St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-06
CLAUSEN'S At SEA.
So Says Il. j. Hall in Reply to
His Bitter Interview.

So Says +. j. Hall in Reply to
His Bitter Interview.
A. c. Clausen, the state grain inspec-
tor, in a red hot interview with a re-
porter the other day, pitched into r. j.
Hall. one of the grain IgrOwers' assOcia-
ton officers. 1t was retort to the in
terview published in these columns. Mr..
Hall had expressed his qualification at
the Roadway made by the wheat inveS-
tigatiOn. and ne commented upon the
testimony and pronounced the lnspec-
ton department a fraud.
Mir. ClauSen was very much nettled
at this expression, and he denied that
the investigation had unearthed any
Irregularities, and took occasion TO at
tack Mr.. Hall politically. Mr.. Clausen
said:
THE trouble with this man Hall. who so
fiippGut.y cries fraud. IS that he i. DOlit-
ically and otherwise discredited by his own
local constituency. and could ne ger be elect
ed to the lowest office in their gift The
Great West newspaper of this very day says
that Hall stands charged with an attempt to
sell out the Alliance party II the last cam
paign and can back the paper up. On July
10, 1890, Hall came to me and asked me how
Merriam felt about the third party move
ment | replied that / didn't think Merriam
was paying much attention to it. Thereupon
Hall replied. Well he ought to- Then he
went on and said he would like to meet Mr..
Merriam and talk the matter over with him,
adding: 1 think l can stem the toe but it
7-ill take money to do it l then told him TO
= TO he'll, and advised him that if he wanted
> talk TO Merriam he cOuldn't do it through
AZ. Hall is at the Clarendon hotel.
- hen his attention was called to the
int IN 10 lsaI Il
i don't care 10 make any reply to such
crash. ! bear no animOsity to Mr.. Clausen
lor anybody else"
However he resumed after pause, Il
vas satisfied that we had hit some one pretty
hard. ana this cOnviLces me that was right.
! don't care to say anything in reply. He is
only killing himself fast enough. Yet viii
assure the inspection department that we
will make II pretty interesting for them be-
fore we finish. / am glad Clausen
Is going to show US up. So he
saws we haven't shown Nd any
OF Witness Prescott I think il was he. He
said that out OF the hundreds of boats he had
loaded. he could not remember but five or
SIX boats that were loaded that he did not
have 10 stop the streams of wheat because of
the dirt. / don pretend to know anything
personally. All / know 1 gather from
the evidence. The elevator men are
getting under the present system
all the advantages tneN possessed QnQer the
management Of the old AIilIers' association
ana the board of trade, without the odium.
The state has TO take the odium. ! can see
10 benefits to the farmer offered by the pres
eGt system.
Il went into this with the determination.of
getting at the facts ana the amount Of kick
ing the inspectors are doing cOnYinces me
that we are getting facts, and that they are
realizing il.
Vow. as to that alleged meeting July 16,
its all put up. There verdi don't remem-
her positively whether Clausen was one-but
there were two men who came to me and
urged me 20 90 TO Gov. Merriam for con
ference My impression is that Clausen
asked me 10 see the governor. never sought
an interview with the governor nor ClaUsen,
and never said a word about money to any
one. Clausen is badly mixed. The
declaration that l am discredited by
INV local constituency is decidedly
amusing There is no truth in it. l know
that have the hearty good will and the sup
port of al the people IN Stevens county. As
10 the Great West-well, l don't consider it
worth while to notice it. 1t has done me no
harm. II may have gwen me some notoriety,
but care nothing for its utterances. don't
take it. and know lots of others who feel as
do about ii. "