The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

Ohio friends to quietly aid the Repub-
licans, believing that his Est. Johns {
vote would be increased in November
if he did. Whether such letters were
written or not do not know, but |
had reason to believe they had been.
remained at Philadelphia two days,
when | was telcgraphed $50 to New
York; New York will fix it," and l
left for New York.
l met Mr.. Elkins and asked him if
he knew anything of this telegra m.
He said : "Yes, bat | can't do anything
till the fellows from Cincinnati get
here. We have carried Ohio, haven't
we?"
l said Eyes"
"By 10000 majority, haven't we?"
said 1.-The papers say So"
He said there is the only place where
st. John can do us any harm, and we
don't care where he goes. | returned
to my hotel, sent for my friend, who
was stopping at the Aston house, ut
the Metropolitan, and told him that in
my judgment it had been
GAME OF POOL
from the beginning on the part of
Clarkson, and that all they wanted
was to get st. John out of Ohio, and
their promises were worthless. He
turned upon me with much anger and
accused me OF fooling him and his
friends to prevent any canvass in Kan
sas; to leave the prohibition party and
the men of the party to be disgraced
by inaction at home while there was
heated canvass abroad, nor could l
pacify him, for he said he had spent
500 that he couldn't afford to do. He
left me in i'll humor and started for
Kansas, but before leaving made him
promise me If at any time could make
the arrangement he
WOULD JOIN WITH HIS FRIENDS
in dispatch to st. John to come to
Kansas.
st. John bad then gone to fill an APP
pointment at Middletown and Worces-
ter, Mass. On his return to New York
| met HIM at the office of the New
York Witness, and told him the pos
sibilities of canvass in Kansas were
at an end, that our friends had become
offended and gone home
Well, he said, | am really glad of it,
for though | would have come home
with you and made the canvass l be-
lieve the welfare of prohibition lies
more in the future than in the present.
Look the matter over said he and you
can reach no other conclusion. He
said there are three parties struggling
for life in this canvass. 1t MIR. Blaine
is elected this will become personal
government, and by his personal he
will break the ''Solid South" and de-
stroy utterly the Democratic party and
will grind the prohibition party tc
powder, and the Republican party
thus organized will hold power until
displaced by revolution. He believed
if Mr.. Blaine be elected that the
whisky interests of the country would
be nurtured and become one of
the controlling powers of the party.
He believed if Mr.. Cleveland
should be elected he would be wise
and judicious president, and would
follow the expressed will OF the
people, rather than have will
of his own and compel the people to
follow him. That if the Republican
party was defeated it would disinteg-
rate and the whole temperance ele-
ment OF party would coerce and form
a new party that might soon become q
power in the land. 1 said to them
that believed those were his convic-
tons, and by those, added to the charm
clinging to a candidate, he would have
a power that would be felt, and l am
sorry for it, but that l could do no.
thing to avert the calamity felt was
sure to follow the destiny of the Re-
publican party. He said further, that
appointments had been made for him
up to and include the night before the
ele ction, and he sho'lld now accept
them and continue to work with all
his might.
met st. John after that on his way
to Buffalo to make a speech, when he
again said he should be in New York
up to and including the night before
election. | came home and met quite
number of men who were parties OF
the original arrangement, and L was
sorely pressed by them for what they
termed deception on my part for the
purpose of destroying canvass in
this state and forcing them to spend
quite sum of money in expenses.
Under these circumstances L wrote
Mr.. Clarkson letter, marked it con-
tdential on the inside and personal on
the outside. / did not expect him to
send the money, but L did think he
would m axe some reply so that l could
satisfy these men that 1 had not been
fooling with them. Mr.. Clarkson, in
violation of his
MOST SACRED PLEDGE OF HONOR,
has published that letter and omitted
the things did say, and has made me
appear to say things | did not say.
He knew that chin" did not refer to
St. John, but referred to this gentle
man from my own state with whom
they were to make all arrangements
if any were made. This he knew, for
we started upon the terms made by
myself, that would not handle any
money nor would / have any knowl-
edge of any being used, but would sim
ply introduce an individual with
whom they could make arrangements,
and if made, [ would see to it that