The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-14

Eult1f OF Inc hhIletlnt
= Gov Yates in his speech in the couI
: house IN Cairo, in his own interest a
! a candidate for the Tinted States ser
ate, ii properly reported in the press
: made statements about me. personally
I, which | feel, in justice 70 myself ant
y TO my friends who heard and read III
speech, requires me 10 answer Thu
ex-governor must have been draamins
some things lately that might have
happened and didn't / quote from hi,
speech as printed in The Cairo Bule
tin. he said in substance that / "caml
% him with fears in my eyes and voice
after ne was elected governor ana
told him that was one of he poor
apponrees tat was Registrar OF
Grain IN Chicago that was nujustly
accused Of irregularities IN office. and
that asked him ii he was going TO
/ discharge me under fire, and thar he
told me he would NOT discharge me
| and that he kept me In office. Now the
| only thing thar Is true in that state
ment above quoted is that he kept me
in office. The facts are that II develop
ed in May 1900 the Chicago Elevator
| company. whose president was Russ II
Sage Of New York; and among whose
directors were George Gould of New
York. Mr., c. s. Kennels, Of Cleveland
Ohio and other wealthy men Of the
country, and whose general manager
in Chicago was a man named Lloyd
Smith, had failed 10 make good on
warehouse receipts representing
grain that he had shipped out Of his
elevator and had failed to cancel re-
ceipts as the law required. The news
papers and the public. thinking thar
the law governing the state grain de- |
partment was amply sufficient to en-
able the estate Grain Registrar to pro
tecr their receipts representing grain |
in elevators and registered in the state
grain department naturally were very
severe on the state grain department
IN many articles and interviews until |
repeated requests were made by me
for investigation. Finally | concluded
% 90 before the grand jury Of Cook
county and upon the records Of my
office and the holders &c the receipts.
Lloyd Smith was indicted for falling
70 cancel the receipts as required bg
Jaw. The grand jury investigated thor
1ughly the whole subjact under the
supervision % the present
Governor of Illinois, who Wa at that
ime States Attorney rife grand jury
after TWO days of Investigation iu
licted Smith ana eSonerated the state
grain department absolutely. ana
that the law be amead-
ID which was published IN The Chi i
ago ana other newspapers, ana walei i
eXonerated M. The trial !
II Lloyd Smith showed that my de-
,artment under The law had no power /
O compel The cancellation Of the re- i
.eipts referred to, aud about this time i
he committee appointed By The late a
Governor Tanner made a report ey- v
myself and my department 4
nd recommending changes in the law H.
following this the newspapers in Chi n
ago and all over The state editorially i
Xonerated the state grain depart
lent and myself and demanding that G
he law he amended and an amend c
lent was made the following winter r.
o The warehouse law that | submitted @
, the warehouse committee for pass. A
&c. which makes warehouse re. Il
aipt now in Chicago as good a. b
oyernment bond. n
This all happened between May and II
ugust, 1900, months before GOV. a
ates was elected Governor of Iii N
DIS; therefore, there was no neees- u
~ for me 70 come TO Governor Yates Ia
S h relates. As matter of fact. if n
had done anything in violation of oil
he law, he should not have reap. a,
Dinted me TO. the position / had sup Of
)sed up to The time of reading Gov. w
ates recently delivered speeches. IN
Iat DE had appointed me Registrar on
Grain because Of my efficiency and e.
nowledge of the duties of tha Office. in
nd incidentally that had come 10 his "
,sistance with others at a critical "a
me in the Peoria convention when ri
E was nominated for governor. but Y,
would seem from his speeches that i'm
2 has a grudge against all the men IN
no rook prominent part in nominal no
e him for Governor of Illinois. He m,
telling what he did for them. he is dr.
acing Senator Hopkins. Speaker te
annon, Mr.. Lorimer and other men &c
lder obligations to him ana then ba
aiming they deserted him when he
cause many large holders have SOLD sic
'eded them. etc The facts are. the FIR
.ry men whom he IS now abusing M.
rough Illinois. could justly say that ca
e OF the great scars on their political We
is the fact that their in. nm
.ence made Yates Governor Of hi al,
lis. Every man in Illinois thar Is al no
acquainted with the history of the pp
,oria convention. knows thar Sen su
Or Hopkins. the late Gov. Tanner. So
eaker Cannon and Congress sman mi
rrimer are properly eharceable
IN Yates nomination. II would be Ia
w. S. CORES MISFORTUNE. ,ht