St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-30
And Political Assessments
Mar His Record and Will
Defeat Him.
Epeeial TO the Globe.


the people who pay taxes. The calcu-
lation. made from the official records, is
an easy one.
The taxpayers have paid to Mark IL.
Dunnell iAkTOund numbers the follow
ing sums:
As member Of legislature, 1S67--.... $500
MILEAGE incidentals. etc......... 100
AS superintendent public instruc-
ton. 1867, 1865, 1869, lS70...... 5000
As member of congress. 1871, -,
rs, "a. 20, &c, ~, '7e, 80, 50, on ooo
MILEAGE for same ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $4,000
Ract nav. 1874 ....... 5000
Total. Observation-Disclosures Soc-4Oo
That is. Nr. Dunnell held Office from
1861 to 1SS3-siXteen yearS-and during
that time drew as salary. back pay and
incidentalS SSS, 400. or an average salary
per wear of 50, 200. This extraordinary
sum would not appeal to taxpayer so
irresistibly if any pert OF the public
records revealed that Dunnell had re-
turned an equivalent to the people. \
careful coming of the state and con-
cressiOnaI records does not reveal one
official act of DunnelFs that was in the
interest of any one except himself, or
some powerful lobby. As, for instance,
in 1882 when introducing his bonded
whisky bill in the house, and which. on
the authority of Mr.. Window, was no
more than gigantic fraud Dunnell
said that the bill had received the sane
ton of the secretary of the treasury. The
letter of the secretary of the treasury is
now public record. In it he says THAT
Mr.. DUNNELL NEVER SUBMITTED THE
BILL TO HIM: THAT HE KNEW NOTHING
OF THE ORIGIN OF THE BILL, AND DE-
NOUNCED IT IN MOST UNMEASURED
TERMS. And that was the way Mr..
DunnelI earned his salary. As to what
he did with his earnings his letter of
July Z, 1874, to Meigs, of Austin, clearly
reveals:
DoNr FATI. TO MEET EXPENSES OF GOING To
COUNTY CONVENTIONS WHEN NECESSARY AND L
WILL PAY BACK. Yours TRULY, DUNNELI.
Or his letter of April %, 1870, to the
same person:
"IHAvE PAID $3.50 OF CAMPAIGN DEBTS
SINCE GOT HOME. AND HAVE $3.50 TO PAY OUT
OF NY POCKET. The FIGHT NEARLY RUINED
ME. Yours. NJ. Ii. DUNNELL.
AGAINST TIE PEOPLE.
But there is still other testimony as
TO whether or nc Dunnell gave back in
services TO the people the money they
lavished upon him. The Spring Valley
Vidette (Republican) i'll June, 1880,
said:
MARK ii. DUNNELL HAS VOTED ALL
SUMNER IN CONGRESS STEADILY
AGAINST THE PEOPLE and newspapers
of his district until he is classified body
and breecheS WITH THE ARISTOCRACY
OF THE EAST"
CORRUPT OFFICIALS.
Nor did the OFFICEHOLDERS AP-
POINTED BY DUNNELL fail to follow in
his footsteps. In this same month of
June, 1880. the Spring Valley Vidette
Republican, says:
The Albert Lea Standard (Repub-
lican) weeks since preferred the charge
against Collector Gnternal revenue)
Smith, of Rochester, THAT HE HAD
WITHHELD THE PAY OF HIS DEPUTIES
AND USED THE MONEY AS A CORRUP-
TON FUND IN DUNNELL'S CONGRESS
SIGNAL CAMPAIGNS. We expected, of
course, that all explanation and COM
plete refutatiOn from cur internal
revenue collector would come. COL
LECToR SMITH Is DUMB. He OPENS
NOT Ills MOUTH TO REFUTE A CHARGE.
And now comes the MankatO Free
Press, published by Gen. Baker, and
adds gravity to the Standards charge
by SOLEMN REITERATION THEREOF IN
IT'S COLUMNS.
MERCILESS LEVIES.
And the Pioneer Press paid its COM
pliments to Dunnell at the same time
by saying:
ALL THE OFFICEHOLDERS IN HIS
DISTRICT ARE REQUIRED To DEVOTE
THEMSELVES ZEALOUSLY, THEIR TIME,
LABOR AND MONEY To HIS SERVER.
AND TO HOLD THEMSELVES READY TO
OBEY HIS ORDERS. IT Is SAID THAT
THE EXPENSE OF Ills CAMPAIGNS ARE
NERCILESSLY LEVIED UPON HIS RE-
TINUE OF DEPENDENT PLACENIEN."
ASSESSMENTS.
On May %, 1880, the Freedom County
Standard, in big, black letters says:
SHOULD 4 CONGRESSMAN BE RE-
TANNED IN OFFICE WHO PERMITS HIS
APPoINTEES TO APPRoPRIATE THE PAY
OF THEIR DEPUTIES WITHOUT THEIR
PERMISSION ON THE GROUND THAT THE
MONEY IS NEEDED TO PAY TIE EN-
PENsES OF DUNNELL'S CAMPAIGN?
THIS Is JUST WHAT A. &. SMITH, COL
LECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE FOR
THIS DISTRICT, HAS DONE. AND WE CAN
PRODUCE THE PROOF IF Mr.. SMITH DE-
MES IT, WHICH HE DARE NOT DO"
BAD RECORD.
May Is. 1880, the Freedom County
Standard said of Dunnell:
Here we have man who has been
in congress for ten years; a man who
mas not maze creulIaDl6 record. VINO
voted for the salary grab. denied his
vote, and capped the climax by taking
the money; a man who has prOstituted
the civil service in this district TO his
own purposes, and who now has bis
paid hirelings running all over this
district setting up The pins for another
term; a man who has made promises by
the score, and To break them, WHOSE
CAREER FOR TEN YEARS HAS BEEN
ONE OF LIES, DECEPTION AND TREACH-
cry"
This is all GOOD REPUBLICAN TES-
TIMoNY TO DUNNELL'S CHARACTER.
HIGH TAN DUNNELL.
Nor is there any amount Of evidence
lacking as to Dunnell's sympathy with
high taxes. In the session of the ways
and means committee of the house on
the 18th of April, 1850, Representative
Tucker made a motion to reduce the
duty Oh all hoop, scroll and band TO
% per cent ad valorem. Mr.. DUNNELL
VOTED NOi The same session of con-
greSS, DUNNELL VOTED AGAINST Mr..
TOwnSend'S motion to place upon its
final passage The bill TO make salt and
print paper FREE. THESE MoNoP-
OLIES," said the Freedom County
Standard, MIR. DUNNELL VOTES TO
PERPETUATE."
Mr.. Dunnell is damned by his own
party. The exposures of his course
are not drawn from Democratic sources.
The Republicans of the First district
furnish the evidence of his unfitness
for Office. II. l. Z.