Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-17
HOW 1T WAS DONE.
Republicans Testimony as to Corruption IN
the Senatorial Canvass Christianity Ri
dicuted and Germans and Scaadi,.arians
InSultcd.
Pioneer Press, Jan, IA. |

the senatorial CdncdSS-- ChristtdHttU Ri
dicuted and Germans and Scandinarians
Insultcd.
Pioneer Press, Jan Ia.
Mcmillan, Window and Strait combined
their forces of federal officials and federal pat
ronage with all the far-reaching influence of
the rings Of government contractors and pine
land rings, to pervert and constrain the hon
est sentiments of the Republican Representa-
tives. AT one time and another during the
progress of the canvass between fifty
and sixty of the Republican Senators and
Representatives had positively and cordially
agreed to support Ramsey for Senator. OF
these there remained, up to the time of the
caucus, forty-siX Republican Senator's and
Representatives who had agreed, over and
over again, to vote for Ramsey on the first
and subsequent ballots, and had given no
notice to his friends of any change of inten-
ton, and q large number in addition
| who had agreed to support him after the
| first, second or third ballots. If the accu-
racy of this statement is challenged by any
responsible Mcmillan man, the names of these
| forty-siX men whose personal assurances were
given that they would vote for Ramsey will be
published in the Pioneer Press. When the
| first informal ballot was taken but twenty
| three of these men voted for Ramsey-just
half the number who had assured his friends
that he was their first choice and that they
would vote and work for his election, and who
failed to give notice of any change in their in
tentions. If these forty-six men had voted
| for Ramsey as theyhad promised to do, Nc
| Millan's vote on the first ballot would have
been reduced to forty-four. We make
this statement now simply to yindicate the
entire candor and sincerity of those
heretofore made by the Pioneer Press during
the progress of the contest, and, as before said
we stand ready if any responsible Mcmillan
man shall dispute it, to verify its truthful
ness by publishing the names of the mem.
bers on whose personal assurances that they
| would support Ramsey all our previous state
ments were founded. By what secret means
| twenty of these men were persuaded to violate
their pledges is fully known only to the ne
gotiating parties in each transaction One
man who had codially agreed to support Ram
sey at an early stage of the canvass, and who
is not counted among the forty-six here men
toned, received his consideration in the prom
I Use of Territorial -judgeship to {
friend of his in Redwood county
Another ardent Ramsey man was seduced a
the last moment by the promise that one O
the most prominent federal offices, and which
is not held by Mcmillan man, should b,
given to friend of his. Postoffices and mai
agencies were promised by the Dozen Thu
patronage of the speaker was effectually useC
to the same end Votes were traded for petit,
clcrkships and for all sorts of small consider
ations. In order to see that all these bargain
were duly carried out, a card board ballot, o
peculiar shape, was used on the Mcmillan
side, and Mr.. Speaker Fletcher was himsel
lappointed one of the tellers on that side to Sc
that the purchased members voted as the
were bought We need not say that the vic
tory was dearly won which was purchased b
such means.