St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-26
THEY RE HONORABLE MEN
Legate, the ProhibitiOnist CODE
tween, Gives Another Chapter of
the Campaign Crookedness.
He duplicates st. John, clarkson, Kerens
Elkins and sundry Other Persons
not Named.

AeS"te, auuresseu W the eultor OF the 4kh4
dated Leavenworth, the 18th instant, IN
which the writer says he feels bound to make
full statement OF his conf ection with the
st. john Clarkson controversy, in order h
show whether or not he was s'huckster'' OF
st. John in the recent political campaign.
The letter reviews the matter at great length,
and is to the following effect:
The writer opposed st. Johns candidacy
on the national ticket and endea7ored, un-
successfully, 10 persuade him not to accept
| the nomination. He then had a conference
with number Of st. Johns friends in Kan
sas and endeavored to get St. john to return
to Kansas and work in the state, urging that
prohibition was on trial here, that its inter-
ests were allied with Republican interests,
| and they should work for joint success In the
state.
THE QUESTION OF FUNDS
for the campaign was raised whereupon the
writer suggested that the national Republican
committee would furnish a reasonable sum.
Legate wrote q friend in Ohio making
overtures for 5000. Meanwhile Lee
gate and two others called on st.
John willie at Olathe and presented
their views. st. John said Col Martin, the
Republican candidate for governor, would
commit himself to prohibition, and he (St.
john agreed to see that no nomination was
made by the Prohibitonists, but he (St. john
must keep faith with the national Prohibition
party by filing his engagements. 1t was
agreed the S25, 200, if paid in the state by the
Republican committee, should be placed in
the hands Of committee. Legate received
a reply from his friend that nothing could be
done with the Republican committee.
Afterwards a st nf ia hal IN q nj
the Republican state committee in Ohio,
Legate went to work in the state. There he
MET HIS FRIEND,
and by his advice called on Mr.. Clarkscy$t
Cincinnati, who had already been approached
by Legate's friend. Clarkson communicated
with the committee at New York 81
arrangements were made to supply the S3r-
600. Legate then saw St. John at Oberlin
and urged his return to Kansas, giving his
reasons that prohibition needed him there,
and By Withdrawing from Ohio he could help
Secretary Robinson, who was a real temper
anee man. st. Jonn said he could not leave
the eastern field until Martin signed letter
committing himself to prohibition
in Kansas. He would go to
Michigan and make few speeches, and
wanted to know for a certainty before he left
Michigan about the programme for Kansas,
and asked Legate to telegraph him in Michi-
gan. The letter here says: ''After he reached
Detroit change in his programme for
speaking at those three places was made and
before left Oberlin he telegraphed me the
change, so that should know where be was.
That was the only dispatch l had from him,
and had no letters from him during the
campaign other than those have alluded to.
He left and / remained and spoke at ODER
lin the following evening, before leaving
Oberlin.''
I TELEGRAPHED MR.. GARRISON,
at Cincinnati, that the whole matter must be
fixed during the next three days. l re-
turned to Columbus, and the morning dis
patches said st. John appeared at meeting
at Detroit the day before, but was unable to
speak but few moments on account of his
throat being sore, resulting from too much
outdoor speaking, aud said to friends there
jocularly that it was doubtless my talk 10
him that gave him the sore throat After
wards, In writing to Clarkson, | presume I
alluded to the sore throat, but, if it was not,
it should have been in quotation marks. At
any rate Mr.. Clarkson could not have failed
to understand it, l went, by request, to
Cincinnati and met Mr.. GARRISON, and he
introduced inc TO Mr.. Kerens as the man
who had been sent by the national COM
mttee.
TO FIX THINGS.
Afterwards at Columbus Kerens and some
others had conference, after which Kerens
told me it was decided that he should return
to Cincinnati and that / should 90 to Cleve-
land and see my friends and tell them that
Kerens would give them $1,000 or ST, 900
and the rest in eight or Ten days, and he
wanted me to follow St John and keep close
to him and see that he returned to Kansas
as agreed upon. / told him / had not money
enough to do that, and he gave me 500 for
expenses. reached Cleveland the next
morning and found my friend had left TO see
st. John at Detroit. | reached him by tele-
graph and said to him:
'"rhings sure. Two -Afhs down. Balance
before the goth. Meet me at Cincinnati to-
night"
He replied:
GAN right. but will not go to Cincinnati. WIN
meet you at Pittsburg."
informed KereDs or GARRISON, Of these
facts by wire, and asked to give me word at
Pittsburg. | went my way and met my friend
at Pittsburg. but found no word there, as
they had agreed, and went with him (my
frend) TO Philadelphia. ST. John was In the
city. and imposed the task upon my friend
VI RtIlHB DJ. JOun 10 WTlLt n lcCLeT Dack 10
his Ohio friend to quietly aid the Republ-
cans, believing that his (St. John's) vote
would be increased in November If he did.
Whether such letters were written or not do
not know, but had reason 10 believe tAey
had been | remained In Philadelphia %lyy,
when | was telegraphed: go 10 New York:
wen fix it," left for New York. Contln-
uing, Legate says: n
MET MIR EJRIE9
and asked If he was acquainted with his
Gegate's) mission. Elkins replied yes, but
could not do anything until the arrival Of the
Ohio men. Leg1te went back to his friends,
and ton him he believed the Republicans
had only wanted N get St. John out OF Ohio.
His friend left for Kansas In great disgust,
agreeing, however, If the matter was fixed
up, TO join with his friends In n dispatch TO
st. John ~ come to Kansas. Later Legate
met St. John in the Office Of the New York
witness. and told him the possibilities Of q
canvass in Kansas were ended, that their
friend had become offended and gone home.
st. John replied
swell am really glad Of 1t, for, though I
would have gone With you and made the canvass,
believe the welfare Of prohibition lies in the
future rather than in the present"
Continuing, st. John said he believed II
Mr.. Blaine were elected the whisky interests
would be nurtured. II Cleveland were elected
he would follow the expressed wIII.of the peo-
pie. II the Republican party were defeated,it
would disintegate, and the temperance ele-
ment form a party that might soon become a
power. he said further he would carry out
the appointments that had been made for
him. Legste returned home and met quite
a number Of men who were parties 10 the
original Arrangement and they reproacbed
MIN for failing to carry the plan through
and compelling them 70 spend money In the
state canvass Then he wrote Clarkson q