St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-30
Bird Island Republican style.

Especial Correspondence Of the Globe
B!ED ISLAND, Oct. 2S.-Last Saturday Mr.
| Donnelly held Editor Lorraine mp to ridicule
and contempt to the intense delight of a
large audience composed chiefly OF Republi-
cans for z scurrilous attack made in the
Renville County Union. Lorraine tried TO
reply, but was SO abusive and palpably false
in his statements that the audience with one
accord hooted him down.
Last night Lorraine, editor and postmaster.
reinforced by Hon. A. T. Nordin, secretary
Of state, addressed a meeting here with the
avowed intention of doing Donnelly up Dr.
Puffer, Straits pension examining surgeon,
presided. Nordin took the floor and forth
with sent the eagle TO the skies, ranted,
saorted and bowed until most Of the au-
dience sooI dispersed in disgust Accord
ing 10 Nordin, Cleveland was a hangman.
Gov. Hendricks called the soldiers "Lincoln's
! dogs;'' Strait should be made q life member
/ Of congress, and Donnelly be sent to the
devil; and the bones Of Union soldiers should
be ressurTected from beneath the cypress
and willow, and converted into a sort of
Jacobs ladder to elevate Republican office
seekers TO place where wheat at fifty cents
per bushel cannot reach them. He sup
ported his statements after the manner of
the old woman's proof, lis, coz it's ana it
can't be any 'tizzer''
Lorraine then stood up and showed him
self either willful faisiher OF utterly ignor-
ant Of current political facts, and was repeat
edly corrected by members OF the audience.
10 ae-.4-tni that Tho rar,,-s -,
convicted Donnelly Of having inspired the
well known anonymous letter to Congress-
man Springer. Offering s., 600 bribe to keep
Washburn in the seat Donneilv was
then contesting. Everybody knew that the
majority report completely exonerated Mr..
DOrneliy from any connection whatever with
that letter. He also SAID DonueIlv secured =
grant OF lands to to the Hastings Il Dakota
Railroad company, with clause exemptinv
said lands from taxation. Any schoolbov
might know that this grant was to the state
ana without any such exemption proviso and
that the state legislature made the grant to
the company and exempted the lands from
taxation. He claimed that the state text book
act was scheme Of Mr.. Dounellv's TO foist
upon the people an inferior stock of text
bOo&s-dead property OF tie hands of d.
Appleton Il Co. st the time the act was pass
ed, when everybody who reads knows that
these text books were printed since the pass
/ age of the act from copy selected and ap-
proved by competent commission named
in the act, which, by the way, cheapened the
selling price OF school books ct least one-half.
During Lorraine's harrangue Gen. lie Due
and Bro. T. D. Strait entered the hall. evi
IDENTITY to participate in the funeral obseou;es
OF the political corpse which TIE zeslous
postmaster vas trying to prepare. Bat "a
change came Ger the spirit OF their dresrus''
when at the conclusion Of their effort the
audience gave three hearty cheers for Don
nelly and called ont DonneIiy's friends tn
take tie floor. Chairman Puffer, pale and
haggard. hUrriedly arose and declared the
meeting adjourned without waiting for a
motion. DOnnellyis friends RETAINED from
sny further cruelty 70 dumb beasts. S;rzit's
ove7-zea.0us lackeys have stirred ~ a bor-
nets nest here. which VIII lose him more
votes here than be can buy. M Douaerv
can count OF having g0od majority in Bird
Island.