The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-29

can't do anything till the fellows from
Cincinnati get here. We have carried
Ohio, haven't Wes I said yes; by So
COO majority, haven't We? I said the
papers say so. He said there il the only
place where st. John can do as any
harm, and
WE DoN'T CARE WHERE HE GOES.
returned to my hotel, sent for my
friend, who was stopping ct the Astor
house, I ct the Metropolitan, and told
him that In my judgment il had been Q
game of pool from the beginning on the
part of Clarkson, and ell they wanted
was TO get st. John out of Ohio, anc
their promises were worthless.
He turned upon me with much
anger and accused me OF fooling
him and his friends to prevent
any canvass IN Kansas To leaYe the
prohibition party and the men of the
party to be disgraced by insction At home
while there was heated canvass abroad
nor could psclfy him. for he said be
had spent seven hundred dollars that he
could not afford to do. He left me In Ill
humor and started for Kansas. But b
fore leaving l made him promise me II
at any time could make the arrange
ment, he would join with his friends IN
dispatch TO st. John to come 20 Kansas.
st. John had then gone to oil an appoint
ment at MIddletoWn, Conn and one Il
Worcester, Mass. On his return TO New
York / met him at the Office of the New
York Witness and told him the posslbil-
tiles of canvass in Kansas we're at an
end that our friend had become offend
ed and gone home.
Well, he said. am really glad OF 1t.
for though would have gone with You
and made the canvass, believe the well
s. 81 in thA fin.
ture than in the present. Look the mat
ter all over, said he, and you can reach
no other conclusion. He said there are
three parties struggling for life in this
canvass. If Mr.. Blaine is elected this
will become personal government and
by his personal he will break the
'solid south" and destroy utterly the
Democratic party and will grind the
Prohibition party to powder, and the
Republican party thus organized Will
hold power until displayed by revoln
ton. He believed if Mr.. Blaine should
be elected that the whisky interests OF
the country would be nurtured and be:
come one of the controlling powers OF
the party. He believed if MT Cleve-
land should be elected he would be
wise and judicious president and would
follow the expressed will OF the people
rather than have q will of his own and
compel the people TO follow him. That
if the Republican party was defeated Il
would disIntegrate, and the whole tenn
persnce element of the party would
cOalesce and form party that might
soon become a power in the land.
said to him that believed those were
his convictions, and by those, added TO
the charming clinging 20 q candidate, he
would have q power that would be felt,
and l was sorry for il, but that could
do nothing further TO avert calamity
that feIt was sure TO follow the destiny
of the Republican party. He said fur
Their that appointments had been made
for him up to aud include the night be-
| fore election, and he should now accept
them and continue to work with ali his
might.
/ met St. John after that on his way TO
| Buffalo to make q speech, when he again
told be that he should speak in New
York up to and including the night be-
fore the election. l came home and met
quite a number of men who were parties
to the original arrangement, and was
sorely pressed by them for what they
termed deception on my part for the
purpose of destroying q canvass in this
state and torciDg them to spend quite
| sum of money in the expenses Under
these circumstances wrote Mr. Clark
son q letter-maTked it confidential on
! the inside, and personal on the outside.
I did not expect him 10 se0d the
money, but did think he would make
some reply, SO could satisfy these men
l had not been fouliug with them Mr..
| GARRISON. in violation of hts most sacred
pledge OF honor, has published that let
ter, aud omitted things did say and has
made ne appear TO say things did not
say. He knew that him" did not refer
| to st. John, but referred to this gentle
man from my own state, with whom they
were to make all arrangements, II they
were made. This he knew, for We
started upon the terms made by myself
that
WOULD NOT HANDLE ANY MONEY
nor would have any knowledge OF any
muny being used, but would simply in
troduce an individual witE whom they
could make arrangements. and If made I
would see to il they were carried out.
The Kerens letter was more H.
famOusly forgery than the other, for
| was sent by him to see the man, whom
| he knew was not st. John, and referred
| to this gentleman as "him" all the way
through. Yet he publishes letter and
puts more in brackets than is in the
letter, ana by it makes me say what Mr..
KereDs knew l did not say or mean, and
was such q perversiOn from the real
facts and real meaning of what did
write. that what he published was bold
| forgery. sles
OF Mr.. Kefens l have nothing to say.
for he amounts to nothing, only as his
wealth permits him TO iBtrude 9t times
where his head grows dizzy, and he is
not really responsible.
Mr. Clarkson was selected by the Re
publican party as receptacle OF It's
secrets, to do many things not improper
in themselves, but which would look
bad in print. Now, because he lie stung
| by defeat, he wants to kill somebody,
aud let's loose ali the secrets gathered
there, and missiates facts and gives
constructions that the facts do not war
rant.
He busted himself bitterly denounc-
| President Arthur for his want of coop.
Grafton before the election, but now dis
| covers that st. john beat Mr.. Blaine and
| he wants 20 Kill him. The fact is, not
| only Mr. Clarkson, but all with whom
he was associated, were willing TO make
| any terms til Mr.. Blaine came 10 Ohio,
but such unbouaded enthusiasm sur
| rounded him every in the west
that his friends believed Mr..
| Blaine would carry the whole coun.
try by storm, and one could hear
| from all quarters: I'VE got it spite of
| Arthur. il spite of COnkling, In spite OF
| st. John and OF the dudes of the Curtis
tribe" They lost their heads.
THEY THREW PAPER wADs
while the Democrats and ProhibitIonists
were firing solid shot.
II MF. Clarkson had carried ont the ar.
arrangements suggested by me, Mr. St.
John would have made TWO or three
speeches in New York, and then came
=
been elected But he remained IN NeN
| York state aud spoke some forty times
and Mr.. Blaine was defeated and there
Is the rub.
BMr Blaine was defeated by the weak
ness of the committee that controlled the
destinIes of the Republican party.
Mr.. CIarksoa would be wise to "Lei
the dead past bury Its dead, ;" and watch
for ''a living future" rather than b.
making an ass of himself make the ''liv
ing future" as dead as the past already
ls. tired 20 serve the Republican
party. I sought TO avert danger
knew was imminent, and mons
knew. better than Mr.. Ciarksnn
III was rewarded by RIF. CLARK
son styling me st. Johns '-huckster.'
Mr.. Garrison tried to play sharp, bui
learned when too lsie, be was handling
two edged instrument, and by his Owl
ignorance of its use, and his egotism II
trying 20 use it. his own desh was badly
laceresed. He now wants vengeance.
have herein msde full statement o
my connection with the Republicans cam
paign Just closed. The conversations
are given from memory. / have men
toned no name il was not necessary 70
me to mention, and with IL iesFe tbi
people to judge whether was st. joint
HhucksteF," or whether sought 70 asFyV
the Republican party, under the direc
ton OF Err. CIarkson and those viii
whom he Was associated.
JAMES r. LEGATK.
LeavenWorth. Jan. 16. 1885.
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