St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-22
THE YELLOWSTONE SCANDAL.
An Event Which Should Have a
Place as an Issue.

AN Event which Should Have
Place as an Issue.
To the Editor of the Globe
The tariff is the one all-absorbing
question on which the Democracy pro-
poses to fight and win this election, and
yet the Yellowstone Park scandal can
not be entirely overlooked by the peo.
pie of Minnesota. The park is as much
theirs as if it were located at the Falls
of st. Anthony. All supplies for con-
sumption and all building materials are
purchased here. and all visitors to and
from it pass through the Twin Cities.
The conduct Of Secretary Noble has
paralyZed all progress in its develop
ment. At this time. when most work
should be done in order to prepare the
park for the great fair. there is not the
sound of hammer in it. and all owing
to the Outrage" perpetrated by the
secretary in FORGETTING the right of the
Yellowstone Park association to carry
passengers. without cause. notice or
trial or hearing. 1t is easy to trace the
motives of his actions when one under
stands the facts developed by the house
investigation and not denied or denia-
BILE.
In March, 1889, when the association
was applying to Noble land not some
u.
E. c. Waters. then general man
ager of the association, and one of Rus
sell Harrison's Montana ring, proposed
to Gibson. president of the association,
to get Harrison to aid them with
Noble, to which Gibson aSsented. A
few days afterwards Waters followed
this ND by proposition to Gibson to
get Harrison's influence for $1,000 of
the stock of the association. payable in
dividends. Gibson fatty refused to 90
into the stock arrangement at all. The
leases were made, however. 7. f. Cakes
represented most of the stock of the as
soclatlon and was the man of power in
1t. Now shortly after the leases were
granted Waters wrote to Cakes to order
the secretary of the association to issue
this stock to r. c. Kerens to be held for
his (Waterso ''friend." When this came
to Gibson's knowledge he refused to
issue the stock. laid the matter before
the directorS-Of whom Cakes was one
at their next meeting. and they unani-
mousiy declined to issue the stock.
When Waters was put on the stand he
was taken by surprise by the pro-
ductlon of this letter. He dare not deny
the genuineness of the letter. At first
he swore the stock was to be held for
one Gray. but he was finally cornered
was the man. He was total stranger
to kerens. who lived in st. Louis, while
waters lived in Montana. He could
give no Ineligible account why he put
him in as trnstee to hold the stock. He
could not tell whether the stock was to
be given to Harrison for services rem
dered before Noble, or pure donation,
nor why it was to be put out i'm a
secret trustif the transaction was honest:
nor did he explain the reason for such
amazing generosity with the stock of
the company as pure Tor rather i'm
pure) gift of it to Mr.. Harrison would
imply. His evidence before the COM
mittee was so palpable an attempt to
cover up Mr.. Harrison that it created
sensation at the time. Republican as
we'll as Democratic papers were equally
outspoken concerning it. Mr.. Harrison
and his friends have furiouslv protested
that he never received the stock, and
argue his innocence from that fact. No
body pretends that he got it. That is
probably one cause of the subsequent
troubles of the association.
Mr.. Harrison is known to be re-
vengeful man. Secretary Noble con-
fesSes in his examination before the
committee that Mr.. Huntly was recon-
mended by Mr.. Harrison. Mr.. Carter,
Senator Cary and others. The Mot was
this: Harrison had old scores to paw
back. Carter had been defeated. as
was alleged. by Wakefield. the stage
manager. in his race for congress. SIS.
Huntly and his brother were star
reuters with Kerens. If Wakefield,
Democrat, were turned out, and Huntlv,
one of the ring, put in the 200 men un-
der his employ might reverse the mar
row majority of 1913 votes that had elect
ed Dixon to cOngress-might change the
state of Montana and the presidency
itself.
There is no Question that Noble could
have ousted Wakefield by merely re-
questing the association to discharge
him, but that was only small part of
the predetermined programme. The
triple object was to GUST Wakefield, to
put all the force under the control of
the Montana ring, and, in effect. to con-
fiscate the stage property bv forced
sale to Huntly. Last winter, before
President Harrison was renominated.
the plot was roundly denounced
by the Pioneer Press and many
leading Republican papers. They
are silent now. but if it was
wrong then it is worse now, since Harri-
sons election would only strengthen
and perpetuate the evil doors in power.
The actors in the scheme were Russell
Harrison, the son of the PRESIDENT: the
secretary of the interior; Carter, chair
man of the Republican national COM
mittee; Kerens, member of the Repub-
lican committee, and star reuter- of
the first magnitude; Huntly. star
reuter-, and Waters. both members of
young HarriSOn'S Montana ring, T, S.