The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-01-22
st, Johns Statement.

ST. PAUL, Jan. ia representative
of the associated press called on exGov.
st. John this evening at his rooms at
the National hotel and obtained from
him verbatum copy of the statement he
promised to give the public regarding
the charges contained against him in
letters and interviews recently pub
lished by Mr.. Clarkson and Mr.. Legate.
This copy was compared word by word
with the statement written by st. John,
and bears, like the original, his sigma
ture. The following il the statement:
National Hotel, Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. IL
Register, and Member of the National
Committee of the Republican Party:
After great deal of goading and con-
ference with friends, j. b. Mccullough,
OF the Globe-Democrat, of st. Louis, at
last gives to the public what he calls
evidence to prove that proposed to sell
out to the Republicans and thus betray
the, Prohibition party. In MIR. Clark
sons letter, published in the Chicago
Tribune of the 9Ln instant, he says: $40
my knowledge he did have overtures
made, through friends in his own state,
by which he offered, if paid $4,000 in
cash, to withdraw as candidate alto
gether, or to stay in the field and
feather his speeches las it was put in
Kansas phrase) to the nelp of the
Republicans. He was asked, in order
to prove the sincerity of his offer. to
Withdraw from ohio the last week be-
He did this, under plea which he said
he would give OF getting sore throat,
and with the friend | have mentioned,
went first to Pittsburg, next to Phila-
delphia, and finally to New York,
where he hoped to meet some one on
the part OF the Republican national
committee, who would be ready to make
the deal and pay the cash."
My appointments for the cam.
committee of the Prohibition
party, al Chicago, on September Is. 1t
was arranged for me to speak in Ohio,
at Springfield, October 3; Delaware,
the 4th; Akron, tho 9Th, and at Oberlin
the 9Th. filled every one of these APP
pointments and one more, and those
who attended my meetings, feel sure,
will do me the justice to say that /
didn't "feather" my speeches, either.
Having thus completed my work in
Ohio, without having sore throat-or
pretending to have one-in accordance
with the programme made for me by
the morning of the 7tA of
October to Adrian, Michigan,
where at 2 p. m. of that dayI addressed
in the open air near 10000 people, going
the same evening to Detroit, where
addressed a large audience in the
Grand Opera-house. The next morning,
in company with Hon. ID. p. Sagendorf,
of Charlotte, Michigan, and one OF the
members of the national committee and
several other prominent prohibitionists,
1 started for my next appointment,
at Kalamazoo, making several
short speeches on the way, and
addressing meeting at Kalamazoo,
both afternoon and evening. From
Kalamazoo went with other prohibit
ton workers to Flint, Michigan, where,
at 2 p. m. on October 8, l addressed a
large open-air meeting. Leaving there
in company with Hon. David Prestony
candidate for governor of
Michigan, in the evening, for Detroit,
from which city, that night, at II o'clock,
started, via Buffalo, to Philadelphia,
arriving there about 8 O'Clock
on the evening of the 10th.
spoke in the Academy OF Music
on the evening of the 18th.
spent good portion of the day of the
18th with r.. j. Burdette, at Ardmore,
eight miles from the city. On the even
ing of the 18th addressed an open air
meeting at Monument square, Balti-
more, and then another meeting the
same evening in East Baltimore. That
night at II O'clock started for Brook
lyn, New York, where, on the evening
Of the 14th, spoke in the rink, the 10Th
at Middletown, Connecticut, the 10th at
Worcester, Massachusetts,, the 18th at
Hall, New York city, the
18th Newark, New Jersey, and thence to
western New York, where | held
eight meeting. Every one oft Q foregoing
had been in strict pursuace to
the appointments made for me by the
prohibition committee; nave
not been in or passed through Pittsburg
for nearly two years. Mr.. George Il.
Scott, the foreman of the New York
Witness, joined me at Oberlin,
Ohio, on October IL, and travelled with
me and attended all the meetings from
that time up to and including the one
at Newark, New Jersey, October Is.
He, and no other acqualn.-
ance, accompanied me from Michigan
70 Philadelphia, nor did l on
he way see any friend or acquaintance
from my own state.
Mr.. Clarkson further says in his Tri-