St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-02

Hastings stockholders held one-half of
the stock. and so could have controlled
the disposition of the road for their own
protection, if they all stood together,
that lie Due was the traitor who turned
over two of his shares to Cakes AmeS,
and thus enabled him To sell out the
road TO a hostile corporation, and de-
prive the Hastings people Of every dol
lar they had invested III the enterprise
on his suggestion. And what did lie
Ducget for this Judas lScariot business?
The glory OF sitting. for few months,
on the same board with lot Of New
y DIRK and Milwaukee railroad naDObs,
who then flung him aside, as the Jap
anese cast away their paper handller-
chiefs, after they have used and Sciled
them. And now he comes up and seeks
10 faSten on NE the charge of bribery,
by means Of the very stock which he
voluntarily had voted TO NE, which l
never asked for. and never received,
and which was rendered YalueleSS by
MS own dishonest course. The lnhab-
itantS of Hastings are most patient
and law-abidlng people or they would.
long since, have driven out of their
midst this creature who has wrecked
and ruined this town. and brought all
their fair hopes to naught. And what
manner of conscience has this manP He
sWearS that he got the company to give
me $500 of stock, at my solicitation, as
reward for my official action as con-
gresham, and yet he sWears there was
nothing dishonOrable in the transac-
ton. Bribery not dishOnOrable. Why
did he swear to this? Because he saw
that | had present pile of his letters
OF that date addressed to his dear
Donnelly,' and covering me all over
with his leprOuS friendship, written
after | had (aS he alleges compelled
him to assist and share in the commits
sion of crime, the penalty of which is
The penitentiary.
The Dana r. King Matter.
bill King swears that in January,
1863, | offered him $1,000 to be used to
buy his brother Dana to vote for me for
United States senator: and then he
swearS in the same breath that both he
and Dana were supporting me for
United States senator, et that very
time, and as long as | was a candidate.
The statement is too prepOSterOus to be
considered. Either King led when he
sNOre hat l offered him $1,000 to buy
Dana to vote for me, or he lied when
he sWore that Dana was already sup
porting me, and, therefore, needed not
10 be bought. He is on the horns Of the
dilemma, and if he wriggles off one of
them he will still find himself imDaled
on the other.
The Huntington Matter.
Then King swears that after the
AenatOrial fight of January. 1869, at the
close of my term as congressman, be-
Ing then politically ruined and power
less man. {. L. Huntington. president
of the Central Pacific Railroad com
pany, sent me draft for $500 enclosed
in letter to him king, and requested
him 10 deliver it TO me. which he did,
and then destroyed the letter. AS Mr.
Wellington said, if King had received
such letter be would have cut OFF his
right arm before he would have de-
stroyed it. for he would have had both
the millionaire railroad president and
my poor self completely i'll his power
forever after. lie could have sent
Huntington to Jail if he did not accede
10 any future demands he might make
on him: and he could have sent NE
there, too land, remember, we were en-
emleS at the time). to keep him com
pany. Think Of railroad president of
1untingtOn's standing, social and iinan-
cial, putting himself in the power of
such man as King, when he had sew
eral confidential agents In Washington,
TO whom he could have written to call
upon NE and hand me the cash. Or, if
he chose. he could have sent me the
money in letter, addressed to myself,
and the secret would have been for ali
the world safe. And King swears that
he was not specially intimate with
HuntingtOn; that never before nor
since that transaction did he receive
any similar letter or letters from him,
or diSburSe any money for him. Let
me suppose a parallel case: Imagine
the president Of the Great Northern.
James J. Hill, during the last session of
the senate. sending letter 10 the Secre-
tary Of the senate, who. we will sup
pose, was an enemy Of Senator J0hn
Day Smith. inclOsing check for 81, 500,
and requesting that gentleman to hand
that check TO Senator Smith, because,
Tor obvious reasons he does not like
10 send it directly to Smith. Why, the
lie is so diaphanOus that tallOw candle
would shine through it. Does anybody
believe that James J. Hill would open
the doors Of the penitentiary for him.
self in that fashion, and quietly step in
and put on the striped uniform?
Bill King.
II swear pOint-blank that this whole
story is fragrant and improbable lie.
But we VIII suppose that it is not so
tlagrantly improbable. and that 1t is
Whitfield down to Il mere question of
veracity between King and myself!
How, then. does it stand? How do our
lives cOmpdre?~ | think even my enc
mics will admit that for twenty years |
have labOred for the good OF the whole
people. | was chiefly instrumental
il securing school books at half
price for the people of the state,
and | have thereby saved them, in
the past fifteen years, a million and a
half Of dollars. upon the estimates made
by Gov. Austin in his message at the
time the discussion began. In nv cam
paign in 1878 against w. ID. Washburn
the public sentiment | aroused practi-
cally ended that dreadful swindle-'the
little brass kettle My campaign in
1884 put a stop to the rebate SYSTEM
by which every farmer OH the line of the
Hastings * Dakota railroad mad 10 pay
freight On his wheat to Chicago, and
then sell his freight receipts to the mill
eTs in Minneapolis The uSury law.
which i was largely instrumental in Sc
curing, has saved hundreds of men their
homes. who otherwise would have been
driven out of the state. to the loss of the
whole commonwealth.
Mr.. Donnelly here discOursed at
some length upon the record of Col.
KING, the Pacific Mail Steamship COM
p"ii1 anu hlo UP ~ OdHduti. dilu COLI
tinued:
Did want the Pioneer Press money?
No; not for itself. | told Mr.. Yelling
ton that ] would be willing to give the
damages awarded me to the orphan
asylums: but Mr.. w. informed me that
any such offer would invalidate the YER
dict. if III my favor. But l wanted a
gOOd-sized verdict, as a mark of the
public apprehension of that unworthy
newspaper. But what could / expect in
city where. only two or three weeks
before. they had ridden me, in the effigy
of chained bear, through the public
streets, placarded with Insulting mot
toes? y man can not serve God and
Mammon. l could not defend the
farmers without mourning the hate OF
the wolves that are preying upon them.
glory in such unpopularity."
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