The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-10-31
but as conqueror-a dictator. (Applause.)
SUPPORTING GRExLEY.

SUPPORTING GR&GI4EY.
But the chief cause of his dissatisfaction
with the Republican party arose in 1872, when
the national convention at Philadelphia adopt
ed a protective tariff platform. He didn't
want to be whitfield about here and there at the
caprice of conventions, variable as the wind.
| He didn't like this platform and he didn't like
| Grant, the nominee of the convention, and he
could not take seat in Congress as the repre-
| sentative of a party that advocated these views.
| &c. the morning of the convention he wrote a
letter in which he took his stand in favor of
| supporting for President Mr.. Horace Greeley.
| In this stand he was with Schurz and other
good Republicans who protested against the
tendencies of the Republican party. He went
| into the national Liberal Republican Demo-
| cratic party with such men as your fellow
townsman Albert Scheffer, whom you all know.
| (Applause.)
| In the next State Liberal Republican con-
vention he offered series of resolutions on
the currency question and the national banks.
They we're voted down by a large majority.
| What was he to do? Simply to adhere to prin-
| cipIe which he did. When the question of
finance came up, and the Greenback party was
organized, he joined that party because 1t 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
| 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 column of adamant. and the
| parties have whirled around him. Mr.. Donnely
here illustrated his point by happy anecdote
| The whole charge of changeableness desOlvea
itself into this: Donnelly has changed his po-
sition twice-once on the tariff and once on
the hard money question. He acknowledged
this, but men never to learn anything? He
| thought it to his honor that he had been able
to study and think on these questions and
found that he had been in error had had the
man]iness to come out and avow it. The
faculty of learning is all in which we differ
from the brute creation. The which went
into the ark with Noah possessed all the intelli-
gence and as high an order of instinct the
jackass of to-day. Do you wish man to be
as incapable of learning rs jackass! (Laugh-
teri
/ THE CRIME OF POVERTY.
But Joe WheeIock 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 per diem of s..
This had amounted to total of $1,500-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 as Joe WheelOck he might
have lived on sawdust and buttered thunder
bolts at 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 inconvenient. Some one had
beautifully said that Christ was born in a eta
BILE that forever more it should be esteemed
no reproach to be poor. 1t is rather unkind,
however for Wheelock to reproach anybody
for being poor. He has been 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 poverty-has
emergerged by his own etfioresence to his pres
ent noble position among u.s. It
would hardly have been deemed posaible
for him to do it if he had been
seen after he had closed his exhibition of
Indian squaws on Boston common. and reached
La Crosse with only money enough to pay for a
deck passage on a river steamer, and to buy a
loaf of bread. on which he lived the entire
journey to st. Paul. Oh, if he hadn't had
enough to buy that loaf. what heap of trouble
we would have been saved. He spoke this not
unkindly of Wheelock. If he wanted to make
it strong, he could make it rery strong. ZAP.
plause-)
CASTLE IN THE ALB.
But now this shiny little concern across the
way, the Dispatch. charged him with being
worth $50 600. that he was puzzled some.
times between the two to know whether he was
rich or poor. The dirty little paper had nc
circulation outside of st. Paul, and therefore
az he had been away for . month, he did no,
know until this morning, yesterday that il
had been vilifying him with series of the most
damnablc lies. at the instigation OF Washbnrn
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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
had was carefully suppressed. or only made te
aid in making the lies appear the truth IT he
was the dead beat he is represented to be, Why
had these facts not come out before2 He had
been in public life for twenty Year, Why had
these accusations never been before the public
in all that time? In Dakota county. where be
had lived for twenty years. his daily walk and
conversation bad been known of ali men, and
no had never gone out of the county without a
good round majority. In the village of Ninin-
ger, where his every action waa known. he bad
always received majority. Could this be il
he was . notorious dead beat and planderer q
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.
MI. DO0neliy then pf0cSe0e0 % fe00 SWC
blackmaiiing letters he had received - samples
OF many other.-cne from Michael Mar.h 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 diahonorably and fully
and satisfactorily explained them. He pro
nounced all othera dRtAruiy Lien, without
foundation in fact and declared that all the
small debts be owed in the world Wa e10O 70 q
Sc. Paul bank. Castle. the fellow who made
these accusations At the instance of Waahburr
and his ring-his beavers all knew him. he
! was . miserable failure in everything he had
, undertaken He bad fxxled out. He had tried
to run . little paper ut Anoka and had fixxled
out He was now trying to run the D;xpatck
. into the ground ~ fast ~ possible and w.s
likely to make . success of it. for the 6rsi
time in his life He was . known v,lifer HI
had heaped abuse upon . worthy citizen Of this
place. Barney Armstrong. for weeks. and being
!, unconscious of having done . dirty set he bad
on meeting the gentleman. extended his hand
. for friendly greeting. Barney kicked him IL
the hre.d-baskst- and to-day the only decen,
part Of Castles anatomy il where Baxnev's loot
left its mark. He d e. Wa&hburnsa biddins
|, like aervile dog A pretty pair. sruEy-Cas1ls
| and waahburn. The Republican party Is liks
unto . noble st-ucsur-a grand hotel On th<
firss fpor-in the paxsor-we find such upright
, gentlemen - Gov. Caxhman f. Davis and
Alexander Ramsey doing the honou
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