Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-16
10 would receive 81, 900 in orders. The next

10 would receive $4 In orders. The next
step was to secure an act of |
The legislature authorizing the counties
to issue bonds for their orders. This done
be would obtain $4, 900 in bonds worth par |
Or nearly SO, for bill Of So, 900 originally,
and even that charge was double price or
more for the work. The bonds could be
sold, as county bonds stand we'll, and thus
this gigantic fraud was consummated. This
robbery became SO onerous that the tax
payers of one county asked and Sc
cured an act of disorganization
from the Legislature, rather than have Mr..
Driscoll bride their officials to rob them.
He is pursuing this infamous game Of county
robbery to-day wherever he can find an Of
fetal who will accept q bride. The county
commissioners of any county who find
that their officials are obtaining their work
of Mr.. Driscoll have prima facie
case of bribery against such officers.
He was the blackmail engineer who robbed
his present superior, Bill King, of $4,000,
which Bill paid rather than have his own
and Bill WINDOWS rascality exposed. 1t
was Mr.. Driscoll who sent q friend to Man
kato to urge Clark Thompson to run as q
rival candidate to Window, and who was only
appeased when he had received the $50, 900 in
cash. A more shameful and glaring piece of
blackmail was never perpetrated. The Min
neapolis Tribune of Jan. 10, 1871, in an
article written by Mr.. Green and revised by
Mr.. King before it appeared in print, said of
this:
When it appeared certain that the Northern
Pacific railroad would be constructed several
gentlemen of this city (Minneapo!is). of whom
Col. King was one, proposed organizing com
pany to take a contract for building section of
fifty miles. This coming to the knowledge of
Mr.. Driscoll, one of the two owners and pub
fishers of the st. Paul Press, he waited upon
Col. King at Washington, and after political
conversation, mainly in reference to the sup
port to be given by himself, Wheelock and
Nichols to Mr.. Window, az candidate for
the Senate, he complained that their
interest had been excluded from the proposed
company. The result was an agree
ment on the part Of the latter (King) to allow
Wheelock, Driscoll and Nichols jintly," as
Sam Weller says-the sum of 900 out of
the first profits of his share in the Construction
company. x When the second contract
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Mr.. Window with the zeal of a new convert.
Mr.. Driscoll is the man who, as State
printer, swindled the State in measurements
until the legislature exposed him, and passed
a law putting stop to the robbery which he
was perpetrating. He is the man who drew
$4,000 per annum for four years as assistant
postmaster, while Pat O'Brien did the work
for less than $1,000. He, too
has compelled sswhack up
from government surveys, Indiar
contractors and all classes of people who
have thought it expedient to buy his silence
with price. No wonder he can thrive. I
would be rare indeed if man with his ca
pacities for rascality should let slip sucl
golden opportunities for. plumber as new
State affords. And this plunderer of city
county, State and United States, is thirt
member of the quadrangular gang of hypo
critical scoundrels who set themselves up q
censors and critics of honest people.
We confess to approaching the fourth
member of the gang with especial contemp
and loathing, owing to his ins,gnifcance
We only mention him to round out thu
quadrangle. He is commonly known abou
town as drunken Dick Richards, ar
with rare congeniality he devotes him
self to the work of sneaking, dirt
dog for Bill King. His honor and integrit
can be judged from the fact that he foist
himself into local Republican convention
and sells his vote for cash to secure wea
nominees on the Republican ticket that the
may be the more easily defeated. Drunke
Dick will not ask US for proof of this. II
is Shiny reptile, whose highest delight is
fawn about and feed upon the spittle of hi
masters. No work is too mean, no slande
too base for him to engage in. And this
the fourth member of the quadrangular gan
} of scoundrels who set themselves up as cen
sors and critics of honest people.
AS one cannot handle pitch without bein
defled, the GLOBE regrets the necessity Q
these remarks. We would accord even thes
men the charity of silence, as the files q
the GLOBE, since its existence, will show ha
been done. But for their continued provo
cation this silence would not have beel
broken. They have apparently imagine
that they could ride rough shod over whom
they please. and they have this gentle re
minder that some persons neither fear or re
spect them. They cannot have war wit
the GLOBE, because we do not propose t
burden our columns with such matters, bu
If they should insist upon it, we may be con-
PEELED, at some future time, to make brie
allusion to their careers.