The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-16
GOODNOW CHARGES
ARE not SPECIFIC
BASE COMPLAINT UPON HIS GEN
ERAL REPUTATION.
The Document on File in Washing
ton Represents Score of Shang-
hal Residents Who Say They Do
Not Feel Safe Under Goodnow as
Consul General.

One Of the most remarkable petit
tions ever filed with the state depart
ment in Washington is the document
embodying the attack on John Good
now of Minneapolis, consul general at
Shanghai. Recent dispatches indi-
Gated that G. H. Curtis, the Shanghai
resident who has been on Goodnow's
trail, had secured respectable show
Ing of signatures and a, copy Of the
document which reached Minneapolis
today shows a score Of names. The
case will be taken up by the state de-
partment on the return Of H. D.
Pierce, third assistant attorney gen.
eral now en- route home from Shang-
hal The petition was received by
him while there and the facts upon
which the charges are based are al
ready in his possession.
Document in Full.
The petition reads:
Shanghai, China, May IT, 1904.-The
President: We are American citizens and
have resided in China for several years,
or American firms now doing business in
China.
We know the official standing Of John
Goodnow, the consul general of the United
States at Shanghai, China, and we have
heard that official standing generally dis
cussed.
We wish to bring it to your attention
mitted to testify to any particular act
to show that the standing Of man was
not good, but we would be asked If we
knew his general reputation. Acknowl-
edging the justice of this principle, we do
not therefore propose to direct your ex-
cellency's attention to any one act, but
we state that the official standing IF the
consul general Is not good, and that his
course here has not inspired the conf
dence Of the substantial foreign residents
of this port. We do not feel safe under
his administration, and we deeply regret
| to write that we do not.
| We are loyal to our flag, and we beg
that you will have it represented by a
man who embodies in his official conduct
| it's high mission. Respectfully submitted
| F. r. Graves, missionary bishop Prot
estant Episcopal church.
F. L Hawks Pott. president of St
Johns college, Shanghai.
A. P. Parker, president Anglo Chinese
college.
Robert l.. Lewis, foreign secretary in.
ternational committee Young Mems Chris.
tan Association.
Charles S. Leavenworth, professor o.
history, Nanyang college.
institute.
H. w. Boone, M. D., dean Of the medl
cal faculty of St. Johns college.
W. B. Burke, pastor in charge of thu
Moore Memorial church
D. Willard Lyon, acting general secre
tary Young Mems Christian Association
China, Corea and Hongkong.
Fleming James, minister Of the Church
of Our Savior, Shanghai.
! S. Isett woodbridge, editor in. chief Chi
nese Christian Intelligencer.
w. H. Lacy, senior manager Methods
Publishing house.
A. j. Bowen, treasurer Of the Contra
China mission of the Methodist Episcopa
church
| China and Japan Trading company, lin
tied, Harry De Gray, manager.
| Fearon Daniel & Co.
Asiatic corporation, J. G. shengle, act
ing manager.
B. A. Hammond, manager M. J. Con
nell.
/ John P. Roberts, marine surveyor 70
Germanischer Lloyd, record Of America
and foreign shipping, the Yangtse.
North China, China Traders and others
insurance companies.
International Banking corporation, J.
Fearon, vice president,
The American Trading company, J. F
Morse, president