Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-12-26

sHCy Wouiu 10 H0UttHy, occurred
sometime about the 10th, 18th or 18th
of December. He left Madison then
and, two days alter, Reyes wrote him
the following letter, the original of
wnicn was produced before the Con-
gresslonal committee and its anthem
ITCHY not denied. The italics were
underscored in the original:
Madison, December 20. 1874.
DEAR CoSK: The convention dodge is too
thin--it won't work.
~ scV attend TO every part Of the program,ne,
and Be responsible for he result
Things are working well, and will come
out Q. K. But if the wolf howls, hell may be
to pay. '.Yours, "KEYEs.n
Mr.. Conklin swore that this letter
except the first paragraph, related to
the Rindskopf case. The testimony
is not very clear IS to what conven.
ton is referred to. Keyes asked
Conklin if it was not reference 10
proposed Convention of men hostile
to Senator Carpenter Reyes in his
testimony, says it may have referred
to suggestion by Conklln that there
should be convention OF Carpenters
friends before the meeting of the Leg
islature. Assuming either one or the
other theory, it is difficult to see how
the next paragraph can refer, as
Reyes and his counsel attempted to
explain it, to such a convention.
Reyes declares the convention
"dodge," that it is s'too thin" In the
following paragraph he speaks of
programme, to every part of which
he will attend and be responsible for
the result. Certainly this cannot al
Jude to convention which he con-
dennis as dodge and which he
says won't work" The programme
cannot have anything to DO with the
convention then, but if we assume
that it refers programme to prevent
Rlndskopt being sentenced to the PEN
itentiary, and SO prevent anything from
"howling," it is clear enough. Then
what is meant by "if the wolf bowls ?"
Conklin's explanation is this:
II think was apprehensive, and | think
Reyes was apprehensive, that perhaps Mr..
Rindskopf would btow or houl, about it; that
perhaps, as the case had not been continued
he would think he hadn't been treated fairly.
and that if he did howl in that way, aud the
howl should be joined in by his friends. the
tendency would be to endanger Mr. Carpen-
ters chances in the Senatorial election, which
was soon to come off," &c.
We wish to do no injustice and we
give Mr.. Keyes's explanation OF the
phrase. In answer to Mr.. Gates
question. "What meaning are we to
ascribe to the expression, But if the
wolf howls, hell will be to pay ?" he
replied:
ut meant that if the Washburn crowd 1.-THE
members of the Legislature, which was TO meet
the next month, who were for Gov. Washburn
tor SenatorI would bolt, I did not exactly
know how the thing would come out, or what
would be the result so far as the election was
concerned
1t must be conceded that this ex-
PLANTATION does not seem very plaus-
IDLE. Tie words howl" and "blow"
and .squeal," have been used as
slang expressions for the revelations
of criminals duplicating their con
federates. The word "wof,' too,
might be used with reference to such
a criminal by those cheating his
companions. But who has ever be.
fore heard of the term "wolf" being
applied as a noun of multitude to
designate u number of mon, or the
word "howi" used in the sense of
boiling caucus nomination :? Can
any reader seriously believe that
when Mt. Reyes wrote aoolf be was
thinking of twenty or thirty mem
bers of the Legislature who were
friendly to Gov. Washburn, and
when he wrote hoicls that he intend
ed to describe the &C. of boiling a
caucus nomination :? Verify, TO adopt
some of Mr.. Keyes's choice vocabu.
lnry, does not such an explanation
look like dodge" and one that is
"too thin p
MORE sTATEsMAN-LIKE CORRESPOND
ENCE.
The following letters and tele-
grams from Reyes to Conklin were
also produced and read before the
Congressional Committee. We SUBJ
NIT them without further remark
than to call attention to their gen.
eral style and tone and to suggest
whether the people of Wisconsin
would not BIO proud to be represented
in the United States Senate by their
author.
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