St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-10
BILLS BIG BRASS KETTLE.
Ignatius Donnelly Charges That
Doodle Defeated Him.
LEGISLATORS WERE SEEN.
True Inwardness of the Dakota County
Bolt Disclosed by Talkative
Tseticians.

From present indications, it appears
that w. ID. WashbuIn, Familiarity called
Brass Kettle Bill" will have his
United States senatorial aspirations
nipped in the bud, or prematurely
buried beneath an avalanche of dissent
ing voices. The farmer legislature
will hardly be disposed to deliver SO
luscious political plum into the ex-
tended palms OF the president of the
$500 road. For the last two months he
has been Smelling the woods, prepara-
tory TO a final Sortie, when the legiSia-
ture convened. His agents have per-
formed their work with skill aud abiI-
ity, but have seemingly oyerreached
their mark. 1t has been currently ru-
mored in circles political that many as
pirantS for legislative honorS have been
approached
By THE EMIssARIEs
OF Brass Kettle Bill" and promised
that their campaign expenses would be
paid by certain railroad king, il i'll.
return the prospective legislator would
favor his claim for political prefer
ment. All such implied obligations
will be eXscted to the letter.
The legislative battle is over, butts its
echoes still resound in the ears of all
who inger upon the political field, and
from the composition of the next legis-
lature it is hardly among the probable,
tiles that Mr.. Washburn'S claims will
be entertained with any degree of seri
BUSINESS without liberal outlay of
"boodle.'' Friends of Ignatius Don.
nelly openly state that The combined
efforts of the railway syndicate and the
use of Washburif money defeated the
sage i'll his legislative fight, and it is a
foregone conclusion that they will get
even
AT THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY.
The Dakota county bolt appears upon
investigation to have been instituted by
Washburn satellites, and such reports
are more than substantiated it the
charges Brought against q. NJ. Thomas.
are proven true.
1t is said that prior to the action, of;
the South st. Paul Republican league
in representing the claims of Mr.. Don
nelly, q gentleman who greatly resem-
bIed y. NJ Thomas boarded a Short
Line and followed the course of the
setting sun as far as Minneapolis. On
alighting from the train he speedily
found the uncrewned king Of flour, and
at the conclusion of lengthy converse
ton once more boarded a train. and lost
no time in mingling with his eonstit-
uency in the South st. Paul bailiwick.
AFTER CONSIDERABLE PERSUASION,
coupled with substantial evidences of
good favor in6iscriminately distributed,
he succeeded in carrying his project
through, and contributing the collec-
tive unite of the lambs in his care
towards the defeat of the sage. Con-
sentative Republicans estimate that at
least twenty-five Legislators will take
the oath of office next January, tacitly
pledged to the support of w. D. Wash
burn in return for the relief from finan-
cial embarrassment which would have
been incurred by incidental election eX
penses of greater or less legitimate
degree. But patiently and passion
lessly, like the ticking Of a clock upon
the wall OF his ancestral home in Maine,
will be recorded the dissenting votes of
the farmer legislature, and the official
head of the president of the $500 road
will be carelessly thrown in the soup
along with those of numerous Would-be
aspirants for senatorial honorS.