St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-21
BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
Blatherskite Foraker Hand in
Glove With the Noto-
rious Woods.
Public Office Battered for a
Paper Known to Be a
Forgery.
This Dangerous Document
Used to Boom the Govern
or's Candidacy.
It Acted Like a Boomerang,
and Killed Poor Foraker
Politically.

of Cincinnati, was placed on the stand
before the house committee to investl-
gate the Ohio ballot box forgery this
morning. He stated that he knew
Wood, who first came to him about Aug.
8 last with letter of introduction from
Z. G. Hall, manager of the Hall Safe
company. The mayor produced num-
Der of letters from prominent Ohioans
indorsing Wood for the smoke inspect
Orship. Among these were several
from Gov. Foraker, which the latter had
produced during his testimony. One OF
the letters was from Powell Crosby, the
law partner of Representative Butter
worth. On the morning that it
Woods appointment was enormously
announced in Cincinnati newspapers a
man called on the mayor and accused
Wood of being a notorious liar, and
said that his record was not good. This
man also accused Wood of neglenting
his own family, of breaking. up
another family and of cOhabiting
with lewd woman. The man told the
mayor that he was George w. Jewell,
Woods brother-in-law. Investigating
further the witness had Mr.. Jewell's in
formation corrobora'nd. Wood was sent
for and the mayor nf Irmed him of the
charges. Wood Genie them. He said
they were
THE RESULT OF SPITE WORK.
Wood offered to refute the charges
and sent to Mayor MoSby number of
letters from Cincinnati business men
and others giving Wood a good char
acter. Wood, they said. neither drank,
al, nf 10
tiers were highly complimentary of
Wood. The most important of those
produced by the mayor was one from
Mrs. A. A. Gibson, sister of George
". Jewell. She said that Jewell was a
mild lunatic who had been kindly
treated 10y Wood. The latter, accord
Ing 10 Mrs. Gibson, was a tender hus-
band and during her sixteen years in
the same house with him, she had
never seen or heard anything tend
ing to prove what Jewell had said.
Other letters from relatives of Jewell
and Wood were produced, and these all
gave Wood high character. The wit
ness said it had never occurred to him
that the ballot-hOX paper was forgery.
He knew that Gov. Foraker did nOt'in-
tend to make use of it. He had a con-
VersatiOn with Wood about the paper,
anu w OOu lOlu IlIu WldG lc Udu tOlu
Gov. F0raker--that he had got it from
Walter Wellman, the private secretary
to John r. Mclean. After it became
known that the ballOt-bOX paper was q
forgery, Wood came TO The mayor and
asked him about an interview in the
TimeS-Star, in which the mayor had
quoted Mr.. Elliott as saying that Wood
had said that his (WoOd'S) father and
mother we're liars and
HE COULD NOT HELP LYING.
The mayor pressed Wood to tell about
the forged paper. Wood wanted to
know which paper he meant, and on the
mayor explaining that he meant the
one i'm the Commercial-G Gazette, Wood
said there We're three OF four papers like
the one Mir. Halstead had published.
The mayor said the published paper did
not contain all the names Oh the orig
inal, but Wood insisted that it did.
Wood explained that there were always
three or four cliquPS working to get q
bill through congress, and it was neceS-
saTy 10 have certain papers to show to
some of these cliques by other persons
who Were interested in bill, in order
t. Slut them off. The mayor had con-
VerSation also with Mr. Halstead, who
told him that Wood had got up the pa
per in Mr.. Murray'S office, telling the
young men there that he wanted to put
the names of prominent persons TO the
paper in order TO get more SubScrip-
tious for the ballot box com
pany. John Sullivan, wholesale
liquor dealer of Cincinnati, who was
next sworn, said that Wood had called
on him and left letter TO be given to
Frank Kelly, secretary of the Dem
Ocratic campaign committee. Gov. For
aker, who examined the witness. said
the object of the testimony was to show
that Wood was in communication with
the Democratic campaign committee
and with Mr.. Campbell. He would en-
deaVor to show this connection through
other witnesses. Frank j. Kelly, of
Cincinnati. was the next witness. He
said he was secretary of the Democratic
campaign committee during the last
gubernatorial campaign. He had come
INTO possession of letter from Gov.
Foraker to Gov. Luce, of Michigan. He
sent it to Mr.. Campbell, thinking use
might be made OF it. The letter was
written in typewriter he was positive.
There were no instructions given him
about the letter. He did not know when
Coy. Campbell received the letter. The
witness had simply given it to Lewis j.
Barnard. Of the Democratic campaign
eOithlltlNN3 W DS given W MI. Gd1llDDell.
Gov. Foraker, at this point, said he
wanted Mr.. Barnard subppned. and a
telegraphlc summons was accordingly
sent to him. Continuing. the witness
said that Wood had shown him
DISPATCHES FROM GOV. FORAKER
promising 10 help get Woods ballot
boxes Introduced in Ohio. He had not
agreed to give Wood any compensation.
A recess was then taken. When the
committee met at 1:3O the chairman
called for Wood, but as the latter did
not happen to be present. Joel +. Ken
ney, Cincinnati lawyer. was placed on
the stand. lie was examined by Gov.
Foraker, who endeavored, as he ex-
planned, TO show that Mr.. Barnard,
who was summoned this morning,
had said that the letter from
Gov. Foraker to Gov. Luce had
been given to Mr.. Campbell. 1t
was decided, however, that the witness
should wait until Mr.. Barnard could be
placed on the stand. Walters, who
testified on Saturday to securing the
autographs from which Wood made the
forgGries. was called to the witness
chair and told about his connection
with Wood on the latter's second visit
TO Washington. Wood had written him
for information about Gov. CampbelPs
political record. This the witness had
investigated, and he had also looked up
Gov. Campbell's connection with the
gun contract. This information he had
sent to Mr. Kurtz, the private secretary
OF Gov. Foraker. About Oct. 20 Mr.
McGrew called on the witness with a
letter fiom Mr.. Kurtz, stating that Mr..
McGrew would assist him in the work
at this end of the line. The witness
knew by hearing that Wood had had
conversations with Mr.. Mclean. The
first he knew about the forgery was
from the Cincinnati papers, which
Wood purchased and read to him. Wood
told him at this time that
"oLn SMOOTHING HoRsE''
meaning Mr.. Halstead, had made ga
ID fool of himself" The witness
said his business was dong miscella-
neous work. lie frequently looked up
the records Of members of congress.
Wood was then called to The stand. In
answer TO questions from Mi. Cogs-
well, he said he had lived in Cincinnati
since 1871, lie had not taken an active
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