Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-16

he would receive So, 900 in orders. The next
step was to secure an act of
the legislature authorizing the counties
to issue bonds for their orders. This done
he would obtain $4, 900 in bonds worth par
or nearly SO, for bill of 80, 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 $3.50, 900,
which Bill paid rather than have his own
and Bill Windows rascality exposed. It
was Mr.. Driscoll who sent friend to Man
kato to urge Clark Thompson to run as
rival candidate to Window, and who was only
appeased when he had received the $4,000 in
cash. A more shameful and glazing 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 (Minneapoiis). of whom
Col. King was one, proposed organizing com
pany to take 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, IA a 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 $4,000 out of
the first profits of his share in the Construction
company. < When the second contract
had been completed the Press came out for
/
MIR. 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 1000. He, too,
has compelled "whack up
from government surveys, Indian
contractors and all classes of people who
have thought it expedient to buy his silence
with price. No wonder he can thrive. II
would be rare indeed if man with his ca
pacities for rascality should let slip such
golden opportunities for plumber as new
State affords. And this plunderer of city
county, State and United States, is thirc
member of the quadrangular gang of hypo
critical scoundres who set themselves up al
: 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 the
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
3 dog for Bill King. His honor and integrit
9 can be judged from the fact that he foist
3 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
I is a Shiny reptile, whose highest delight is t
7 fawn about and feed upon the spittle of hi
Q masters. No work is too mean, no slande
3 too base for him to engage in. And this
), the fourth member of the quadrangular gan
0 of scoundrels who set themselves up as cen
: sors and critics of honest people.
AS one cannot handle pitch without bein
n these remarks. Wewould accord even thes
:. men the charity of silence, as the files {
: the GLOBE, since its existence, will show ha
! been done. But for their continued prove
q cation this silence would not have bee
8 broken. They have apparently imagine
q that they could ride rough shod over whor
9 they please. and they have this gentle n
: hinder that some persons neither fear or IT
70 spect them. They cannot have war wit
J the GLOBE, because We do not propose
's burden our columns with such matters, b,
y if they should insist upon it, we may be con
PEELED, at some future time, to make bri,
Is allusion to their careers. ,-aftts