St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-06
EPISTLE OF YOUNG,
Which Stirred the Usually I'm
ruf1ed Temper of Seere-
tary Noble,
Was Written With a View to
Saving the Republican
State Ticket.
Congressman Lind Interest
ed in Land Cases of Set
tiers VS.. Railroads.
Wind Again Prevents Good
Scoring ON the Range at
Fort Smelling.

Dispatches from Washington, yester-
day, in detailing the conference be-
tween Secretary Noble and the st. Paul
committee, mentioned the fact that Sec
rotary Noble had received very
abusive letter from Fl. III. Young, of st.
Paul, in reference to the order for
recount of this city. The st. Paul COM
mittee deprecated the letter in strong
terms, but nothing was said to indicate
its contents. Last night a GLOBE re-
porter called upon Mr.. Young at his
residence on Dale street. MIR. Young is
quite prominent man, was formerly
immigration agent of Minnesota and is
now. secretary of the builders board of
trade. lie was considerably confused
when told that his letter had been read
by Secretary Noble and was now public
properly. Said he:
''.rhe letter, in the first place, was
not intended as abusive of Secretary
Noble. neither was it intended to be an
annoyance. The object was to show the
the political effect that the trouble would
cause. The fact about the matter is
that on the day of the chamber of COM
MERGE meeting, several citizens who
have taken no public part in the census
troubles met and discussed that meet
ing. They feared that what had been
said at that meeting would be published.
and they believed that the publication
of the proceedings would. injure the
chances of the state ticket that had
been nominated by encouraging an OPP
position from Minneapolis. Then they
were not fully satisfied with the action
of the meeting. 1t was then determined
to embody their views in letter and
send it to Secretary Noble. The
substance of the letter was
that the order for recount
would stir up the political fight be-
tween the two cities. 1t stated that
Secretary Mobiles duty was to prevent
this fight by withdrawing the order for
recount i'll the cities, and to investi-
gate the charges of fraud made and cor
rect the irregularities wherever found.
The other gentlemen did not want their
names mentioned ill the matter, and L
was selected as the one to write the let
ter and enbody the views of all. No
one else signed the letter, and |, there
fore, don't feel at liberty to give their
names. They are prominent men in st.
Paul, who want to keep the census fight
out of politics. l don't care to give the
letter in full for publication, but will
say that it was mild in form and stated
the exact political situation as influenced
by the census trouble. [ know there
were number of letters written to
Secretary Noble by others. They were
very abusive of Superintendent Porter,
and declared that it was the duty of the
secretary to prevent political
fight. Some of those letters were
anonymous and some of them
were signed by prominent citizens of
st. Paul. Ii Secretary Noble did not
read them to the committee ii was be-
cause he was ashamed to do so. My
letter and the others l spoke of were
written the day after the chamber of
commerce meeting, and before it was
known that the committee had gone to
Washington"
This Will make interesting reading to
| the people of the state. St. Paul is
| placed in the position Of abusing the
secretary of the interior in the interests
| of Gov. Merriam's candidacy. OF course
/ the latter had nothing to with it. OF
course not. He had nothing to do with
| the proposition, either, to drop the Mill
! neapOliS census cases, If the Hennepin
delegation would trot straight and sup
| port him. According to Mr.. Young'S
| statement, there were several gentle
men interested in this peculiar cor
respondenee whose names he declined
| to divulge. He makes clean breast, so
( far as he is concerned, but the public
would like to know the entire story.