Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-03
NE IIC11CS OF TIE .TINE KING
GfNG EXI'OSEI1.

I1I IICIICS OF IKE .EINE KING
GANG EXIO&E1.
The position which Mr.. .Bsynum. eccu-
shows the difficulty which a politiealcan-
Gidate labcrs under when hebegins news
paper controversy with an INSCRIPTIONS
and lying enemy. Charley Gilman, the
chairman of the boiling Nelson-W wash
burn pine ring gang, started the false
hood that E;lrnum had sold. cut to Kindred
for $1,000, and that the Democratic COM
mites was party to the sale. In the out
burst of Indignation at being thus villifed
Mr.. Barnum wrote a denial as emphatic as
language could make it Among decent
or honorable men st would at
once have been accepted as
conclusive, but he should have
thing as fair play at the hands of; the in
famous Gilman Gordon Washburn=Nelson-
wheelocknettleton gang Of scoundrels.
They simply added to the original insult
by reiterating the charge and going. into
detailed argument to provetha the origin
al GilEsn lie was correct. Stung
by this continued baseness. Mr.. Rarnum
repeated his denial and declared in the
most positive terms that he was not only
in the field.ta stay, but neither Kindred or
his friends had made the slightest overture
to secure his Eetirement. This second en-
phatic. denial was substantiated by SINH
lar denial OF the part of the chairman
OF the Democratic District committee,
Hon. Robert Miller, mayer of Fergus
Falls. Those Sdenials received the same
treatment, an& both gentlemen continue,
to be besmirched by the pine ring. who.
tcontinne their les and laugh at the dis.
Chalmers.
These facts are on par with the entire,
pine ring campaign in that district. The
refusal of the ring thieves to credit the
word of Messrs. BGrnum and Miller. is not
SO much to reflect upon those gentlemen,
as to carry out the falsehoods they have,
from the outset, been circulating against
the regular Republican candidate-Mr..
Kindred. The ring thieves began
their campaign of lies and corrup
ton by accusing Mr.. Kindred of
attempting to buy his election
and the positive evidence that they had lied
in this matter, would discredit all of their
infamous falsehoods of the past three
months. Hence the brazen rascals deter
mined to put on bold front. and endeavor
to lie the thing through 1Fa
This barefaced policy is, of it.
self. sufficient refutation of the av-
alanche of falsehood which has been
the stock in trade of this infamous gang,
relative to Kindred's Northern Pacific
transactions, his conduct Of the campaign,
ETC., etc. It stamps their canvass through
out as an infamous tissue of lies, with no
other basis to rest upon,and should cause
such reaction in the Fifth district as to
wipe the pine ring gang from the face of
the earth.
While these false accusations of corrup-
ton heve been SO freely hurled against
Kindred, the Gilman Gordon gang, with
their pockets lined with funds supplied by
the pine thieves, have been permeating the
district with their agents, who are literally |
supplied with swag, and hope to
conceal their own nefarious |
acts by the hue and cry raised against
their opponents.
If the Kindred faction were pursuing a |
similar policy, they could have a much |
more formidable basis for assailing their
opponents in the same direction. Mr..
Cowing, of Alexandria, a Democrat,
but notorious champion of
his to xnsman, Knute Nelson, has Swallowed