Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-24

D<oH%etIt,
worth 100000, SO that he was puzzled some
times between the two to know whether he wa
rich or poor. The dirty little paper had NJ
circulation outside Of st. Paul. and, therefore
as he had been away for month, he did no.
know until this morning, yesterday that il
had been vilifying him with aseries of the most
damnable lies, at the instigation Of Washburn
| and through his committee. He didn't know
but it was because of some crime committed
by the people of st. Paul that it was permitted
to be published here. Whatever of truth the
charges Illuminated against him by that paper
mad was carefully suppressed, Or only made tc
aid in making the lies appear the truth. If he
was the dead beat he is represented to be, why
mad these facts not come out before5 He had
been In public life for twenty years. Why had
these accusations nsver been before the public
IN all that timer In Dakota county, where he
had lived for twenty years, his daily walk and
conversation had been known of all men, and
no had never gone out of the county without q
good round majority. In the village of MINI
ger, where his every action was known. he had
always received a majority. Could this be if
he was notorious dead beat and plunderer as
represented? These charges come from the
rings whom he had been fighting ali his life.
They hated him with all the hatred of which
| they are capable.
Mr.. Donnelly then proceeded to read two
matchmaking letters he had received as samples
| of many others-one from Michael Marsh and
one from Thomas Bower, of this city, and ex-
| planned the transactions he had had with these
| men. He also referred specifically to several
other transactions in which he has been
charged with acting dishonorably, and fully
and satisfactorily explained them. He pro-
nounced all others dastardIy lies, without
foundation in fact, and declared that all the
small debts he owed in the world was 800 to a
st. Paul bank. Castle, the fellow who made
these accusations at the instance Of Washburn
and his ring-his hearers all knew him. He
was miserable failure in everything he had
undertaken. He had fizzled out. He had tried
to run little paper at Anoka and had fzzled
out. lie was now trying to run the Dispatch
into the ground as fast as possible, and was
likely to make success of it, for the first
time in his life. He was known vilifer. He
mad heaped abuse upon worthy citizen of this
| place, Barney Armstrong, for weeks, and being
unconscious Of having done dirty act he had
on meeting the gentleman, extended his hand
| Tor friendly greeting. Barney kicked him in
the bread-basket and to-day the only decent
part of Castles anatomy is where Barney loot
left its mark. He does Washburn's bidding
Like servile dog. pretty pair, truly-Castle
and Washburn. The Republican party is like
unto a noble structure-a grand hotel. On the
first floor-in the parlor-we find such upright
gentlemen as Gov. Cushman x. Davis and
Alexander Ramsey doing the honors
OF the establishment. Overhead, in
many worthy occupants-Dr. Day. for instance,
IN the post-ofice-a choice room-with Fred.
Driscoll and Joe Wheelock glowering at him
over the blinds. Gtill further up are many very
worthy guests OF the party. But away to the
rear is a little bit Of building-Qaughter a
little building with very bad breath (Great
laughter.) This little building is Henry A.
Castles exclusive domain. 1t is his business to
crumple up the paper and attend to the valves.
(More laughter.) Every little while Washburn
goes down to this little building holding his
nose, and hands Castle his pay on the end of a
stick. Laughter and applause.)
HOW wAsHBURN MADE HIS MONEY.
Some good people find fault because reference
has been made to Washbu1n's failure. he did
not consider it dishonorable settlement. But
he did blame man for failing and compelling
his creditors to receive forty to sixty cents on
the dollar while he had 100000 left, with
which TO take his family to Europe the same
year. hr. Donnelly then referred to the man
ner in which Washburn made his fortune-how
he procured his appointment as surveyor
general by STEALTH through the influence of
his two brothers, and how he used it to gobble
up all the best pine lands in the State. He
characterized in fitting terms the assaults of
his paid organ and mouthpiece, the Mime
apolis Lura6e'nao's, upon Secretary Schurz for
his attempt to punish the pine land thieves.
and illustrated his points by appropriate and
telling anecdotes.
THE WHEAT QUESTION.
Coming to the wheat question, Mr. Donnelly
declared that every man, whether he lived in
town or country, is interested in it. In 1857,
when the crisis came, VIC did not raise enough
wheat to feed our own people, and were COM
PEELED to see steamboat after steamboat coming
up the river loaded with flour. But when it
was discovered thai soil was adapted to
wheat raising our industry received an impe
tus. Wheat has built railroads, our manu-
factures, and our towns. We are now raising
from 5o,c0o,o0o to 35,0000oO bushels of wheat
annually. Surely our prosperity ought to be
great. But ask your merchant or your
that business is duh and collections
slow. What is the reason? The wheat is not
moving. The farmers have discovered that
there IS gigantic conspiracy to rob item of
the fruits Of their industry ring of millers
who by their swindling brass kettles are de-
termincd to reduce the quality and the price of
their wheat. The result is the farmers will not
market, and as consequence times are hard
money scarce, people idle. The only men who
are prospecting are the millers,. and they are
coming fortunes-immense fortunes wrung
from the hard earnings of the toiling farmers
When he was in the State Senate he proposed a
system OF wheat inspection which would be
free from all objections to the present
system. He proposed to measure it by
standard half bushel which could not
err and to have inspectors appointed for each
town by the county commissioners Of the sew
eral counties, and responsible to them. If
that bill had paased-it did get through the
Senate once-we would have better condition,
Of affairs than at present. How do you in
spect wheat now? These little brass buckets
are very tender little things. They are SO sus-
ceptible that if you pour the wheat into them
straight you can make a difference Of one
pound on q bushel on the same wheat if poured
into it on its side. If you tapped the tester
ever so slightly and fill it up again, you could
make difference Of two pounds, and if you
unscrewed the lever little you could make a
still greater difference. He then proceeded
to give instances in which the same wheat
had varied in weight by the
same and by different testers.
THE sWINDLING BRASS KETTLE.
Mr. Goodsell, formerly miller of North
field, had charge Of the elevator. He told me
that he was glad to get out of the internal
thing. He found that the ring would not buy
on an honest basis and SO he stepped out of it.
| He told me that the beam of the tester has a
| square block which can be unscrewed and taken
off and the plates of lead removed, and in this
way made to weigh whatever you please. Len
guage can not paint the horror and cruelty of
such system-a system whose rapacity is
worse than the grasshoppers. The miilers'
ring give 35c, 4Gc and SOC fora bushel of wheat.
The millers made q statement that nearly all
the wheat was paid for as No. 2. don't be-
lieye it, and l refer to an article in
the Pioneer Press, quoted from the Minneapolis
Tribune, which states that the bulk of the
wheat received is No. 5, and the millers were