Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-25


be satisfied with. If Mr.. Donnelly received
the majority of unbought votes he ought to
be given the seat.
| CAPT. VIM. RHODES,
the president of the city council, was found
at his Office. He is one of the reliable
Democrats of the city and State. He said he
had just been interviewed by another paper
him. elected. lie did not think it was right
to throw out the numbered ballots in Min
neapolis though he did not justify the judges
in reqsiring them to be numbered. He did
not know of his own knowledge of corrup-
ton on Washburn's part, but it was the cur
rent report that money was corruptly used.
BE did not want to ait in judgment on the
question of bribery because he had not read
the evidence, though he intended to do SO.
If, however, the House is satisfied from the
evidence that bribery was resorsed to, Wash
burn ought to be removed and Donnelly
seated.
GEN. n. H. SHELLEY.
Gen. Sibley was at loss to give an opinion
in the matter, as he was unacquainted with
the merits of the contest. He had been ap-
preached before for an interview on the sub
ject, but had declined the process because he
had no opinion to pass. He was free to con-
fess that if bribery were proved against Mr..
Washburn be should be unseatsd, and, as for
the matter of that, any other person should
be dealt with the same, no matter what his
politics.
The GLOBE then asked to be permitted to
put one or two pertinent questions, and per-
,;5cio hoiY,y onoor5ad QCkpn
General, in your opinion, did MIR. Wash
burn use money corruptly to defeat DR..
Stewards denomination to Congress-, and
secure tts nomination for HIMSELF"
"Agaiu. can't give an opinion, though I
know the charge was freely made against Mr..
Washburn al the time. But never having
inquired for myself. of course can t say of
my own knowledge. In fact, during that
when her husband and e y : we're fighting;
she was Indifferent about I'd outcome. So
was l.
"In this connection, do ycu believe MIR.
Washburn used money corrlptiy during the
canvass?'
"That l can't say. With no personal
knowledge upon the matter, could not ex-
press an opinion. But you know as do it
was pretty freely charged against him dur
ing the campaign. How true 1t may have
been 1 don't know, ana therefore could not
and would not give an opinion"
SIN regard to marking or numbering the
ballots ic Minneapolis, for what purpose was
that done, especially after the Judicial deci-
sion that it was unconstitutional"
GAS to that, a legal question arises. The
Minneapolis judges may have acted accord
ing to what they supposed was the law,
pending the appeal to the supreme court, or
it may have been done to intimidate.''
MARTIN DELANEY
is one of the working Democrats in st. Paul.
He had no hesitation in declaring that he
thought Donnelly onght to have the seat.
He thought Mr.. Washburn's vote was So
cured in considerable degree BY iItimida-
ton and corruption. This ought to disqualify
him, and he ought to be removed.
HON. LEONARD B. HODGES
is one of the staunchest Democrats in the
State. His D Democracy is.unquestioned and
answering, and as his business kept him
...veling about the district during 1873 he
was especially we'll Informed relative to that
canvass: Instead of granting an interview he
offered to write statement of his views and
did 80 as follows:
"With reference to the action of Congress
in this Donnelly- Washburn business l pre-
fer to state my views in my own language.
The time has come when plain talk is neces.
sary. Donuelly charges Washburn with
bribery. He has substantiated the charge
to the satisfaction of the committee, and
in giving this case an investigation the COM
mittee deserve the gratitude of every man
not owned by the money power, for it is no.
torious that no man in either party can be
elected to Congress from this Congressional
district without lavish outlay of money in
his behalf. The corrupt use of money in
elections calls for rebuke and punishment.
Mr.. Donnelly deserves the respect and ever
lasting gratitude of every honest man in
Minnesota for his determined efforts in ar
resting the tide of corruption which deluged
this Congressional district.
81 would not knowingly do an injustice to
Mr.. Washbnrn, but the circumstances at
tending his nomination and hi, pretended
election to Congress are SO glaring, so sus-
picious, SO notorious, that no honest Republi-
can can defend them or apologize for them.
As the result of my own personal observa-
tons, am convinced that his nomination
and alleged election was secured by notori-
ously corrupt use of money, and that with
out this VIGOROUSLY corrupt USE of q very
large amount of ready money, Mr.. Donnelly
would have been elected by an unquestioned
majority of 1000. I am furthermore con-
WINGED that Congressional committee,
organized with power to travel through this
district, and with power to compel the attend
ence of witnesses, would reveal lower
depth of infamy in this business than has
yet been charged against Mr.. Washburn.
81 have good reason to believe that thou
sands of men were induced to support Wash
burn by the corrupt use of their own money,
fraudulently wrung from them through the
infamous system of grading wheat by the
ring, of which Washburn was member.
"Donnelly was the regular nominee of the
Democrat party for Congress; as such he
was entitled to the support of every man
claiming to be Democrat, and I am at
loss to understand the motives of any Demo
crat in sustaining the pretentions of Wash
burn to seat in Congress. I close by say
ing that the infamous and corrupt use of
money If lis Congressional district in car
rying ele. ons must be stopped, and that
Congress, in investigating the charges of
bribery in this particular case, is doing good
service, not only to this district, but to the