St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-26

a PeFjurer Caught.
April 1, 1885, the proprietor of the st.
Paul Pioneer Press, without provocation of
any kind, whatever, and without the shadow
Of an excuse save the malignity which many
years of cruelty have implanted in the
hearts of these wOuld-be autOcrats and self
appointed dictators of public opinion in the
Northwest. made a personal attack against
the manager of this paper, which for pure
malignity, low personal abuse, lying and
mendacity. has had no parallel in the semi
slanderOuS sheets of modern Journalism.
In the answer we shall make to this charge
we propose to demonstrate three things:
% That the prOprietOrS of the Pioneer
Press resorted to the vileSt methods to pro-
cure sworn statement of the TRIBUNE'S
circulation ever known or dreamed of even
in these days of alleged corruption and vice.
(2.) That when whisky and money
failed to accomplish the required end, the
proprietors of the Pioneer Press did not
hesitate to authorize their accredited agent
here in Minneapolis to make and deliver a
sworn statement that the oath of Thomas
You'd, which they sought, should be used
only for private purposes and was not being
obtained for publication; when in fact these
same prOprietors intended to publish the
sworn statement of You'd when they
obtained it, as demonstrated by the fact
that they did publish the essential portion
of it within the earliest period possible after
obtaining it, viz, April 1. Then when we
had driven them to the wall by the most
overwhelming proofs they sneaked be-
hind a trivial excuse. and gave
the sworn statement of Thomas You'd
to the world in Sundays edition, thereby
violating the oath which they had so sancti-
lnoniously given as a protection to Thomas
You'd, from whom both money and whisky
had failed to obtain the coveted prize. To
> add to ther infamous conduct. they gave
away nearly !. 800 copies in this city on Sun
day and circulated at least 4, 600 free copies
in the United States
g. We propose not only to demonstrate
that the published statement Of the TRIBUNE
is correct in all essential particulars. but we
propose to show over the signature Of Mr..
Thomas You'd himself that the statement
which these midnight schemers of the Pho
neer Press have procured You'd to swear to
is not true.
That the public may have full and clear
understanding Of this whole subject, we re-
produce tile alleged sworn statement OF Mr.
You'd as published in Sundays Pioneer
Press:
Minneapolis, March 81, 1851 hereby
certify that / was the presSman of the Min
ncapolis Tribune during the week ending
March %, 1855, and that the following is a
true statement Of the number Of copies of
the Daily Tribune printed by me for each
of the days named and also the number of
copies Of the Farmers Minneapolis Weekly
Tribune printed on the day named, and that
no other copies of either or any Of the issues
of the said Tribune were printed on or for
any of the days of the week ending March
-, 1855:
Weekly, Thursday, March 10, 1SS5...... $500
Daily, Monday, March 10, 1885. ......... $500
Daily, Tuesday, March II, 1885 ........ $500
Daily, Wednesday, March IL, 1885. 900. $500
Daily, Thursday, March 10, 1885. $3.50
Daily, Friday, March 20, 1S85............ $500 =,
Daily, Saturday, March II, 1885,. $3.50
Sunday, March %. 1885. ................11,5O 500
Signed THOMAS YOU'D.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, o.,
County Of Hennepn.
BE it known that on this 9th day of !
March, 1885, came before me personally |