The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-07-31
WAS a GOOD
Lieutenant Governor Lee Wantsa
Them All to Show Him.

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Observation-Disclosures, Ont. July 28.
Daniel ]. Kelley Of New York, COR
ruption agent and lobbyist who boasts
OF having bought two or three Mis-
,soun legislatures and especially former
Lieutenant Governor John "A. Lee, Is
now an exile here. 1t isn,t4healthy for
him on the American side OF the line.
But he Is getting daily hearnigsato
newspaper men and telling them how
he bought the legislature and8Lee, and
his stories, backed by many letters
in Lees own handwriting, are interest
Ing.
Kelley today displayed q number OF
checks made out In favor OF John al.
Lee In support OF his assertion that he
frequently gave Lee money and that
the $1,000 check, which at Lees request
he gave to Bob Lee. vas only one OF
long series OF checks he made to the
state official for various services rem
dered.
So persistent and annoying were
Lees demands for money, says Kelley,
that for a long time he ignored all of
Lees letters, during which period Lee
wrote many letters. some threatening,
some conciliatory, some begging, some
exceedingly ludicrous in their demands55
and wording.
Lees lnsistence.
March %, 1908, Lee went to the office
of the American Queen in New York
and had a personal interview with
Kelley, the result OF which was Kel-
ley's promise to send {. check for $1,000
to Robert Lee the following week.
Kelley kept his promise, but as has al
ready been told In the Lee
was afraid to cash the {check wrote
Kelley to send Instead New York ex-6
change for $1,000 payable to Mrs. John
A. Lee. This Kelley declined to do.
and, tired Of fooling with Lee, stopped
payment on the check,
Then Lee gave the cneck to he cir
cult attorney, Mr.. Folk, and told him
1t was money given to him by Kelley
to bribe him. Among the other checks
in Lees favor and signed by Kelley
are these: November 81, 1901, $190;
July "a, 1901, 800; March l8. 1901.
$500; July o. 1902, $500; November rs.
1901, $50; February !, 1901. s25; De-
1902, $780, January A. 1902, $3.50.
Kelley today issued an ultimatum to
the st. Louis and Missouri authorities
when he said: II beg you to state that
I dOanot hate Lee, rather, i despise. II.
Mr.. Folk has ever had an idea that I
would be a states witness he Is en-
tirely mistaken. I have nothing to in-
q nan Of my name and extraction who
would occupy the ignominious posi-
tion&of an informer.s Iwould not yer
appear at a states witness against
Lee, much as 1 despise him, and I
could not have been constrained t o
make his villainy public were 1t not
that certain decent and upright men
were being wrongfully agsailed. I
feelsit my duty as a man., even at some
risk, to perform an act of simple
friendship.
Has Lots Of Evidence.
Kelley not only holds a big batch OF
letters written by Lee to him, but he
has gathered a lot Of Lees holdup
messages to other big Corporations
than the Baking Powder trust.
One of these was written to the
head OF the s 0,0O0,O00 glucose trust,
that glucose might be considered dele
FERROUS to health, and hat q pure food
law which would bar glucose from the
state was likely to be passed at the
next legislature. He lLee) could Of
course. defeat UGH legislation, but
would require the trust to do liberal
advertising in his (Lee's) trade jour
nails. The glucose trust responded lib
orally, says Kelley.
Later Lee tackled the Rumford9
Chemical company, a $3,000,000 con
Germ, one Of he chief competitors OF
ers. He sent for a representative OF
this frmato come to st. Louis. where!
Lee explained how the alum people,
could be done IL Rumford would sup
ply the cash The proposition was ac-:
cepted. says Kelley. The spice trust
is said to have been hit hard by Lee
Also and Kelley declares he has some
most interesting documents on this
point. Kelley declares Lee deliberately
went about boodling himself Into the
office OF governor. and would have sue
ceeded, In his opinion, but for the
Doodle investigation.