Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-24


papers denouncing the bribery of Wash
burn. 1t says that it (the Immaculate p. p,
is even quoted ''as saying that it has knowl
edge that very dishonest men managed
Washburn's canvass" Here is the p.
defense:
The Pioneer Press was very strenuously OPP
posed to the nomination of Washburn, because
1t believed then, as it believes now, that the
party usage should have been followed in the
nomination of Stewart for second term, and
that a MEAN ADVANTAGE was taken of his
absence at Washington, during the long sum
mer session of Congress in 1878, to precipitate
an early call of the convention, SO as to give
him no chance to organize his strength. The
Pioneer Press strongly felt this and strongly
expressed the belief that DISHONEST MEN
WERE MANAGING THE CANVASS FOR HIS
NOMINATION.
Then this latter day Washburn's organ says
that it was only in relation to the nomina-
ton that Washburn was scoundrel. That
there may be no misrepresentation about this
We quote just what that paper said
Pioneer Press, July g. 1873
I'VE know that SOME VERY DISHONEST
MEN HAVE BEEN MANAGING MIR. WASH
BURNS CANVASS, and VIC know they have
immense PECUNIARY INTERESTS at stake in
his election-interests so great that they could
we'll afford to SPEND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOL
TON WHOM THEY COULD RELY ON TO
PROTECT THEM FROM EXPOSURE and
from the apprehended necessity of being called
upon to ANSWER FOR THE FRAUDS they have
committed and by which they have profted.
We know that some of these men have been the
Washburn in the canvass which has been going
on for the past six or seven months in his in
terest. They have been his ARDENT FRIENDS
FOR YEARS.
This is pretty plump SO far as the can vass
for the nomination is concerned, and the
rascality is again conceded in the extract
quoted above from their yesterdays ISSUE.
If this comment meant anything ut all it re-
ferred to Charley johnson, Loren Fletcher,
Doc. Keith, John Martin, j. V. Brewer,
etc., all of whom were, if anything, more
active IN the canvass for the election than
the nomination. If the denuncia.ion of the
Pioneer Press pending the nomination was
correct, and the same men managed the
election, is it probable they became suddenly
virtuous, and is it not fair to quote the p. p.
"as saying that very dishonest men man
aged Washburn's canvass?"
REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY.
Ex-Gov. Marshall, and present Railroad
Commissioner, ought to be accepted as
good authority and he said this Of the
Washburn- Stewart contest
tsTba o,roo e ,,n1iticc nj Iaast ia mt tho
most pure and eleudted, but it will hardly do to
let it SINK TO THE LEVEL OF BUNKO AND
THREE CARD MONTE DEALING. l feel
Justly indignant and outrage by the effort to
make me party to THIS FRAUD by the reiter-
ated and CUMULATIVE FALSEHOOD, which
seeks to make the committee as whole re-
sponsible for the chicanery of one."
A Republican correspondent of the
Pioneer Press, writing from Duluth, June
&c, 1878, thus exposed Washburn's tricks:
The Washburn manipulators became alarmed.
They wanted help and change. kilograms were
sent off and help came from st. Paul in the
shape of one of the iurymen in the Page i'm
parchment trial. Hon. E. G. L. THE CHANGE
CAME FROM MINNEAPOLIS in Martin box.
By fabrication, the sOreheads (whOm Stewart
had been unable to provide for on account of
civil service reform,) by the potent assistance
of the help and LIBERAL USE OF THE
CHANGE from the Martin box, effected a revo-
luton in Washburn's favor. PERSONS WHO
WE'RE STEWART MEN IN THE MORNING
WERE WORKING STRONG FOR WASHBURN
IN THE AFTERNOON. 1 do not know that
there was any money used, of my own knowl-
edge, but to a person perched among the leafy
branches of a monarch of the forest, 1T AS
STIMULATES THAT WAY; and We generally
Judge tree by its fruits.
WHAT REPUBLICAN PAPERS SAY.
The article in yesterdays p. p. says a
Washington paper quotes extracts from Re-
publican papers in Minnesota against Wash
burn naming the Stevens County Tribune,
Melrose Record, Appleton Recorder, and
Fergus Falls Advocate. The Washburn Or
gan says of this:
We presume the extracts from the papers
mentioned are of the same character; that he
has gone back to their files during the bitter
contest between Washburn and Stewart for the
Republican nomination in 1878, to find ex-
pressions of opposition to Washburn, and has
dishonesty applied them to his subsequent
canvass for election. The Fergus Falls AdOo-
cate, however, is not Republican paper at all.
We do not believe there is Republican paper
in this district, or in the United States, which
has expressed anything but indignation at the
contemplated outrage of unseating Washburn.
The Fergus Falls Adcocate is an lndepen-
dent paper and not properly classed as Dem
ocratic, but counting that out, we append ex-
tracts from every one of the papers named
and two other Republican papers condemn
ing Washbura. These extracts are taken
from papers of recent date and are their
current comment since the contest assumed
shape this winter. The editor of the Mel
rose Record was postmaster at the time he
wrote his comment, and was removed by
Washburn because he had the manliness to
criticise him.
The following are the comments of the
Republican papers in question and fully
justify the Washington publication, which
has excited the Washburn gang:
Melrose Record.
The Dispatch begins to see the end of the
Washburn fraud, and deplores the perversity of
a Democratic Congress that will interfere with
fraudulent elections, and appeals to the Re
publicans of the Third Congressional district
to return the same ". d. Washburn by an
overwhelming majority. Does the Dispatch
endorse the fraudulent means resorted to in the