St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-25

the street given and number omitted. or Min
neapolis only given as the place of address, in
rwhlch cases the meager information was
copied on other blanks and filed away wait
ing tor details; and if Mason will once more
inspect his ''wagon-load of evidence he will
lind very many names thrown away because
we could not properly locate them. AS to
their having been used and switched an
examination of the names reported will
speedily settle that question.
Having said SO much in general way. Ii is
necessary to add but little relative to the said
Mason, but that little shall be explicit.
L Did Employ Mason,
and caused him to be paid. did give him
certain names to copy, and many of them.
did show him what 1 wanted done, as
showed others. Whether or not he has any
blanks partially filled up by me l neither
know nor care, did not employ him to do
any illegal work of any description, and he
writes himself as consummate a liar as he
proclaims himself knave when he says
otherwise. Having resided here for over
twenty consecutive years without having my
sanity questioned, believe have been sane
enough, it had any illegal work to do, to Sc
lect not only willing TOOLS like Ma
son claims to have been, but persons
whom at least know something about. |
certainly never gave him any confidential
work. or asked him to do any, nor would l
have been ass enough to have made any un-
necessary explanations if l had. His So
called private information he obtained not
from me verbally but from papers accom-
panying every list he copied, as, for instance.
the list of those assisted by the associated
charities, containing only names and ad-
dresses, which he copied on separate blanks
for legitimate use; that is to be assorted and
given to enumerators for use as tracers. with
such additional information as could be OBJ
talned by my outside men who were kept
busy hunting the same. Had there been any
eolluslon between enumerators and myself
l would hardly have selected go-be-
tween. Masons statement as to his doubling
up of the population in single block to
thousand people at my request is absolutely
false: 1t so happens that each block is
specially numbered for census purposes and
as 1t is not likely that any entire block in the
city will approach the figures given by him.
the records will prove him liar.
do not deem 1t necessary to go further
into detail relative to Mason's statements.
but content myself with saying that he is
pusilanimous knave by his own showing and
have in any way been a party to any
fraud, direct or Indirect with him or
with others, is deliberate falsehood Fur
ther than this, l will demonstrate it by the
books and papers stolen on the night of
June IL, and fully account for every act of
mine, or which l may have prompted, not
only to the satisfaction Of our own people
but to the complete discontinue of our enc
mics.
1t should be borne in mind that every emu
meratOr was Instructed over and over again
that ali papers from citizens (and all of mine
and not used until verified by them, and that
they were handed TO them in the presence of
the proper authorities, including Inspector
Boudinot. ED A. STEVENS.
Subscribed and sworn to before me on this
23d day of June, A. ID. 1890.