St. Paul daily globe., 1888-02-09
The Battle at Plummer Post
Tonight Will Not Be Of
the Sham Order.
One Member Thinks There
Will Be Some Tall Court
Martialing.
The Board of Trade Commit
tee Fails to Agree With
Capt. Davis.
Flim-Flamming the Famous
The Daily Output OF
the Mills.
ADARK WAR CLOUD
Settling Over PIummer Post---
More Charges Made---To-Night's
Meeting.

More Charges Made---To-Night's
Meeting.
l.. =. Plummer post meets tonight,
and the prospect is that there will be a
battle fought there which will not have
the first element.of sham affair. Mat
tiers connected with the late sham battle
at the fair grounds will come up, and any
amount of dirty linen will be washed.
Numerous court martialS are in prospect
and there is the deuce to pay generally,
L. B. Hawkins, commander of the post,
and one of the members most interested,
feels highly indignant at the turn affairs
have taken, and i'll speaking OF them
yesterday said that the matter of hold
ing sham battle was introduced into
the post merely in fun in the first place,
only three members voting for it. A
committee consisting of MeSsrS. Haw
kinS, Stone, Turner, Curtis and Creigh
was appointed to look up the matter.
This committee reported that a Siam
battle could be made a success. The
post then voted that the committee
could get up one if they did not run the
post in debt nor call on it for cash.
The committee" continued Mr..
Hawkins, had no money on hand, but
told me that ifI would advance what
was needed they would pay me their
share of any loss, even if it took life
time. So gave them, all told. some
$3.50 before they got any money in the
treasury. l also gave bonds for other
things that were needed: Sl2,0 to the
fair people for tickets, $4,000 to the
state for arms, tents, etc. $4,000
arms borrowed, and IS, 800 to Kennedy
Bros. l have never been able to
get final settlement with the State
Agricultural society yet and have so re-
ported to the post. l believe there is a
difference in our favor yet. Pll tell you
what lies at the bottom Of the whole af-
fair. There were several cOmmunica-
tiOnS in the GLOBE at one time booming
Merriam for governor and giving him
credit for the success of the sham battle
and this committee answered one of
them and gave the credit where it be-
lOngS-to McGill. G. G. Hunt. one of
the kickers in the post, is chairman of
Republican club that is booming Mer-
riam, and this letter of the COM
mittee made him announce himself
as the champion kicker in the post.
No miSappropriatiOn of funds has been
charged against us by, the auditing
committee. AS to the lease of the hall,
hold it in my name and paid the first
years rent out of my own pocket, and
as long as l am responsible for the rent
and the post tries to take the manage
ment Of the hail out of the hands of the
trustees, I'm kicker. l never asked
Plummer post to leave the hall, but
said I'd hang onto the management till
they paid me the rent. I'll tell you how
the money account stands. We re-
ceived from the sham battle S12. .9S9. .25,
and paid out S11 ,943 80, leaving $145.45
cash in our hands. We have turned
over $1,55S.20 to the post and we
have about $1,000 i'll ammunition, etc.,
on hand beSineS. We charged for 10S
days work for each member of the COM
mittee at 50 day, S54O each, and took
our pay out OF the proceeds Of the bat
tie. And we earned it, too. Suppose it
had been rainy day and no crowd:
we'd have been busted. G. u. Hunt,
Ben Cole and George Seaton are the
kickerS, and all because | beat Hunt
when we run for commander of the post
and because won't let Cole speak from
the floor on account of his being in ar
rears. Yes, they'd better change the
name from Plummer post to hummer
post"
The statement made by Mr. Hawkins
is widely at variance with statements
made by some of the other members,
boarding tent, about $1,000, have never
yet been accounted for, that Mr..
Hawkins has failed to make an account
of how certain moneys were spent, and
that he has been guilty of ungentle-
manly conduct in numerous ways. G. G.
Hunt, who was not on the committee,
and who is charged by Mr.. Hawkins
with having stirred up the trouble, was
seen yesterday. He said he bore no ill
feeling toward any member and only
wanted complete report of the battle,
which the post had already made two
demands for and failed TO get, except in
badly jumbled-up state.
There is now S145 in the hands of
the committee, which the members ad-
nit" said he, land there is further a
$500 or S400 deficit, besides money turned
over to L. b. Hawkins by a member of
the committee, of which the investigat-
ing committee can get no trace. This
committee also appropriated to its own
personal use from $500 to $500 apiece,
said to be salary and expenses. As to
the hall, by action of the post at a
special meeting in November the trus-
tees were ordered to rent the hall for
five years and pay one years
rent in advance, this and money
for furnishings to be paid out of post
funds in the hands of the sham battle
committee. This was ratified at a regu-
lar meeting. but on a demand of the
post for settlement, Hawkins claimed
to own the hall, having paid the rent
out of his own pocket, and said he had
the drop on the Plummer post, and if
they didn't come to his terms he'd pull
the string on them. He notified us that
we'd have to pay $6 in advance and get
the key from the janitOr if we held a
meeting. PaulsOn and Mortimer, the
other trustees, have got the keys since
then from him.. There'll be some tall
court-martiaiing before this thing is