Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-01

| of it?" 1 consented, and now acknowiedg
that this was an error, but l considered the
warm personal relations between Post and my.
self, and the thought did not cross my mind
he was capable of acting treacherously After
| having left the letter l began to feel little
uneasy, without being able to say why, and
was anxious Gov. Jewell should hear from
Mr. Hart himself, that he was willing to make
the rstrsction. ] therefore requested Mr.
Hart to meet the governor at my ONCE
at 5 o'clock. Ho came to my
| office unaccompanied. The governor
and his secretary were there. The governor
| asked: ''Have You any objections to my secs
ret.ry being hsre?" Hart said mo" After
had introduced them and stated what had
done, Mr.. Hart said Yes; that is all right; but
i am not satisfied that the judge. after election,
| will be recognized. and want letter or teie-
| gram from Gen. Garfield. The thought then
fitted across my mind that he might have some
sinister motive, and at once. in loud voice, 80
that all could hear, said, General, am sat-
istied and wan. no other promise" Mr.. hsrt
then replied, well IL you are satisfied, can's
help it," then left the room and the govern
| OF, his secretary and Mir. Hart were alone for
nearly an hour. Just they were going out
| re-entered, and Mr.. Hart, In presence OF Mr.
Jewell, msde q direct statement shat, while ne
could not the next morning make complete
somersarlt, he would sea that an article sp-
| peare6 substantially as follows:
''Since the publication of Gen. Garfield 'ex-
| plicit denial we have been led to investigate
| the matter further and are still pursuing the
! Investigation with some doubt as to the au-
thenticity of the letter. If We fnd we have
been deceived ws will as boldly declare It, as
| We have heretofore maintained it MSS gen.
uine document.
| Wednesday morning visited Ar. Hart who
said, II think We are going to hur: ourselves
| very much by doing that, but never mindj ss
We have made the promise We Will stick to 1t.
| Imagine my surprise when l saw In Wednes-
days newspaper reiteration of the hbeioua
| letter. l now have come to the concluslop
that Mr.. Hart was all the time playing deep
game, knowing that had no reason to suspect
him or Mr.. Post, and, recognizing my position
| In the party, was schemlng to procure through
me something that would look like . bribe or
consideration for making . retraction. and
would then publish it evidence or She
genuineness of the Chinese letter. During
| Wednesday rumors came to me
that Hart was going to publish q fac sinlHe of
| G ov. JEWELS letter. / hunted for Mr.. Post
and found him about z, dining with hr.
Hart. After upbraiding them for what they
had done. 1 asked, are you really going to pub
lish that Jewell letter? 1t certainly will not
| hurt Gen. Garfield, for Jewell and his party,
| but its tendency will be 10 place me in a false
position? MIR. Hart said: IF you will have
| the prosecution against Philip stopped will
| not publish the letter." I answered that l
wouldn't do that if could, and could not if /
would; that wouldn't allow myself to be used
| for auy such purpose and followed him, leav
| ing Mr. Post and my brother behind. l again
| sppealed to him in the street not TO do such an
unjust and unklnd thing to me. He replied
'4il's fair in war; it's business I returned
| to Mr. Post and he promised TO use all his pow
er for nay sake, not to publish the letter which
he admitted wonld harm no one but me-"
Judge DrMnsntond's Federal 3miinG.
n1E T.
Geislsr who was arrested for alleged disorderly
conduct at the polls during registration. and
whose case was brough. before Judge Drum
nOnd to-day, discharged prisoner stating that
&c was engaged in the performance of his duty
and that police officers excee deo their duty in
interfering with him.
CHICAGO, Oct. SG-Judge Drummond of the
United States circuit court, in deciding the
case regarding the arrest of Supervisor Geislsr,
already detailed in these dispatches, said:
The only question was one of the fact wheth-
er Geisler was legally arrested, fined an i'm
prisoned. The facts seemed to be that Gels
Ter was appointed supervisor of election by this
court, qualified, went u 70 beard of regis
trstion in the First ward and removed there,
dlscharging his duty the most of October 26th.
At about 8 o'clock a man named Miller pre-
sented himself for registration and some ques-
| tions were asked him which threw doubt up
on his right of registration. Thereupon the
| supervisor objected to his registering and an
alteration occurred with Dwyer, who accom-
panied Miller and insisted he
| should register Doubtless both
| parties used offensive language. The super.
visor is an excitabls man nd quite prob ably
was not discreet and prudent as man of 9TH
| Or temperament would have been. Dwyer also
used opDrobrious language, but we must CON-
slider the different relations of these two per-
sons, who have both used violent language to
each other, and to the circumstances of the case.
Dwyer was . volunteer there He was, SO to
! speak as an outsider. He may have hsd the
| rightto come in and give his testimony in fav-
/ or OF the person who was presenting his claims
for registration, but Mr. Geisler was there,
clothed with the authority of law and entitled
TO the protection OF the law Gs an officer of the
United States. They therefore occupied en-
tirely differentl positions. can havs no
doubt that under the authority of the acts of
Congress, Mr.. Geisler had right in the alb
seuce of the m arshal and his deputies, as was
tie case here, to preserve order and aarrest
/ without warrant or process, any person who
| interfered with him in the discharge of his
| duty as supervisor. It was his right among
| other things to see that no person was improp-
erly registered. he could therefore @ bject if
| the circumstances warranted. They warrant
it. it is clear, because some of the judges
themselves were in doubt as to his right to
registration, and therefore the objection of
| the supervisor was authorized.
There can be no Goubt either
that no person had a right to molest or inter-
| fere with the supervisor in the discharge of his
duty, even by use Of offensive and opprobri-
| GUS language. That, without any overt act.
might be molestation and interference with
| the supervisor in discharge of his duty. Nei-
ther can there be any doubt there moro or
less disturbance or disorder, which followed
the use of excited language. According to the
weight OF evidence. as 1 understand it, the su-
Pervisor did tell MIR. Dwyer not to interfere or
to STOP" or ''shut up," or that he would be
put ont. to which Dwyer returned opproprious
| language, threatening to strike the supervisor,
| and thereupon the supervisor, having insisted
he should be removed or turned out, and say
| ing that il no one else would do it he would
| himself, seized Mr.. Dwyer, 81 some of the
witnesses say, by the throat, and others say by
the collar, or by the breast. 1t does not per-
| haps matter in what particular way. The ques-
| tlon IL whether 1t was done in pursuance of his
authority an officer of the United States,
then present under the law. I do ncs in all
respects Justify the manner OF action of the
supervisor, but We must make allowance for
the inhrmitlex of human nature. Had he the
right to do what he did2 There seems to be
| some misspprehension in the public mind rs
| to the rights of officers of the United States in
cases of this kind-as though they were inter-
fering with the rights of the State or of the
city. 1t il not 30. Tho United States has
an undoubted right to interfere in all cases
where there is a registration Of votes for cleo
tion of members of Congress, and where that
| interference occurs under authority of statute
of the United States, there can be no law which
is paramount to the law, and as the supreme
court of the United States has said, there is
nothing in derogation of the rights of States
in this. They should move on harmoniously
in the one case "a in the other, each willing in
its respective sphere-the United States as q
national government, and the State as gov
ernment clothed with all powers which affect
Us as individuals, our lives, our liberties, our
property, our relations to each other as citizens
Rat zhep the c.uastiar Of s,atiaraality md Of