The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-01-17
81. JOHNS PERFIDY.

| It Is not a Democratic funeral tina
is causing weeping and mourning
and we might add. the gnashing o
teeth in the Republican party. 1t j
essentially = Republican burial ant
st. John was suprosed to be t5,
corpse on hand. Eiitor Clarkson, q
Des Moines, was to perform the dut,
of sexton and he had progrs ssed q
far in his to him agreeable duty
q. to lay out ST. John ready to b,
tumbled in the political grave pre-
pared for him. But that gentleman
proves to be one Of the livelies1
corpses cf the day He won't be en-
tombed. On the contrary it nov
looks a. though he. would act as pail
bearer at the funeral of those wht
have been so prominent in further
ing his own obsequies.
The facts of the cas- may be briefly
summed up as follows: st. John
was the Prohibition candidate fol
President. He received his nomina-
ton by a regularly constituted and
organized convention of temperance
men. He took the stump and made
Temperance the only issue. He re-
celved IN the neighborhood of loo. 0 70
votes, the State of New York giving
him about q, 1000. 1t. is asserted he
drew the most Of his support from
the Republican party, and just here
is where the trouble comes in. 1t is
claimed that ii Mr.. ST.. John or any
other Prohibition candidate had not
run a large majority Of these q, 600
votes would have been cast for Blaine.
The same may have been said of MI.
Cleveland. If the Democrats had
put no candidate in the field MI.
Blaine would doubles have been
elected. MI. Blaine, however, was
defeated and his defeat is charged to
St. John. 1t is furthermore, or
rather was charged that Mr..
st. John was hired to run
by the Democratic National Com
mittee, and that be was paid the sum
OF $4,000 by that body to keep in the
field. Editor Ciarkson made this
charge. st. John denied it, and
CHALLENGED the proof. Clarkson reit-
Grated the charge and proclaimed
that the damhing proofs would son
be forthcoming. Then appears a
letter over the signature of John F.
in which that gentleman Is
made to figure as a go-between for st.
John upon the one side and Senator
Plumb. one Simpson and others upon
The other, for, the purpose of :ixing"
st. John and Ieep him quiet, or in
The event he should speak to arrange
it SO that his speeches would be
8 feathered" for Blaine. It must
% confessed this Il tier looked rather
Dad for St. John, as it indicated he
Vas not averse to listening to over
ures from the Republicans proposing
lis silence or the Throwing off, of
lis party for a consideration. This
etter is doubtless one of the proofs
dr. Clarkson proposed to introduce
n support of his charge.
But now comes Legate and pro-
LOUNGES the letter a forgery base,
and malicious lie." He says
knows nothing about it, and be-
leves it was gotten up for the purpose
+ iBjuring st. John. 1t is now IN
RIDER for the st. Louis g obe-Demo-
rat to rise and explain. Thus fa1
t. John has decidedly the best of the
ght, and unless that letter is prop
ex olained, ClArkson ct al will be
)mpelled to retire covered with de-
Taere must be produced some
besides forged letters to prove
John was bought by Democrats
that he even listened t. overtures
ON anyone looking to the purchase
his silence.