The Irish standard., 1900-10-27
SENATOR YoUNG's ROT.
Judge Canty Caustically Replies tt
the Lawyer.

Judge Canty Caustically Replies to
the Lawyer.
The following letter from Judge
CAVITY appeared in last Sundays Min
neapolis Tribune:
My attention has just been called
to the letter Of State Senator E. r.
Young, published in the Tribune Aug.
IL, denouncing Gov. Lind. There is
much political rot in the papers these
days which 1 never read and this
would apply especially to anything
said by Senator Young, and so l did
not read the article until today. He
said in his letter in the Tribune, ad
dressed to Gov. Lind:
You may state where you got the
right to take $1,000 out of the state
treasury to send Judge CAVITY to the
Philippines to gather material for the
anti-eXpansion speeches. You may eX-
plain how he came back with the ma
terial and you hired hall i'll Mime
apolis and he delivered speech ac.
cording to contract" etc.
want to state that never at any
time before or after 1 started for the
Philippines did Gov. Lind or any one
else suggest in any way that I look
into the political conditions there, or
do anything else except to ascertain
the cost Of purchasing and transport
ing Manila hemp from the Philippines
to saltwater, to cable accordingly and
if instructed to do so to use in buying
hemp the letter of credit of $4,000
which 1 took with me, and also to
make arrangements by which the
state officers could at any future time
negotiate to cable directly with the
proper parties in Manila for the pur-
chase Of hemp.
learned from some of the officers
Of the prison board before starting
that there was great danger that the
trust would get control of all the avail
able fiber in the world and compel our
state prison twine~plant to shut down
for the then coming season, and l
afterwards ascertained that the dan
ger was at that time real one.
did not buy any hemp for the
reason that when I was there the
operators of the Irvine trust and a few
other spectators had temporarily
cornered the market, so that the. price
of hemp in Manila was higher than in
London. But made all the necessary
arrangements for future purchases
and cabled accordingly, and while
was on the water returning, the prison
board, through these arrangements, re-
ceived n proposition for the sale and
delivery Of hemp which would have
saved the state $4,000 on one months
output of the Irvine plant, as compared
with what the same kind of hemp
would have cost If bought in New
York. But not expecting such an offer,
the prison board had just purchased
full supply Of sisal, and for that
reason did not accept the offer. But
the arrangements made ought to save
the state many thousands Of dollars in
future purchase Of hemp.
Again, Senator Young would have
the public infer that spent the 81 900
on the trip, whereas. Immediately on
my return paid back 5000 Of it to the
prison board, as he very we'll knows
A considerable part of the 1910 spent
was in payment of cablegrams as to
hemp conditions. OF course, the bal
ance paid but small part of my ex-
penses on the trip.
1 want to say further that never
thought of collecting information on
the political conditions in the Philip
pines until l had been there several
days, and commenced to learn how diff
ferent things We're there from what
the censored news received here rep
resented them to be. Again, Senator
Young charges Gov. Lind hired the
hall in which I made the talk on con-
ditions in the Philippines, on my re-
turn. This is as absolutely false as
many of Young's statements Gov.
Lind had nothing to do Mt all with
hiring the hall, was not consulted, and
as far as know, was not even invited
to be present--not because he was not
welcome, and would not feel hon
ored to have him present-but because
intended to couple my talk on the
Philippines with advice to the Dem
ocratic party to nominate some one
else besides Bryan, and assumed that
this would not meet with the approval
Of Gov. Lind.
So