St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-25
1t is the Fishing Season, and
Ed A. Stevens Tells a
Little Story.
He Now Wishes the "Manu-
featuring Annex" Had Been
Made of Glass.
Everybody There Was Just
as Innocent as School Chill
dren Playing Tag.
Hints That Evening Sessions
at the Holy Resort We're
Opened With Prayer.

WASHINGTON, June 24.-Delegations
from st. Paul and st. Louis arrived here
to-day, and this afternoon had inter
views with Supt, Porter, in which they
make complaints of the census enumer-
alton. The st. Paul people also COM
plain against the manner in which the
census was conducted in Minneapolis,
asserting that the population had been
fraudulently swollen. They asked fol
a recount. Supt. Porter said he would
order this only upon production OF
positive proof of gross inaccuracies.
The affidavits which the Minneapolis
papers have announced would upset the
charges Of fraud in making up the cen.
sus returns of the Flour City are made
public this morning. They are by Ed
A. Stevens ana T. S. Dickey, and are
chiefly noteworthy for their omissions OF
the very matters on which they should
have been the most explicit. That OF
Stevens simply shows that he has care
fully read the Mason affidavit, and he
would have convinced quite as many
people if he had put his statement in
this form:
STATE OF MINNESOTA, 9.
County of Henpepin. 49,
deny everything 1 did employ Mason
but he is liar, and am real sorry evel
met him. ED A. STEVENS.
Mr.. Stevens promise to send Mason
into oblivion and make st. Paul wish
1t had never been born does not pan
out. His statement is, in fact, fiat,
stale and disappointing. He asserts
that ne proposes to meet the issues
raised by Mason, and then beats
around the bush through many pages
of typewriter copy and says nothing
whater that would convince a school
boy living, outside of Minneapolis,
Now, to come
Down to Plain Facts,
neither the affidavit Of Stevens nor that
of Mason is worth anything except for
use in corroboration of events. Mason
made his statement and SWore to it.
There were certain arrests and the seiz-
ure of certain bags full of alleged evi-
dence. There was an attempt to bring
the whole matter before the courts at
once for the purpose Of discovering
whether or not great frauds We're per-
petrated in the Minneapolis census.
Here was a chance for Detective Mason
to corroborate his sworn statements
by evidence, or for the law
yers employed by the enumerators
arrested to make it clear to the world
that there had been no fraud and that
hn of m fhnir
papers was indeed an outrage. But
what was done? Eugene Hay, Of Min
neapolis, by the grace of President
Harrison district attorney for Mime
sofa, asked and secured a continuance
of the cases to Aug. 20, sixty days away
What was the necessity for this delay
AS a general proposition, without
special reference to these cases, do in
nocent men clamor for investigation
and verdict or ask that they
be allowed to rest under the
stigma for two or three months? Per
haps, since Ed A. Stevens, zone of the
shrewdest lawyers in Minneapolis" ha!
gone into the affidavit business. he
would be willing to clear up few
points for st. Paul and the rest of the
state of Minnesota outside of HennepiT
county. Why was it discovered on the
day Special Agent Boudinot arrived in
Minneapolis that there was not room il
the government building for the so
called
ssManufacfurfng Annex2,'
Why did it require certain peculiar
1ynaoIyc RI into tho Stonnnv15 ~ tho
night of the arrest if such procedure
was not at other times necessary;
There is corroborative evidence on thi:
point, as both Detective Mason anC
Deputy Marshal Daggett were presen
at:this interesting juncture. Why die
Mr.. Stevens strike at Deputy Marsha
Daggett and try to slam door in hi
face when he discovered the officer was
there for the purpose of making arrestsi
Mr.. Stevens knew that Daggett was {
United States officer, and recognized
Mason as a man whom he (Stevensl hao
employed, but he did not know
that "St. Paul was perpetrat
ing an outrage on Minneapolis.
Was it not Mr.. Stevens impression a
that time that the arrests we're on thu
orders of the department of justice
through the census bereaup Why wer,
the arrested enumerators instructed by
Stevens to say nothing to reporters o.
anybody else? If, as Mr. Stevens says
everything was above board, and infor
nation was given out freely to elevator
boys and posted on bill boards, why was
it necessary to enjoin secrecy from the
moment of arrest? Certainly an limo
cent mans talk will not convict hin
of an offense against federal laws
Why did Mr.. Stevens return to the Van
derbugh block after Marshal Dagget
had goue with his arrested men an(
gnther up
The Remaining ssEvidence',
and drive away, heaven knows where
with it? Why did eight Minneapoli
men drive at breakneck speed to st
Paul at o'clock in the morning las
"Wednesday with worthless searcl
warrant to secure the contents O
those six bags if, as Mr.. Ste
Vens swears, there was nothing il
them that could not be explained
in few moments? Why die
MIR. Stevens disappear for few day
about the time of the arrest when he
was wanted as witness in the cases;
Mr.. Stevens turns up afterwards ant
nonchalantly asks if he is wauted. o
course he isn't wanted now. The cases
have been postponed to Aug. 20 by
Eugene Hay, Of Minnea polls, who in
sisted on putting the cases over il