Daily globe., 1881-06-23
THE ANIMUS OF A TENAL NEWSPA-
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THE ANIMUS OF A TENAL NEWSPA-
| PER.
The GLOBE on yesterday called brief at
tentisa to the governing motive which
leads the Pioneer Press to be continually
assailing the firm Of Seymour, Sabin &
Co., of Saltwater. 1t is now adding Gen.
Hubbard to its list Of victims on the ground
that Mr. Sabin favers him for governor.
Gen. Hubbard is to be congratulated
upon this opposition. 1t demonstrates
that he is an honorable man and free
from the corrupt rings upon which the
r. p. fattens.
This venal newspaper has personal
grievance with Gen. Hubbard as well as
Mr.. Sabin. In 1868 the Ramsey wing of
the Republican party bolted the
nomination of Mr.. Donnelly for
Congress and placed Gen. Hubbard in.the
field. The object Of this movement by
the then Press gang was to defeat Mr..
Donnelly by defeating the Republican
party In the dis trict, and thus, as they
thought, prevent Donnelly from com.
peting with Ramsey for the Senatorship.
Gen. Hubbard was too honorable gen.
tleman and too loyal to his party to be a
boiling candidate to crafty personal NAL
ice, and he promptly declined, stating
that he believed the faction which nomi-
mated him was in the wrong. 1t was
then that the boilers in their desperation
raised seven thousand dollars
to hire Gen. Andrews to run
for Congress, with the additional promise
Of an Office from E. B. Washburne.
Gen. Hubbard's honorable action and
manly denunciation of the Ramsey bolters
was never forgiven by the corrupt Press
gang. The fact that they were COM
pelled to waste $1,000 to hire a
figure head for their boiling
ticket, was an evident sore spot, as it
depleted the stealings of the Ramsey
gang by that amount. For thirteen years
the Press, and its successor, the Pioneer
Press, has followed Gen. Hubbard with
malignant abuse because he refused to be
Ramsey tool. AS he is now prominently
mentioned as candidate for governor
the vials Of their wrath are poured out
| upon him. The especial point now made
| is the fact that some three or four years
ago he served on a commission to arbitrate
between the State and Seymour, Sabin &
! Co.
This State prison matter being raised
by this notoriously venal and corrupt
sheet as the standard stock in trade at
this time, we cut from its issue of Jan :.
10, 1873, letter from Gen. Sibiey, who
was one of the arbitrators, setting
forth in an able and exhaustive
manner the entire history of the State
prison award. That letter so fully sets
forth the facts which the P. p now seeks
| to distort and misrepresent that we do not
need to recapitulate them. In addition
| to the explanation made by Gen. Sibley at
| the time it extorted the following edito-
rial apology in the Pioneer Press of jan
| uary 10, 1879:
1t has been freely alleged that Gen. Sbley
| was strongly opposed TO the concessions made
TO Seymour, SabIn q Co.; that he did his best
| to obtain the evidence and data with which to
| meet the piles of testimony accumulated by
| Seymour, Sabin & Co. in their INTEREST," that
| ne repeatedly sought the advice and assistance
of the attorney general, but could not find him,
and was obliged therefore to fight in the dark
| for the interests of the State-and was finally
obliged to yield to the other two members OF
| the commission, both Of whom were
represented as strongly favorable to
o., Gol~; r. T~I
son being, in fact, appointed ostensibly in
| their interest. Now, it turns out, on the un-
| lmpeachable testimony Of Gen. Sibley himself,
| that the award was drawn up in his own hand;
| that it met his full concurrence as being a
| fair and just settlement of the matter IN dis:
pute, and that Gen. Hubbard, so far from hav-
| ing been chosen in the interest of Seymour,
Sabin & Co. was chosen by johnson from
| list of names furnished by Gen. Sibley-that
| instead Of cooperating with johnson to enlarge
| the award he cO-operated with Gen. Sibey In
| throwing out the demand of the contractors
! for damages-and that Attorney General Viii
son, SO far from being absent when his SER
vices were needed, was in attendance and fully
presented the case of the State, at least in Gen.
| Sibley's opinion. Mr.. Wilson had himself
furnished this information in a;letter published
yesterday, so that whoIe svarms of sinister
rumors and insinuations hare thus been
brought down by these tloo communications,
and yet their ungrateful authors are dreadfuily
dlsgusted with the Pioneer Press for
! flushing the covey and bringing it within the
range Of their guns. We are already partially
compensated for performing the disagreeahle
| duty of dragging to light the injurious ru
mors which were being circulated in the dark
affecting the official conduct of gentlemen for
whom personally we have the highest esteem
by having elected this authoritative and con-
elusive contradiction of them from gentle
man whose testimony will be received without
question in every part of this State.
The files Of the p. P. supply other ab-
ject apologies for its malicious assaults in
this matter; apologies extorted because
the author of the falsehoods knew that
he maliciously lied to crafty personal
hatred, and when brought to bay by the
honorable gentleman he accused, he
covered like a awhipped,cur and retracted. /.
MIR. Sabin not only having been select
ed member of the Republican National
committee last summer, when the Pioneer
Press man sought the position, but also
having opposed Ramsey's candidacy to