Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-18
BRUDDER HARDIE,

VILE G invention Was a Plnchback Affair
For the edifcation of mankind in general,
and for the benefit of sundry would-be duped
colored brethren in particular, the GLOBE
herewith announces the return to St. Paul of
Samuel E. Hardie, Esq, lawyer, preacher,
politician, workman, itinerant and what.not.
Mr.. Hardie materialized yesterday, and while
there was no veal slain, nor attempted cor
ner on the linen market, there was still no
inco nsiderable amount of Joy manifested
at his long delayed and unexpected appear
ance.
For fear the gentle readers memory has
become Theoretically sealed regarding the
aforesaid gentlemen's identity it is only
nected with Mr.. Hardie's departure, in which
connection the ugly rumors associated with
his prolonged absence by the viciously dis
It will be remembered that Mr.. Hardie
and Minneapolis as delegate to an immigra-
ton convention held at Nashville last April.
Leaving st. Paul in due season for the
convention, Mr. Hardie took with him the
necessary credentials of admission as dele
gate, $50 in money ard the we'll wishes of
the colored people throughout the State.
The time for the convention had come and
gone, and the good people who had been in
strumental in electing their brother to the
important position of delegate began to long
for his return. Two months had passed
away since the close of the convention, and
no tidings of the absent delegate.
and when two moons had passed
away it was whispered in certain
quarters that MIR. Hardie was not the good
man they had supposed him to be, but that
he was bad, bad man, in proof of which it
was alleged that he had absconded, flown,
lit out, vamoosed, decamped. It was also re-
ported that he had borrowed watch and
chain and gold-headed cane before leaving,
all of which were mourned by the aforesaid
evil croakers as forever missing. The sur
prise of the reputation jackets may be i'm
agined when Mr.. Horde alighted from the
train yesterday afternoon, hale, hearty,
sound and honest as dollar.
The genial black face, rotund proportions
and intelligent eye of the returned delegate
we're instantly recognized by the GLOBE re-
porter, and after cordial greeting the
muchly maligned colored brother was invit-
ed to sit down and tell the scribe oil about it.
In the first place, Mr.. Hardie demonstrated
that he had attended and taken an active
part in the proceedings of the convention,
and when asked the result of the conven-
ton, he replied that experience had shown
that it had not been called SO much in the
interests of the colored man as
to carry out the shemes of
number Of wire-pulling politicians.
In proof of this Mr.. Hardie stated that the
convention was wholly ignored by the Nash
vile papers, and that out of 100 delegates
only one half represented the country at
large, the remainder being from Tennessee.
He also stated that the convention was ma
nipulated by Pinchbeck, and the whole affair
was characterized as political trick to be
employed or to help in the campaign of 1880.
In conclusion, Mr.. Hardie stated that he had
never seen anything Of Q coin watch or chain,
and that all he received from the colored
people was $50, to partly defray expenses.
Returning home, he tarried at Memphis.
Vicksburg, Louisville and several other cities
to visit old friends, and he states that the
stories about his absconding were circulated
by dead-b beat bill poster, whose character
or word is too dispicable for serious consid-
GRAFTON.