Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-31

ne. 100, was CduO1udCo, DuI Ho WdIoO OUT
that the st. Cloud land ring were oppos-
ed to him-''it was anything to beat
Gilman" During the reading of these
letters, Gilman was in.t hall, and heard
them, and Col. Johnston called on him to
publicly deny any statement he made,
but not peep was heard from Charlie.
Reing proved a liar in his own handwriting
he burg his head and said nothing. AS
to the statement in the pamphlet that s.
G. Comstock and Gov. Barto were Ssintim-
idated'' at Detroit, Col. Johnston asked if
any reasonable man Saving always Thun-
dering Gordon, who never was known to
use any reason) would believe that Mr..
Comstock, whose avoirdupois is 210 pounds
could be inundated by the gigantic E.
G. Holmes, whose weight is only 100! He
furteer asked if, too. Gov. Barto, whose
weight, including his bowels of compass
sion, is over soc, would ever be scared
by Col. Johnston, who tips the beam at
ITO.
Col. Johnston's speech was full
of sallies of wit and sarcasm, provoking
much laughter and applause among his
hearers, who know the character of Truth
full Charles and Immaculate Gordon well
enough to appreciate the address. The
colonel went into many other points which
the Nelson supporters chiefly rely upon.
and demolished them one by one.
The colonel spoke over an hour and
three quarters, and was closely listened
to. The meeting was productive of much
good.
Tbs lie About the Northern Pacific Ear
f,L0ded.
Minneapolis Journal.
We are particular to give in full what
| the alleged p. P's. history of August I'd
says about restitution, because it is upon
that that the p. P. relies to refute Mr..
Reeves emphatic denial. In that shistory''
it will be noticed that the statement is
made that Mr.. Kindred made restitution of
the l03 lots in Fargo on which the COM
pany's shops stand. Now note what the
p. p. says in it's issue of this morning:
| ''Mr. Reeve is doubtless correct in his denial
| tia the lots in Fargo decided 10 the company
by Mr.. Power were part of the stolen property
| re tored."
So it seems that Mr.. Reeves letter has
effected one point. It has extorted from
the Pioneer Press, Nelson's chief organ,
the confession that the Fargo lots were not
restored to the Northern Pacific by MIR
Kindred as bride to induce the company
to withdraw its suit. Thus considerably
more than half Of the accusation agains;
Mr.. Kindred is swept away at one fell
swoop. The p. p. alleges that a North.
ern Pacific official, who it now says, was
Vice President Cakes, wrote to Col. New
port, January II, 1882, as follows, refer
ring to the settlement with Power and Kin.
dred:
''The company has been reimbursed to ar
amount equal at least to $50 00u.'
1t may be noted that no letter contain
ing the above assertion has been published
under Vice President Cakes signature
We have only newspaper assertions to the
effect that he wrote such letter. How.
ever, we can afford to waive this point, and
admit that Mr.. Cakes did write
such letter. If he did, to VIVA,
did he manifestly refer? Why, to the Fargo
lets. They were estimated at that time to
be worth at least $4,000, and by some to
be worth from $4,000 to 100000. The
P. P. says that ''the titles to these lots was
accidentally vested in Mr.. Power at the
time the suits were instituted. But it was
understood that in this transaction he
represented the company and would turn
the lots over to the company. He simply
postponed doing so while the suits were
pending"
The above, for wonder, is a truthful
statement. We may add that the title to
the Fargo lots passed to Mr.. Reeve, and
Mr.. Reeve re-conveyed them to the com
pany on being made aware that the com
pany had an equitable title to the same
Nothing could be more direct and inno-
cent than these transactions. Instead of
telling against the integrity of Messrs.
Power and Kindred, it shows that they
were men who stood ready to carry out a
verbal agreement even at great pecuniary
sacrifice. Mr.. Reeve informs us that he
had legal advice to the effect that
his title to the lots would hold, and he
could have retained them had he been dis
posed to take advantage of technicality
1t is evident that if Mr.. Cakes wrote the
letter attributed to him by the P. p, as
serting that Power and Kindred had made
restitution of $4,000 worth of property.
he referred to this transaction of the Fargo
lots. It may be that Mr. Cakes was led to
believe that it was restitution.
or it might be that he, as
an officer of the company, put
forth this claim to cover the retreat of the
company from the suits and make it ap-
pear that the company had not been COM
pletely routed in its attempts to besmirch
the characters of Messrs. Kindred and
| Power.
In relation to the 5000 acres of land
described above in the Pioneer Press CHS
tory of Aug. 2, it will be seen that Mr..
Kindred's name nowhere appears in
the record. There is no published
statement of Vice President Cakes
claiming that Mr.. Kindred had anything
to do with these lands. There is only the
bare assertion of the Pioneer Press to that
effect. But to this assertion of the P. p.
we oppose the positive statement of Chas.
McC. Reeve, that 'Mr. Kindred never had
anything more to do with that 5000 acres
of land than the editor of the Tribune"
| We submit, also, that Mr.. Reeves reputa-
ton for vervacity in this state is quite as
good as that of the p. p, and on the whole
a little better.
Mr.. Reeves letter and the P. Prs an
swer to it, taken together, furnish a COM
plete vindication of Mr.. Kindred.