St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-19
INJURED IhNOCENTS.
Seligman Says Montana Re-
publieans Do Not Want
Dew olf5 Removed.
ALI the Same Harrison Has
Been Asked to Bounce
Him.
The Scheme to Steal the State
Was Planned Long Before
Election.
A Senatorial Plum Offered
Gov. White to Aid the
Conspirat0ps.
Special to the Globe.

CpOtIdl " IllC OIODCs
HELENA, Mont, Oct. 1S.-The indig-
nation aroused by the efforts of the Re-
publican cOnspiratOrS to secure the re-
moval of Judge De Wolfe. has had the
effect of causing Chairman Seligman, Of
the Republican state committee, to issue
a card, in which he denies that he, or
any of his associates, are engaged in the
scheme to secure the removal of De
Wolfe. Despite this denial, Chairman
Marcus Daily and the Democratic state
committeeman say they have evidence
in their possession that Seligman has
been endeavOring for ten days to secure
affidavits affecting De WOlfe's fitness
for his present position, employing for
that pdrpOse backwoOds lawyers.
prince" Russell HarrisOn's connection
with this attempt to remove Judge De
Wolfe is an unknown quantity. Certain
it is he has nothing to gain, what
ever the outcome may be. Attorney
Sanders and Banker Hershfeld control
the delegations in whose power it will
be TO name the east side senator, while
on the west side Knowles, Lee Mantle
and Gov. White have the call. Russell
HarIiSOn'S real friends in Montana are
now too few for him to take the side of
the men whose acts. if persisted in, will
result in their OStraclSm by all honest
people. That the plan to steal the state
is we'll cOncOcted one is becoming
palmer as new facts come to light.
Careful figuring had shown that if the
contested precincts could be cotton rid
of the complexion of the legislature
would be changed, and that was all the
conspiratOrs cared for. That being the
case, it was decided to abandon all the
others and throw out the vote of Pre-
cinct No. "a. or Silver Bow county. 1t
did not matter that of ali the returns
this came nearest to conforming to the
letter of the law. 1t had to be thrown
out, and
LAW OR No LAW
it must be done. This could not be
done unless Jack and Hall, the Repub-
lican canvassers, were parties to it, and
could be relied upon to carry out their
part of the contract. That they did so,
and that the conspiracy was an accom-
plished fact as far back as last Friday,
can be proven by kilograms on that day
from Thompson Campbell, chairman of
the Silver Bow Republican committee,
10 I. G. Power, Republican candidate
for governor, announcing that the pre-
cinct would be thrown out, and a jubi-
liant telegram in response from Mr..
Power. Such an interchange of tele-
grams chat the plot had then been
arranged, and that all the subSe-
quent proceedings were a blind and
a farce, and were only carried on to
give sem blance of fairness to the outrage
that it was decided to perpetrate, can
be proven by the Democratic managers
10
the very evening the board announced
its decision gives added weight to the
charge that the outcome in Silver Bow
county was known to Sanders, Selig-
man and Hershfield before the canvass
had been commenced. Hall. the other
Republican member of the canvaSsing
board, got uproariously drunk the night
CanVaSser Jack left, and spent twelve
hours in Jail. Whether he thus lost
trip to Europe is not known. The great
est effort of Seligman and his men now
is to have Gov. White certify to the
president that the constitution has car
ried, and on the returns in from five
counties out of the sixteen. Gov.
White has up to now resisted the ap-
pealS of the cOnSpirators, but
whether he viii be able to
hold out against promise of
United States SenatOrShip as a reward
for aiding remains to be seen. Knowles
and Mantle have heretofore been in the
lead for the plum, but as the plot is
likely to fail, unless Gov. White can be
brought to terms. it is probable they
will step back at least until the lesisla-
ture meets. A telegram received to-day
from the warden of the Idaho peniten-
tiary, says that Harry Bernard, on
whose affidavit the HOmestake Tunnel
precinct was thrown out, was paIdoned
by Gov. Shoup after serving about five
years of an eight-year sentence, for
murder committed in the Couer D'Alene
country. Bernard and the Republican
state committee had cOntended that,
while Bernard had killed his man, he
had been acquitted of the charge Of
murder.