Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-10
ST. PAUL, Oct. 9, 1883.
To the Editor of the Globe.

ST. PAUL, Oct. ., 1883.
To the Editor of the Globe
| Our illustrious statesman and reformer
has again taken to the columns of the
newspaper, evidently with sincere reluc-
lance. he says have appealed from the
court to the newspapers. He will find
in the end that propose to meet him and
beat him anywhere and everywhere. When
he arrested Mitchell and myself he filled
the columns of the Pioneer Press for sew
eral days, with flaming accounts of his
great exploits. He got himself interview
d by the reporter. Heshad his false Aft
davits published in full in a newspaper at
Duluth. He personally procur-
ed flaming dispatches to be sent to
the leading newspapers of
the country procIaiming that Governor
William R. Marshall had captured den of
thieves ara conspirators, and was entitled
to the thanks of the country, etc., etc.
| Finally got after him in the newspa-
pers, and then he began to whine like q
kicked puppy about my appealing my case
to the newspapers. wish to call your at
tention to the fact that William R. Marshall
in his letter of this morning does not deny
or attempt to disprove any one of
THE SERIOUS CHARGES MADE AGAINST HIM
in my letter of the 9Th inst. He whines
aud pettifogs and throws a little dust in
the air, and supposes perhaps that the
people ara so verdant and gullible that
they take his hypocritical lodging for
an answerto my charges.
| charged among other things:
| First-That he has dismissed all his
| criminal prosecutions, except the
| case against Mitchell and myself, .and is
| pushing our case to beat Mitchell out of
his commission.
! Does he deny it! No.
| Second-I charged that, "after I was ar
rested personal friend of Marshalrs ap-
preached me, as he said, on behalf of Mar
| shall and advised me that if I would go to
Marshall and make confession implicit
ing Mitchell and fixing the charge on him
beyond escape, that my case would be
quietly dropped"
| Marshall by his silence admits this
statement to be true.
| Third charged that while acting as
special agent of the interior department
and up to recently he occupied a desk in
the Office OF the Minnesota Iron com pany
and was at times in their employ,
ETC., and expected to be land
commissioner of their railroad, and
that he occupied that position towards the
company when and while he was examin-
ing and reporting on their presumption
claims. &C., and that in the meantime he
| borrowed a large sum of money from Il
prominent officer of that company.
| Marshall fails to deny these facts.
Fourth. said that 'W. II. Bassett, of
| Drluth, informed me that he personally
took VIM. R. Marshall to Vermiilion to
examine the company's presumption
| claims; that there was not man on the
claims at the time and that the shanties
were mere excuses for pre- emption shan
ties"
| Now mark how our sanctimonious old
dodger answers that charge.
| He procures from Bassett who is in the
employ of the Iron company the following
denial?::
st. PAUL, Oct. 81 have read the article in
! the GLOBE of this date in which reference is
made to me as authority for the statement that
VIM. r. Marshall failed to report the true char
acter of the presumption claims examined by
/ MN at fefInllllOn Lake III EeDfutlry; 1907. Inc
statement is not true.''
Mark you, Ihad not referred to Mr.
Bassett as authority for any such state
nient at all. This is sheer pettifogging,
| unworthy Of any man who ever occupied
the gubernatorial chair of Minnesota.
The illustrious reformer knows this as
| and no denial at all.
Mr.. Bassett who is naturally DESTROYS of
helping Marshall shield the Iron Company,
goes on to say that Marshall did correctly
report the absence Of Improvements on all
the claims, etc.
Now, the fact is, Marshail's official re-
ports were made to the commissioner of
the general land Office and are on file
there, and Mr.. Ba5sett confessed to-day il
the presence of R. G. Mitchell, Daniel
Howard and myself that all he knew abont
Marshall's reports was what Marshall and
Jefferson (his pet rat-terrier) told him last
| ght when they begged him to sign that
note.
Let Marshall publish his official report on
the Iron company's claims. Il will speak
for itself. lie dare not publish it. have
seen it, and know that if ever published
| here where the character and value of the
lands Ere known, Marshall will stand in
| the eyes'of the public as the tool of thu
Iron company. The com pany's iron lands
are situate in township 81, range Is. Mar
shall reported on those presumption
| claims, substantially, that the timber was
all burned off the lands, and the lands
were not worth $1.25 per acre. So the
government was not harmed if the pre-
| emptions were not bona fide. When he
made that report he knew that those lands
were worth
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS,
| on account of the splendid iron mines on
them. ''The lands were all
| burned oyer, and therefore of no
! yalue.'' All, indeed, sanctimonious
reformer! The lands were all burned over
and the iron all burned out of them, of
| course! This sort of special pettifoRging
and shyster lying is peculiar to our meek
| and lowly reformer, and worthy of the
man who brings false criminal charges
against his political enemies to satisfy his
personal spite, but is it not too low
and too mean for any man who ever occu-
pied the chair that Alexander Ramsey
honored?
| Marshall says he had an order from the
commissioner of the general land Office to
examine and report on township g. r. %,
| &C., &c. Twas quite well aware that he
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