The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-18
or His Conduct in the Late Presidential
Campaign.
CLARkSoN AND LEGATE EXPOSED
The Great Struggle for the Sucker State
Speakership Still Unsettled End of
the Investigation of wright's
Bad October Record.
POLITICAL NOTES IN GENERAL
st. Johns Statement.

st. Johns Statement.
ST. PAUL, Jan. ia representative
of the associated press called on ex-Gov
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 is the statement:
National Hotel, Minneapolis, Mimi, jan II
TO j.. S. Ularlson, OF the Des Moine,
Register, and Members 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, al
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 Mr.. Clark
sons letter, published in the Chicago
Tribune of the 9tn instant, he says: "fo
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 AZ candidate alto.
gether, or to stay in the field and
feather his speeches (as II was put in
Kansas phrase) to the nolp Of the
Republicans. He was asked, in order
to prove the sincerity of his offer. u
withdraw from ohio the last week be
fore the october election i'll that state
He did this, under plea which he sale
he would give ot getting sore throat
and with the friend l have mentioned
went first to Pittsburg, next to Phila
dolphia, and finally to New Yorl,
where he hoped to meet some one OF
the part OF the Republican nationa
committee, who would beready to max,
the doal and pay the cash."
My appointments for the cam
paign were made by the nationa
committee OF the Prohibition
party, az Chicago, on September Is. |
was arranged for me to speak in Ohio
at Springfield, October 3; Delaware
tho 4thi Akron, tho 5tl,, aad at ODerlii
the 9th. filed every ono of these al
pointments and one more, and th6s
who attended my meetings, feel sure
will do me the justice to say that
didn't "leather" my speeches, either
Having thus completed my work 4
Ohio, without having a sore throat-o
pretending TO have ono-in accordanc
with tho programme made for me b
the committee, | proceeded o.
the morning of the TIA G
October TO Adrian, Michigan
whore at Up. m. of that day l addresses
In the open air near 10000 people, goinI
the, same evening to Detroit, where
addressed a large audience in tn
| Grand hon fnh,
i'll company with Hon. ID. p. Sagendorl
of Charlotte, Michigan, and one of tn
members of the national committee an,
several other prominent prohibitionists
started for my next appointment
at kalamazoo, making seveia
short speeches on the way, an,
addressing a meeting at Kalamazoo
both afternoon and evening. From
Kalamazoo went with other prohibI
ton workers TO Flint, Michigan, whore
at p. m. on October o, / addressed
large open-air meeting. Leaving ther
in company with Hon. David Preston
prohibition candidate for governor G
Michigan, in the evening, for Detroit
from which city, that night, at II G clocl
l started, via Buffalo, to Philadelphia
arriving there about o o'cloc
on the evening of the 10th.
spoke in the Academy OF Musi
on the evening of the llth.
spent q good portion of the day of tn
18th with II. j. Burdette, ut Ardmort
eight miles from the city. On the even
ing of the 18th / addressed an open al
meeting at Monument square, Balti
more, and then another meeting th
same evening IN East Baltimore. Tha
night at II O'clock started for Brook
lyn, New York, where, on the eyenin
OF the nth, spoke in the rink, the l5t
at Middletown, Connecticut, the 10th a
Worcester, Massachusetts, the 18th q
Chickering Hall, New York city, th
18th Newark, New Jersey, and thence [
western New York, where / hel
eight meeting. Every one ofth O forgoin
meeting. had been in strict pursuace I
the appointments made for mo by tn
national prohibition committee. Ihay
not been in or passed through Pittsbur
for nearly two years. Mr.. George
Scott, the foreman of the New Yor
Weekly Witness, Joined me at Oberlii
Ohio, on October 10, and travelled wit
me and attended all the meetings froi
that time up to and including the on
at Newark, New Jersey, October L
He, and no other aoquain
| lIOIl
TO Philadelphia, nor did / o
the way SEQ any friend or acquaintanc
! from my own state.
Mr.. Clarkson further says in his Tr
bune letter of the 9th:' 81 may add th.
neither the national committee, nor an
one acting for 1t, ever made an owe
ture or proposition of any kind TO
John. All that II did was to listen
and discuss the overtures aud propos
tions made to 1t through Il
medium which he employed
reach it, Yet, in the same lett,
he convicts himself, for he says he I'm,
self was asked in ordl
to prove the sincerity of his offer
Withdraw from Ohio the last week b
fore the October election. In that WI
was there In this transaction to doul
my sincerity but j. s. Clarkson?
: But further on he says:
"The things which were demanded
, ST. John rs TO his movements In oh
were pledged by that friend and carrie
out by ST. John"
Three parties are here referred to:
First, the party that made the d
mand.
Second, the man that gave the pledu
And third, myself, who carried
out.
Now, submit that there must ha
been somebody to have named d
things which were demanded, and wi
could IL havs been but Clarksons A,
l yet he said that all IL (the committt
did was TO listen and discuss I
! overtures and proposition ma
to 1t. II Clarkson was an honest ma
why did he not Indignantly refuse
entertain any such proposition9
: hnally, Clarkson named James
Legate, of Leavenworth, KG
sas, tho long-suppressed name of {
5 middle man), and proceeds 10 publ
what he claims 10 ha I.arata,s latf