Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-28
BLAINE's BROTHERINFERyIEWED
Cornell Returns Thanks for ReDudi.
alton OF Fraud.
POLITICAL NOTES ALL ABOUT
Il CdM9aiO:e T'GfscAOOd Exploded.

Il CdmpaiO:e EalschOod Exploded
To the Editor Of the Evening journal:
A quarrel between Republicans as to
which 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.. G. F. Kindred The editor replies that
Mr.. Kindred, having been charged with
''elnbezzelmentt,' hurried of to New York
and made his peace with his prosecutor by
making restitution of a large part of the
plumber in his possession.'
Now to be plain in what have to say,
and that there may be no misunderstand-
ing on the part of the Tribune as to what
l mean, brand this statement as an I'M
mitigated falsehood, without one particle
Of foundation IL fact. I assert, moreover,
that the statement made some weeks ago
by the Tribune that Mr.. Kindred decided
back to the Northern Pacific 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 a partial
settlement of the company's claim
against him, is as refreshing lie as it has
been my good fortune to hear of or read.
il this fertile age of lies. Tf
1 don't claim to know much regarding
the tortuous ways of repubiican candi-
dates; but being the person who owned
and decided the Fargo lots in question to
the railroad company, I must be pardoned
If l 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
part of the Republican plan'' of con-
Quoting a campaign, why have nothing
more to say. But I 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 my
statements are true, and all others, wheth-
er made by the Tribune, or any of the
other moral reformsrs who are arraved
under the banner of that great and good
man, Charlie Gilman, chief striker for
Knute Nelson, are false.
If the Tribune do es not see fit to make
the ''amende honorable" it will pro baby
suggest that Republican is in a sorry
strait to be obliged to go to Democrat
for character. It is a mere matter of
friendship, and as Mr.. Kindred is a new
man, and as all the old oracles seem to
have been retained either to defend or ira
duce Senator Window, Gen. Washburn or
Mr.. Dunnell, I have given the facts un-
solicited by any one. If supposed that,
Mr.. Barnum stood any show of election in
the fifth district, perhaps my Democracy
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.