Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-24
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thing accomplished. Two years afterwards b
was again nominated for the same office, agai,
made thorough canvass, and was again beaten
by twelve votes. This close run attracted SOM
attention to him. Republican party manager
began to talk Of him, and the newspapers be
gan to think there was something in & maj
who could so sensib]y reduce large Democrat
majority. The next year. the Republicans still
being in minority in the State, he was nomin
ated for lieutenant governor, and was elected
and was reelected n 1851. In 1862 he wa
elected to Congress from this district, wa
again reelected in 1864, and again in 1885, H
was beaten for denomination in 1863 by tn
corrupt use of the money Of the Washbur,
family, because he had, in debate in the House
resented an indecent assault made upon hin
in debate by one of the brothers-Elihu. B,
the most shameless use of money the Wash
bGrns went into a convention, two-thirds @
whose members were pledged to vote for him
and defeated him, nominating in his stead O
y. Andrews, who now has the honor tt
reside re- in st. Paul: But it cost $50, oot
OF the money of the ring to do it. He had sa
down undur this abuse, and did not leave th,
Republican party. Finally, the next year
when the party was distracted by discussions
the Press, which had opposed him Heretofore
publicly advocated, in order to harmonic the
party, that he should be the Republican nomi
nee for Governor of the State. The Winons
Repu6tican took it up, and other newspapers
took 1t up, and ere long he appeared to be the
unanimous choice of the party of the State
The Press officially asked him if he would be-
come candidate. He made a written reply
which that paper published. in which he said
that while he did not seek the Office, he would
accept it if nominated. Then one of Windom's
friends came to him and asked if he was elect.
ed would he use his influence in favor of Mr.
WINDOWS Senatorial aspirations. He replied
n fo6 md oil foH ba Il:
charge the duties of the office faithfully, but
would make no contracts or bargains. Zap
plause.) Then the Washburns and Window
put their heads together and at the eleventh
hour went into convention of delegates al
most unanimously in his favor, and By the
most nefarious and corrupt bargains succeeded
in defeating him and nominating Hon. Hor-
ace Austin. His Democratic competitor,
George L. Otis, came within 1900 votes OF
beating him at the polls. Still he remained in
the party, an accomplishing member.
HIS CANDIDACY IN 1870.
He was charged with having changed upon
the tariff question. In the platform adopted
by the Republican party in 1869 there was a
free trade plank. lie believed in and indoreed
it, But the next year the Republican conven-
ton adopted a protective plank, and nominal
ed man for Congress engaged in the manu-
facture of q protected article. Against this he
protested. After the nomination was made in
1870 he was applied to to allow the use of his
name as an Independent candidate. The pc
bition bore the names of several thousand good
citizens who thought as he did on the tariff
question. He replied that he would run if the
Democrats made no nomination. The Demo-
Gratis met in convention and decided that they
would make no nomination, and further
adopted resolutions declaring that they
preferred Donnelly to Averill. Flo made the
canvass and was defeated by about 1900 ma
ority.
REPUBLICANS ADOPT HIS PLATFORM.
In 1871, the party was still distracted, and
Dr.. Thomas Foster wanted 10 harmonize it.
lie visited him at his farm in Nininger and
.sked him to come into the convention and to
write his own platform, giving him an assur-
nee that if he would come he could write his
'wn platform and the convention would adopt
t without much as dotting an or crossing
. t. He went into the convention, wrote his
'wn platform, and it Was adopted entire, lust
8 it was written, free trade and all. This was
he way he came back into the Republican
,arty-not as q craven asking for forgiveness,
nut as conqueror-a dictator. (Applause.)
SUPPORTING GREELEY.
But the chief cause Of his dissatisfaction
With the Republican party arose in 1872, when
he national convention at Philadelphia adopt
d protective tariff platform. He didn't
want to be whitfield about here and there at the
aprice of conventions, variable as the wind.
lie didn't like this platform and he didn't like
'ould not take e seat in Congress as the repre-
entative of party that advocated these views.
30, the morning of the convention he wrote a
etter in which he took his stand in favor of
for President Mr.. Horace Greeley.
n this stand he was with Schurz and other
,ood Republicans who protested against the
endencies of the Republican party. He went
nto the national Liberal Republican Demo-
ratio party with such men as your fellow
ownsman Albert Scheffer, whom YOU all know.
In the next State Liberal Republican con-
IGNITION he offered series of resolutions on
he currency question and the national banks.
They were voted down by q large majority.
What was he to do? Simply to adhere to prin-
;iple, which he did. When the question of
nance came up, and the Greenback party was
he joined that party, because it more
nearly came up to his views on the currency
questions than any other then in existence.
One by one the intelligent men Of the Demo-
cratic party began to think Of the currency
1oesIlou anu one ny one tney began TO see
through the subterfuges that had been dinged
INTO their ears until the whole party has now
come to the position occupied by him in 1871.
SO, instead of his being whitfield around he has
stood firmly like a column of adamant and the
parties have whirled around him. Mr.. Donnelly
acre illustrated his point by a happy anecdote
The whole charge of changeableness desolves
Itself into this: Donnelly has changed his po-
,ition twice-cnce on the tariff and once on
a nlfrO1 1olrr
his, but are men never to learn anything? He
thought it to his honor that he had been able
20 study and think on these questions and
found that he had been in error, had had the
nan]iness to come out and avow it. The
faculty of learning is all in which we differ
fromsthe brute creation. The ass which went
into the ark with Noah possessed all the intell-
sence and as high an order of instinct as the
ackass of to-day. Do you wish man to be
is incapable of learning as a jackass? (Laugh-
ter.)
TIE cRnIE OF. povERTy.
But ice Wheelock charged him with having
lived by politics for the past ten years-with
having drawn all his rations from the public
crib. The only Office he had held for ten years
was as State Senator for five years. The only
compensation of that Office. and all he had
drawn from the State was a per diem Of S..
This had amounted to q total of $l,5OO-an
average for ten years of $3.50 a year. No man
could look at him and honestly say that he had
lived on that diet. (Laughter.) Probably if
he looked as spare rs Joe Wheeloclz he might
have lived on sawdust and buttered thunder
bolts at an annual cost Of $50. (Great
laughter.) -
Again, Wheelock had reproached him for his
poverty. Surely poverty is no disgrace, but at
times it is very announcement. Some one had
beautifully said that Christ was born in a Sta
BILE so that forever more it should be esteemed
no reproach to be poor. 1t is rather unkind,
however, for Wheelook TO reproach anybody
for being poor. He has been as poor as Laza-
rus himself, and you know the dogs licked his
sores. (Laughter.) 1t is an honor to him that
he has risen from his former poyerty-has
emergergea by his own esioresence to his pres
ent noble position among us. 1t
would hardi,, La:.e hee:a lnn,aaed aaass;h L.