The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-15
Dnnnell in Martin C0unty.-His
Speech Analysed and Answered.


Editsr Anti Monopolist:
Three times has Mark H. Dunnell
been candidate for Congress. Three
times mas he visited the citizens of this
afflicted region for the purpose Of in
structing them how to vote. But how
ever much his party may have needed
his services at other times, he has left
them to wander sin endless mazes lost. "
Thus it would seem that when he la
bors it is for Mark alone.
In the prosperous days Of his party,
only the people of our county seat and
immediate vicinity had the pleasure of
feeling the effects of his gushing elo-
quencc; but during his late visit, for
reasons apparent to all but his ad-
mirers, he allowed it to overflow into
school districts, and run out in little
rills called button-holing all over the
county. Perhaps he intended these eX-
ira performances as contribution to
our rel ief fund. If he left with his
friends anything more substantial it is
probably back pay, the notifying ef-
fects of which he undoubtedly under.
stands.
His speech at Fairmont, except the
voice and gestures, was one Of the most
weak and contemplate that ever fell
from the lips Of any carpet-bagger. He
sought with all his energy to impress
upon the minds of his hearers that the
issues before and during the war are
the issues of to-day. He labored hard
to excite in them anew the passions and
prejudices engendered by the rebellion.
One not acquainted with the matter
would have supposed from his speech
that the uprising against the Kellogg
government, and the other troubles in
the South, were an actual rebellion
against the general government. Never
once did he have the truthfulness and
manhood, while protesting to give a
true record of his party and the admin
istration,-to allude to the fact that a
committee of the Senate, comprising a
majority of administration men, after
investigating all the facts, reported the
kellogg government gross usurpation,
forced upon the people by Federal bay
onetS.
Not once did he tell his audience that
his model President, whom he extolled
so highly, had, during the past summer.
not to mention other seasons, transfer
red his seat of government from the
Capitol to the seaside, and there trans.
acted business in defiance Of law.
Nor did he tell them how the leading
men of his party had robbed the coun-
try in the Credit Mobilier affair. He
said that he was never guilty of address
sing an audience and telling any thing
but the truth; but it seems to be his
idea that to evade the truth. when pro.
Tossing to tell it, is not falsehood; so
he left out the Sanborn contract. and
all the other swindlings that his party
has been guilty of. He seemed not to
know of the swindles operations OF
Seeger and Mcilrath. in our own State.
Oh. no that part of the truth he never
touched. He dwelt upon the necessity
of the Republican party retaining
power, in order to keep the South in
subsection. OF course he did not say
that subsection meant carIet-bag rule,
and chance to manufacture election
eering capital for his party by creating
disturbances at every election.
lis party was for contraction. but he
failed to notice the fact that one of its
greatest leaders. Morton, was the cham.
pion Of the Initiation Bill; and that the
votes Of his party passed it; and al.
though vetoed by the President. he had
since ssned one that had practically
the same effect. His party was against
repudiation, and he tried hard to prove
that because some one had advocated
lpavinr the bonds in oreenbacks. that