Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-17

here to friend in good or bad cause,
are morally certain, sir, that Mr.. King
went to Canada to screen your candidate
here, and they believe, sir, if Mr.. King had
not sacrificed himself for the benefit of
VIM. Window, but had gone be-
fore that committee and confessed to-,
what he did with that money
Mr.. Window would not be. here to-day
asking for renewed honors at the hands of
a betrayed people.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.
Again, Mr.. Speaker, Mr.. WINDOWS con-
nection with the Northern Pacific Railroad
company has been a shabby disgrace to
our state from first to last. The history
of his connection with that gigantic en-
terprise and that mammoth steal is the
history of dishonest representative en-
riching himself out of the patrimony of
the people through the influence of the
power incident TO his position. Why, sir,
the people at his home believe that every
dollar of interest, every dollar of stock
which he ever paid in that corporation.
was paid for by votes in congress. There
might have been a sham sale, there
might have been an arrangement wherein
it was made to appear that he paid some
thing for his interest, but the considera-
ton, sir, the valid consideration was
his betrayal of his people.
And the falsehORds that that poor GREG
ture has had to tell, direct, circumstantial
and inferential, to cover up his tracks and
hide his real connection with that great
swindle, must have been a source of ex-
quisite pleasure to him who is regarded as
the prince of liars" His whole life, sir,
in connection with that enterprise, has been
lie. 1t was his duty, and he pretended
to act in the interest of the people, but the
people are impoverished, while he has built
up for himself colossal fortune. Does any
body believe, sir, that Mr.. Window thought
he was acting in the interest of the peo-
pie when he voted away 100000 acres of
the peoples land, under the pretense of
aiding in the construction of railroad !?
Why, sir, there is land enough to build two
railroads across the continent. Does
anybody believe that Mr.. Window thought
he was acting in the proper in
terest when with his pockets crammed
with the stocks of the company he went
into congress and asked for subsidy for
that company in addition to the land al
ready granted. This last great move of
Mr.. Window to promote the public good
was defeated, I suppose, by some wicked
members of congress. Had it not been for
that, sir, Mr.. Window would probably have
sold his interest for millions instead of
hundreds of thousands as is now reported.
These facts and circumstances, Mr..
Speaker, taken in connection with the fact
that Mr.. Window went to congress hope
lessly involved in debt, and that to-day his
fortune is estimated by the millions land it
is not estimated too high, Notwithstanding
his weak denials and silly prevarications)
and comes back to a people he has wronged
and betrayed bloated with wealth, plethoric
with money, aping the imperial Conkling
in his character of political boss, as Fal
staff aped the mighty warriors
of his day. And he traVerses our state, 60
ing from county to county, from caucus to
caucus, from convention to convention,
with herd of official dependents at his
heels debauching the politics of our state
with the money he has stolen from the
people. Such, Mr.. Speaker, is the char
acter of this man as understood by a
people, among whom he has lived for more
than a quarter of a century, and that
people, sir. are an intelligent people, a
people who revere nobility of character,
who honor and respect every attribute of
genuine manhood, yet believing this man
to be the very incarnation of corruption,
knowing him to be an inflated humbug, a
sanctifed fraud, they spew him out of
their mouths, wash their hands of all part
or lot in this attempt to further dishonor
our state by his reelection to the United
States senate, and denounce him to the
people of the state as unworthy of the
confidence and esteem of every right
minded and patriotic citizen of the state.