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

tence, and leave out the rest-publish
part to misrepresent and falsify its mean
ing.
We had some years ago in Philadelphia
lawyer,
DISHONEST SCAMP.
and he was arguing one day before the
court and he took law book and out of it
he read passage on his side of the case
and just as in this case there were some
explaining words that would entirely al
ter the tenor of what he read. He stopped
short there at the commencement of
those explaining words. The judge, who
was astonished at such law, said: "Will
you let me look at that book?" The law
yer, fearful to hand it up to the judge,
fumbled it with his hands so he let it drop,
| and then pretended he had lost his place.
The judge insisted that the book should be
handed up to him, 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 laughter, and now Mr..
Washb1rn asks you people, whose rights
| under the pre-emption law and homestead
law he has sought to take away-he asks
you to elect him back again and say,"Well
done, good and 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 little boy who in disobe'
disnce to the wishes of his parents went
! fishing on the Sabbath day. A companion
! net him the next day and SAYS: Johnny,
did you catch anythingr 'Not until I got
home.' Laughter. Mr.. Washburn has
come home. hope he will catch it on
Tuesday next. Great applause.
| Carl Schurz had spent half million
of dollars to find out the men who had
stolen lumber from government land. He
went to New York ana 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 800 an acre-after
he had got all the timber and was liable to
go to the states prison-that if he would
go in there and 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
thereCi in congress and fought it
tooth and toe nail. [Applause]. And they
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 so mean that they commence suits
against these poor men for the recovery of
the horses. These fellows combine to-
| gether and elect man to congress, and he
goes there and gets a law made that if any
man is charged with stealing horses
and he will return the saddles the suits are
terminated. Great laughter and APP
| plause.
| Well, my friends. this is the work for
which he expects your support on Tuesday
| next.
| I do not say anything but what my
| Republican friends will endorse when I
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 quarter of
a million in Washington as an outside lob
byist. He thought he might just as well
| make half million dollars a year as
congressman as a hundred thousand a
year that he made as postmaster. Bill said
if he was a member Of congress he could
| make half a million 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 sTRUMHET 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 non-settled country and
where there was scarcely any people, Bill
chartered steamboat, filed 1t with his
retainers; fairly piled on it all
sorts of delicious viands
and champaign, and they filed it full of
dulcet beverages, and sailed up that river
and in every county they passed they held
q 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 were 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, tits said that when he Hinto that
river be went plump through int helli
| Here Mr.. Donnelly was seized with a
sudden dizziness which lasted for few
moments, after which he proceeded.
He said he guessed it was what the Irish
man called the rush of brains to the head.
Laughter.