The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-22
WINDOW AND HIS TRADUCERS.

lNUUM ANU uln lnhUUUunp,
The Patient and Long Suffering
Senator Finally Unlimbers His
Tardy but Effective Artillery.
And Discharges Calling Gun Volley al
the Newspaper Quartet Which is
Pursuing Him.
A Choice Company OF Libelcrs, Black
maiIers and Prison Birds-HIs Imag-
mary weaith--The Saw Dust Bill.
Pioneer Press 10th.
A Pioneer Press reporter called on
Senator Window at the Merchants
Hotel last evening, and found hin
very sanguine and unusually com
municative with reference to pOliti
cal affairs. He said he had received
u great deal of information rs to the
sentiment Of the people on the sena
torial question. and he believed his
prospects were never better thar
now. If the election of senator
could he submitted to vote of the
people. he was confident he would re-
ceive more than two to one over nj
his competitors. and he had no doubt
the Legislature will fairly represent
the people on that question.
What has been the effect of the
attacks upon you by certain news
papers 7"
IF i can Judge from the expires
siOns that came to me from all quar-
tiers, they have had no effect except
10 strengthen me with the people, and
to disgust everybody who has any
regard for truth or decency. Should
you like to have me gave sketch OF
the newspaper quartet whose impO-
tent knowledge have bored and dis.
gusted the small circle of readers they
have been able to reach"
Yes if you are willing to furnish
them the Pioneer Press will place them
on exhibition before the people of the
State"
"Well. the first to which will in
vlte attention is called the Grand
Army Journal, and purpOrts to he
printed in Washington City. l am
informed that Il recent copy has been
sent by interested parties in large
numbers for distribution to the Grand
Army posts in this State. and its
scurrilous and defamatory articles
will doubtless be republished by the
other parties to this libelous conspir.
acv. This paper has no circulation
in Washington, and very little else.
where, except, rs in this case, where
persons having political ends to oh.
serve. purchase copies for gratuitOus
distribution. 1t purports to be
the representative of the soldier
when in fact the Grand Army has
expressly repudiated and denounced
it as unworthy of the soldiers conf.
dence. TO avoid the effect of this, il
fraudulently parades at the head Of
it's columns resolution of the Grand
Army, passed eleven years ago, Ell
dorsing the Grand Army J0uradt
when it was edited by an honorable
soldier. instead of the Matchmaking
scOundrel who now controls it. 1t.
present manager and proprietor is
one Amos II. Tissell, who obtained
control of it Il few months ago, an(
whose infamous character is so wei
known in Washington City that nj
respectable man would be seen in hi.
company. The records of his villainy
can he found at any time on the file:
of the army department. Senator
Sherman thus describes him in I
sworn statement made before com
mittee of the senate last winter:
"Mr. Bissell never heard of unit
the summer of 1880. During tn,
presidential campaign an official re
port came to me from man WHIT
claimed to be an inspector of customs
signing himself '.Bissell.' IL wa
brought to ne, and in that he said h,
had been run out of Texas for hi
political opinions, and went OH ant
detailed circumstances which, if true
would show that because he was
Republican he had been run out O
Texas by the Democrats. i said tina
l would not allow any officer unde
my department to be oppressed or in
iured on account of his political op
inions, especially for being a Repub
lican, and l therefore ordered tina
Bissell should be transferred to New
York and set to work at the sam,
business. He was sent there, bu
soon after this was done word com
menced coming to the department
that BiSsell lied, deceived and mislet
me. and that he was great scOun
drel. That word came from Texas
from officers of the United States il
Texas, among the rest the distric
attorney and other officers.
Finally, after a second inquiry, we re
ceived the official statement made il
letters, and formal reports, made 10y
the district attorney, an officer of the
department of justice--made by al
officer of the revenue marine-madt
by the Collector of the port of Calves
ton, and finally Agent Moore. whose
business it was to look into such con
duct. The reports of these officers
are on file in the treasury depart
ment, and us Il matter of course, they
are much better evidence than any
recollection of them, although have
recently read them. wish simply
to say, that Bissell man is an unmiti
gated scOundrel and liar, and. as the
officers call him, dead beat and q
fraud. wish further to state that
this man Bissell came on here after
he had been dropped, and tried to get
into office through Mr.. Window my
successor. AS matter of course,
Mr.. Lamphere. IN whose charge all
these matters were, and who prObab.
y never said word about Bissell,
WAS the special object of hostility of
this man BisSell, because he had
charge of the papers which related to
his appointment. Some time in July
last, after Bissell had failed to get
restored, Secretary Window received
an anonymous letter, of which Ihave
a copy, and is in the handwriting OF
this man Bissell, as 1 am informed.
l will read the copy:
Secretary WindOm-Sir: / see you
are still keeping that appointment
clerk. George u. Lamphere. He is a
Catholic son of a b-h, and as dirty
dog as ever lived. Now we will
give you until Aug. |, 1881, to get rid
of this dog. III you do not see to this
you will get shot down at the first
chance after Aug. l, 1881. Now you
see to this, or good bye.
BUSINESS.
"This is the portrait of one of my
traducers, as drawn by Senator Sher-
man under oath. 1t appears OH pages
800 and 8O7 of the report of the com
mittee on appropriations. Twill only
add that upon receipt of his indecent
and threatening letter in July, 1881,
/ placed it in the hands of the treas
nrv experts, who unhesitatingly pro.
nOunced it his. ] did not prosecute