St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-21

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making very neat speech of acceptance as
follows:
MR.. DONNELLY's SPEECH.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Con-
vention:
thank you most cordially and heartily for
the distinguished honor you have conferred
upon me In making me your nominee for
congress. thank you for your magma
nimity and generosity, that passing by the
many able gentlemen who have established
high claims to your consideration by lifelong
service in your ranks, you have seen fit to
select as your nominee one who was formerly
a Republican and who dealt you many blows
In many hard-fought campaigns. consider
it high honor to be chosen to bear the
standard of the Democratic party in this
campaign; it shall not be sullied in my
hands. 1t is a rule of nature that weak
spirits and corrupt men desert the unfortun-
ate. as rats quit a sinking ship; and when
party has gone through twenty-five years OF
almost uninterrupted defeat, only strong
men. only honest men, only men who can
not be bought or intimidated, stand by it,
ready to sink with 1t, but never to desert 1t.
And hence this devotion, this lifelong faith
fulness to principle, in the Democracy OF the
Northwest has extorted the admiration alike
of friend and foe.
We have peculiar state of things in this
congressional district. 1t is Republican by
nearly 1000 majority. Under ordinary cir
cum stances there would be no hope of de-
feating the Republican nominee. But there
Is great disaffection among the Republi-
cans themselves. A gentleman has held the
office of congressman, with one short inter-
regnum for twelve years: and it is charged
that he has used the patronage of the govern
ment to pack the Re publican county and
district conventions and force himself, time
after time, upon the people of the district
against the earnest protests of the Republi-
cans themselves. This year he repeated this
operation, he forced the nomination at an
unusual time, six months before the election,
while the farmers were busy putting in their
| crops, and that sixteen federal Office holders
took part in the convention while others had
labored days and weeks to pack it, A popu-
lar uprising has followed in ali parts of the
district, an earnest, vigorous, many-voiced
protest that did not even stop with opposition
to Major Strait, but that demanded govern
mental reform.
1t was in the power of the Democracy to
have taken one Of two courses in this con-
tingency
They might say to those disaffected Repub-
licans and anti-Monopolists, "We want
nothing to do with you. Go back into your
own ranks. Swallow your wrath. Re-elect
Major Strait, and remain forever subservient
to measures and policies to which you at
heart object, and let all attempt at better
government come to naught."
Or they had the power to say, and they
have sa1d "We recognise the fact that the
principles you profess are the principles we
profess. You are opposed to the exactions
of corporate wealth and power-you are anti
| monoponsts, in the broad sense of the word,
SO are we. You demand that the robbery Of
the farmers now going on daily and hourly
in this state, by false weights and grades
| and the monopoly Of our markets by ring
Of Minneapolis millers shall cease
so do we. You demand that the robberies
inflicted upon US under the guise of tariff
toprotect American industry shall cease, so
do we. We are separated only in name; we
| are united clearly in spirit. Why should
| tradtonary prejudices keep US apart2 Why
should we not act together for the common
defence of the common welfare? Applause.
a
! level, and this forgetting party prejudices.
We want all men who think alike to act to-
gether. We want to welcome all men to the
bank and give them the gracious ordinance
of baptism. Laughter and applause.] We
don't want to refuse any man the rite how
ever great a sinner he may be. hope to see
my friend, Judge Wilder, standing on the
bank Of the river of progress, clothed in the
sacramental robes of peace, ready to dip
every sinner that presents himself, or can
be dragged into the stream, whether he slut
ters or not. [Great laughter and applause. |
BY holding out the hand of good will to the
discontented elements of the Republican
party, discontented not alone with Major
Strait but with the many governmental
wrongs from which they suffer, you encour-
age all men who mean well to their country.
They care nothing about the names of things,
they desire substantial results, things them
selves. This revolution is deep seated and
| widespread. From the Iowa line to the Red
| river valley it is sweeping through the land.
| If we win here we will revolutionize the
| state.
| In all such contests as this of strong men,
strong feelings must arise. The man
| amounts to little who cannot feel strongly.
If have said anything or done anything un-
gracious or unkind in this contest hope ]
| have not think have not-I regret it.
trust that all asperities of feeling will die
with the events that provoked them, ahd that
we may all m arch shoulder to shoulder to the
| end before us-victory and Ieform.
/ shall not trespsss longer on your atten-
| ton. 1t is understood that am to speak to-
night in this hall. / shall consider Major
Straits record, and shall lay down the
grounds upon which We shall ask the support
of the people of the district.
| hope to meet you all at time. / thank
you for your attention.
On motion Of J. A Colber, of Scott, which
was amended 80 as to have each delegation
| select member OF the district congressional
committee, the following were chosen:
| j. A. Roemer, Carver.
Joseph jain, Chippewa.
E. c. Stringer, Dakota.
o. NJ. Hall, Goodhue.
j. NJ. Spicer, Kandiyohi.
DR.. R s. Miles, Mcleod.
w. NJ. Campbell, Meeker.
James Greeley, Renville.
Ara Barton, Rice.
j. A. Collier, Scott.
G. E. McAllister. Swift.
Mr.. E. c. Stringer was chosen temporary
chairman of the committee and the conyen
ton adjourned.
AFTER THE ADJOURNMENT.
A number of the prominent opponents Of