Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-06

fence, and aeave out tie rest--publisA
part to mis.spresent and 9alsify its mean-
ing.
We hads,me years ago in Philadelphia
a lawyer,
DISHONEST SCAMP.
and he WITS arguing ore day before the
court anG he took les! book and out of it
he read e passage OF his side of the case
and ,jus5 as in this oese there were some
explaining words that would entirely al
ter thestenor of what he read. He stopped
short there at the commencement of
thoseeaxplaining words. The judge, who
was astonished at each law, said: Twill
you 4et me look att that book?'' The law
yer, fearful to hand it up to she judge.
fu1niled it with his hands so hes!et it drop,
and then pretended he had lost his place.
The Judge insisted that the book should be
handed up to shim, and he found the
place, and had that man suspended from
the bar, for the dishonest, knavish prac-
tice.
Now here in this case they nominate him
for congress l; laughter, and now Mr..
Washburn asks you people, whose rights
rInder the presumption law and homestead
claw he has sought to take away-he asks
you to elect him back again and say,"Well
done, good ard faithful servant, we will
restore you to the trust you have so
greatly honored" do not think you will
do it my friends.
There was a little boy who in disobe-
dience to the wishes of his parents went
fishing on the Sabbath day. A companion
met him the next day and says: Johnny,
did you catch anythingw mot until [ got
home" Laughter. Mr.. Washburn has
come ho,ne. hope he will catch it on
Tuesday next. Great applause.
Carl SchGrz had spent half million
of dollars 10 find out the men who had
stolen lumber from government land He
went to New York ans spent vast amount
of money TO find out how much each man
| had taken, then he commenced proceed
ings against them and suits for million
of dollars.
WHAT DID THEY DO?
They secured the election of Mr.. Wash
burn to congress and went down
there and got law passed
which said that if any man had gone on to
government land and had stolen timber to
the value of $50 or 500 an acre-after
he had got all the timber and was liable to
go to the states prison-that if he would
go in theze aud take this land and settle
up at $1.25 per acre he should go scott
free. And my friend Gen.
Bragg remembers it for he was
there Il in congress and fought it
tooth and toe nail Applause And they
F, passed that bill, and those men came up
and put down their little $1.25 per acre
and the suits were withdrawn and the pros
ecution terminated.
Why, my friends, just think of it! A lot
of fellows start horse-stealing associa-
ton; Laughter they go and steal all the
valuable horses in the country. They light
down on Com. Kittson's valuable stock
and carry off horses worth three, four, five
| and six thousand dollars piece. The
government tracks them out,
captures them, and they have
got 80 mean that they commence suits
| against these poor men for the recovery of
| the horses. These fellows combine to-
gether and elect a man to congress, and he
goes there and gets law made that if any
map is charged with stealing horses
and he will return the saddles the suits are
terminated. Great laughter and ap-
plause.
Well. my friends, this is the work for
which he expects your support on Tuesday
next.
1 do not say anything but what my
Republican friends will endorse when
say that we seem to have fallen upon an
age of universal corruption. Look at it
in our own district, in our own state!
Look at the Bill King campaign
Bill had made a quarter of
million in Washington as an outside lob
byist. He thought he might just as well
make half a million dollars year as
congressman as hundred thousand a
year that he made as postmaster. Bill said
if he was member Of congress he could
make half million a year, and Bill
came back here, and he spent, it
was admitted, hundred thousand
dollars to secure his election
The Pioneer Press the organ of his
party,) denounced his practices and used
this strong and terrific language; che has
sent the
NAKED sTRUMHEr OF CORRUPTION
striding through the district, opening its
shameful markets at every crossroads,
buying and selling men like sheep and cat
tie at the SHAMELESS" He corrupted our
delegates at our conventions; purchased
votes; there was no depth of rascality
into which he did not descend. Up in the
Northwest, along the line of the Missis-
sippi river, in a non-settled country and
where there was scarcely any people, Bill
chartered steamboat, filed it with his
retainers; fairly piled on it all
sorts of delicious viands
and champaign, and they filled it full of
dulcet beverages, and sailed up that river
and in every county they passed they held
a county convention laughter on the
steamboat and elected Bill delegate to
the convention. The boat was one scene
of confusion; of drunkenness; of debauch-
ing orgies. So debauched and
shameful we're their actions that
it is historic fact that
poor negro who was there as delegate
from one of those unsettled counties, fell
overheard and was drowned, and, my
friends, it is said that when he fell into that
river he went plump through into hell!
Here Mr.. Donnelly was seized with
sudden dizziness which lasted for a few
moments, after which he proceeded.
He said he guessed it was what the Irish
man called the rush of brains to the head.