Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-09
WANTED, SALOON VOTES
THAT REMARKABLE BID OF THE RE.
PUBLICAN COMMITTEES.
More Corroborative Testimony-The
Liquor Document Is Now Being Sent
Through tile Mails Upon Fraudulent
Franks of Republican congressman.

More Corroborative Testimony-The
Liquor Document Is Now Being Sent
Through tile Mails Upon Fraudulent
Franks Of Republican congressman.
Llrom the New York voice.l
The Voice of last week went to press OH
Tuesday afternoon. On the same after
noon the Mai and Express contained an
extended interview with Secretary J. Sloan
Fassett Of the Republican National Com
mittee, in which Mr.. Fassett made Il most
sweeping denial of the charge printed in
the Voice Of Oct. 4, that the committee
had been circulating an offensive liquor
document as part of the regular Harri-
son and Morton campaign literature. Mr..
Fassett was very specific in his assertions.
Referring to the statement of George A.
Schultz, the young Secretary of the New
YORK German Prohibition Club, in which
Mr.. Schultz said that he had seen large
bundles Of the liquor document piled up
in the rooms of the Republican National
Committee, Mr.. Fassett said:
That young man must have seen
more than double when he said the Ger
man papers spoken of stood packed up in
large bundles. The fact is, there were
only three or four copies of the st. Louis
Tribune, and they had merely been mailed
pose. that they had even been read when
young melancholy Paul Pry went forth
armed with copy. The Republican Ma
tional Committee did not know of the ex-
istence of the paper. Mr.. Habercorn prob
ably knew such a paper was published,
because he received three copies of il
through the mails and cheerfully gave one
to the young detective.
This astounding statement was a some-
what more detailed repetition of the Ma
tional Committees denial in the New
York Tyibane of Monday, Oct. 8. Both
denials were made in the face of over
!whelmihg evidence. At the very moment
that Mr.. Fassett was giving his brazen
version to the reporter of the Mail and
Empress, there we're lying i'll the Voice
office more than sixty copies of the liquor
document, every one of which had been
obtained by reputable gentlemen from the
enormous supply in the document room
of the National Committee, with the ex-
press understanding that the value OF
the document consisted in its urgent and
weighty appeals to saloon voters to
support Harrison and Morton. The
Voice also had an autograph lettel
from Mr.: Habercorn, Superintendent
of the German Republican Bureau
copies of the liquor document had beer
| forwarded to number of Germans whose
names had been furnished him. DETAILED
and explicit statements had been made t.
the Voice by three gentlemen who hat
visited Republican national and State
headquarters and ascertained that thu
liquor document was being sent out from
both headquarters. Interviews obtaine,
| in st. Louis with the bookkeeper an,
| publisher of the st. Louis Tribune hat
revealed the fact that the National Re
| publican Committee had, in letter, or
dered 100, 900 copies of the liquor docu
ment from the publishers, of which so, 90
copies had been sent to the Nationa
Committee in New York, and the othe
$4,000 to addresses furnished by tn
National Committee in Indiana, Cali
fornia, Iowa and Kansas.
All this evidence was printed at lengtl
in the Voice of last week. Since then
contirmatory testimony of the most con
vincing kind has been accidentally ant
unexpectedly received.
1t appears that Gen. Alvin P. Hovey
an Indiana member of Congress, and Re
publican candidate for Governor of In
diana, has been using Tor permitting tn
use Of his Congressional frank for tn
purpose of sending Republican campaig
documents through the mails free. Larg
bundles of Gen. Harrison's franked docu
ments were seized last week at Ne
Albany, Ind, by Postofice Inspectc
Stewart. In those seized bundles wer
found copies of the National Committee
liquor document, undoubtedly a part {
; the supply of 10000 copies forwarded I
Indiana by the order Of the Republicu
National Committee.