Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-13
WILSON AND WINDOW.

| WlLNUN AND WlNDUM.
They Cross Swords sni Window Gets
Excited.
Judge Thomas Wilson, of Winona, and
Senator Window of Minneapolis, have
been having brief correspondence. VIM
dom accused Wilson of having circulated
ISLANDERS about him, and the Judge stated
in reply:
charge that ere7y statement made OF o..
concerning me IN that speech so for os I
can learn by the report, is a malicious,
| icantoa, bdseless, co,oauliy f0lsehood. I
have spoken in this campaign only in the
towns of Fremont, Saratoga, st. Charles
and Lewiston. There were hundreds of
our best citizens and some of his lackeys
present to hear me. No one can be mis-
taken as to what said. His cowardice as
well as his falsehoods is made apparent by
the fact that he dared not utter these cal
umnies until the last night before election,
when he knew was in distant city, and
that there was no opportunity to expose
him until after election.
! I challenge him-the fabricator-and
| you-the publisher and endorser of these
calumnies establish by single reput-
able person the truth of one of the allega-
tons as to me. I leave it with people
whom he has attempted to deceive in such
a cowardly and mendacious manner to
say whether he and the little coterie Of
'.ph0sisees and hypocrites'' who in the back
alleys and private ways retail his false
hoods do not merit the contempt of every
honorable man.
l-'His attack was wall of despair. He
hoped that before his mendacity could be
exposed it might have some effect. Other
charges equally untrue were privately re-
tailed concerning me in almost every town
in the county. Though urged by my
friends to publish denial 1 refused to do
so, leaving the answer to the people. They
have answered. Some say that "a lie wolf
stuck to is as good as the TRUTH don't
believe, Mr.. Editor, this IS your code OF NOR
ais. /. therefore cannot doubt but that
you will denounce
ISLANDER, that fo1lest whelp OF n"
even tG.cugt the slanderer is ,ent in
your party. Yours truly,
THOMAS WILSON.
Senator Window INDUCES in an elabo-
rate reply wherein he sums up his case as
follows:
ever uttered the ISLANDERS contained in
said sheet. My charge was that by has
| completely ,Cith their circulation he had
made then, has OaC1,, and is as much re-
! sponsible for them as if they had been
uttered by his own tongue, and 1 pro-
ceeded to criticise his conduct in plain
terms. Judge W. also says: II did MOI re-
peat in my speech referred to Or at any
time any such charges against him
as he refers to- The people
Of this city who have heard
:he ISLANDERS he has repeated over and over
again against my personal character for
the last thiri cen years will read that state
ment with some surprise. In almost every
political speech ne has made during that
time he has INDUCED in charges against
my character, and have heard of his
whispered ISLANDERS from hundreds of per-
sons whom he sought to poison, but have.
remained silent until forbearance ceased
to be virtue. When 1 caught him in COM
plicity with the disreputable characters who.
we're spreading these falsehoods broadcast
ever the county / denounced the act in
terms which every right minded, honest
man III that audience approved. Judge
Wilson says: HE dared not utter these
calunnies until the last night before cleo
ton when he knew was in distant city,
etc. To which | reply that the paper which
contained the charges against myself was
not published until Saturday evening, and
did not know of Judge Wilson's partici-
patton in its circulation until two hours be-
fore denounced it on Monday evening.
He returned from the distant city" Of st.
Charles early the next morning.
He says he left the answer to the people,
and ''they have answered. True, they
answered in this city where alone my
speech was known on the day of the cleo
tion) by giving him a smaller majority
, than any other Democratic candidate on
3 the congressional or legislative ticket. His
[ mans by 125, and less than Bucks by 100
5 votes. He was beaten in his own ward by
!, forty votes, and even G. F. Buck received
twelve votes more than he did in his Will
: son's) own ward, thus upon his own theory
justifying my classification of the Iva
I men.
As for the striking coarseness and vnl-
garity'' of my speech I am happs~ to
? abide the judgment of the many humid
reds of ladies and gentlemen, com prising
a large proportion of Wino1a's best citi
zens, who listened with such evident in
terest and approval. Very many of these
have expressed their unqualified appro-
baton of my remarks, and but ole, SO fan
as know, has deprecated their uttsrance
his objection being, as understood, based
upon the belief that had been n1isin
formed as to the part Judge wilson has
has taken in disseminating those cainui-
MES. Very truly yours, WILLIl.N i .Nt.os4
Sy,.,no%,,y rrvoo %,,,a~4
On Saturday night man named Law
renee, an an;lmaker, was very much
mistreated at a saloon on Carroll street,
near Harrington avenue, kept by a man
named Esch. Lawrence went into the sa.