St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-05

man" In short, Mr.. Thompson denied
everything save that he had met Mr..
HOppin, and this is his account of his
meetings:
first met him several DAYS previous.
! had ascerIained in the meantime, being i'll
the fight on my own account, that Mr.. Hoppin
occupied intermediate grounds, a stradder.
had asked to be introduced. | did not at
tempt 10 spring any conversation on him. as
wanted to measure the man and ascertain
whether or not he was OH the fence, or had
decided convictions or not. | talked with
him a few minutes. made up my mind he
was afflicted with
n Good Deal of Endecision
and made up my mind if I was i'll possession
of divers documents might argue and con.
vince him that was right in my premises.
In this connection | might say that was
shown what purported TO he 4 copy of these
documents and at the time ! re ad them very
carefully. In fact | took them up to my of
lice. had my stenographeI tranScribe GER
tall portions l thought myself then fully
armed TO argue the matter with any one |
mad already been posted on Gen. Wash
burn position and also knew a good deal
OF Mr.. Sabin, both in private and public life
| dld not pursue the conversation unueces.
sarily that evening-or the day. don't know
which, thought would not intrude myself
ohnoXioIsly on the gentleman. Thought l
would take it easy by slow stages. When !
met hinr next / cannot saw ALWAYS in
the lobby or in his room. il might pos
slbly have been the next day. l met him
and took him off into the read
ing room. l undertook to talk the
matter with him and saw he was prone TO
meet me on fair grounds. and said: 'If yOu
have any doubt of my statements j will sub
stantiate them hy producing the certified
copy OF the original documents on file He
said: Il would like to see them Then
made an engagement 10 meet him in the
Merchants hotel. The next day l saw nm
and says l have those matters now, and
would like to 90 over this matter
Where We Can he Quiet
and alone. He says: 'All right, where:''
"Anywhere; immaterial to me- He says:
Come up to my room; so | went uD to his
room at the time appointed. raped. and was
nshered i'll by the gentleman, and l i'm
mediately pulled out N.Y. bundle OF papers
and began talking in an ordinary cloak-rOom
tone. lie said, Hold on" looked under the
bed ana listened at the transom. ! said:
No occasion for being particularly quiet
about this thing We talked for some tlme
He seemed very perturbed. l diln't seem TO
be getting home with him at all. Took
everything i'll quiet passive way.
made up my min he seemed to be on some
other lay. The result of The matter was. |
did not so far as he admitted at the time sue
ceed i'll convincing him either way lie
hnal.y made remark TO me. and said: Il
understand these matters as well as any one
else. Mr.. Ellery and | are from the same
county, sleep together. talk together, ETC.
IISlii N6li DOSlcu Oh
what Il Going On.
and we don't want TO so into this fight uu-
less we know just where we stand. | said
here is my argument and figures He said
whether we shall vote for Sabin or Wash
burn we would be accused by the oJher man
that we had Deen bought and paid for /
don't like to give you any definite answer
until we have seen the other parties SO far
as there has been any intimation of
any money ut that time being paid. it is
totally false. aid not have a dollar of
Mr. Washbugns money or from any one
assuming TO give il IN Mr.. Washburn's
name.
In answer TO Il question Mr.. Thomp-
son intimated that he was accustomed
10 spend his money for friends. In
Montana he had been considered
Warwick; no man could win in politics
without him. He denied that he had
said the Legislature of 1889 was the
d-dest corrupt body on earth. and de-
clared he could lick the fellow who
said it,
Hon. Otto Hanson, the member from
Waseca county, appeared before the
committee, and in answer to the ques-
ton whether he knew of any attempt to
corruptly influence the vote of any
member OF the legislature for United
States senator. said he did. He had been
offered 500
the evening of the caucus to vote for
Sabin. 1t had been given to NJ. w.
Ryan and he had kept it. He had
searched for Ryan and the $500 so long
that he failed TO get 10 the caucus in
time to vote for either Washburn OF
Sabin. Ex-senator Christensen had
given Ryan the $500 and Christensons
when he found Mr.. Hanson had not re-
ceived the money, said:
Let it go; you can have another $500 now.
and ii Sabin is elected 500 more and clerk
ship for friend,'
The next witness was Hon. w. r.
Estes. of Watonwan county, who de-
clared that he was offered $1,000 to vote
for Mr.. Sabin, but declined at that time
to say who offered him the money. He
had subsequently seen Mr. Sabin. who
assured him that the man who made the
offer always delivered the goods. Mr..
Estes denied that he told any one that
he was
offered $4,000
by one side for his vote.
Senator Bickman, who was accused
OF making Mr. Estes this offer before
the senate committee. appeared before
the house committee and denied the
$1,000 story. He said that Estes told
him that the other side had offered him
5000 and had asked if the Sabin men
could make it an object. To this Mr..
hickman SAID he r'nlied lhat Nj.