Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-02

sAAo A'S uo2iaiss kapplduSe.1
Upon this case MIR. Beethoven in q spaec
made before the committee, said: 81 coul
convict w. ID. Washburn and send him to th
penitentiarY on that testimony before an
court of justi oein the world" (Applause.
Because tins crime of bribery ia a penitentiar
o1ense, denounced as such by the laws O
every civilized country of the world. And |
ought to be. for IL eats away, and saps away
and rots away the very foundations of free 10
stitutions. tApplause.) The rights of tn
people are as nothing if the highest and mos
powerful office in the gift of the people can b
put up at public auction to the highest bidder
We have no refuge from such state of things
my friends, but despotism, for the rule of
single monarch would be better than the cor
ruption Of 10, 600 scoundrels.
MIR. Donnelly then proceeded at length [,
| read from the testimony taken by him durin,
the investigation, showing case after cas-,
Where the charge of bribery had been mos
| clearly proven, and Mr.. Washburn's complicit,
therein, and also from the report of the Con
gressional committee. Resuming his argu
ment he said:
But, my friends, all this have read You j,
put a fragment-a mere section OF the arc o1
this case. Why. my friends, if we are to have
sucn things IN this country there is no prutec
tlon for human right; if from these regions
the vote OF the people can be overwhelmed by
bogus returns, upon such basis free elections
become farce. felt that it was my duty
took and sold wheat, had poor crop that
year, too, and sold wheat at 45 cents bushel
TO pay my expenses in going around this dis
trict AID exposing this rascality. (Applause. J
l hoped fer no reward; / expected no reward
but was determined, SO help me God that
that kind Of thing had to stop; that there
must be an end to it; that it had been contin-
ued long enough in this district and the ex-
penHe have made, my friends if it has no
other Qtt6Ht ros, j
esi election on the I'd of next November. I
might go on and weary you out by reading
you here the testimony of ID nj. Robbins and
others.
My friends, l have sufficient confidence iu
the dignity and honesty of human nature to
appeal to my Republican fellow citizens of
this district, and ask them whether they are
ready to sustain this wide spread, bare faced,
universal rascality. (Applause.( l cannot be-
lieve it. believe that when these facts are
spread before the people, as they will be in this
coming canvass, they will spew this corruption.
lst out of their mouths and roll up majority
for Henry q. Sibley. Tremendous cheers and
applause.) But the leaders of this Republican
party-and speak with the utmost respect of
the rank and file of that party-I have no word
OF unklndness to utter against them: I
believe that they as mass of men
are as honest and as intelligent as any that
have ever lived on the face OF the world at env
period OF human history. [ am not denounc-
ing them. There was fable told in oIdeu
time Of an army of lions that was led by
! iackass, (laughter) and the Republican party
OF to-day IS party of honest men led by
scoundrels. Now in the face of all this testj.
mony we have paper up here in Crookston. at
this very place where this bogus was recorded,
q miserable little weekly, you can spell it both
ways weakly. daughter and applause). sh eet
1t Is called the Northern Tier. 1t is enough to
bring q tear to the eyes of any man to read
such paper. Now listen to what this follow
writes and Ethls is what it proposes to say
to Mr.. Washburu: "We say to MIR. Wash.
burn, you are blameless, and we honor Won for
your manly, upright bearing throughout the
contest, and, IN return, we bestow upon Won
The honor anew, this time without shadow of
doubt and with well done, good and faithful
servant. We will send you back to your seat
in defiance of man or the devH.' il,ausbter
and applause. think that last worlds meant
As personal allusion. daughter And this
is the way those leaders have brought this Re.
poblican party to take upon their shoulders
his arch corruptionist to shoulder hi m with all
als bagfulI OF sins and make him again their
standard bearer and defy the intelligence ofthis
district; to defy its honesty its honor, its man
hood, its everything. And they met in con-
EentIon to do that dirty job and it was like
funeral And they have him before the peo.
party has placed in nomination an honorable
gentleman. q man whose whole long life ia one
'potless record of good deeds done for his fell
ow men (applause),a msn who has lived long
life without a blemish or shadow upon his
good name, and the Democratic partv
>ave put him forward as the standard bearer
AGAINST this filthy mass of corruption and
lastlness. tApplause and laughter.) They
iave put him forward against these 3G4 cases
If bribery, and l say to you my friends, that
t is time, that without regard to party feeling.
without regard 10 petty differences that divide
men. the honest men of this district should lift
ien. Sibley and carry bin forward to triumph.
at this point Capt. Barney came npon the
platform and proposed three cheers for Gen.
5ibley, which we.e given with great effect.
Mr.. Donneily then continued at considerable
ength to cite evidences of Washburn's bribery
md corruption, reading copious extracts from
me report OF the Congressional committee
Which conclusiveiy proved all that the speaker
charged relative to the rotten and debaucbed d
of 1878.
lie dwelt at some length on the vote of Min.
leapoiis and the intimidation practiced there
,iting the fact that in 1876 HAYES had but 1ittIe
'ver 300 majority and in the spring of 1878 the
republican majority, was only 164, while in the
all or the very same year they gave Washburn
,ver thirty-h hundred majority. The returns
how that 5000 Democrats did not vote.
BILL KING.
hr. Donnelly then proceeded to paw his res
oects to Bill King, as follows:
When the investigation began and made the
statement that believed Bill King wrote the
etter (the Springer letter) he wrote me a letter
seven pages IN length on cap paper, filled with
ne utmost abuse and with the greatest amount
IT charges as to my private character. And he
wound mp by saying: You will of course
now this TO the committee rs q specimen of nv
hand writing
)f course you will show it,
Gentlemen, the moment I received that let.
er l submitted 1t to the committee (Ap-
olause.( had no fears of Bill King; no fe ars
)f his ISLANDERS. He sat there with his tail over
lis back (laughter) surrounded by the unsp.
,roachable atmosphere Of his own ir1eparabIe
eputation, (Laughter.) His assault might
noommode me, it could not injure me. and 7
iened hlm. dehed him, my friends, as de-
led ali slanders OF all these men, Who is this
nan King? He was postmaster of the House
,f Representatives of the 43d CONGRESS when
he Pacific Mail company spent S75D 000
% corrupt Congress; and King, as it was shown
afterwards, received $3.50, 900 of that money
and disbnrsed it. (Applause) And when the
committee oil that Congress, while he was still
postmaster, sent for him and asked what he
knew about it, he swore point blaak and called
iod and all the angels to witness that he had
never handled cent of their money. and that
he knew nothing about it, and that he knew no
man who had ever received any. He was as SPOT
ess and innocent as a child. In the course of
me next Congress witness turned up, the
cashier of bank, who identified King and svore
that over the counter of his bank in New Yorlr
ne had paid $3.50, 900 to King on one of this
s. checks, and King hed, not from the
charge Of bribery (bad as that was), but he fled
20 escape punishment for perjury. applause
And this is the man that attempts to-day I'm
cover me with opprobrium, because T bave
Jared to expose the wrong doing of his friend
and acoompiice, VIM. ID. Washburn. I defv
all such ISLANDERS. 's
MIR. Donnelly cited evidence that he had not
been corrupt while in Congress the fact that be
oniy bought during his term two farms in
Dakota county, on each of which he paid hnt
s4uO, and ne was sorry to say that within a
few months, the banks at Hastings conId
bear witness, that he was oblighed to borrow