Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-28
BLAINE'S ROTHERINTERyIEWED
Cornell Returns Thanks for Repudi.
alton OF Fraud.
POLITICAL NOTES ALL ABOUT.

Il Campaign FatscIiOod Exploded.
To the Editor of the Evening journal:
A quarrel between Republicans as to
whlcn stole from his employer is not gen
orally of sufficient interest to Democrat
to need any notice; the thing is too COM
mon. But when one OF the great guar
dians of the public morals undertakes to
answer, -editorially. an inquiry as to spe-
cifc act of specific candidate, he is sup
posed to tell the truth, if he knows how.
In this mornings issue of the Tribune ap-
pears an inquiry from some one as to the
charges of corrupt practices made again st
Mr.. c. F. Kindred. The editor replies that
Mr.. Kindred, having been charged with
s'embezzelment," hurried off to New York
and made his peace with his prosecutor by
making restitution of large part of the
plunder in his possession"
Now to be plain in what I 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 I assert. moreover.
that the statement made some weeks ago
by the Tribune that Mr.. Kindred decided
back to the NorthernPacifc Railroad com
pany certain tract OR tracts containing
5000 acres of Dakota land, is also false
hood. l also assert that the statement
made some time ago in the same paper to
the effect that Mr.. Kindred decided to the
railroad company 1O3 lots in Fargo on
which the Northern Pacific buildings
stand, worth probably $4,000, as partial
settlement of the comAny's ''claim"
against him, is as refreshing lie as it has
been my good fortune to hear of or read,
in this fertile age of lies.
I 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 1 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.
If the Tribune has been misinformed in
regard to these charges against Mr.. Kind
red, it should certainly be willing to drop
the malicious persecution with which it
has followed him from the start, and
admit 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 con-
Quoting campaign, why have nothing
more to say. But desire one thing to be
distinctly understood by the Tribune, and
that is, that am ready to prove by official
copies of the records of the count ties in
which the restitution took place, that m v
statements are true, and all others, wheth-
er made by the Tribune, or any of the
other moral reformsrs who are arrayed
under the banner of that great and good
man, Charlie Gilman, chief striker fo,
Knute Nelson, are false.
If the Tribune do es not see fit to make
the ''amende honorable" it will probably
suggest that Republican is in a sorr ,
strait to be obliged to go to a Democra
for character. It is mere matter OF
friendship, and as Mr.. Kindred is new
man." and as all the old oracles seem tc
have been retained cit her to defend or ira
~duce Senator Window, Gen. Washburn O,
Mr.. Dunnell, I have given the facts un
solicited by any one. If I supposed tha
Mr.. Barnum stood any show of election il
the fifth district, perhaps my Democrac,
would get the better of my veracity, and
this campaign lie, or rather argument,
would have gone uncontradicted.
G. McC. REEVE.
Minneapolis, Oct. 26, 1882.
Il Lively Meeting at SassE R@pids.