St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-10
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ST. JOHN GIVEN ANOTHER TURN.
Isl ecial Telegram to the Globe.

Special Telegram to the Globe.
WAsHINGToN, Dec. "a gentleman who,
while not a member of congress, is a fire.
quent visitor TO Washington and knows as
much of unwritten history of the late cam
paign as any living man, when questioned
as TO the relation of St. Johns presidential
campaign to the national Democratic cam
paign fund, said 81 have no positive knowl-
edge that st. John, personally, was Gin the
pay of the Democratic National committee,
but know prominent Prohibition workers
who received money. 1t was understood from
the Begin ming that st. John was purchasable.
1t was that knowledge that secured the nom
ination for him. 1t is not generally known
that Senator Plumb was in Pittsburg while
the Prohibtionist national convention was
in session, and is credited with having
created the wonderful enthusiasm for st.
John, which resulted in his nomination.
Whether Chairman Jones' fine sense of honor
was in the way of the consummation of a
plan to get st. John off the track, or whether
it was not considered worth while to do so,
am not prepared to say.
A prominent Republican member of the
house of representatives, VINO is from q
western state, said: 'Before st. John was
nominated by the Prohibitonists for the
presidency, he asserted his loyalty to the
Republican party, and said he would not be
candidate for the presidency. Many of his
friends thought him sincere in his state
ments. They were disappointed, however,
when he accepted the nomination at Pitts
burg. After he had been nominated there
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leaders at New York, and it was
decided that his influence must be counter
acted. 1t was not thought advisable to get
him off the track, for then the Prohibition
lists might have nominated another candi-
date who could not have been gotten out of
the way, and who might have done the Re-
publican party as much injury as the man
from Kansas. st. John knew about this con-
sultation. In fact he made proposition TO
the Republican national committee The
committee decided to keep him in the
race and agreed TO give him
$4,000 if in his canvass he would
not say anything that would be detrimental /
TO the Republican candidate for the presi-
dency. st. John agreed to this. He went
to Ohio just after the October election and
made two speeches at Obe,lin. He said he
was Republican and Prohibitionist, and
he thought the Prohibition candidate ought 10
be sustained. Before leaving the platform
he told his audience that another speake r
would address them the following evening
That speaker, st. John said, was a
Republican and a prohibitionst, but he
thought Mr.. Blaine ought to be elected. He
is an eloquent speaker. He further said and
may be able to prove to you that it is better
to support the Republican nominee. The
person to whom st. John referred was Jim
Liggett, Of Kansas. After the prohibition
candidate had made his speech at Ooerlin
be went TO New York to get his money from
the Republican committee He had begun
the fulilment of his contract AT
New York he was met by
Eikins. That individual put his
thumbs into the armholes of his waistcoat
and said that they guessed they could get
along without Mr.. ST. John. He
said the Republicans had carried Ohio with
out him and thought they could carry the
country. He refused to pay over any money.
St. John left NJ. Elkins' presence. The
members of the Republican committee are
now kicking themselves because they al
lowed st. John to get away with them.
Elkins lis to be blamed for the
whole thing. He and the others of
the committee ought to feel the toe OF
the Republican party. The members of the
national committee evidently did not cor
rectly estimate st. Johns influence. They
thought he could do little harm to their can
Tohu 4
the Republican state committee OF Kansas
telegraphed to the national committee that
they had Christian minister in Kansas, an
eloquent stump speaker, who would take the
field and try and counteract the effect of the
Prohibitionist's speeches. The national
committee telegraphed back, asking how
much money the preacher (whose
name was CampbelD would want. The state
committee assured only his ex-
penses. No reply was ever made by the
national committee and no request was ever
made for Mr.. Campbell.
Chairman Jones was seen tonight He
declined to affirm or deny the statements
sent out, but intimated that they were not
without truth. Secretary Fessenden, who
was telegraphed, replied that he was not pre-
pared to talk yet.
SENATORIAL CALoRIC IN COLORADO.
Trouble among Colorado statesmen thick
ems. Secretary Teller is reported to have in
timated that Senator Hill was using money
to effect his reelection, and this morning the
latter is quoted in one of the papers as hay-
ing said that the secretary was an infamous
liar," if he made such charge. Speaking
of the matter to-day Senator Hill repeated
these words. He had been hearing reports
to the effect that he had been going about
saying he was going to come back to the SEN
ate If it cost him a quarter of a
million of dollars. He was satisfied that
seller was the author of these. They argued
that be (Hill) was fool if he talked that
way. AS for the secretary. Mr.. Teller had
been telling people that he would like to
come to the senate, but was too poor, mean
ing to insinuate that it was necessary to buy
a senatorship from the Colorado legislature.
When Teller came here, Senator Hill said ne
knew, on good authority, that he was worth
100000, and on equally good authority he
had it that the secretary's capital had not de-
creased during his residence in Washington.