St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-29
THE THIRD DISTRICT.
To the Editor of the Globe:
THE CAMPAIGN ON THE MANrToDA moan

To the Editor of the Globe:
THE CAMPAIGN ON THE MANITOBA ROAD.
WlLLMAR, Mimi, Sept. 26.-Knowing that
your readers in different parts of the district are
interested III hearing how the feeling is in this
! region upon the congressional question l drop
You few lines.
The feeling in favor of Mr.. Donnelly is very
strong in Kandiyohi county. The ordinary Re-
| publican majority in the county is about 1900,
but we are sanguine that can cut it down to
400 or 500. The American farmers of the county
are supporting Mr. Donnelly almost to q man,
and there is break among the Scandinavians
that will take one-half of them. The Mortimer
freetraders, and they are tired of the present
condition of affairs; they work hard but do not
get ahead, and they see that if things continue
in this present channel they will soon be as poor
as they were in tie old country, and their future
as hopeless. Of course Major Strait will send
out his runners and speakers to try to whip
them back into line, but do not think he can
succeed
The attack made upon Mr.. Donnelly in the
columns of the Pioneer Press, in connection with
the suit of Ole Rice & Co., has greatly reacted
| to Mr.. ID. s advantage. Rice & Co., who thought
it capital fun to publish Mr.. Donneily's pri-
vate letter. now realize the truth OF the old ad-
age, THAT it is royal sport TO hunt the tiger,
but not so amusing if the tiger hunts YOU
| Rice s. Co. fEd that they are suffering in purse
and reputation by their little game, and are out
in an humble letter in the Wilmar Republican,
! Gazette, declaring that they never authorized the
publication of Mr.. Donnely's private letter, and
| that it published by ''some unprincipied
persons" Quale, who is now generally known
among the boys as ''Donnelly's Sc Pc
declares he did not write the letter to the p p,
and public opinion has settled down to the
conviction that it written by
Judge Brown Arctander. Arctan-
der's friends claim that he was absent at the
time and the whole responsibility therefore falls
| upon Judge Brown. And the public are the more
ready to believe that ne wrote it because he is
known to be man of subterranean habits, The,
overhauling Mr.. Donnelly gave him has revived the
remembrance of many things that the public
were disposed TO charitably forget. 1t is well
| known among other things things that the Judge
| went to st. Paul and lobDed with his friends in
| the legislature to induce them to provide place
for Arctander, by the creation of district attor-
neyship for the Judges district; an office I'M
known in the rest of the state, and about as nee
| essary the the fifth wheel of wagon; and
| that this done to prevent Arctander from
roofing Brown away from the judicial teat, and
taking possession of it himself and now the two
Johns lie peacefully side by side, sucking away
at the public pap, like a couple of little pigs
with their tails curled UP, contented and fraternal
SO long as the government milk continues TO flow.
When a strong feeling arose in favor of doing
away with Arctander's sinecure Judge Brown
came out in u letter and said that it would be a
public calamity to abolish the Office. He has
been known ever since calamity Brown"
He probably told the truth: il would have been
calamity to him to have turned away from the
| trough that combination of cheek and gall known
| as Arctander.
Browns salary when elected was So, 500 year
! He worked and lobbied with the legislature until
he had it raised to 81, 500, Then he had the Of
fee of district attorney created for Arctander at
q enG Of ma -iner tafa lnr = Enn
which this worthy pair cost the people. Then
| Brown forced on the county Jail at an expense
| of about S10,0U0; and now in the midst of these
hard times, with wheat worth less than sixty
cents bushel, he has got the grand jury to
| authorize the building OF $4,000 court house,
to be paid for out of the pockets of the suffering
people. He is the most expensive piece of lux
ury this county has ever had. 1t would be
cheaper for the county to pension him at s., 900
year and ship him back to New Hampshire
The people here are sincerely DESTROYS that
Mr.. Donnelly will bring his complaint before the
next legislature, and that they will get clear of
Brown. They recognize the fact that Brown
shorn of his Office would return to his original
nothingness, if he did not fall back TO the condi-
ton he in few years ago. The people are
getting sick Of the whole thing and they will be
heard from when the proper time comes. There
is revolution abroad among the people, and
even the Scandn avsan vote, which heretofore
made such men as Brown successful, can no
| lOh5eT De COuuleu on as u sOIlu IdClOr.
The news we get from the
whole line is most favorable for Mr.
d. In Murdoch, the leading Republican
merchant of the town presided at Mr.. DOnnellys
meeting, and the friends of Strait cannot count on
more than three votes for him in the town In
Kerlhoven it is the same; in Benson the same
while the farmers are stirred up they ever were
before. Mr.. Donnelly is working hard. lie
has delivered seven speeches in the last four
days.
We say to our friends all over the district to
stand firm and this end will do its duty. Mr..
Donnelly will undoubtedly carry Swift and
Meeker counties, aud reduce the majority in
kandiyohi to small figures. And this leaves Good
hue as the only other county in which Straight
can get majority.
In imitation of Judge Brown, when be wrote
subterranean letter in a disguised hand against
the issue of railroad bonds, which would
have given us competing line Of road and a
higher price for our wheat, l sign myself
\ TAXPAYER OPPOSED TO FRAUD.