Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-28

Legislature services pay. In 1856 railroad L
charter was obtained from Minneapolis to |
st. Cloud. In 1864 the charter was |
amended to provide for branch from St. l
Cloud to point where Hinckley now is on
the Duluth road. To this charter swamp |
land grant of four sections to the |
mile was attached, which was to |
expire in 1872. In 1869 the grant |
was extended for the main line to 1876. |
The same session of the legislature |
grant for ten sections to the mile
for the branch from st. Cloud to |
Hinckley was secured, this grant to run
until 1873. In 1879, year after the road
should have been built to secure the grant,
legislation was secured renewing the grant
and extending it to 1885. Gilman.s han
diwork in keepingthe charter alive was Wis
ible but it was not until the session of 1881
that his fine work was actually developed.
The parties owning the charter negotiated
with Mr.. Hill of the Manitoba road to
sell it, but the terminal restrictions were
not satisfactory, and Mr.. Hill would not
purchase unless he could have some lati-
tude, and not be restricted to connecting
with the Duluth road at Hinckley. Char
ley Gilman was lieutenant governor and
president of the senate. He made the
committees and was otherwise potential in.
legislative affairs. Being a resident of st.
Cloud it also gave him local power as he
could assume to be looking after the inter-
ests of his immediate local constituency.
In fact he held the whip
row and to secure the legisla
ton which would make the charter saleable
it was necessary to propeitiate Gilman.
The way to do that can be summed up in
| the one word, cash. The direc-
| tiors of the road could secure
$4,000 for their charter and grant if they
could secure the legislation making the
terminal change. Public interest demand
ed the change, because capitalists were
ready, in that event, to build the road, but
public interests weighed nothing with
the corrupt Charley Gilman, when his pri-
vate interests were in the balance. The
directors of the road and owners of the
grant, rather than lose their opportunity,
decided to purchase Gilman.
The price finally agreed upon for his servi-
ces in securing the necessary legislation was
EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
| DOLLARS. That settled it. The terminus
was changed, the sale of the charter and
grant made and Gilman was paid his blood
by the men who owned the grant.
The road is now nearly completed but the
people in Mile Lac and other counties
who have secured the valuable improve
ment are under no obligation to Charley
Gilmad, His services brought cash.
This is the delectable creature who is now
bowling about the state and circulating de-
liberate lies relative to corruption. He is
the man who started the now exploded
falsehood against Mr.. Barnum, the Demo-
cratic nominee. He is the
man who more than any other
has slanderously assailed the regular nom
inee of his own party, Mr.. Kindred, during
this entire campaign. He is the man who
is roaming about begging votes
for Nelson on the ground
that Nelson represents honesty and
virtue. When such men are the repository
of honor it is libel on the defenceless
dumb animal to say that virtue has flea
to british beasts
And when we say, what is an undis-
puted fact, that Charley Gilman (price
$4,000 is a fair type of the
men who are supporting the Republican
bolter-Knuty Nelson-the whole issue in
the Fifth District is stated in nutshell.
It is fit that such a campaign should
have for its champions and allies, the: Min
neapolis Pioneer Press and Tribune, papers
which represent all the concentrated
scoun :relism of journalism.