St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-09
A SWEARING TRAIN
Comes in From Bismarck,
and Budd Reeve Has an
Interview.
A Defeated Republican Candi-
date for Senator a Spicy
Tale UnfoldS.
He Alleges That a Minneapolis
Syndicate Invested $35, 900
and Won.
The Gang Putting UP a Job TO
Steal the Public School
Lands.
s, ee,a, to the Globe.

o. being TOO nrOtlS III my REttihS 10 lhl-
part butfew ideas. One man says lit
is long stream with but fewfi sb in it.
There ought to be more fish, and larger
ones, in a smaller pond a fellow
would not have to fish all day 10 catch
one sucker Guess that man wants to
catch whale on dry ground, or hip
potamis IN DEVILS lake-something of
that kind. II my words are too prolix
and nav ideas are too scattering, let me
Put the words of another man ON paper
and see how these look. He was on
the swearing train returning from Bis
marek, where he had b en- looking after
the senatorial interests of a friend
Hot2 | guess he Was-I wish l could
have hired that man to have gotten of
al Buxton and stayed all winter. He
was so hot be could have heated the
whole town without stove IL in this
winter.
Here is just what he said. lie is
good Republican, knows all the old
boys. all their tricks and ways, but at
least thought they would be true to
him. | said To him: "Haloo! my good
sir. as long as it was bound 10 be a Re
publican any way, j am sorry you was
not one of them" "Well,' he said. Il
am too. But what are you going to do
WITH POLITICAL Blenders?
There is an organized gang in Bis
marc6 to-day, who are IN politics what
the Bender family are TO society. They
are band Of p litieal murdererS and
RSsaSSinS. They are trinity Of devils.
If they had lived in Seldom, SOdOm
would have been destroyed a hundred
hot - e
lied band there from the whisky bar to
the bench, from the pulpit down to the
hired girl. No matter where you stand,
or where you may be, you are in the
circuit somewhere all the time, and
every word or thought you have goes
clear round the ring from the head to
the end of the gang like an electric
shock. 1t is dangerous for a man to
breathe, OF even speak 20 his most inti-
mate friend. or those he thinks are his
friends. In fact, the world looks diff
fereat to me to-day from what II ever
did i'll the world. | thought l could
trust few. bus would hate to swear
to it now. Men who said they would
commit murder for me, turned around
and helped muder me the first one.
Nothing but having the knife stuck in
my heart would have convinced ME Of
1t. But they did il. | don't feel under
obligations TO screen the devils any
iOnger-they knew ] was a peoples
man and for the people, and had back
bone enough to stand up to what is
right and would not be run by gamblers
and cOrruptiOnists, and they got be-
tween me and the people and headed
me OFF. Let US see whether they have
done il or not. As said before. they
are trinity Of devils-PetigTew, of
South Dakota, is the leading spirit
two notorious gamblers of the North are
his pals. Do they think | am going TO
keep still much longer? Not much.
How did one of the most unfit men ia
the whole country come to be appointed
railroad commissioner? Do you want
me 20 tell you? 1t was
DONE THROUGH PETIGREw
He owns everything-frOm Mellette
down to the lowest striker. will tell
you how it was done. Pettigrew hates
Ordway worse than the devil hates holy
water. He hates him on account of the
old capital deal. and because he could
not run Ordway. 0rdway is the only
man he could not wind around his finger.
SO he took one of the worst schemers
In North Dakota. and he said to him:
''Here, l want to knock 0rtlway's po-
litical brains ont, and / have selected
you to do it for me. want to put him
in politics where CTnnin is now. What
Is 1t going TO cost NE to have you do the
JOb?" This political slugger thought it
over and he named his price. He said:
81 want 10 he railroad commissioner"
t'Cheap enough" said the head of the
trinity, ''cOme go with me. Here, Mel
lette. make this man a railroad COM
missioner, and do it quick without any
waiting. either" 1t was done. Is
there live man who can say he is
q fit man for the position? Did any
body expect man who had always
been railroad lobbyist and an agent
for the railroads in legislation, would
turn up as one of the commissioners?
No, the farmers never dreamed of it:
but that was his price for slugging
OrdWay and lie had to have it, and no
back talk. Let me call your attention
TO another pointer. You know when
the Democratic governor was in, a GER
tain man wanted TO get out of the peni-
Tertiary, and the governor was informed
that his friends could give him $4,000 if
that man could only get free. l.. K.
smiled and said: "AlI nv friends are
able to work and earn their own living.
] am afraid it would spoil them to De
elevated so suddenly" From that hour
on the governor met a stormy seattle
devil was to paw and the pitch red hot.
What do the records show now? The
very first act of NelIette, when he
Quit his supervision over the territory.
as territorial governor, was to do lust
what Democratic governor refused TO
do-pardOn this man. don't charge
that Mellette took or knew of dollar
OF money being used for influence in
the matter-dOn't think he did. But
don't inquire any further. The treach-
cry OF the gang at the present time
would warrant avery fact being known.
and L ain not afraid to tell it when The
time comes. By every rule known To
honor and politics. Ordway was en-
titled
To BE ELECTED SENATOR
de had straight combination with
one OF the senators who was elected,
and 1t was understood that all of his
votes were OTdway'S votes. After the
other fellow got over the fence, he
STOOD there ike a mule hitehed to
post, and never helped to get the man
over who had, in time of neea. been mis-
best friend, and when it cost Something
to be friend. They can't deny it: it
Is COD truth, there was combination.
LOOK at the man who beat Ordway.
VINO ever thought of him? The fact Is.
that the senatOTShip was put IN like
cake at church fair, and auctioned off
TO the highest bidder, and a Minueapo-
lis syndicate walked up and took it in
as slick and easy as a man would
purchase new hand sled for one
of the children for Christmas present.
The fellow who got it. just took it for a
family title to present to the poorest
member of the household to make him
respectable He is poor and don't
amount to much himself, and in order
70 make MN so the balance of the fam
lly would not be ashamed of him. tney
stepped up and bought him a title inst
FOR a flyer. Nobody ever Thought of
MIN, or heard of him, even for a iusrice
OF the peace, but he got there inst the
same. asked him if he was not snr.
priSed to get it, and he said no. he had
been figuring on it some time. am
told that one of the trinity got ten thou
sand. and another FIVE for their infiu-
ence, and that the size of the whole
christmas gift was $4,000. Ordwav
could nave done more for the state IN a