Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-10

appeared at the Duluth land office to
prove up, in August last, you went there
with your hound Jefferson and attorney
Condor and you arrested them like felons
and dragged them out of the land Office
and down to st. Paul to prevent their prov
ing up? My meek and lowly friend, your
duty and responsibility" have an India
rubber quality to suit your personal in
terests and spites.
The tattered cloak that covers your hy
pocrisy is too thin-the bones stick out and
| the posterior of the animal is too plainly
| visible. Cover the rump little
more, my meek and lowly friend, if with
nothing better than your own ''official re-
ports" If you are not ashamed of such
silly prevarication and pettifogging am
we'll aware that your neighbors and fellow
townsmen are.
| If you are a man come up like man
and demand an impartial investigation Of
your official conduct, either by the grand
| jury or the secretary of the interior. If
you will do that promise you to furnish
your investigators with something to chew
| on. 1 know something of your officiel
| career-a good deal more than you wish I
did, and when You leveled your Quixotic
lance at me you struck sand. don't wish
to harm your fellow townsmen who
are interested in presumption
claims. I certainly wish the Iron COM
pany God speed in their enterprise,
| and I don't care if you do stretch
your 'duties and responsibilities" to help
them, but it would have been wiser for you
| under the circumstances to have tended
your duties and responsibilities" before
you began to punch my hornets nest.
You close your pettifogging answer to
my charges by saying:
SAT the time he (H. L. Gordon) was az
rested and gave S. 90 bonds, he openly ad-
| mitted that he was guilty, as charged. He said
he knew the government had the evidence
against him, and that there was no use in lying;
| he said he was able to pay his fine. Mani
testify he has changed his mind about the lying"
My dear Bald-headed Charger of the
Prairies, this Is the only square statement
you make in reply to my letter, and am
compelled by deep sense of truth and JUS
tice to say, that your statement is not only
false, but that you knew it was lfe
when you wrote it. You are weak and silly
enough to suppose that some member of
the grand jury before whom my case is
now pending and on whose sittings your
little whifet dogs Woodbridge, Jefferson
and Lovejoy-daily attend and lobby il
the lobby with the witnesses, will credit
your bare faced falsehood.
| Ii have openly confessed my guilt why
is it that you are raking Duluth, Thomson
and the whole region about them for wit
nesses to get an Indictment against me?
Why don't you call up the gentlemen I
openly and publicly confessed my guilt to
and end the matter without SO much ex-
pense to the government? Why pay JEFF
ferson, Loyeioy, Thomson, Woodbridge
and others SIS day to coach your numer-
Gus witnesses to weave about me false
chain Of circumstant1al evidence?
| Alas, my illustrious reformer, your lies
are too thln-the lion skin is all worn
Off the ass and not only his ears but his
| hoofs and tail ars visible to everybody.
| Ny meek and lowly ftiend, if you prove
worthy of my powder by returning man
| ly blows, l shall be glad when l have more
leisure, to write up few more chapters of
your record as statesman and a reform
er. You evidently banker after notoriety
and I will lend you my assistance. Why
| should your only eritaph be
Here lies the bald-headed charger of
tne pralrles
will at some future day write up your
record on the first division st. Paul & Pa
| cifc railroad land steal, wherein the
| United States and the state were s'scOoped''
| out of $4,000 acres Of land under your ad-
| ministration as governor. You have
forgotten that little steal I presume,
but the politicians and public men
have not forgotten it nor the illustrious
part you played in it when the railroad
company procured certain official certif-
Gates that they had built and completed
| their road to Watab and had the cars run
ming thereon, when you knew that they
| hadn't moved shovelful of dirt on the
| last seven miles and never intended to.
I will also allude, perhaps, to the fact
| that while you were railroad commissioner
and resided in st. Paul, you took home
stead in the Fergus Falls land district
| and neUer resided on it one day.
But my dear reformer, my letter is al
ready too long. I simply desired to return
com pIiments. Good night, my dear.
H. L. GORDON.