Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-14
GOV. DAVIDSON
TO EXPLAIN FUND
WILL APPEAR BEFORE COMMIT
TEE EARLY THIS
MORNING.
GAME WARDEN SAYS STEPHEN
SON MONEY CONTRIBUTED
TO PURSE.
Madison. April 10,

pear before the investigating commit
tee this morning. A telephone mes
sage from Soldiers Grove informed
| the committee that the executive
would take freight train late in the
afternoon which would bring him to
Manson at or ) o'clock this morn
ing.
The governor had been in commune
cation with the capitol several times
| during the day relative to his appear
/ ance in Madison. Ralph Thurber, the
executive clerk, informed the chair
man of the committee that the gov
ernor would be here at 5 o'clock this
afternoon, if the committee could
hear him in the evening. Word was
sent to Soldiers Grove that the COM
mittee would hold a session in the
evening to accommodate him.
Governor Phones to Capitol.
In the afternoon a message was re-
celved that Mr.. Davidson would take
freight train to be here early this
morning, hoping that he would be al
lowed to appear before the committee
at $3.50 Owing to business at home,
the governor desires to leave Madison
at 1O:45 The committee will be
ready to hear him early this morning.
The subpoena that was issued was not
served on the governor. He volun-
| TO, uyhn no
over the phone whether he wished to
have the subpoena sent to his town.
Testimony offered by Deputy Game
Warden C. W. Johnston revealed that
$25 of Stephenson money went to the
fund turned over to the governor by
the state warden Mr.. Johnston re-
ceived $50 from Deputy Game Warden
Bowman to use in Stephensons behalf.
Informed that game wardens were not
to take part in the campaign, he
turned over $25 to c. E. Toilette and
the other $25 he gave to Mr.. Stone,
when he made a contribution of his
own $25 to the purse made up for the
governor.
Mr.. Johnston testified that owing to
the lack of clear instructions on his
own part, Mr. Stone used the Stephen
son money for the fund of the govern
or He meant to have that money go
back to Bowman through the head of
the game warden department The
papers reported that Stone mentioned
Mr.. Johnston as contributor OF 500
to the purse, which must include the
S25 that was TO revert to the Stephen
son fund. The letter of instructions rel
ative to political activities on the part
of game wardens came to Mr.. john
| ston from Mr. Stone. Mr.. Johnston
voted for S. A. Cook
Afternoon Session.
B. /. Hubert, game warden Of Bar
aboo stated that he received Sl0O
from the Stephenson headquarters.
Accompanying the money was let
ter informing him that the money was
a present for his work in Barron coun-
| ty.
The witness stated that he had
made disbursements before he had
received his remittance from MilWau-
kee. He became interested in the
campaign of his county through Mr..
Porter, who had charge of matters
there in behalf of Senator Stephenson.
Gets 500 as Gift.
Game Warden Stone lived in Bar
ron at that time, but he never asked
Mr.. Hubert the witness stated, to
work for Stephenson.
Don't you think the 500 was paid
to you to influence your vote?"
mo, SIR
"Why did they send you 500 when
your work was rather limited"
ct is possible that Mr.. Porter over
estimated my work 1t was he, | be-
lieve. who communicated with the
headquarters to pay me>for my work. :
did you talk to Mr. Porter about
| this money!
Yes. He said / never asked you
how much we owed you, but you got
the money You ought to be salts
( fed
Asked if he contributed to the gov
i errors purse, Mr. Hubert said that
he gave $25.
why did you make this contribu-
ton? Were you afraid you would
loose your job if you had not?"
mo. the other boys contributed.
so | contributed. too
He gave the money to Game Ward
en- Stone.
Stone Gives Money Freely.
MIR. Stone testified that you got
| $40. Is that right?"
That's a little exaggerated. He
only gave me So
What was that given you for?'
He didn't say"
When you contributed the money
to the governors fund. did they tell
! you that it was for the governor?
Yes
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