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In an interview, Dakota Gov. Ordway denies telegrams from Fargo accusing him of impropriety in capital removal, asserts a Yankton grand jury cleared him, and defends C.S. Palmer against attacks by U.S. Attorney Campbell, who seeks a judgeship Palmer is recommended for.
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Dakota's Chief Executive Officer Contradicts a Series of Damaging Telegrams Sent from Fargo.
Gov. Ordway, of Dakota, who is detained in Washington on account of illness in his family, is very emphatic in his denunciations of the special dispatches sent out from Fargo, asserting that United States Attorney Campbell intends to implicate him before the grand jury in improper transactions connected with the removal of the capital.
The governor asserts that shortly after the passage of the capital removal bill, he voluntarily placed himself and the records of his office before the grand jury of Yankton county which, after a long and exhaustive hearing, failed to establish a single fact which would in any way justify the infamous newspaper attacks which the opponents of the capital removal bill had sent broadcast over the country. As to the organization of new counties the governor says that he has demanded that his enemies should promptly forward to the President all their accusations, as he courts the most rigid investigation into all his official acts.
The governor characterizes the coupling of C. S. Palmer's name with county frauds as infamous, and asserts that it can be proven to be a scheme of United States Attorney Campbell, who is the Yankton candidate for the vacant judgeship, to prevent the appointment of Mr. Palmer. He says it can also be proven that Campbell offered to support Palmer for United States attorney if he would get out of his way and let Campbell have the judgeship, which proposition Mr. Palmer declined, hence this attack upon him.
The governor says the specials from Fargo are in his judgment back fires, set to prevent some of the prominent north Dakotans, now in Washington, and who have been summoned before Springer's committee, from testifying against Campbell, while at the same time striking a foul blow at Palmer, hoping to defeat his appointment as judge, for which position he has been strongly recommended by a large number of senators and members from New England and by the leading men in nearly every part of Dakota.
Gov. Ordway said he was bound to say this much in Mr. Palmer's behalf, although he had indorsed another gentleman for the vacant judgeship.
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grand jury in yankton county failed to establish facts justifying accusations; gov. ordway demands investigation; attacks characterized as scheme to influence judgeship appointment.
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Gov. Ordway, detained in Washington due to family illness, denounces Fargo dispatches claiming U.S. Attorney Campbell will implicate him in capital removal improprieties before a grand jury. He states he voluntarily submitted to Yankton grand jury post-bill passage, which found no basis for attacks. He invites accusations on new counties to the President. He calls linking C.S. Palmer to county frauds infamous, attributing it to Campbell's scheme to block Palmer's judgeship; Campbell allegedly offered Palmer U.S. attorney support in exchange, which was declined. Fargo specials seen as efforts to deter testimony against Campbell before Springer's committee and defeat Palmer's appointment, despite strong recommendations.