St. Paul daily globe., 1890-07-31
LoREN's REToRT.

IA lew mornings ago Luc Ot. dui III
neer Press contained an editorial in
which Loren Fletcher, of this city, was
attacked personally and abused in a
disgraceful manner. He was accused
of almost all that was vile, and the ed
itorial stated further that he was in a
elk" owing to his alleged connection
with the census conspiracy cases. Mon
day Mr.. Fletcher sent to the Ploneer
Press a letter in reply to the editorial,
but, of course, it was not printed. Inc
letter IS too good to be allowed to go by
unnoticed, and the Tribune prints IL
below:
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., July %, $780,
To Joe Wheelock, Editor Pioneer Press,
st. Paul, Minn.-Dear Sir: l notice IN
the Pioneer Press smut machine OF the
Goth inst. an editorial which has some
reference to me personally, but owing
to the papers limited circulation IN TINS
community the article referred to failed
to reach my notice in time for an carrier
reply. The said article being little
personal to me trust you will permit
me, by way of reply, to relate lew
matters personal to yourself.
Ever since you Sneaked out OF Nova
Scotia and arrived in st. Paul, you ap-
pear to have been afflicted with some
chronic trouble or other that has broken
out in various forms, and left you each
time in a more deplorable and con-
temptible position Gf pOSsible) than be-
fore.
Your first venture, as / recollect, was
when you went to the Chippewa coun-
try and attempted to do business there.
but you became so pusillanimous and
indecent that even the SquawS repudl-
ated you, and drove you out.
Next, as | recollect it, you were en-
gagged to attend bar for Frank Steele at
Ft. Smelling, but your Nova Scotia man
ners could not be tolerated by the
soldiers there, and you were thus COM
PEELED TO leave business congenial
alike to your inclinatiOns and moral
nature, if you have any, which doubt.
Your next venture, as / call 1t to
mind, was the celebrated Indian show
which you inaugurated by getting few
ignorant Sioux Indians to join your
miserable fortunes and go East Oh an
exhibition of 'the noble red man. and
the beautiful sQuaws of the prairies.
of which combination you were the
principal chief You succeeded in get
ting the poor dupes as far east as Bos-
ton; there your natural instincts got the
best of you and you deserted them on
the Boston common, and. as L recol-
lect it, the state had to pay the expenses
of the poor creatures back to their
homes.
The next we hear of you, you have
managed, through the aid of other
dupes, to start a cheap blackmailing
sheet. called a newspaper, and from
that time to this you have. through
your peculiar methods, Dreyed upon the
people of st. Paul and the state; and by
methods peculiar to your instincts haye
kept yourself afloat during a period OF
great prosperity to the state. 1t will be
remembered by those who were resi-
dents of the state from 1861 to 1860, the
period of the war. that you claimed to
be all alien and not amenable to the
draft, and it is a well known fact of
your contemplate history that when,
after the close of the war, you were ap-
pointed postmaster at st. Paul, you
could not accept the Office until you had
first gone before court Of record and
declared YOUR intention to become cit
iZen of the United States. i. e.-you
were willing to share in the Spolls OF
Office, but not in the defense of the
country 1t was misfortune to the
state tnat you were not, Oh your arrival
in Minnesota, promptly sent back to
curse the state of your nativity.
But the well-known adage, THE way
of the transgressor is hard" has been
again verified in your case. With all OF
your disreputable acts you,shave not
seemed to get on any too well. The OPP
portunity to go through Col. King to the
tune of $50, ,000-in the old Northern Pa
cific deal-WaS a godSend to you and
kept your slanderOus sheet af1oat till
the state railroad bond settlement, some
years since, and that in turn kept 1T
along until recent period, when, for
the sake of the city printing and the
financial aid thereby accruing, you be-
trayed the party On which you have so
long fattened and which you still con-
tinue to burden in the absence of any
financial temptation outside to excite
your greed. Oh, you are most delect-
able gentleman! A nice specimen of a
man indeed! A moral leper, human
being without manhood, every page of
whose history is beSpattered all over
with vile and dsreputable blotches, set
ting himself up as judge of the moral
rectitude of other men. Could lmpu-
dent assurance go farther?
Your declaration that | have always
been an enemy of st. Paul men is but
another of your infamous lies. L defy
you to point to single fact in support
of your assertion. Have | not always
given loyal support to st. Paul candi-
dates whenever nominated on the Re-
publican ticket? Did | not support
Senator Mcmillan for two terms in the
United States senate, and have l not
supported many other candidates from
st. Paul for appointment to Office in
times past? The fact is, | have never
Disseminated against st. Paul man,
politically or in any other way, and
have scores of warm friends there to-
day, fact which you cannot truthfully
say in regard to yourself and Minneap-
oils. Have | not sometimes supported
a st. Paul man when by SO doing L in
terfered with your plans. as, for in
stance, in the case of Mcmillan? Did
not a representative from your Office
tender me your support for speaker of
the house. if | would forSake him for
the man of your choice, and. ON my re-
tusing, was not the bid increased by an
offer of support for congress? Did
not stand by my st. Paul
friend in spite of all your disreputable
offers? And when w. r. Merriam be-
came candidate for speaker did he not
telegraph me to New York to help him,
and did not in my response aid him
Wlldb COuiug llC 10, l. lluFO uOu
won your abuse in opposing ST. Paul or
st. Paul men, but by refusing to do
your bidding. defy you to point out
in the ten years | was in the legislature
st. Paul measure, unless, mayhap, it
was something that contiicted with the
interests of my own city. which | did
not support. For standing by Minneap
oils ask no mans apology. am loyal
to her in every breath draw. l have
lived here thirty years and seen the
place meantime grow from hamlet to
great city. believe in the city and
its people and have pride in them, and
they can always depend on finding me
standing by them when wrongfully as
sailed. no matter by whom. And when
the interests of this city are involved |
will be found defending them to the
best of my ability at all times, no mat
ter whether it displeases you or any of
the rest of the DEVILS imps. But it
will be square deal every time. The
underhanded and disreputable things L
will leave for you and your kind.
1t so happens that while on the codn-
Gil census committee with Ankeny and
d. M. Clough l never had much to do