Morris tribune., 1882-11-02
A SQUELCHER.
Pioneer Press and Minneapolis Tribune
Islander of Mr.. Kindred Exposed.
Mr.. Kindred Nerer Otvned the Lands
Decided to the Northern Pacific Road.

To the editor of the Evening Journal: A
quarrel between Republicans as to which
stole from his employer is not generally of
sufficient interest to a Democrat to need
any notice; the thing is too common. But
when one of the great guard dians of the
public morals undertakes to answer, edi-
torially, an inquiry as to specific act of
a specific candidate, he is supposed to tell
the truth, if he knows how. In this morn
ing's issue of the Tribune appears an in
quiry from some one as TO the charges of
corrupt practices made against Mr.. G. F.
Kindred. The editor replies that Mr..
Kindred, having been charged with ''em-
beZzlement," hurried off to New York
and made his peace with his prosecutors
by making restitution of large part of the
piunder in his, possession"
Now to be plain in what have to say,
and that there may be no misunderstand-
ing on the part of the Tribune as to what
| mean, brand this statement as an un-
mitigated falsehoOd, without one particle
of foundation in fact. | assert, moreover
that the statement made some weeks ago
by the Tribune that Mr.. Kindred decided
back to the Northern Pacific railroad
company a certain tract or tracts contain
ing five thousand acres of Dakota land is
also a falsehood. [ also assert that the
statement made some time ago in the same
paper to the effect that MI. Kindred decided
to the railroad company a hundred and
three lots in Fargo on which the Northern
Pacific buildings stand, worth probably
$5O,OOO as partial settlement of the COM
pany's "claim" against him, is as refresh
ing a lie as it has been my good fortune to
hear of or read. in this fertile age of lies.
don't claim to know much regarding
the tortuous ways of Republican candi-
dates; but being the person who owned
and decided the Fargo lots in question to
the railroad company, must be pardoned
if assume to know something about the
transaction. AS for that five thousand
acres, Mr.. Kindred never had anything
more to do with it than the editor of the
Tribune.
Ifthe Tribune has been misinformed in
regard to these charges against Mr.. Kin
dred, it should certainly be willing to drop
the malicious persecution with which it
has followed him from the start, and ad-
nit that it has been misinformed. But if
the constant repetition of these charges
knowing them to be false, is a part Of the
"Republican plan" of conducting cam
paign, why, have nothing more to say.
But desire one thing to be distinctly un-
derstood BY the Tribune, and that is, that
am ready toprove by official copies of
the records of the counties in which the
PROSTITUTION" took place, that my state
ments are true, and all others, whether
made by the Tribune, or any of the other
moral refOrmers who are arrayed under
the banner of that great and good man,
Charlie Gilman, chief striker for Knute
| Nelson, are false. ss'. |'-
1t the Tribune does not see fit to make
the "amende honorable" it will probably
suggest that a Republican is in sorry
strait to be oblge to go to Democrat for
a character. It is mere matter of friend
ship and as Mr.. Kindred is a "new man."
and as all the old oracles seem to have
been retained either to defend or traduce
Senator Window, General Washburn OF
Mr.. DuGnell; | have given the facts unso-
licited by any one. If supposed that Mr..
Barnum stood any sh ow of an election in
the Fifth district, perhaps my Democracy
would get the best of myveracity, and this
campaign lie, or rather argument would
have gone Uncontradicted.
G. Nc. REEVE.
Minneapolis, Oct. 26, 1882.