Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-10
M. w. EASTMAN,
JOHN MARTIN.
II. T. WELLS.
a Practical Illustration of the S,cindte.
Little Falls Transcript, Oct. 81


Little Falls Transcript, Oct 81
The mammoth cared ass who doesn't know any
better than to assert that the laboring men who
worked for Gen. Washburn previous to his assign
ment were not paid, is fit companion for the ig-
noramus Hodges, and that harmless lunatic VIM
Ewing who claims to know where Gen, Washbu1n
mad bags full OF money hid away in those days. The
facts are that the men employed by Gen. Washburn
in and around his mill paid off in cash etc. to
the last penny. Some of his head men and fore,nen
were with the balance of his creditors paid off in
valuable pine lands and other property, at cash ap-
praisa after which the trustees decided back to the
general over 100000 worth of valuable property
But what OF all this? Why notice the lying and dis
aloud for his bundle Of thistles? Why stop to dis
pute with the harmless maniac Ewing who is no
more responsible for what he says than anyone of
the thousands of his kind who fill the mad hoses of
the land and why! ah why! need we waste more
white paper and space that inflated blatherskite
Leonard B: Hodges, who only opened his capacious
mouth this wheat question to put his foot into it
From the Pioneer Press, Sept. 90.
So that's the way you talk, is it? The men
s'wero paid off in cash. etc. We know some
parties In this county who state that Washburn
was owing them at the time, and that they got
60 per cent. in cash and 40 per cent. in ''etc',
That is, the 40 per cent. was never paid in
any manner. Among the number were W. T.
Lambert, who is now treasurer of Morrison
county, and James Muncy. Their experience
with W. d. Washburn, as stated to us by Mr..
Lambert yesterday, was as follows: Messrs.
Lambert u Muncy took a sub contract from
Smith o. Mackey to get out pine logs for Wash
burn, the last named gentleman to pay for the
logs. Before the logs had been paid for Wash
burn went into bankruptcy, and after consider
able trouble Lambert & Muncy succeeded in
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ment of the entire amount, which was about
$1,000. They were thus swindled out
Of over 500. But to make the
matter still worse, the logs were
scaled on the bank by a scaler sent for the pur-
pose by Washburn or his agents, and the scaler
managed to cheat Lambert & Muncy out of
100000 feet, so that the logs actually scaled
zoo, GOO feet more III the boom than they did on
the bank. The logs were worth 5000 on the
bank, and thus the entire amount of the earn
ings of Lambert q Muncy that went wrong
fully into the pocket of Washburn was 81, 300.
Lambert & Muncy are both working men, and
doubtless worked harder that winter than any
men in their employ, yet they were hardly
able in the spring to pay their men, but they
did manage to pay every cent in cash. while
their legitimate profits were thrown into the
fund to swell the 100000 turned over to Wash
burn after the creditors had been disposed of.
The above is the version of Mr.. Lam
bert, whose veracity is conceded
by all the citizens of Morrison county
to be beyond all question. It is needless to
add that Mr.. Lambert is a supporter of Mr..
Donnelly. in whose entire record not sus-
picion of dishonesty can be found. We derive
no pleasure from bringing these facts to the
surface, and do SO only because we believe it to
be duty we owe to the voters who read our
paper. The extract from the Pioneer Press
placed at the beginning of this article is fair
sample of the campaign swiI that is poured
out to the readers of some of the leading
Washburn sheets. The ridiculous aspect made
by that crowd in trying to spread coat of filth
on Hon. Leonard B. Hodges is fully appreciat-
ed only by those who know the parties and
their antecedents. AS to Mr.. Ewing, we know
but little of him; but judging by the treat
ment he gets by the Washburn crowd, we be-
ieve that he is worthy of unbounded conf
dence