St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-11

ior cOuhtry papers tnat tney could buy
up, and that they would agree to give
me 5000 now. and that he could not
agree to give me $500 without consult
Ing the other members of the
Republican state coin mittee. This de-
ponent then said all right, and said Con-
verse stated that he would let said l..
K. Aaker know the result as soon as he
heard from the committee, and SAID l..
X. Aaker would let deponent know,
whereupon this deponent left said
Converse.
.1o This deponent further states that
Immediately after the foregoing inter-
view with said Converse he went to the
4aeffice of said county attorney and de-
tailed to hun all of the foregoing con-
yersation with said Converse: and that
said Ho!ston thereupon advised de-
ponent, that as they might in the mean
TIME become suspicious of our object
and purpose, to go back and inform
said Converse that deponent
20 Would Accept
/ the two hundred dollars offered. where
upon this depOnent immediately re-
turned to said land Office for the pur-
pose of finding said Converse, and found
the same closed. and this deponent was
unable thereafter on that day or even
ing to meet said Converse or Aaker
and have an interview with them. This
deponent net said l.. X. Aaker OH the
evening of Sept %, 1892. and told him
that he would accept the offer of the
two hundred dollars which was made
to him by said Converse, and said l., X.
Aaker theredpOn told this deponent to
come to the said land Office at 4 O'Clock
p. IN. the next day and get the first half
OF the money, and this deponent did the
next day, at about 4 o'clock p. M, go to
said United States land utfice and there
net said l.. X. Aaker, pursuant to said
appointments: and that said l.. K. Aaker
then and there in said land Office
paid to this depOnent the sum of
one hundred dollars as one-half of
the $500 which was to be paid to this
deponent for using his said newspaper
and its columns in support of said Knute
Nelson for governor and said Henry
Felge for congressman. And said
Aaker promised to pay The remaining
SlOo vi Dep. oil, 1917.
The Money Paid.
That this depOnent, Immediately after
the payment OF the said money to him,
went to the office of said county attorney
and exhibited to him the said SlOO, which
the said county attorney counted and
found to he 500. That thereafter on the
30th day of September, 1892. this depo-
of
agreement, to receive the remaining
500, ana that said l.. X. Aaker refused
to give it to this deponent because this
deponent had not published anything in
favor of said Knute Nelson since this de-
ponent received the first 500 as herein
before stated; and that this deponent
thereup0n stated to said Aaker that,
this depOnent feeling as ne did, could
not write any articles in favor of said
Nelson and Feig, and that sthereupon
said Aaker stated that they would
write the articles for HE and send them
up to me and that should publish them
as editorial matter.
- Mcclure Wrote Edi .Orials.
That thereafter on the 4th day of o.
tober. 1892, this deponent received a
letter of p. j. Mcclure, of Crookstop.
signed L. j. NJ, which letter is attached
to this.
That enclosed in said aforementioned
letter were items or articles referred to
In said letter as mem orandum," which
are herennto attached
- That upon receiving said last-men-
toned letter and editorial items therein
enclosed this deponent, acting upon
the advice of friends, wrote to said P.
j. McGujre, telling him that this de-
ponent wanted the other 500 before
he published the editorial items which
he mad sent, and that in answer to the
said aforementioned letter this depo.
nent received by return mail an an
Swer to the same from said p. J. Nc
Guire, which said answer is hereunto
attached.
That the envelopes in which said
two aforementioned letters from said p.
j. McGuire were received are hereunto
annexed.
That thereupon this deponent and his
friends concluded that they had ample
and sufficient evidence to show and
prove that the Republican party of said
state and the money power of the same,
acting through the Republican commit
tees and government officials, were
striving by the corrupt use of money
and Doodle methods to secure the cleo
ton of the Republican candidate for
governor and other state and congress
sional candidates of that party, and that
they would make the same public and
expose The guilty. w. G. HUNT.
Subscribed and sworn to before ME
this 10th day of October, A. ID. 1892.
HERBERT L. PORTER.
Notary Public for Ramsey County,
[Notarial Seal. Mimi.