St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-26
NOW MUM is THE WORD.
Candidate Babb Concludes to Take His
Lawyers Advice,
AND NOT DEMAND PROOF
Known 10 Be Overwhelming The Ice
Furnished the City, and The
Law Thereon.

/ Still another day has passed. and no
! response has been made by Candidate
! Babb to the GLOBE inquiries relative
! to his deal with ii. \. Westphal i'll the
/ matter of furnishing ice to the city. 1t
| is understood that q meeting OF the
! faithful WAS held yesterday. and that it
WAS decided TO be imp0itic TO have
! Babb make any further denials now, in
! view of the mass OF proof with which we
! are prepared TO oyerwhelm him. 1t was
! admitted. however, that something must
! he done later, and agreed that on the
! Sunday or Monday before cleo
/ ton emphatic denialS should he
I made. The game won't work. Every
/ voter in the city knows that no man. be
! lie candidate or not, would willingly
remain silent in the face of such dam
! aging charges unless he knew that the
proof would De furnished on demand.
/ Babb dare not call for the proof over his
own signature. While an alderman,
/ representing The Eighth ward in the
city council, he had occasion to read the
! city charter. In section twenty-five of
/ chapter three he found these words:
No alderman or other officer or employe
! shall he Il party 10 or interested in any job or
! contract with the city or either of The wards
! thereof. and any contract in which any
alderman or other officer or employee shall
be 30 interested shall be null and void and
! in case any money shall have been paid Oh
/ any such contract. the amount so paid may
, he recovered by joint or several action from
/ the parties 10 such contract and the alder
men or other officer or emplOyc interested in
/ The same.
TIE RECORDS SHOW
he had been furnishing ice to the city
and distributing the same to the various
/ engine houses. etc at 81 per ton. The
! records in the Office of the city comp
roller show that.
He made an arrangement with Ii. y.
/ Wcstphal to furnish the ice at 81 a ton
/ and divide the sWag with Babb. The
/ evidence he dare rot call for shows
! that.
He delivered 0ne-half of the ice from
his wagons and Westphal the other half
| from his Half the police and fire de-
partnent employees know that.
Westphal was paid by the city the
whole amount at - ton. The records
in the Office of the city comptroller
show that.
Babb received One-half of the amount
so paid to Westphal. The evidence he
dare not call for is conclusive Oh that
point
If these things be not so, why does
Babb remain silent? DO you know of
any one not guilty who would hesitate
10 call for the proof? Not one: but "a
guilty conscience doth make towards of
us ALL
Again the GLOBE tenders Candidate
Babb the use of its columns i'll which to
make explicit denials of the foregoing
and Of other charges and statements
made here. lie will not, he dare not,
accept the offer.
When the GLOBE charged upon him
the organization of the trusts, by which
the ice dealers have IN many cases
doubled. and some cases treUled, the
prices paid by our people TOR ice. and
by which it was proposed 10 dictate
terms 10 employees. he employed q law
Yer to get up an answer which didn't
deny
Babb'S answer was published in these
columns yesterday. lie admits the COM
bination, but claims it wasn't intended
to increase the revenue of the ice deal
crs. lie denies any labor combination,
except to prevent men from hiring one
another.
In yesterdays GLOBE the puny weak
ness of his lawyers special pleading
was fully shown up, and extracts from
the original contract published, but he
fails 10 respond in his party organs OF
anywhere else.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.
Did You notice that one of the queS-
lions which was in the article which
Babb employed Lawyer Kellogg to re-
spGnd to was the following?
When Won were q member Of the CITY conn
ell were you directly or indirectly interested
in ally contract for furnishing ice TO the city
in utter defiance OF the plain terms of the
city charter: if so, what were the terms of
1 ~,
interests of the city protected: n
Did you see any reference to that
question in lawyer kellOgg's answer
the one published in the Tribune as an
interview with Babb? Not 4 bit of it.
He admitted trust between ice dealers
for mutual protection, but no alluSion
to any CuTterania.
HaYe you any doubt but that he would
have said Il was not" if he supposed
the proof could not be produced? No
honest man has.
Did you notice how artfully Lawyer
Kellogg made Babb dodge the fact that
lie had made OF entered into contract
under which he claimed the right with
in fortnight to blacklist the employees
OF other dealers and keep them unem-
pl0yed?
The charge was that he demanded
that Ncsphal discharge Charles Gieben-
helm. This response wGS Il pay my
ice dellVeTerS $50 per month";"
The charge was that he demanded
that Giebehhein be kept entirely out of
the ice business. The response was ''at
this time of the year they get through
work al noon"
The most serious charge of all, the
one relative TO the deal on city ice he
ignored, and says: This is all have
TO say about the matter"
WHY lie Is SILENT.
Have You heard OF his calling Oh Law
yer Kellogg to get an answer to the
charge published on the following day?
He probably teld Kellogg the truth. and
Kellogg advised him, as criminal law
yerS frequently have occasion to advise
their clients, do not allow yourself to
be interviewed and make no statements
to any one about the matter" Hence
this is all have TO say
Did YOU hear yesterday that the letter
published in the GLOBE relative to
Giebenhein had been dOctored-tIiat it
was not correctly given herein? 1t is
being lithOgraphed-wait and see if
they dare deny the penmanship.
1t is hot strange that candidate Babb
is quaking in bis boots: nor to be Won
dercd al other candidates on his ticket
are fighting on their own hook and ig-
noring his candidacy. Other rods are
in pickle, and nothing will be presented
which cannot be proven. But Babb
Will not demand the proof. The proof
is the very thing he does not want.
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