The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-03
that he voted for. Donnelly, but the
tone Of his testimony renders this


HIKING DEMOCRATIC FARMERS.
Brewer then went to see Peter Vir-
mig, $780, another farmer OF Rich
Prairie, a Democrat. John Flecken-
stein was with him. Fleckenstein
paid him, WIRING, IS, afor his team and
and his days work" at the election.
With the S. was lot of Democratic
tickets with Washburn's name on
them. WIRING also pretends that he
voted the straight Democratic ticket.
Brewer also called to see Henry
Armstrong, (p 303), Of Two Rivers, Nor
rison county, farmer and Democrat.
He testities that Brewer paid him $40
to work at the polls for Washburn.
He did work for Washburn, is
tributed his tickets, and the presump-
tion Of law is that he voted for him.
Thomas Kitowski was subpnnaed to
testify, but refused to appear.
Charles Berens testities, however, (p.
3O0), that KitoWski told him that
Brewer had paid him $50. Brewer adj
mitted that he had paid him some
money, it may have been $2o or $50.
These briberies, have been commit
ted by an authorized agent of the sit
ting member, were, in effect, commit
ted by the sitting member himself;
and the agent, Brewer, says that he
will not swear that he did not bride
one hundred persons in the same way
during his canvass Of Todd and Morri-
son counties. and spend $500 in doing
so.
Milo Porter, (p. 1922, mail carrier, of
Little Falls, Todd county, was a sup
porter of Donnelly. The Republican
county treasurer of Todd county, Mr..
Buss, offered him $50 if he would
abandon Donnelly and support Wash
burn. He, (Buss), said he had himself
received, or was to receive, $500. Por-
ter declined to take the $50, and pub
liShed a card at once, before the cleo
tion, in the Little Falls Transcript,
reciting the offer made him, and
warning the people of the kind OF
means that were being employed to
elect Washburn. There was no at
tempt made to contradict Porter's
testimony. Buss was not called to the
witness stand.
We pass from the northern part of
the district to the southern part.
William M. Leyde, (p. 4S) lives at
Cottage Grove, Washington county,
engaged in threshing-m bust
ness-a Republican. He saw Mr..
Washburn in st. Paul shortly before
the election. He went to Mime
apolis, to the room of the Republican
Central Committee, or room adjoin-
ing. He was there furnished with a
letter, Che does not remember whose
name was to the letter,) to a
Mr.. Sabin, of Saltwater, requesting
Sabin to employ him to canvass the
county, Up. 49). He, Leyde, understood
In fo fnr
political purposes. Armed with this
paid $50 by Sabin, and SIS by another
party, to canvass the county, and
thereupon he visited nearly all the
towns in the county, and hired men to
work at the polls for Washburn with
their teams. He declines to say who
he hired, how many he hired, how
much he paid them.
We supplement- Leyde's testimony
by the testimony of f. S. Meiicke, Up.
52), one of the county commissioners
of Washington county, to whom Leyde
stated that he Ueyde) had talked
with Washburn, and Washburn told
him ''to go to Sabin, and that the
money had been placed in Sabin's
hands and he would make it all right
with him.; and that they had raised
5000 in Saltwater, "besides the
amount that Mr.. Washburn had
placed there" He (Leyde) said that
he had spent all the money SO furnish
ed him but SIS, in hiring men to work
at the polls for Washburn: he gave the
name of one man, Henry Monroe, Of
Newport, to whom he had paid IS ''to
work at the polls for Washburn." All
the $500 raised at Saltwater, and the
money contributed by Washburn. was
to be spent in behalf of Washburn.
We turn now to some briberies COM
mitted in St. Paul: and here, again,
the money paid is traced to Mime
apolis, and to the sitting member.
John Flaherty. Up. 25) testities: Is a
saloon-keeper in St. Paul; a Democrat.
He went to Minneapolis two weeks be-
fore the election; went to the Repub-
lican headquarters: saw G. w. John
son, secretary of the Republican Cen
trail Congressional Committee, and
the same party who acted as agent for
Washburn in the bribing of Cloutier.
johnson said that Washburn must be
elected, and asked witness if he
thought he could get many votes in
st. Paul, and witness said he thought
he could. johnson told him that one
~. l'uIlCll was UlCil dSCllU DIT foG.
Paul." and promised to write Barden
ton, witness called on BarGen and
Barden paid him $40. Witness pre-
tends that he voted for Donnelly, but
admits that he worked at the polls
part Of the time for Washburn.
Abraham Werrick, (p. 2s,) of ST..
Paul, machinst, testiies that he also
went to Minne3DOliS in Ontohpr bp-
fore the election. He made it his
special business to see Was hburn, and
saw and conversed with him he asked
Washburn "who was his friend down
there" Tin st. PauD. Washburn told
him "he expected the committees
would take some interest in him.:
that Mr.. Barden,' (the same party
mentioned by Flaherty,) was on some
committed" and he gave him letter
of introduction to Mr.. Barden: the let
ter stated that Werrick was mis-,
Washburn's friend. Witness present.
ed Washburn's letter to Bardcn: for
gets what conversation took place !;
but the committee, presumably the
committee of which Barden was a
member,) asked him to hire two men
to work at the polls. He received $50
$40 for himself and 500 to hire two
men. He hired Oluf Larson and
julius Bjornstad, and paid them $40
each. He worked for the whole Re-
publican ticket. Prior to seeing
Washburn and being paid this $50, he
had not been supporting Washburn.
(p. 80: the men Larson and Bjornstad
were paid to work for the whole
ticket. Larson, (p. 27). is called and
admits the receipt of $40 from Wer-