Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-05


glad to speak here for his friend, Dr. Ames,
whom he had known and respected and
honored since twenty five years ago, when
he, the speaker, was editing newspaper
down in Hastings, and DR.. Ames was the
printers devil of his Office.
Washburn has attempted
THE MOST GIGANTIC STEAL
and piece of rascality over proposed in
this country-has sought to strike the pre-
emption act and to repeal it and suspend
the operation of the homestead law over
millions of acres in Minnesota and Dako-
ia. His scheme was to concentrate into
one reservation the whole tribe of Chippe-
wa and other Indians and to dispose of
their lands. These Indians live in the
woods and their lands are covered with the
pine necessary for the future supply of
lumbe, for jour children and your chill
dren's children. He proposes
to get possession of this land
by repeating the presumption law.
Whoever puts his hand upon this law
strikes blow at the people. 1t Is the
hope of every man some day to get
home upon this public land, the property
of the government. The speaker next re-
ferred to Washburn's election over Gen.
Sibley, and in return he undertakes to
strike down the pre-emption act. Can any
one deny, after reading the bill introduced
by Washburn, that this great wrong was
attempted by him? He then referred to
the terms of the bill and to the difficulty
of obtaining copy of the law, which he
finally found in a copy of Grand
Forks paper. He read extracts from
the bill and pointed out the fact that
Washburn's defenders and notably Min
neapolis paper had in quoting the act,
purposely omitted the claim whereby no
limit was fixed to the amount of the char
acter of the land referred to, pine and
timber land, that could be purchased by
any one Individual. He then showed how
Washburn might step forward and pur-
chase all this land to the exclusion of the
poor man. Both Washburn and his news
paper have
DELIBERATELY LIED ABOUT THE BILL.
The will had failed temporarily to be-
come law. But if you send Washburn
back again, he will work through this
gigantic fraud. Just think of man who
will lie about matter and of a newspaper.
that will leave out part of sentence to
misrepresent and falsify IFS meaning. He
related the incident of Philadelphia law
yer, who was disbarred by the judge for
reading from a law book, and emitting
part of sentence in order to misrepresent
its meaning. Such man in this country
would be sent to Congress. Laughter. |
Carl Schurz has spent half a million
of dollars to find out who had stolen tim
Der from government land, and had ascer-
tanned the amount of the robbery by
measuring the stumpage but Washburn had
rendered all his efforts nugatory by intro
ducing and passing bill allowing the man
who had deprecated upon government
lands to settle up the score by paying
$1.25 per acre and going scott free. He
illustrated the case by reference to horse
stealing, and said under such law any
man charged with this crime, who would
return the saddle, would be allowed to 90
without punishment.
The speaker next paid his respects to
BILL KING
who some years ago had himself elected
to congress in order that he might have a
million dollars year instead of the hun
dred thousand he made as postmaster. He
referred to Bills famous campaign and
told the story of his famous steamboat ex-
cursion through several of the northern
counties, in which caucuses were held on
the boat and primaries fixed upon one
in the excursion fell over board and was
drowned. Laughter When that un-
fortunate contraband passed below, he
was met by his satanic majesty, whom
he mistook for Bill, and thinking he
was still alive shouted out: "Don't be hard
on me, Massa Bill fer Pm gwine to vote for
you anyhow"
The speaker next referred to Washburn's
candidacy four years ago, and read from
the report of the committee on elections
on the Washburn-Donnelly contest, in
which they find Washburn
GUILTY OF BRIBERY
three hundred and four cases being
proved against him. The com
nittee also say there was abundant
evidence of the use of money, especially in
Minneapolis. Think of a member of con-
gress, branded in such manner by COM
mittee of the house to which he belongs.
Think of returning such man to
the national house of representatives!
Politics has become means for the dis
tribution of money; he might say fer the
distribution of overcoats. Laughter. I
In the Fifth district it has become shame
less; it is open and notorious. If persisted
in it will terminate as it did in Rome.
where the army sold the highest Office,
that of emperor. The American republic
did not stand in such danger of destruction
when Lees legions were massed in sight
of the capital as it does to-day, if such
course is all to go unrebuked. The man
who corrupts the people will steal to
get back the money he has expended.
He next touched upon the tariff question
and alluded to test vote in the last con-
gress, when proposition was made to
put trace chains on the free list. on which