St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-11
THE SEA OF POLITICS,
A Minnesota Congressman Talks Of the
Fight by Donnelly Against Kelly
and Doran.
The Farmers Alliance Is On It's Ear Be-
cause Some of It's Members
Love Gilman.
Ignatfus Donneny Speaks of Third
District Politics. allon to
Bookwalter.
How Mr.. Kelly Did Not Get Left--A
Conference Called--Polit
cal Tips.

A Minnesota Congressman Talks.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-The Republi-
cans in the Minnesota delegation in con-
gress are not great takers. They are dis
tmgulSaed more particularly for their abil-
lty to accomplish results. 1t is not often
they show any disposition to be interviewed
or to allow themselves to say anything
which can just as well be left unsaid. One
OF the most loQuaciouS of them has broken
through the usual rule and habit of the del
egatlon, far enough however, to crafty the
GLOBE with some excellent prophecy.
sit is time,'' said the member, ''for some
one to say what 1 have believed for some
months, that Pat Kelly is not going to be
badly chastised when the Democratic state
convention meets. The same belief extends
to Mr. Doran.'
Have you any objection to giving reasons
for your belief?''
mot the least. In the first place 1t was
not so long ago in Minnesota politics that Pat
Kelly was a real good fellow. He was popu-
lar on all sides. Sabin liked him and they
went cahoots politically socially and in some
other ways Even Ignatius Donnelly had
nothing agalnst Kelly three years ago. Now
1T is nonsense to expect that ali Kellys old
friends are going to turn against him and get
into the state convention to fight him.
furthermore, let me say. who know something
about it. that Kelly and Doran have given out
the offices pretty fairly. When l had the gift
of government fat used to make some devil
1shly exasperating mistakes and enemies too.
One time it seemed as if all sheo couldn' t
save me. But nowadays some of my old foes
are my friends. They think am serving them
just as we'll as they once said l served them
i'll. Of course it is all due to my not having
the offices to give away. Patronage is curse
I m in liz. + Wall potE alIv ic
doing just as well as any of US ever tried to
do, aud he succeeds just as well. He has made
some enemies but they won't last"
''Do you think Kelly's appointm ents have
been up TO the average Of appointments over
the country
Where will you find better men for office than
G. T. Mcdonald, Ralph Marble, Collector
Biermann, Marshal Campbell, States Attorney
Baxter, Col. harrington, DR.. Guernon, w. j..
Whipple, and scores of good men that through
Kelly and Doran have been so iudorseu to the
administration that they are now in
public stations. Of course L did not desire
to see them go in and our folks go
out, but if Democrats had to go in, such men
OF approved business and social reputation
were the proper ones to have the Offices
Kelly and Doran are successful business
men, and they knew how to judge appli-
cantS."
''Then, you do not expect to witness the
downfall of the committee men this sum-
mer?''
Downfall! Not by any means. What
would Donnelly and his hackers do with
Kelly any way? He is not appointed by
them. He will hold his place on the national
committee until 1888, when the national COM
mittce meets. Doran can be reached by the
Democrats in Minnesota if they want to reach
him, but they won't. Buck is the
only man who has head enough for
that performance, and he will be
50 ably assisted by Donnelly that his scheme
will fail utterly. The eminently respectable
element of the party, the Old men who are so
far along towards the evening of life that
their utterances are revered as half divine,
are not going into q state convention to pull
off their coats to give Kelly and Doran a
drubbing. Imagine Gen. Sibley doing this!
Neither would Eugene Wilson nor Judge
Flandrau. Indeed, Judge Flandrau thinks
the Kelly-Doran appointments good ones, and
he will hardly be likely to affiliate with DON
nelly. Besides the committeeman have played
fair and have divided the offices about half
and half between the two wings of the party.
as it used to stand before this latter-day di-
vision came. l expect there will be big
fight. Donnelly will be here with his shille-
lab and Kelly will be in the Steering commit
tees room, but after it is all over and they
begin to clear up the buttons and gore and
hair you wont see any of Kelly's or Doran's
remains lying around. The convention will
indorse them. Gratitude, you know, is a
sense Of favOrs to come.