that man has gone home in dis
gust; he has herd all he wants to of this
matter, and is satisfied that there is more
to it than he wants to hear, and has too
much honor to advise me to publish false
statement that will be proved against me
as such, and he has hard enough here tc-
night, to convince hin that what | told
Capt Carter is true. Gov. Taylor said,
now Van you must make some Kind of
statement that will clear e,or | will have
to move out Of this country; you have my
election or my defAt in your hands; you
can save or Kill lust as you see ft
now if you will MAXI o statement that will
save me, will give lou nything you may
ask. will appointyou to the best office
in my power give: Name your terms ard
/ | will give it, if you will only do this little
for me. I then said, Governor, you are
profuse with your promises now, but
judging from the past you will forget all
these promises when dection is over, aud
disregard them, as you have done before,
not only With me,bnt with your old stand
| bys. Governor sad, I know you think
that have wrongd you, but let this be
| as ii may, what canI do to convince you
now that will keeEmy promises? | said,I
don't think you could do anything to con-
vince me that you vpuld keep your prom
Use if could benefit Yurself by breaking it
and besides you haV, cut my corners at
every turn for the last tie years. When
we finished filling tie quota of Cottage
Grove, | asked you 20 so to Gov. Lewis
and use your influence in getting me a
commission, and you took 5000 out of me
for that friendly service, and when | paid
you'll had not money enough left to buy me
a rights lodging in the world, and was
obliged to get trusted for my uniform be
fore could join my company. Two years
aor oSl1nA va to inf Snnnrin.
tendent of Public Property, and after en-
i nth, y GU informed me that certain
newspaper man By the name of Knight,
down at Darlin gton, wanted it, and that he
had more political influence than had and
that:you would haveto appoint him, and now
you want me to publish lie to insure
your reelection, and seem to think | have
some influence. The Governor said, Yes, |
you have more influence than all the men |
| have appointed, and you can save or Kill |
me- [ then said, | will state what can be |
substantiated by an abundance of evidence |
and nothing more; and what | do in the
matter, | do without fear or favor of any |
one. | shall expect to contend with your
enmity the balance of my days, and I feel
that | am equal to the emergency, for |
know you well,
| then took my hat TO go, and the Gov
ernor of the State of Wisconsin followed
me half way through the Capital Park, at
midnight, bare-headed, in the rain, beg
g NJ me at every step to promise him that
would come in the morning and make
false statement to exonerate him, that he
might get little sleep that night, and al %
said, shall not sleep wink this night.
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