The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-18
ST. JOHN.
10 Makes a Detailed Denial
of it ALI.
up pgSOUNCES HIS TRADUCERs.
e,.-,,.on Replies and Terms ST.
Johns Letter Viciilat-
ing Paper.
More St. John.

- PAIL. Mimi, January Ia Ie
.totiye Of the Associated Press
allied on Ex-Governor St.John tins even
mo at his room in the National hotel'
as. add ~ obtained from him verbatim copy
% t no statement he promised to give
OF the sta'e Ianar,Iing the charges con-
She publ aooinsf hirn in the letters and
80 recently published by MT.
111se 80 and Mr.. Legate. This copy
la A c1oUmnared, word by word, with the
ma9 tor UV I written by st. John, and bears,
I;Ls the original, his signature.
The following is the statement;
NATIONAL HOTEL,
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Jan. II, 80.
Cqarkson. of Dss MoineS Register and
Member of the National Committee o.
the Republican party:
After a great deal of goading and con-
ference with with his friend, J. b. Nc
C1IIongh. of the Globe Demo
cr1f 81. Louis; at last he gives
n the public what he
calls evidence to prove that l proposed
70 sell out to the Republicans, and TINS
betrav the Prohibition party: In Nj.
Clarkson's letter, published in the
Chicago Tribune, OF the 9th inst, he
saws: ITO my knowledge, he did have
Oyertures through a friend from his
own State, by which he offered, if paid
s325 900 in cash, to withdraw as candi-
date altogether, or to stay in the field
and Feather" his speeches, as it was
put in Kansas phrase, to help the
Republicans. He was asked, in order
to prove the sincerity of his offer, TO
withdraw from Ohio the last week before
the October election in that State. He
did this under the plea, which he said
he would give, of getting sore throat
and with the friend 1 have mentioned,
went first to Pittsburg, next Phlladel-
phia, 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 deal and
pay cash"
Ny appointments for the campaign
we're made by the national committee
Of the Prohibition party, at Chicago,
September 18th. It was arranged for
me TO speak in Ohio, at Springfield,
October Sd; Delaware, 4th; Akron 5th,
and Oberlin 9th. / filled every one OF
these appointments and one more, and
those who attended my meetings, | feel
e
didn't feather" my speeches, either.
Having thus completed my work, with
out "sore throat" or pretending to
have one. in accordance with the pro-
gramme made for me by the committee,
proceeded ON the morning of the
Tth of October to Adrian, Michigan,
where, at p. M, on that day l adj
dressed, in the open air, nearly 10000
people; going the same evening to De-
troit, where | addressed a large
audience in the Grand Opera
House The next morning, in com
pany with D. P. Sagendorf,
Of Charlotte, Mich, and one of the
members of the Nat onal Committee,
and several other prominent Prohibi-
uOnists l started for my next appoint
ment at Kalamazos, making several
short speeches ION the way and
addressing a meeting at Kalamazoo
both in the afternoon and evening.
From Kalamazoo, | went with other, Pro-
hloltion workers TO Flint, Mich. where,
at 2 p. M. on October 9th, addressed a
large open-air meeting, leaving there in
company with David Preston, Prohibi-
Jlon candidate for Governor OF
4lichlgan, in the evening for Detroit
from which city, that night, at l.
o'clock, started via Buffalo to Phila.
oelphla, arriving there about 8 o'clock
on the evening of the 10th. 1 spoke il
the Academy of Music on the eyenine
o. the llth; spent a good portion
OF the day of the 18th witt
h. J. Burdette, at Ardnore
eight miles from the city Monu
ment Square, Baltimore, and the1
another meeting the same evening il
East Baltimore. That night, at 1.
O'Clock, started for Brooklyn, N. Y.
where, on the evening of the 14th,
POKE IN the rink, 18th at Middleton
Conn;, 10th at Worcester, Mass, It'll
al al, Chlckering Hall, New York City
loth at Newark, N. j., and thence t,
western New York, where l held eigh
meetings.. Every one of the foregoing
meetings. was in strict pursuance to tn
appointments made for me by tn
Nauonal Prohibition committee. hay
not been in, or passed through, Pitts
SSurg Tor nearly two years. Mr. Geo. R
97SG.ott, foreman of the New York Week.
hltneSs, joined me at Oberlin, O., o.
atVended all the meetings from tina
Tlne 9p to and including the one g
newark, \. j., October 18th. He, an
-ANA eIt NdAllLdlACCs dCCO1u panic
5!e from Michigan to Philadelphia, nc
e.l on the way see any frien
aGquaintance from my low
II:aIe MIR. Clarkson further says
~ ats tribune letter of the 9th: 81 ma
aia that neither the national con
m.1See nor anyone acting for it ev,
a.ale an overture or proposition
ay KIND to st. John. All that it d
"SS 70 listen and discuss the overtur
NJ .G Propositions made to it through Il
;ttTSHi9m which he employed to reaC
-, Yet, in the same letter, he co
r otoS himself, for he says He (myse
n %as ASK. in order to prove the 81
MY, oi his offer, to withdraw fro
in J-' ID laSi week, before the October ele
io Mao was there in this transaction
Rs lt my sincerity butt. J. Clarkso
Eh;ot fhrther on he says: " Thin
bi- Sl re demanded of st. John as
fb,t movements in Ohio were pledged
III III. Trend and carried out by st. JohI
Fj.,s parties are here referred I
eel .oo,, the party that made the deman
s ,SSS4 ~ the man chat gave the plede
81 'Ae third, myself who carried