St. Paul daily globe., 1886-10-30

roads: also to Lovely's silly assertions that
il he got to congress he would get back for
the rightful owners the 300. 900 acres of
land which the Winona & St. Peter rail-
road had secured in excess of its grant.
which Lovely had not alluded to since he
(Wilson) had shown the absurdity of it.
He puncIured the Redwood Falls branch
stockhOlder story. as well as the PlainvieW-
Elgin bugaboO. and showed clearly how
DELIBERATELY AND wILLFULLY
he had been misrepresented. The speaker
touched at considerable length on the Win
dom story that he had secured from the city
of WinOna $4,000 for work which he had
agreed to do for SO. 900. He demonstrated
cOnclusively that Window had told a delib-
crate faisehOod for political effect. AS the
facts were brought out in detail the loud
applause showed that the audience believed
every word the judge said, and condemned
Window as calumniater. The judge as
serted that it was a willful lie, and no men
of truthfulness would ever repeat it. His
position on the Valentine bill was explained,
and he asserted that no man could say he
had ever put feather weight upon poor
man in Winona or that he ever took the
part Of the strong as against the weak, when
the weak were in the right. He asked any
poor man present to stand up and say if he
had ever asked him for dollar and failed
to get it. He had
ALWAYS DONE HIS SHARE
for every public movement in Winona, and
his money was in almost everything of this
kind in the city. He denied ever knowing
that this bill was before his committee 1t
was referred to a subcommittee peek and
BalSOn) and never came back from there.
Valentine had given Bills as authority for
saying that Wilson had opposed it by his
vote. The speaker read telegram from
Senator Bills stating that he had never
made any such assertion, and he had no
recollection that Wilson had ever voted
upon it. Wilson characterized Valentine
as silly sorehead, who had sprung this
falsehood for political effect. The judge
reviewed his connection with tax title legis-
lation. and also the Pugh case; Pugh
being the man who was injured by freight
car on the Winona & St. Peter railroad in
Winona several years ago, and who, it is
claimed, was prosecuted by Wilson as at
torney for the road. He related a CONVEX
sation with Tawney, which has been pub
liShed heretofore in the GLOBE, and asked
Tawney, if he was present. to deny it if he
was quoted incorrectly. He showed that
MS action In the Pugn case was honorable
and legitimate. He gave emphatic denial
to the assertion credited to him that he had
taken certain cases without fee or reward.
He showed by his speech that he had never
said any such thing. He was
NOT 4 CHARITABLE INSTITUTION,
and did not take private cases for nothing.
He shows the absurdity OF the charge made
against him in regard to the usury laws,
the telegraph bill. and said that if he was
elected to congress he would oppose the
Burlington roads entry into Winona. The
judge then devoted his attention to the
claim made that Davis and Lovely were
the only attorneys in the state who re-
sponded to the request of the railroad COM
missioners for information. He responded
to the call and gave the commission all the
information he could. but as he was mem
Der of legislature he did nor deem it proper
to have his letter made public. He had
letter from Railroad Commissioner Baker
thanking him for the information given and
coinciding with his (Wilson's) views. The
letter should not be published for the reason
given. The judge closed with few pleas
ant words amid deafening applause and
music by the band.