St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-03
MINNEAPOLIS
AETER THE DOCTOR.
G. A. Piiisbury Makes an Offer to
MayOr AmeS


The following letter was sent out yes
terday, and not only explains itself
fully. but is of sufficient general inter
est to warrant is publication:
Hon. A. A. Ames, Dear Sir: My attention
has lust been called to report of your
speech last evening" as reported IN the
GLOBE. wherein you are reported as lntlmat-
ing that the mob of three years ago was in-
stigated b. leading Republicans. and you
give as proof of the fact that | sent kilograms
announcing the fact before the riot actually
happened. Now as am as Jealous OF my
political honor as am of my business repu-
iation, and would not intentionally do q
mean or unfair act in politics any more than
l would i'll business, take this
opportunity TO most emphatically deny the
assertion you make, and call upon you to
give the names Of your intormerS in order TO
ask them to prove their statements, or to be
publicly branded as lipelers, sneaks and
liars. deny that even suspected that there
was to be row or riot on that occasion, or
that even hint of the thing was conveyed
either to me or by me before it actually took
place deny that ever sent any kilograms
telling OF the riot or anything i'll reference to
the riot before it took place. and Ill order TO
make it an object to you to prove your state
ments or TO prove your lnformants to be
malicious liars make this proposition: III
YOU will undertake to prove your statements,
giving me. of course. an opportunity to an
SWer and diSapproYe any apparent 1actS you
may adduce l will at once place $4,000 in
the hands of T. j. Buxton. Democratic can
didate for city treasurer with instructions
to pay the same over to any national,
state, congressional, county or. city Dem
ocratic committee you may select, provided
the charges are substantiated, or you can
prove that knew or even had any reason to
suspect that row was to take place. or even
limited to any one that there was to be such a
mob. II Mr. Buxton has not time TO investl-
gate this matter, or is unwilling to do SO,
am willing that a committee be selected by
either himself or P. 3. Winston or Edmund
Rice, who are both iavorite candidates OF
yours. / Will also state further that have
not the faintest Recollection of having sent
any kilograms about the riot after it actually
occurred, although such q thing would
have been perfectly proper and justifiable.
If j do not make this denial as broad and as
emphatic as 1 possibly could, it is because
cannot write more vigorous English, and
close by calling on you TO either undertake
to prove your statements or to publicly state
that you have been imposed upon and re-
tract your statements. There have been
great many things told you about me that
have come to My knowledge before this that
are co ually as false as this statement. Some
sneak and liar for the last two or three years
has been constantly circulating falsehoodS
about me, not only to my political oppo-
nents, but TO my political friends and l
would be willing to give $4,000 to have him
smoked out. Will you not help me to do it?
Yours very truly. CHARLES A. PILLsBURY.
MinneaDOliS Nov 3 1883.