Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-01-10
REPUBLICANS ACCUSED.
The Voice Says Party Managers Bought
Iea stolen Mailing List

devc.es two pages to describing how its mail
| ing list was stolen. It alleges that il was
sold 10 Messrs Dudley, Clarkson and Quay.
of the Republican national COMMITTEES, and
| prints what it says Is the confession Of the
man who made the dicker. When the CAM
paign was at its hottest last summer, The
| Voice says it received complaints from scores
OF subscribers that they were receiving
through the mail copies OF The Voice within
which Republican campaign documents were
| folded
In the closing days Of the campaign the
proprietors Of The Voice discovered that los
sheets containing mailing list of their sub
scribers had been stolen from the office.
| About this time deaf mute clerk IN the
| mailing DEPARTMENT James |. SAMSON, was
discharged after two weeks notice. His dis
charge took effect after the theft of the list
had been discovered The complainant
against him (Sansom) was Charles A Durfee,
who was in charge of the mailing depart
ment.
Meanwhile the managers of The Voice had
been hunting up Durfee's recent history and
hal heard some things. On Dec "a Durfee
was questioned by DR.. Funk about the miss
! ing mail list.
/ thing about il, or that he visited j. S. Clark
son at the Republican national headquarters
He had seen Mr.. Clarkson at the Everett
house, he acknowledged, but it was on pri-
waite business
"Wil you let me sea that letter in your
pocket from Col w. w. Dudleyr said DIR.
Funk
ut relates to personal business matter
he answered, but certainly you may see it
il you desire to-" Durfee, The Voice says,
pulled this letter from his pocket
WASHINGTON, Dec. %. 1888.
My DEAR SIR-Your favor just received. In
| reply would say that as soon as am ready
shall he glad TO have your services in the matter
that Dir. Clarkson and were talking to you
about 1t will necessitate your coming here and
| can arrange, think, for you to have room TO
sleep IN ia the headquarters building. We viii
settle about the details when am ready for you
10 come. Yours truly, W. w. DUDLEY
Durfee attempted TO defend himself, but
The Voice says he ended in confessing that
he took the mailing sheets in patches. He got
Deaf Mute SAMSON discharged, and then
used Sansom's wrath against his employers
to get him into the plot
Negotiations, it alleges, were opened by
SAMSON, who wrote TO Matt Quay at the
Everett house in September informing him
that they could reduce the Prohibition vote
900 or $1,000 votes This was the re-
Spouse. The Voice prints all these letters in
fac-simie
4
l,4o1 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, \. W.,
R,1sS WASHINGTON, ID. c.
@. A. Durfee, New York:
My DEAR SIR-Can you meet me at Everett
house, Union square, Saturday noon or evening
nexty
Kindly let me know by note addressed to Ever
EFT house. j. s. GARRISON.
On Oct. 4, SAMSON went to the Everett
house in accordance with the appointment,
where it is alleged that SAMSON had an hour
n
which he is said to have shown Durfee $50,
which he said was what he received for the
list. The Voice says he really got $3.50 This
is what Durfee says SAMSON wrote on pad
in the saloon and afterward tore up:
Mr.. J. S. GARRISON was pleased with everything,
especially the galleys. He thought at first that /
had only one state, and asked me If could obtain
the whole subscription list of the country. i
showed him that the i0S pages were complete.
He gave me $50, and promised me employment
with compensation at the rate of $50 month
until election.
SAMSON gave Durfee $35 of the $50 Then
Durfee, according to The Voice, says he
sought Clarkson at the Everett house, and
said to Clarkson that it was he who had used
SAMSON in selling the mailing list Of The
Voice. An appointment was made, and
probably on Nov. 10 Durfee met Clarkson
at the Everett house with list of 246 lead
ing contributors to The Voices clergymen's
fund and farmers fund. Clarkson took the
list and, on being asked where Durfee could
see him again, took out his card and wrote:
w. w. D.-This gentleman is of value to us,
and may be able to give important information
in the interest of honesty. j. s. c.
The last phrase strikes The Voice people as
audacious. This card Durfee was told to
hand TO gentlemen at the r. c. Smith En-
CINE company Office Washington building,
but he found no one there. Subsequently
Durfee says he was introduced to COL Dud-
ley at room 13s in the Everett house, Clark.
sons apartments. and an interview was APP
pointed for Dec IL.
Durfee says Clarkson and Col. Dudley gave
him to understand that he could have a
clerkship under the Republican committee.
A day or two after this interview Durfee
wrote to Col Dudley as follows:
If wanted on short call, please send to Funk &
Wagnalls, Is and 20 Aston place, from a. m. to
| d. m. do not receive my uptown mail until {
p. IN. send you this TO insure keeping your APP
pointment.
On Dec "a this reply was received:
WASHINGTON, Dec 81 1888
Nix DEAR SIR--Your favor just received In
reply would say that soon as | am ready
shall bc glad 10 have your services in the matter
that Mr. Carlson and | talking to YOU
about 1t viii necesstate your coming here, and
can arrange, think, for you to have a room to
sleep in in the headquarters building. We will
settle about tie details when am ready for YOU
to come. Yours, very truly, w. w. DUDLEY
After Durfee confessed, an emp,oye in The
Voice office went to Sansom's home, in Web
ster, Pa, near Monongahela. and found him.
Durfees written statement was shown ia
him, but he refused at first to come to New
York. When the agent told SAMSON that his
mother would be informed if he did not start
he consented. As the train slowed up a,
Pittsburg he jumped off. The agent ap-
pealed 10 the police and detectives were sent
out. Meanwhile the deaf mute had boarded
a train for Braddock, Pa, and he was found
there in a relatives house by his brother
who joined the agent of The Voice in Pitts
burg. Sansom's brother pleaded with the
deaf mute on slips of paper as follows: