, 1885-01-18
STRIKING BACK.
st. John Finally Makes a Pub
lie Statement.
How He Meets the Many
Charges of Bribery.
Clarkson Fails to Consider it
a Vindication.
st. John Speaks.


sentative of the Associated Press called
on Ex-Governor st. John this evening at
his rooms in the National hotel and OBJ
tanned from him a verbatim copy Of the
statement he promised to give the public
regarding the charges contained against
him in letters and interviews recently
published by Mr.. Clarkson and Mr..
Legate. This copy vas compared, word
by word with the statement written by
St John and bears like the original his
signature. Following is the statement:
NATIONAL HOTEL, MINNEAPOLIS,
Mimi. Jan. III. s. Clarkson of the
De Moines Register and member Of the
national committee of the Republican
party, after a great deal of goading and
conference with his friend J.. B. McCul-
lagh, ofthe Globe-D Democrat, Of St Louis,
gives to the public what he calls evidence
to prove that | proposed to sell out to the
Republicans, and thus betray the Prohi-
bition party. In Mr.. Clarkson's letter
published in the Chicago Tribune of the
9th inst, he says: 10 my knowledge
he did have overtures made through a
friend from his own state by which he
offered, if paid $4,000 in cash, to with
draw as a candidate 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 with
draw 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 a sore throat,
and with the friend l have men
toned went irst to P~ittsburg, next to
Philadelphia and finally to New York
where he hoped to meet some n
on the part of the Republican
national committed who would
be ready, make deal and pay cash My
appointments for the campaign were
made by the national committee OF the
party at chicago, Sept lS- 1t was ar
ranged Tor me to speak In Ohio, at Spring
held, Oct 3, Delaware. Oct 4, Akron,
Oct D, and Oberhn, Oct. g. 1 hlled
every n OF these appointments n n
more, I'M those who attended my meet
lngs, l feel sure will do me the justice to
say that l didn't leather my speeches
either. Having thus completed my work
IN Ohio without having a sore throat,
or pretending to have one, in accordance
with the programme made Tor me by the
committee L proceeded ON the morning OF
the 1th oil October to Adrian, Mich,
where at 2 P. m. of that day addressed,
IN the open AIR, nearly 10000 people, go
ing the same evening to Detroit, where l
addressed a large audience in the Grand
opera house. The next morning, IN
company with Hon. u. r. Sagendorf' OF
Charlotte, Mich. and one OF the mem
Ders OF the national committee and sew
eral other prominent Prohibltlonists, L
started for my next appointment at kala-
mazoo, making several short speeches on
the way and addressing a meeting at
Kalamazoo both afternoon and evening.
From Kalamazoo L went with other Pro
hioition workers to Flint, mich.' where
at 2 p. m, Oct Q, l addressed a large
open AR meeting, leaving there IN COM
pany with David Preston, Prohibition
candidate for governor OF Michigan, IN
the evening for Detroit, from which city,
that night at u o'clock, L started VIA
Buffalo to Philadelphia, arriving there
about y o'clock on the evening ofthe 10th.
l spoke In the Academy OF Music on the
evening OF the llth- Spent a good por-
ton oil the day OF the l2th with H. D..
Burdette, at Ardmore, eight miles from
the city. On the evening OF the 18th l
addressed an open airmeetlng at Monu-
ment square, Baltimore, n then another
meeting the same evening IN East baltl-
more. That night at II o'clock l started
Tor brooklyn, N. H. where on the even
ing OF the l4tn spoke In the rink; 10th
at Middleton, Conn; 10th at Worcester
Mass ~ at Cnickering hall, New
York; lSth at Newark, N. D., and thence
to Western New York, where held eight
meetings, every one OF the foregoing
meetings being IN strict pursuance to ap-
polntments made for me by the National
Prohibition COMMITTEES. l have not been
IN or passed through Flttsburg Tor nearly
W years Mr.. Geo. H. Scott, foreman
of the New York Weekly Witness, Joined
me at Oberlin, O., Oct. 6, and travelled