St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-15
A Mankato Paper Makes Seri-
Gus Charges About Ran
dallS Removal.
The Thresher Company and
Seymour & Sabin Said
to Be in 1t.
Queer Performances Of a Kid
Turned Loose in an Au-
ditor's Office.
More Union League Talk
How Ingersoll Turned
Lamb Down.

The removal of Warden j. ]. Ran
dali, of the Saltwater prison, is exciting
no little unfavorabIe comment through
out the state. In some quarters it is
viewed as move toward the reinstate-
ment of the old prison ring. and little.
ii any, stock is taken in the charges re-
fiecting on his management of the
prison; ''fOr." say these parties, "were
these charges true, Gov. Merriam ought
to have removed him long SINCE"
Among these critics none have taken a
more radical stand than the Mankato
Register, a strong Republican paper.
whose editor is now the sheriff of Blue
Earth county. In the edition of the
Register published last Thursday the
following rather caustic editorial ap-
peared:
The removal of Randall from the war
denship Of the Minnesota state prison is
likely to bring forth some queer COM
pllcatiOnS, and If those men who have
been endeavOring to get into the legisla
ture for many years to set the machin-
cry OF reformation at work will keep an
eye open to business they may be able
to point out to our Legislators some very
wholesome work to be done over at
Saltwater in the line of Investigations.
Mr.. Randall says he was asked to resign
by Coy. Merriam. The Register has it,
on good authority, that Merriam gave
the board of managers positive orders
to bounce Randall. but they laid the
resignation on the table. not being Suffi-
GENTLY cold-blooded to bounce good
and faithful officer so unceremoni-
ously without advancing good rea
sons for their action. All
the charges made against the warden
can be proven to be malicious lies,
founded OH mere incidental circumStan-
ces and maSnified by the thresher COM
pany ring for the sole purpose of getting
Randall out. The old SeymOur-Sabin
crowd are at work behind the scenes,
and it is suspicioned by some that Gov.
Merriam is financially interested in the
tnresher company 1--WE do not say posi-
lively that he is), and Mr.. Randall hav
ing directed matters so that he saved
the state $4,000 in one year which would
otherwise have gone into the company'S
Golfers, it is not to be marveled at that
they want him removed and more plant
tool of their own placed III command.
This is supposed to be the man Lemon,
a SOn-in-laW of George Seymour. The
governor is said tn have decided to de-
capitate Randall for another reason, to
wit: The institution was assessed $3.50
to aid in the reelection of Merriam, and
Warden Randall would not allow it to
be paid. This was an objectionable sin
in the eyes of some, and it stands against
the warden in the book of fate. These
are only hints at some of the reasons
that might be cited why this gang of
spectators On the state desire a change.
That self-constituted reform exponent
and general all-round piece of useless
ness, H. H. Hart, tool of nabobs
and figure head of the some
what msnamed state board of cor
rections and charities, who is no
u sc to the state or anybody else further
than to usurp his salary, has done all
the shopping around for the gang. and
receives the states pay for drumming
up false charges against Randall and
calling it the work of corrections and
charities. With such dsgraceful job
berry as this going oil in broad daylight,
it is not to be wondered at that the
farmers and others combine to work
radical change in the situation. If Gov.
Merriam allows this offensive piece of
work to be completed without render
ing good tangible reasons therefor, his
administration otherwise good and
highly satisfactory will have been
irreparably diSgraced, and our legiSla-
tors will fail of their full duty if they
do not order thorough investigation
OF the whole transaction.
Some interesting testimony is very
likely to be introduced. in case Hon. +.
G. Dunn carries his contest for the seat
of E. +. Price into the lower house of
the state legislature. 1t seems that i'm
mediately after the canvass of the Mile
Laos county vote some one added few
votes to Dunn'S total in each precinct
of the county. When the matter was
Investigated it was charged to the
young son of Auditor Van Alstein, of
Mile Lacs. The Brainerd Journal
charges that Dunn'S contest was only
instituted to cover up the capers of the
son OF Auditor Van AlStein. Following
are the Brainerd Journals views i'm the
matter.
The Princeton Union says that the mis-
takes i'll the canvass of the Mile Laos county
vote were made by Auditor Van Alstein's
son in copying the returns. 1t appears then
that the adding of few votes for Dunn to
the figures from every town in the county,
and the making out and sending to Little
Falls of returns that showed more votes for
Dunn than he received. are all to be saddled
upon the boy. Where in the world was the
county canyassing board while the auditors
boy was cutting up these extraordinary per-
formances:
We wish to predict that Bob Dunn will
never undertake to prove that there were
election frauds in Morrison county. We 90
not believe that Dunn thinks there were any,
This cry of fraud is only for the purpose of
directing attention from the mistakes"
made by a boy in the Office of the auditor of
Mile Laos county.
eff there is no difference of opinion
in the Union league, as President San
born says" remarked a well-known
member OF the club yesterday. ''why is
it that there are six or seven people
who arc opposing the abandonment of
the rooms in the Endicott and the stor-
ing of furniture?
''If there is 10 difference, why are
there two petitions now in circulation
in regard 70 the matter of giving up the
present quarters and disbanding' for the
present?
THE fact isl continued this gentle
man, 1.-The accounts published i'm the
GLOBE last week were i'm the main cor
rect. and | venture to predict that had
it not been for the way in which Lamb
and Johns got after Mr.. Sanborn.
demanding that he should square them
before the public, he would never have
made any statement to the public. [
understand it is claimed that there is no
ill-feeling between members of the club
like George Lamb and Fred IngersolI,
for instance. Now. as a mater of fact
| know to the contrary. Lamb has had
it in for, Fred Ingersoll ever since the
latter peremptorily declined to appoint
him member of the Ramsey county
RpDIlhlipan committee last fall amh