St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-21
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
so,nrpuS FOR WILSON.


perhead RecOrd---MilO Whites
KevenEe-.-Ex-Sena Edwards
CHARGED with Corruption.
To the Editor of the Globe
Judge Wilson's opening capalgn speech at
Rochester, as printed in the GLOBE, has Gre
ated regular ground swell for the distin-
guished judge, and is everywhere hailed as
the suspicious forerunner OF his triumphant
election. Thursday, this week, Judge wilson
speaks at Preston, 1t being fair time. From
all portions of the country politicians and
people will flock to Preston TO hear the next
congressman from this district. 1t Is now
conceded by the shrewdest observers that
Judge Wilson's election is beyond peradven-
ture. 1t is estimated that there are some
5000 soldiers in this congressional district,
and that nearly all of them Will vote soiloly
tor Judge Wilson. John A. Lovely, OF Albert
Lea was Comprehend all during the war.
The case is proven against him. and the
bogus circular that he pretends he wrote at
the time of Lincoln's ASSASSINATION SHOWS tue
desperation of his case. 1t is the last subter-
fuge of COpperhead Lovely. Evidence from
WATERFOWL, Wis, is not wanting 10 show that
john A. Lovely fled from Vermont in 1851 to
avoid the calls OF that state upon him and
that at Waterfowl he was an unbiushing and
BLATANT CoPPERHEAD.
When John A. Lovely was elected county
attorney Of Freeborn county he sale that he
was born in Burlington, VT, in 1910, and III
his biographical sketch, which he wrote FOR
the Pioneer Press, after his fraudulent NOM
inatiOn at Kassou, Mr.. Lovely claimed that he
was born in 1874. This cnange of the dates
Of his reputed birth is noteworthy. Let it be
understood that the charge of his being
Copperhead had been stoutly made and freely
circulated before the Kasson convention, and
Loyely's claim that lie was born in 1914 in
stead of iS4O is q dodge and fraud to try
and make people believe that he was TOO
young to go to the war. This outrageous
conduct on the part of Mr.. Lovely had filed
the hearts Of all Union soldiers with
Indignation. Admitting that John A.
Lovely was born in 1874, he would
be AZ years old, and OF the 5000 soldiers in
this district. there are probably 800 soldiers
younger than Mr.. Lovely In Spring Valley
alone there are five Union soldiers younger
than Lovely, so that his pretense that he was
too young to enlist is simply preposterous.
He was q Copperhead at WATERFOWL, and the
bogus circular he sent to the Pioneer Press
for publication is laughed at by Union soldiers
all over this district as a COpperhead cheat
and lie.
Judge Wilson's appearance in Fillmore
county will be notable event, coming as he
does upon the heels of the last Republican
convention.
MILO WHITE,
with his war paint on and tomahawk raised,
has scalped John A. Lovely in Fillmore
county. resolution introduced by Warren
Cohurn, of Rushford. and DIR. Moore, of
Spring Valley, committing the Republicans of
Fillmore county to Lovely was defeated and
the convention adjourned after screwing
down the coffin lid on the Albert Lea corpse.
Never before in the district has Republican
candidate for congress been butchered in
such cold blood. The action of the conven-
ton is most significant, but it demonstrates
| ~, FOR linda
The nominations made by the Republicans
last Friday were all dictated by Milo
White. Not man was nominated, either
for county officers or for the legislature, who
supported Lovely. Indeed, the nominal ons
are anti-Lovely. A notable instance is the
selection of C. G. Edwards for the state SEN
ate Edwards came home from KassOn.
raving like q mad man, and walked the streets
denouncing Lovely and calling him a thief and
| a scoundrel. and saying that he stole his nom
nation ut Kasson. Now White rewards Ed
wards by nominating him for the senate. To
show the character of G. 6. Edwards refer
ence to the senate journal of the eighteenth
session of the legislature of Minnesota for
1877 is alone necessary. There was contest
between
C. G. EDWARDS
and William Meighen, and the case was des-
perate for Edwards. Me1ghen had clear
majority of all the votes cast, but the cleo
gave the certificate to Edwards. In the cam
paign preceding the election in October,
1878, G. G. Edwards wrote letter pledp1ng
his sacred honor that if elected he would
vote against the payment of the old railroad
bonds. When his contest with Meighen came
up, he became alarmed. and entered into
compact with the bond senators to vote for
the $1,000 600 bond steal If those senators
would vote to seat him, and G. G. Edwards
was seated by the same vote that passed the
bond steal, and thus was saddled upon
the taxpayers of Minnesota this enormous
and fraudulent debt of $5,OOO,O00 Page 362
OF senate journal for 1877 shows that Senate
File No. 253 was a bill to provide for the pay
ment of the bonds known as the Minnesota
state railroad bonds. For this infamous bill
G. G. Edwards voted. while his colleague,
Hon. G. H Conkey, of Preston, voted against
it. To reward c. G.. Edwards for his perfidy
to the people of Fillmore county, the hackers
of Selah Chamberlain made q raid upon the
state treasury for the purpose of feathering
G. G.. Edwards own nest. Page 1872 Senate
File No. 352. senate journal for 1877, shows
that a bill to
APPROPRIATE MONEY
to reimburse C. G. Edwards for expenses in
the contested election case of William
Meighen, contestant, VS.. @. G. Edwards, re-
spondent was passed by the same vote that
consummated the old railroad bonds infamy.
| This bill appropriated the SUM of ST, 4S3. 65,
which amount G. G. Edwards pocketed. Thus
was the seat of William Meighen in the state
| senate actually stolen, and the beneficiary of
| the theft was permitted to pilfer the state
treasury Of $1,4S3.65. William Meighen lost
| his seat in the senate and paid his
own expenses, while @. G. Ed
wards f1eeced the treasury of the amount
| named Against this bill giving Edwards
| 81, 4S3. 65 Hon. Michael Doran, Hon. Mort
| s. wilkinson and Hon. Henry Poehler, then
state senators, voted. This is the record of
| the man nominated by the Republicans of
| Fillmore for the state senate-to be beaten
| out of sight by some honest and capable
| Democrat Edwards has no political stand
! ing He is a renegade from the Democratic
| party and a chronic office-seeker. In his
1 military record he is as honeycombed as else
| where. He claims that he lost the third
| Singer on his left hand during the war, and
| that he draws pension therefor, when his
| affidavit is in Washington that he was
| wounded in the head and left arm, making
| that affidavit the basis of claim
for pension. 1t is the truth
| of history that he lost his finger in a
| threshing machine in the State of New York,
and that his affidavit that be was wounded in
| the head and left arm remain unsupported
| A man of worse record has never been nom
| mated for an office in this county. 1t is to be
| hoped that the Democratic convention that
conyenes Wednesday at Preston will nominate
| Hon. William Meighen as the reform candi-
| fOr fate