The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-01-15
A Planned by the Kansas Senator
and Himself.
A REMARKABLe LETTER IN PRINT,
How THO Veteran Co Between Laboret
for the Good o: the "Grand Old
Party" with tho Immaculate
Apostle 81 Prohibition.
uEoATE SAYS IT is A FORGERY.

ST.. LOUIS, Jan. l2.-In connection
with the angry controversy between
ex-Gov. st. John, of Kansas, late pro-
hibition candidate for president, and
tho Hon. j. s. Clarkson, the. editor OF
the Des Moines State Register, and
other well-known gentlemen, respecting
the alleged offer of st. John TO withdraw
from the presidential canvass for money,
the Globe Democrat this morning pub
fishes the following
REMARKABLE LETTER,
addressed to X. q. Kerens, of this city.
The words in brackets are supplied by
the editor of the Globe Democrat, they
having been omitted in the original:
Cleveland, o., oct. 10.
DEAR SIR:-I made tho mistake in
coming here. / should have gone to
Detroit; have been communicating with
him tSt. John by telegraph. l have
said to him that at the conference 1t was
two-fifths down in Philadelphia to-mor-
row night, and three-fifths by the 18th,
and he insisted upon IL 18th for second
payment, provided he left for Philadel-
phia to-day, and said: "Our p" SEN
ator Plumb told me it should be done.
Just got this: From st. john "All
right; leave short time for Philadelphia;
will cancel all west of there. Meet me
in Pittsburg tonight"
sent your telegram under the name
of johnson, because did not want to
use my own name. | confess l made
the pledge quite wildly, but Plumb told
me to make 1t. l mean by that no told
me to keep ST. John quiet in this state,
and get him to Cincinnati, and you
would give him five or eight thousand
down, and then l said:
"Suppose l pledge him ton, will my
pledge be gOod?" and he said:
dyes, Kerens will lgivel him ten thou
sand"
So if have cut big hog, the pork be-
longs to Mr.. Plumb. Now, lam going
over to Pittsburg to see him. lSt. John.
Is il not possible for You to send some
fonel over from New York to arrange
with him nnd fix him then and "thar?'
I am little guilty, because you don't
respond TO Johuson's call for aid for his
country. L. was not possible you were
seduced on the road home, and thus
led astray, nor that you are
drunk, for you are TOO
love Sunday. school. have got St
John out Of the stare and made prom
ises to han. In some way l want to be
redeemed. You may not care ID,
but l have " live with him and you
don't. So does Plumb, Simpson, 81
omnia genus. He'll! how Scholarly!
[Sicnadl JAMES j.. LEGATE.
The Globe. Democrat, in its editorial
recites the inside history of tho st. John
campaign aud says after good deal oil
discussionhetweenS ST. Johns managers
and the National Republican com
mittee it was agreed to pay st. John
$4,000.
THE EDITORIAL
in to-day's Giobe-Democrat, referred tc
in tho Jas. II. Legate letter, says:
Mr.. st. John secured, early in the cam.
paign, from Senator Plumb, letter, in.
Producing Mr.. Legate to the National
Republican committee. as a person
authorized to act and speak for him
Legate stated to the Republican com
mittee that st. Johns original idea was
that he ought to get $250,0O0. The article
further says that Legate explained tC
the committee how st. John could be oil
service to the Republicans, stat
ing that he (St. JohM was to
say say. in nv,ai his speeches ,o,t that W ii i
as Blaine represented whisky and
loyalty and Cleveland represented
whisky and dislOyalty, he was fol-
Blaine, and that he was to be accom-
panied in his canvass by Mr.. Legate
as prominent politician from Kansas,
who was to verify all st. John said and
state that the prohibitionists Of Kansas
deal of discussion it was agreed to pay
st. John $4,000. The editorial also
states that the sentence in Legate's let
ter reading ~ am little guilty, be-
cause you don't respond to Johnson's
call for aid for his county" is
A CIPHER PHRASE.
and that ~ ohnson's call for aid for his
fntc 6fovNo tab 70,
st. Johns money" The Globe Demo
crat claims that IL has made out one
side of it's case against st. John, viz
That he sought money from the Repub-
licans, and that the other side, having
failed to get money from tho Republi.
cans, st. John directed his campaign
IN THE INTERESTS OF THE DEMOCRATS,
be shown in good time. 1t further says
there are several gentlemen who could
help prove the Democratic side, and
mentions the editor of the Chicago Daily
News as one, and Senator German, of
Maryland, as another.
LEGATE HOwLs LIAR!
TOPEKA, KAN, Jan. 12.-The State
view with Jas. f. Legate, in relation to
the letter published to-day, purpOrted
to have been writted by him to r. G.
Kerens, of st. Louis.
After reading the letter carefully,
~ MR.. LEGATE SAID:
"This letter is cold-blooded forgery.
1 never wrote anything of the kind
to him or anyone. 1t. is q
wilful and malicious lie, from
beginning to end. 1 never knew Mr..
Kerens, and never met him but once.
rode with him from Cincinnati to Co
lumbus some ten days before the Octo-
Der election, when he told me the meth
DDS of the campaign in Cincinnati"
Mr.. Legate also declared that he never
made any such proposition, written or
oral; that Gov. st. John had never
talked to him on the subject, had never
offered to make any proposition, and
that any charge that he had done SO was
q wilful lie, gotten up to injure st. John
and ease down the men VINO had been
lying on him.
Bold Robbery.
Mr.. Luvois is the proprietor Of a small
business establishments at Eagle Ford
and is also the postmaster at that point.