St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-14
YOUR EAR. GOVERNOR.

III was u1dtLer wen huOWu, SOfOIuOli
by those who keep posted on the polit-
ical movements of this state, that there
was a conference in gentlemen, som
Republicans and a Democrat or two,
held in December, 1890, at which it was
agreed that you should be the next
nominee for governor and, among other
things not material here, that you should
appoint zone or the BROWNS" surveyor
of logs for the Second district. 1t
may have fallen under your notice that
the GLOBE has referred to this before
and predicted the fulfiilment of the
contract as to "one of the BROWNS"
and that you have verified the predic-
ton.
1t cannot have escaped your notice,
either, that the lumbermen whose logs
Mr.. BROWN would scale, and who would
have to pay him the snug sum he an
nually receives. felt that he was getting
$4,000 to S25, 600 year more than
Mr.. Browns eminent services were
worth to them, and procured the intro
duction of bill putting that gentleman
on salary of $1,000. You may be adj
vised that that bill was beaten III the
house, and that ''the BROWNS" were
very actIYe in securing its defeat. 1t is
whispered about, With what truth the
GLOBE does not vouch for, that the state
committee OF your party were also anxi-
iouS that the bill should be killed.
There were also some rumorS that
money was used by lone Of the
BROWNS" to secure its defeat. The
GLOBE does not vouch for this, but al
ludes to it for your Information, and as
related to what it wishes to say to you.
What the GLOBE does wish to say to
you is that this man BROWN is an ap-
pointee of yours; that, i'll a measure,
you are sponsor for him; that any mai
feasance of his will reflect on you and
your administration. As your appointee,
you have the power of removal. 1t is.
then, the GLOBE submits, both your
interest and your duty to examine into
any statements affecting the honesty OF
your man BROWN, and to remove him
promptly if you find them true.
The report of the senate committee
has some interesting matter relating to
him, perhaps. In the Willow river case
a witness testifies that the surveyor
general directed him to mind his own
business, and ''let those fellows 90"
who. the witness states, were stealing
logs from the school section. Was this
your man BROWN? 1t may not have
been, of course; it may have been some
other mans man, but it is worth looking
into.
Then there is the sworn statement of
E. w. BACKUS that one MARKHAM,
who is a member of the legislature and
one of the committee OH logs and lum-
Der, and one who reported for the in
definite postponement of the bill to put
your man BROWN on salary-after
having approved of the bill-that this
man MARKHAM told him that the lum-
bermen would have to put $1,000"
into "the four" of the committee, of
whom MARKHAM was one, to get a
favorable report, because your man
Brown had put $1,000 into 1.-THE four"
TO get report against the bill. Mr..
BACKUSof course only says what MARK
HAM told him, and the GLOBE is
panied to have to admit that,
member of the Minnesota legisla-
ture though he is, too much re-
lance cannot be placed on his unsup-
ported statements: but, all the same, it
deems it duty to suggest that you can't
rely OIL the GLOBES doubt of MARK
HAMS veracity, and that you had better
look into it. Possibly you might get
your man BROWN to make the man
MARKHAM prove what lie says or eat his
words. anyway, the matter is worth
your looking into, now that the elevator
bill is out of the way.