The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-27


would furnish the funds If the sum was
not too great, and after careful considera-
ticn of the work to be done one hundred
and twenty-five representative districts and
forty senatorial districts, the work 10 be
done in much less than Q month that it
would cost
A VAST SUM OF MONEY.
I promised TO write to friend living in
Ohio, telling him what / thought could be
done, provided the money could be raised.
didn't write. We sdjouraed, but with the
agreement that three of rs should meet
Goyersor st. jobs at Olathe on his return
from the east in September. wrote
to my friend 10 Ohio and suggested $4,000
but failed to get any reply until after ne
had returned and held q meeting there.
Three of us met there, witnessed his recep-
ton and listened to bis speech At night.
In that speech he said, without quoting bis
Language, that he bad been offe,s ed money
enough to keep himself and family during
their lives 10
GET OFF THE TRACK
"Yes," be said. II could get a quarter Of
million of dollars, but am
there to stay" This was somewhat
discoursging Rud yet encouraging. Dis
couraeing 10 think he was doing so mach
damage, o. still encouraging if We could
get him away from the east and have him
remain in Kansas. We had long con-
ference with Gov. 81. John and presented
to him our SIDE of the question and the
necessity for his being In Kansas; that
Kansas ives the citadel OF prohibition, and
was being the hardest nssailed now. We
discussed the republican platform and bis
objections to IL, ard snally he said, Gov
ernor Martin will write letter Committing
himself squarely to prohibition as prin-
ciple. ! will TO il thst there should be no
| nomination by the prohioitionisis for gov
ernor, and i will bill the appointments
| made by the national committee for me
| and
WILL RETURN TO KANSAS
| by the 2lst of October and We will make
desperate fight in each representative
district in the state for Martin, prohibition
| and the ST. John electoral tickst." He
wrote the substance of letter he wished
| Mr.. Martin TO write and send him, and We
| left him after a full understanding Of our
course, but with the distinct expression on
his part that he must fulfllthe engagement
m ade for him by the prohibition commit
Zee which would include Indiana, Ohio
Michigan, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and
New York city, perhaps one in Brooklyn
and one in Western New York. These ap-
pointments, he said, he must ell for he
must keep
| THE BEST OF FAITH
with men in the prohibition party. Aftel
returning to the hotel we discussed
the question of means and Il
was agreed that if received
10 favorable ieply 1 would have 10 60 t.
New York and present the subject 10 The
national committee and that iseue should
remain with the republicans. i should
hsve nothing to do with the money II Il
should be given; l should do nothing
but make arrangements for them. A let
ter was drawn and signed by all but m:
which would have been given 10 thu
national committee as q voucher II the'
desired il. Afterwards letter was signeC
BY fifteen or sixteen persons. Had gon
to New York the gentleman holding tina
letter would have gone as lar as Cleve
. land where he had relatives living AM
, rem,ined until / dispatched 10 com
further, but unfortunately just as al
things seemed most propitious for succes
1 received a dispatch from my friend
saying
NOTHING CAN BE DONE.
Have investigated full and am certain.
He see the matter dropped. The men wen
about their business and 81. John to tn
east TO fulfill his engagements. think tn
last day of September received dispatc
, from the chairman Of the republican stat
central committee Of Ohio, asking me Z
come to that state to aid them and espe
cislly to speak in places where st. John hs
I spoken and 10 speak first ut Oberlin on To
9Th of October. / responded to that ca
p and started the next day for Columbu:
Ohio. The second day Of my being Their
I net the gentleman 10 whom had write
! and who had telegraphed "nothing coul
3 be done" He asked me il that matte
Q could be so arranged TO get 3
!. John out of Ohio. l reptile
L by saying that his disf atcbes stoppe
ALL NY NEGOTIATIONS,
: but said, il you think it necessary l wi
try. He then explained 10 me what he COT
ceiyed to be the situation. He SAID, Will
!. he did not think the canvass endsngere
Ohio. il did endapger the election of two {
4 tnrec memotto Va CobSfcoe' oeh - ~
n York. il was very dangerous. That th
r republican msiorities In New York we're j
/. the country, and where the republican M
= ioriiies we're the heaviest 81. Johns frienC
i were most numerous, and something mu
u be done. told him what hsd been don
$; and what 1 thought possible could be q
5 complished. 1 said to him that l cou
" not negotiate myself only through the sc
,r tlemen who hold the letter OF suthorit.
r but IL
q NEGOTIATIONS WE'RE ENTERED INrs,
20 1 would keep close to st. John and L hi
y no doubt he would return with me {
the appointed time. Nothing was said
me or by me until the Sunday followin
y when l sgsin had further conversatit
ct with him, and he said he wanted me to
Id down and zee Mr.. Ciarkson Immediately.
to aor,rrred nv savinp did not know n