The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-09-13
CHAMPLIN AND THE OPPOSITION
PARTY.

A friend writes to ask us how Champlin, of
Blue Earth county, voted on the Morse Bill
We are sorry to say he both voted and worked
for it. He was generally a bad egg. He was
very willing to take the votes OF the Opposi-
ton last Fall when he rar for the LEGISLATURE,
whether they were Democrats, Liberals or
Anti -Monopolists;but when the Legislature met
he refused to enter caucus made up of men
holding the same opinions as those who sent
him there. But he wouldn't object now to a
caucus nomination. The boot is on the other
g.-ANTI- -MOxOPOLIsT.
The above paragraph from Mr.: Donnelly Is
pen, appeared in last weeks issue of the
TI-MoSoPoLIsr. When yoh consider the
animus of the attack, it is mean and dastardly
1t is all because Mr.. Champlin declined to go
into caucus, last winter, with the Opposition,
while Mr.. Donnelly was a candidate before il
for nomination to the Office of United States
Senator. We suppose Capt. Champlin thought
Mr.. Donnelly not the right man for the place.
While he could not conscientiously vote for
him, he seems to have preferred an indepen-
dent position, where he would not be compell-
to vote against him. For this, really, and not
for his vote on the Morse Bill, he is denounced
as ga bad egg." The "bad egg" in Minnesota
politics is Ignatius Donnelly not Mr. Champlin.
When the publisher of newspaper max es it
personal organ for the abuse Of every man
who will not bow down and shout, "Great is
Donneily, Of Nininger,' it is prostitution to
base uses. There must be something unsound
and rotten about him. If our inference is false
why don't he "rottan egg" every member ol
the last Legislature who voted for the Morse
Bill, as he has Mr. Champlin:-Mank
Union.
Ho ho. Is it there you are? And so
it is "mean and dastardly" to refer to a
mans record in the Legislature, and yet
you wa ut US TO snow up the records ol
hundred other members CONSISTENCY
thou art jewel"
Whenever, Mr.. Editor, you can cal
our attention to a member of the legisla,
tare who utterly refused to 60 into eau.
Gus with the men who represented the
same opinions that had sent him there,
and who also voted for fhe Morse law
we will denounce him to your satisfac.
ton. A good and true man may, by an
error of JUDI gment, or under the solicita,
tion and influence Of friends, vote for q
bad law and afterward be sorry for il:
hut man who goes back on the part,
| that elected him, and at the Same time
votes against the interest Of the whole
people, is, as we said, "a bad egg
And we begin to conclude that the editor
| OF the Union is as bad an egg as Champ.
| lin himself.
at is all because Mr.. Champlin de.
clined to go into ihe caucus last winter
with the Opposition, while Mr.. Donnell,
was q candidate before it, etc: H.
thought Mr.. Donnelly not the right m an
for the place"
Ifso. achy did he not 90 into the caucss,
and help defeat Mr. Donneily7 There
were half dozen candidates, before
that caucus and 10 man had certain
~ of the nomination; certainly out 0l
that number, including some Of the ablesl
men in the State, he. Champlin coul
have found some one equal in merit to
himself, to whom he could have give
his valuable support! But no; he fie
away from the Opposition as il il iIa,
the pcstilence- He occupied too hizh a
moral plane to mingle with it on ans
| terms.
| He would have had perfect rigat !.
have taken this course il he had been
elected on the merits ol Champlin alone.
God save the mark y as an indepel Il. II
Candidate. Buthr was elected by IT, v tas
Of political parry, and ever. man eie
ed on the fame ticket with him par,l.s
pated in that csurus except himself; ~
hs would not ;-be fitted about like ai