The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-06-04
"PnANUT Du1GoCRACY."

| SonC communication 10 the dtOOC W0O00
editor refused to give it publicity. Last
fridays Pioneer Press contained the fol.
lowing, which Is 80 full of real rich
cream that we cannot forego its repro.
duction:
MANKATo, May 22.-To the Editor: In
your paper Of to-day you speak. Of my
having written letter TO the Globe
which You say referred to the Irish
not published and was returned to me.
l send it to you just as it was written,
and you will see that il does not co0-
tain the words "Irish Catholics" nor
can any man living truthfully say that
ever said word against the Irish Cath.
ollcs. am not a member ofany church.
believe q mans religion is something
between him and his maker, and have
never attacked any religious denomina.
ton except that most damnable pre-.
tended religion, Mormonism. I'm.
doubleday, as q wise, discreet: political
document, the communication ] send
you is a failure. hope 80. I want to
be defeated for all nomination, for ]
want no Office. Certainly l would not
accept nomination from any conven.
ton that endorsed the Kelly and Doran
resolution, even if knew 1t would se.
cure me the election to the best Office in
the state. And / submit to every can
did, honest man who reads this article,
whether or no it is not the duty of every
Irishman to give home rule to the PEG.
pie of Minnesota as well as to give IL to
Ireland. We all believe that the Irish
should have the right to rule Ireland;
why should two men in st. Paul, wheth.
er 1rishmen or Germans or native-born
Americans, rule every town and county
in the state? The people are tied hand
and foot, and not even postmaster OF
through the endorsement of Kelly and
Doran. That is home rule with q ven.
geance. 1t is travesty on Democracy,
and no offer of Office or threats Of any
kind can stop me from denouncing it as
wicked, damnable tyranny. And when
these offices are used for commercial
purposes it seems degrading and humil-
iating. l mean this, that the two Re-
publican postmasters retained in this
county have for long time purchased
goods of Pat Kelly, and that with the
exception of the postmaster here and at
Lake Crystal the others appointed
through their influence have bought, or
are buying, their merchandise Of Pat
/
of the peanut Democracy Of Kelly and
Doran. If this is treason, then make
the most of it. DANIEL BUCK.
The letter was written after the con-
ference last spring of Minnesota Demo
Gratis, which announced what has since
become famous as the Kelly and Doran
method of appointing federal officehold-
ers. The first page of the communities
ton, including about third of it, bears
the notation: This is the page objected
to. B." The Communication is as fol-
lows:
MANKATo, April IL, 1SS5.-To the Edi-
tor of the Globe. write to inquire
about this new civil service commission,
composed of Messrs. Kelly and Doran
as examiners. do not want ANY Office
myself, but as some of my friends might
apply, l would like to understand the
rules governing the examining board.
Must an applicants Democracy be Of
that kind that defeated Bierman for
governor two years ago, and that has
made Ramsey county and st. Paul Re.
publican places? Or must it be Of the
kind that fought Samuel j. Tilden and
betrayed Gen. Hancock? Or further
still, must it be of that kind that organ
lied caucuses and conventions last sum-
mer to oppose the nomination of Mr..
Cleveland for president? AS Mr.. DON
nelly's Democracy is not of the simon
pure order, perhaps a kind similar to
that of Mr.. Pearson, who voted for
Blaine, and was lately appointed by
President Cleveland as postmaster OF
New York city, might enable an appli-
cant to pass the ordeal. Of course,
postmasters who keep grocery stores at
the cross roads and buy their groceries
at st. Paul might not be examined very
critically, as the sale of bag of peanuts
is of more importance than pure Dem
ocracy. And further, is there any kind
Of meat upon which an applicant can
feed to grow great and mighty land
selves? Now, Sir, as one who has re-
sided in Minnesota twenty.eight years,
and as one who has voted the Demo-
cratic ticket during the last thirty-three
wears, protest in the name Of common
decency and fairness against any such
assumption of arbitrary power as that
indicated IN the proceedings of q few
Democrats on Tuesday last. Never be-
fore in the history of the Democracy of
Minnesota have Democrats had to hang
their heads in shame at such humil
iating spectacle, of two men debating AZ
to who shall be allowed to hold q feder.
upon them this power to build up men
or crush them down? If the friends Of
such men as Judge Flandrau, ex-Sena-
tor Henry NJ. Rice, Eugene Wilson,
George w. Batchelder, Ara Barton, and
hundreds of other Democrats, must
bend the suppliant knee to Doran and
Kelly, then goodbye, Minnesota DEM
ocracy. Such pitiful spectacle was
never before presented to the free peo-
pie of Minnesota. / understand that
| they and their friends say: "Let the
people kick if they want to; we have
got them in our power for four years
and we are going to use it." It may
take time to remedy this outrage, and
power, but it will be redressed through
the aroused and just indignation Of an
insulted people. Messrs. Kelly and
Doran belong to race whose wrongs
and expressions have justly 'oused the
| indignation and sympathy Of the civil.
lied world, and they should have been
the very last of all persons to assume
imperial power in land of free speech.
Is this the recompense that we are to
receive from those we have aided 30 Of
ten in their struggles for their native
land? Thank God, am not an appli.
cant for any Office, and if I were would
spit upon q proposition that carries with
| it loss of manhood and forgetfulness Of
the fundamental principles Of true
Democracy. 1 beg that those men win
pause in their contemplate career. In.
| timately acquainted with Mr.. Doran for
a great many years, had learned to
honor and respect him as one Of the
best men ever met, and were he IN
trouble would 90 great ways to help
him: but l should be faithless to my
convictions of duty if did not protest
against this most dangerous Of all polit-
ical methods. And 1 protest against
this out-of-place assault upon Mr.. Dom
nelly. His Democracy was good enough
, to secure his nomination for congress In
, the Third congressional district; it was
!, good enough to have his speeches cir
culated all over the state as campaign
documents; It was good enough to have
, him deliver the principal address ct the
Democratic convention in st. Paul last
fall upon the invitation of those who
now traduce HIM, and it is quite as good
as that of the Republican postmaster Of
, New York city. DANIEL Buck.
DECORATION DAY was universally oh.
served throughout the North this year,
and very much more interest was mani
tested than has been observable for sew
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