The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-15
ORATOR COCKRAN,s ARREST is DE-
MANDED OF ATTORNEY GEN
ERAL CHILDS
BY A MINNEAPOLIS CITIZEN.
NEW YORK ORATOR CHARGED
WITH MURDER.
Or Abetting Their Murder by His
Persistant Advocacy of the Re-
publican Platform.

Attorney General Childs has been
asked to secure the Indictment OF
Bourke Cochran while that eminent
New Yorker is within the state. Asked.
perhaps, is hardly strong enough for
Hills whilom champion is demanded
rather than requested.
The complaint against the silver
tcngued spell-binder of the Empire
state is contained in written com
munication signed by H. Ellingston
with whom the attorney general has
had correspondence of a more or less
extended nature, which has been re-
ferred to briefly in the public prints
before. Previous letters have been
GATED at Minneapolis, so although the
letter which demands the Indictment
OF Mr.. Cochran is not dated, the at
tofney general has no reason to doubt
that the complainant is a bona fide
resident of the state Of Minnesota and
entitled to the reasonable protection Of
the officials of the state.
This. however, need not be assumed
as indicating that the attorney general
Will at once take steps to the forcible
detention of New York's sound money
orator, for there are important issues
at stake, and the complaint against
Mr. Cochran is in no sense personal.
but because of his utilization with GER
tain financial or political organizations
avoWing certain belief.
The letter received yesterday de-
handing Mr.. Cockran's Indictment is
brief comparatively, the writer having
acted on the assumption that the at
torney general was familiar as he is.
with the basis of his former communi-.
cations. II. ElIingston, who signs the
communications, is not a believer in
the tenets laid down in the Republ-
can national platform. Further than
that, he maintains that the present
depression is attributable, and legally
traceable. to the depreciation of prices
due to the criminal reduction of the
amount of legal tender money in cir
culation by the decentralization of sill
YER AS q direct result of this, Filings
ton insists that thousands are yearly
dying of enforced starvation through
out this country, in Minnesota as well
as in the states where silver mines
nave been forced to close down, and
he finds splashes of the blood Of these
martyrs on the hands Of every official
who has taken an open part in the adj
vocacy of the maintenance and con-
tinuance Of the present, as he terms it,
unfair and partisan standards. He de-
mands the indictment of every candi-
date nominated on a sound money
platform, rather a cheeky request in
view Of the fact that the attorney
general himself is candidate for re-
election on a sound money platform,
and will not be appeased until the legal
penalties for murder have been melted
out to all the conspirators in what he
terms one of the most dastardly out
RACES that has cast a blot on the
escutcheon Of American liberty.
All these charges and demands were
given at length in Ellingston's previous
letters, and yesterdays letter is de-
voted almost entirely to a succinct
statement on the demand that Bourke
Cochran as the open and avowed apos-
tie of the conspiracy, be apprehended
and proceeded against with due form
of law, and with all the legality neces-
Sary to the conservation of the rights
of the American citizen. Ellingston
processes no desire to take snap judg-
ment on any citizen, but he demands
that the rights of mankind be tried be-
fore the tribunals, which the fathers of
the republic, in their wisdom, estab-
lished, and that the persons responsible
for the terrible conditions which are
causing the death of thousands Of hui
man beings year after year, be brought
to justice, regardless of political social
and other prominence, and of prejudice
to existing political contests.