St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-07
He Lays Bare the Lottery
Scheme to a Journalistic
Friend.
Members Charged With Sell
ing Their Votes for Small
Fortunes.
Representative Stevens Stirs
Up the Greatest Sensa-
tion Of the Session.
Special to the Globe.


ton in the house to-day of letter writ
ten by Attorney General Goodwin re-
garding the bill. 1t was written Feb.
q and shows that the attorney general
has had an object in refusing to give an
honest opinion as to the power of the
investigating committee to compel the
attendance of witnesses. The follow
ing are extracts from the letter, copy
of which was secured by Representative
Stevens, whom Goodwin considers
his arch political foe. He addresses
his friend, Editor johnson. of Lis
bon, and after speaking Of politics
in general, intimating that R. N.
Stevens resigned the United States at
torneyship after he was knocked out in
favor of Representative Selby, and. ex-
pressing little faith IN Selby, he intro
duces the lottery question, inti-
mating that the bill will be
introduced in few days and
says. Il understand all the Ransom
county members are fgvoring it at
present; but Steve is holding off ror
more money. He is bluffing for cool
ten thousand. l don't think he can
pretty close, and then the last man can
command almost any figure;
THERE IS MILLIONS IN IT.
and the Doodle is here. They guarantee
the stock to pay 100 cents one the dollar
every six mouths, and senators who
have influence have been promised
they they have e. nearly GyA' votes enough, o,:is
but want to be sure
of two-thirds. as they expect, Of course.
to have to pass it over the governors
veto. 1t was intended to introduce it
Yesterday, but it was postponed till to-
morrow. when 1t will 10 in. if they feel
safe on the votes. They are paying from
$500 to $500 cash down and agree
to double when the bill becomes law.
1t is said by those on the inside that this
monstrOus swindle antedates the state
convention at Fargo. That Senator
Spencer, Alexander Mckenzie, Jud La
Moure, Walsh, Haggart and few more
of the leaders of 1.-The old gang"
had this all planned, and Harrison Allen
pledged himself to help carry it out.
Their defeat there scOtched the snake,
and now this is the last desperate at
tempt to control the policy of this new
state. Of course. if successful the
Louisiana lottery would own the state.
and control and dictate it's political
future.
1t is scheme worthy of the men who
are back of it. They propose to rule or
ruin the Republican party. They are
using this as club over the members
opposed to them, and threaten to allow
no legislation to go through until
the bill passes. This is to he
the hub around which must revolve all
the legislation of the session. The
financial condition Of the state is the
able scheme. Many of the farmer
members, while they admit that it is of
questionable morality. yet think the
state would be justified in adopting
this means to make the whole people
happy and wealthy. With few eXcep-
tions, they have the press securely muz-
Zled. so that no adverse criticism will
get into the public newspapers until it
is too late. George Winship has been
approached with all sorts of seductive
ind ucements, but without avail. They
proposed to give $4,000 of stock and
make his paper the state paper, furnish
him all the lottery printing, and some of
the prominently citizens of Grand Forks
are here kicking WinShip because he is
standing in the way Of that city recelv-
ing the location of
THIS BENEFICENT INSTITUTION.
Some of the leading bankers of the
state are in the scheme. In fact, it is
hard at this writing to tell where its
ramifcations end. 1t is the most seduct-
i've and corrupting thing that has been
tried for many years. IL is said that
the charter of the Louisiana state
lottery expires in 1892, and the public
nf ctafa hoc
reached the point that will not allow it
to he extended, and they have seized
upon the financial condition of North
Dakota to aid them in fastening Its
blighting curse upon the fair fame of
this new state. The very bOldneSS of
the scheme gives it temporary strength.
A careful canvass is beng made of the
senate and house to secure enough
pledged men who can neither be bought,
bulldOzed, fattered or caiOled into voting
to pass it over the governors veto. and
then wait and let the hackers of The
rotten scheme introduce it and put
themselves on record. and then flood the
state with protests, letters and tele-
grams to arouse the sleeping lion of
public sentiment and
BURY THE RECKLESS MOVERS
of this damnable and Infamous outrage
so deep GnaC Cney can never raise tnelr
heads in the politics of the state. We
do not want to make any move now for
fear they will weaken before
they are put on record by in
PRODUCING the bill. and then
claim they never intended to try and
pass it at all. You might write
it up in good shape from this outline l
have given you, filling in the sensation
al details, and have it ready for publi-
cation next Friday, and if the thing
reaches head before that time, /
will wire you, ''set up Stoves"
This uncoverng of the secret
work of Attorney General Goodwin has
caused an immense sensation, as Good
win has denied that he was the insti-
gator of the charges of bribery against
the legislature. Goodwin does not deny
the authorship of this letter, as he inti-
mated tonight that he believed the mail
had been robbed in order to get his let
ter. This. of course, is not the way the
copy was obtained. 1t is believed that
the discovery will force Goodwin before
the investigating committee, and unless
he SubStantiateS his statements, i'm