The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-19
ST. JOHN TELLS HIS STORY.
lie Makes q Statement Concerning the
Charges Brought Against Him.
lie Pronounces the Allegations False, and
Invites Anybody Who Has Proof to I'm
mediately Produce the Same.
fFro,n he Lonrnn, Of s,.ndau. l

National Hotel, and obtained from him 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
was compared, word by word, with the statement
written by Mr.. ST. John, and bears, like the
original his signature. Following is the state
ment:
~ s. Garrison, of the Des Moines Register,
and member of the national committee of the
Republican party, after great deal of goading
and conference with his friend. j. B. McCullagh,
of the Globe-Democrat. of st. Louis, at last
gives TO the public what he calls evidence to
prove that l proposed to sell out to the kepuo-
licans and thus betray the Prohibition party.
In Mr. Clarksons letter, published in the Chica-
go Tribune of the 9th inst, he says:
ITO my knowledge he did have overtures made
through friend from his State, by which he
candidate altogether to stay in the field and
feather MS speeches. it put in Kansas phrase.
to the helpof the Republicans He was asked in order
30 prove the sincerity of his offer to withdraw 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 sore throat. and, with the
friend have mentioned, went first TO Pttsburg, next
20 Philadelphia, and finally to New York, where he
hoped to poeet the part of the Republican
national committee. who would be ready to make the
deal and pay the cash.
my appointments for the campaign were
made by the national committee of the Proni-
hilton party. At Chicago, Ill, Sept. l8, it was
arranged forme to speak in Ohio-at Springfield,
Oct 3; Delaware, Oct A. Akron, Oct. 3, and
Oberin, Oct 6. filed every one of these APP
pointments, and one more, and those who at
tended my meetings feel sure, will do me the
justice to say that did not feather my speech
es, either. Having thus completed my work in
Ohio, without having sore throat, or pretend
ing to have one, in accordance with the pro
gramme made for me by the committee, pro
ceeded. on the morning Of the 7th of October,
to Adrian, Mich, where, at P. NJ,
that day, | addressed, in the open air.
near 10000 people; going the same evening
to Detroit, where addressed a large audience in
ths Grand Opera-house. Next morning, in com
pany with Hon. ID. p. Sagendorf of Charlotte,
Mich. and one of the members of the national
committee, and several other prominent Prohibi-
tionists, | started for my next appointment, at
Kalamazoo, making several short speeches on
the way, and addressing meetings at Kalamazoo
both afternoon and evening. From Kalamazoo
went, with other Prohibition workers, to Flint,
Mich, where, at P. NJ, on Oct 8, addressed a
large open air meeting, leaving there, in COM
pany with Hon. David Preston, Prohibition can
Gidate for Governor Of Michigan, in the
evening, for Detroit. from which city,
that night at II o'clock, / started, via
Buffalo, to Philadelphia arriving there
About o'clock on the evening of the 10th.
1poke in the Academy of Music on the evening
of the 11th. | spent good portion of the day OF
-
miles from the city. On the evening of the 18th
] addressed an open-air meeting at Monument
square, Baltimore, and then another meeting,
the same evening, in East Baltimore. That
night, at II o'clock, 1 started for Brooklyn, N.
Y, where, on the evening of the 18th, spoke in
the rink; on the 18th spoke at Midletown, Conn;
on the 18th at Worcester Mass on the 18th at
Chickerhng Hall, New York city; on the 18th at
Newark, N. j., and thence to western New
York, where held eight meetings-every one of
the foregoing meetings being in strict pursuance
to the appointments made for me by the national
Prohibition committee. l have not been
ly two years. Mr.. Geo. r. Scott,
foreman of the New York Weekly Witness,
joined me at Oberlin, O., Oct. 6, and travelled
with me and attended all the meetings from that
time up to and including the one at Newark, N.
J.. Oct lS. He, and no other acquaintance, &C
oompanied me from Michigan to Philadelphia,
nor did / on the way see any friend or acquaint-
ance from my own State.
sMr Clarkson further says, in his Tribune
letter of the 9th:
any acting for it ever made overture propo
siton of any kind TO ST. John All that it did to
made to it through the medium which he employed to
reach it.
''Yet in the same letter he eonvicts himself
for be says: He myself was asked, in order TO
prove the sincerity of his offer to withdraw
rom Ohio the last week before the October
slection in that State Who was there in this
transaction to doubt my sincerity but j. S.
Clarkson2 But further on he says. the things
which were demanded of St John as to his
- movements in Ohio were pledged by that friend
and carried out by ST. john Three parties are
here referred to-frst the party that made the
demand second, the man that gave the
pledges, and third, myself. who carried
it out Now, l submit that there
must have been somebody to have named the
things which We're demanded and who could it
have been bat Clarkson! And yet he says that
all that it THE committed did was to listen to
and discuss the overtures and propositions made
to it. If Mr. Clarkson was an honest man. why
did he not Indignantly refuse to entertain any
such propositionsl But finally Mr. Ciarkson
names James T. Legate. of LeavenwoPth. Kan.
tthe long suppressed name) as this middleman,
and proceeds to publish what he claims to be
Legate's letters, which, whether genuine or not,
serve further to show up CiarkSon's perfidy In
what Clarkson claims to be Legates letter,
dated Topeka Kan, Oct L. addressed to Mr..
J. S. GARRISON, Legate says:
"At Senator P.'s request l came to see you
at Cincinnati You seemed to share nay views. You
read me your talk. / awaited the arrival from New
York. and supposed the matter would be closed up,
But after the consultation at Columbus it deemed
wiser that should look after st. John and meet him
at Cincinnati having previously agreed with him to
go to Michigan with sore throat. | telegraphed
him and made him specific promise to go with him
to Pittsburg expecting to find some word there, but
failed. said to him. based what you had said and
your friend from New York, together with what was
said by Senator p the night after the conference
at Columbus, that would guarantee 10000 He
satisfied and went with me to philadelphia
there persuaded him to write letters to L. w. Gage,
State organizer for Ohio; A. L. Carey, of Samantha;
Rev. Mr.. Gegen. of Columbus, and Prof W. G. Frost,
at Obern, urging them to aid the Republican State
ticket, saying if the Republican State ticket was
elected he believed his vote in November would be
largely increased. My judgment is that his leaving
the State and writing these letters added very large
number to the Republican majority in Ohio. At
Philadelphia received dispatch that the matter
would be fixed at New York where with him went
found Mr. Eikns who seemed to know nothing and
would do nothing
-, At a senator's request l came to see you
tClarksonl at Cincinnati. You seemed to share
my views said to him. based upon
what you had said, and your friend from New
York. together with what was said by Senator
T. the night after the conference at Columbus.
that | would guarantee $40, 000 He was salts
fed, and went with me to Philadelphia Who
makes witness of Legate in this controversy?