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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-04
FRANK MEAD'S LETTER
A Discourse upon the Alliance
Mr.. DOnnelly's Position and
His Relation to the Present
Political Situation,

AIAAs DOAAOAAJ l. OSlUlOll anu
His Relation to the Present
q Political Situation.
Union Special Correspondence.
The leading newspapers of both
the Democratic and Republican
parties are just now roundly talk
ing Ignatius Donnelly to task be-
cause he has issued a circular and
scattered it broadcast among the
Alliances of the State asking his
farmer friends to elect him presi-
dent of the State Alliance. :
Mr.. Donnelly wants to be presi-
dent of the Alliance; why should
he not ask for what he wants? He
has earned by hard work any pro-
motion that the politlco- industrial
can give him; why should he not
call to the attention Of the new in
dustrial party the facts of his long
and poorly recompensed services
in the interest of the farmer and
the working man? Mr.. Donnelly
has peculiar claims upon the AL
lance outfit. He is one of the
most brilliant men in the State,
and will be about the only man of
his generation in Minnesota whose
name will be known to future gen
erations. Possessedof great talents,
he has cheerfully given his time,
his strength, his great intellectual
abilities to the service of the men
who labor-and that, too, without
money and without price. If Mr..
Donnelly had foresworn politics
after the Granger movement fif-
teen years ago, as many of the
leaders of that party did; and, like
them, sold his talent to the corpor-
ations, he might, like them, be a
rich man to-day.
~ X :
But he did not sell himself to the
corporations, but kept right along
fighting plutocracy in his own way.
l am not saying that his mode of
warfare was always wise, right,
just and judicious, but at any rate
ne continued to fight, and often in
a solid phalanx composed onl y of
his own vigorous and unconquera-
BILE personality.
And for thirty years he has con
tinued to be the mark for all the
vituperation that could be poured
upon his, devoted head. Once
seated in the editorial room Of one
OF the leading daily papers Of the
State, the leading editorial writer
remarked: tits awfully dull
What shall I write about?'' ssScore
Donnelly," suggested one Of the
listeners. II would, but I have
that topic saved up for Sundays
paper" 'Will your Sunday roast
be political or literary" SOh.
political" "Then rip his literary
pretensions up the back for to,
morrow" u guess I will" re.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-04

I have devoted this letter entirely
to Mr.. Donnelly, because it did
not seem to be entirely prudent to
approach the editor of the UNION
at this time with anything in con-
nection with the recent election.
To be counted out by one majority
is much more trying to the pa
tience than being honestly defeated
by thousand. If my advice was
Of any value in the premises, how
ever, I would recommend that the
Democrats be allowed to walk away
with their plumber this time, and
that Mr.. Dunn fix his eye stead
lastly upon 1892 with full assurance
that the righteous shall eventually
triumph.
FRANK j. MEAD.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-04


piled this teacher Of the people
with a yawn and next day there
was q glowing screed denouncing
the then new volume Of Atlantis.
Y
MI. Owen manifests a desire to
supplant Mr.. Donnellya the leader
Of the Alliance forces. He has
neither the genius, the knowledge
OF the subject, the aggressive quail
ties, nor the muscular intelligence
of Mr.. Donnelly. But it is very
probable that the new broom will
supplant the old one. It is quite
clear to me that Mr.. Owen, or
some other gentleman of mediocre
intelligence, will assume the lead
ership of the Alliance forces in
Minnesota-always provided there
continues to be any forces to lead
after 1892. If the movement
proves to be a real revolution it
will devour it's own children. The
man who creates a revolution al
ways precipitates an avalanche
upon the social temple, and the
monster invariably gains it's first
strength by devouring it's own off,
spring. And then, it does not re-
quire superior intelligence to
destroy existing institutions. It is
the animal strength of the Vandal
that overturns. Constructive in
telligence performs its functions
after the destroying wave has re-
ceded.
But the Alliance is not a revolu-
ton. In the first place, there do
not as yet exist any reasons for re-
volt. Labor in America owns it's
own houses, dresses we'll, feeds
well, and has every advantage for
educating it's children. Hence
labor is conservative. It has too
much to lose by any general dis
turbance of the public peace. The
present movement is only designed
to brighten, not to destroy the
possessors of great wealth. The
giant is too good natured as yet to
commence malicious destruction.
He is only giving a display of his
powers to keep them fully exer-
cised, and to inform the men of the
market-the gamblers of the ex-
change and the board of trade
that he is not asleep, and has an
eye upon them and their doings.
4 <
AS before remarked, Mr.. Don
nelly is in many ways the most
noted man in Minnesota of this
generation. He is also a good
citizen, if not always a safe leader.
He has been called trimmer, p"
but the man who stands in the
middle of the boat during storm
may prevent shipwreck by being
always prepared to throw his
weight on one side or the other at
moments notice. I confess to a
great admiration of the man who
refuses to follow his party into the
service of the devil. If the ALI
ance will follow Mr.. Donnelly's
lead they will do no very great
harm, for while he talks very
glibly upon occasions I have always
discovered that he stands ready to
hedge if his admirers manifest a
tendency to take his advice too
literally. The assaults of Mr..
Donnelly upon capital are purely
Pickwickian. He admires the viz
tues of a dollar fully. as much as
James j. Hill or Thomas Lowry,
if he does not quite as well under
stand the art of making it repro
ductive. To hear him talk one
would imagine that he was de-
stroying iconoclast. Know him as
1 have known him for thirty years,
and he becomes as gentle as suck
,no diva
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
Winter Wheat.

The general success which has attended
the experiments with winter wheat
in the regions where it has been supposed
heretofore that spring wheat was che only
variety that would grow, will doubtless
lead to increased acreage this fall. The
spring wheat region, which might be de
fined as a rough way as north of the north
line of Kansas and Missouri, seems to be
gradually moving further north, and the
winter wheat region south of that line,
gradually extending northward. Between
these regions there is a belt of one or two
hundred miles wide which once grew good
spring wheat but which for some reason,
has refused Of late years to grow 1t with
any certainty. In this region we advised,
last year, experimentation with winter
wheat While we have no complete data,
the general drift of the reports Indicates
that the experiments have been quite sue
cessful ppoint of fact we are quite GER
tain that winter wheat has been much
more successful in this area than spring
wheat.
There are few matters, however, that
are essential to success. The wheat should
be sown early, on good land, and drilled
in instead of being sown broadcast. The
first is Important, and the second and tIlfa
essential.
Another important matter is to have a
seed bed and the upper two inches on good
filth, but not too fine and dusty. One OF
the favorite methods is to drill the wheat
in the corn stalks with one-horse drill
that can be set t. tit the rows. The stalks
are allowed to stand to furnish winter
protection and catch the snow rev
acres can be put in for expert
ment with shovel pillow. but when the
farmer has enough confidence to 20 at at
wheat growing in earnest he should by all
means get drill.
There are two objections to this method.
It is not always possible to SOW wheat IN
corn on account of its being lodged by
storms, and when it is used as nurse
crop for grasses it leaves the ground 100
rough for moving.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
CRIME.

CHARLES McIINANE, Brooklyn muir
derer, has been sentenced to death by
electricity.
jupGE WALLER at Milwaukee sen.
fenced Charles Smith to states prison
for ten years for attempted criminal as
eauit on Lena ,Nelblecht
Ar 5o'cIock Friday afternoon the jury
in the case Of Alex Chapman and Lizzie
Speltz, at Sheboygan, Wis, charged with
murder, reported after being out thirty
hours. They found Chapman guilty in the
first degree, but disagreed as to the guilt
Of the girl. The crime for which they
were held was the murder of an illegiti-
mate child.
TRIO of counterfeters, who have been
flooding Lansing, Mich, with bogus sill.
yer dollars, were captured at North Laus.
ing Thursday night. Charles Welsey
Hastings, leader of the gang, is wal
veteran and has been engaged in business,
in a small way at st. JOHNS. His accom-.
pliceS are Silar and Ben Hulitt The gang
were surprised in their room in the very
act of running base coin, with all Their
dies, ladies and metals. The newly made
dollars were still hot from the molds wher
captured. All three were desperate
characters and attempted resistance. but
were driven into corner before the guns
of the e4Heer-and handcuffed. They vii
be taken to Detroit
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09

ing the senators for the resolution adopted
and for the cordial cooperation he mad
J recei5 ed from all. He then declared the
senate adjourned without day.
/ House.-Mr Carter (Montana) in the
house today submitted the conference re-
port on the bill to dispose of the Fort
Ellis military reservation in Montana.
! This bill Mr.. Allen Mass. took as text
| for speech in which he charged the re-
publican party with degeueracy and in
consistency. Mr.. McCreaiy (Ky) gave
notice that he would raise the point of no
quorum against the conference report and
Mr.. Carter withdrew it. Mr. Caswell
| wis. submitted letter addressed to the
! speaker by Postmaster Wheat, rendering
hls resignation. Subsequently Mr.. Spooner
| Or. l. from the committee submitted his
report. 1t states that the charges are sub
| stantially established; and although the
relations between Dalton the previous post
MASTERY and Culbertson (the mail contract
orr gives rise to a grave suspicion that
some private arrangement existed between
them whereby Dalton, during the 49th
and 50th congresses derived personal
profits out of his contracts for carrying the
mails although no absolute proof was
! a resolution declaring the office of post
master of the house vacant, and directing
the assistant postmaster to perform the
duties until postmaster shall be appoint
ed and qualified. Mr. Hayes submitted a
minority report dissenting in reference to
Postmaster Dalton. Pending discussion
upon the question NJ Mckinley called up
the resolution for adjournment with
an amendment fixing the hour at s
o'clock. 1t was agreed to- The Wheat
resolution was then agreed to. The
speaker laid before the house letter from
Representative Conger stating that he
had forwarded to the governor of Iowa
his resignation as representative from
the seventh district of the state. The
speaker stated that he had received sub
stantially similar communication from
Representative Dehaven, of the first dis
trict of California, but the letter was mis-
laid The senate concurrent resolution
for negotiation with Grert Britain and
Mexico for the prevention of the entry of
Chinese laborers into the United States
was agreed to. Mr.. Casweil wis asked
unanimous consent for the consideration
of a resolution electing r. J. Flint of
Wisconsin postmaster of the house. Mr.
Williams (Ohio, objected and Mr.. Caswel
withdrew the resolution. Mr. Mckinley.
chairman of the committee appointed to
wait upon the president, announced that
the president had no further communica.
ton to make and then the house took
recess. During the recess nearly all the
members left the hall to make prepara-
tions for their departure from the city;
and when the speaker reconvened the
house, the official looked down upon a
vast array of empty seats. He merely
stated that according to the concurrent
resolution, he declared the frs session of
the ifty-frst congress adjourned without
day,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

THE man who had invented the pig-in-
clover puzzle has been sent to an insane
asylum.
THE current year has already witnessed
the burning of six theaters, half of this
number being in Germany.
THERE is an inmate in the Georgia State
Lunatic Asylum who imagines, in his in
sanity that he is a grain Of corn. He will
not 20 into the yard fearing the chickens
will eat him.
The engineer of the British steamer
Picton, at Liverpool, from Wilmington,
N. c., is suffering from disease which is
said to be cholera.
The failure of the Kansas corn crop has
called the farmers thoughts to wheat
again, and it IS predicted that the acreage
in wheat the coming year will exceed
that Of any previous year.
2 FRIDAY, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mrs
Asa keogh sued three saoon-keCpers and
the owners of the property on which the
saloons were located, for $1,000 damages
each for selling liquor to her husband.
THE 0xnard Beet Sugar Company began
operations Thursday at Grand Island,
Neb., and in twenty-four hours turned out
800 barrels of refined sugar ready for
market.
PRESIDENT Melon of the Reading rail
road will now receive $4,000 a year as
salary This is the largest compensation
ever given any railway official in the coun-
try, it IS asserted, except that paid to Mr..
Depew by the New York Central, who gets
$4,000.
THIRD-yICE PRESIDENT WEBB, of the
New York Central Railroad, has issued a
circular, which has been sent to the heads
of the various departments, announcing
that the road objects to its employees be-
ing Knights of Labor. officials are re-
quested to call the attention of employees to
the circular.
Y The suit brought by Mrs. Kate Will
Jams, Of New York, against her mother
in-law, Mrs. f. S. Williams, of Brooklyn,
has been decided in favor of the plaintiff
In her complaint, Mrs. Kate Williams
asserted that her mothe--in-law was the
cause of her husband abandoning her.
She asked $4,000 damages. The jury
awarded her Sl2,500
A WEEK ago it was discovered
that the official figures at Washing
ton gave only 5,628 as the popu-
Iation of Iowa City and an application
for recount was made. In the mean
time the Daily Republican, at its own ex-
pense, made canvass of the city and
found over $500 people including 900
students and families who are here nine
months of the year. The govern emit
has ordered recount
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
FOREIGN.

The Rappel says that the questi0n of
prosecuting the Boulangists will be raised
in the chamber of deputies.
ONE thousand men At Armstrong; ship
yard. London, struck as a protest against
the employment of strangers to replace
the joiuers of the strike.
The appeal of Messrs. O'Brien and
Dillon against being tried before the mag
istrate of Tipperary has been denied by
the high court of justice at Dublin The
trial. therefore, proceeded at Tipperary
Wednesday,
Az anti English feeling is prevalent in
Yokohoma. Threats have been made to
kill the ex-Brltish consul in revenge for
the part he has taken in securing priv
iIeges for foreigners through the native
courts.
ADyIcEs from New Guinea state that Mr..
HedIey, owner of the cutter Isabel. belong.
ing to Hartlepool, and the crew of the
vessel, which were engaged in fishing Tor
pearls off New Guinea, have been mas
sacred by the natives. The cutter was
looted and then scuttled,
A GERMAN lady has been arrested at
Cannes who had in her possession q NUM-
Der of Typographical charts Of the fortress
and plans Of the other defenses of the
town.
MADAME Bcnnet, the woman who
was arrested at Cannes on sus-
picion of being a German SPY, and in
whose possession were found plans of the
defences of the place has confessed that she
was in the employ of the Gcrman govern
menta Il monthly salary of 800 francs, be-
sides which she received Is francs daily for
her travelling expenses.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
W ASHINGTON.

TuE president has nominated George
s Batchelder, Of New York, to be
minister resident and consul general to
Portugal
TuE department Of state has received a
dispatch from the United States Legation,
Buenos Ayres, announcing that the presi-
dent Of the Argentine republic has issued
decree accepting the plan for an inter
continental railway commission.
IHE House committee ON accounts has
had under consideration tho testimony in
the case Of the charges against PostmaS-
ter Of the House Wheat The committee,
after several hours session, passed res
olutIon declaring tue ihee 81 postmaster
vacant The report will be made 10 the
House in a short while Ii il said the re-.
port at the committee concerning the mat
ter was unanimous.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

VIcToR, the l1-year-old son DR.. Fran
els Grandy, of Adrain, Michigan, was
found strangled in the ropes of small
trapeze Tuesday.
A FIRE at lion, n Y, Tuesday morn
ing, did $4,000 damage. The principal
losers are Angel, furniture store; Jepson,
variety, and Thornby, saloon. Insurance
small
GEN. JUBAL A. EARLY was standing in
front of a building on Main street,
Lynchburg, Va, Tuesday, which was
recently burned, when suddenly the wall
fell, burying him in mass of debris. He
was rescued in about twenty minutes,
only slightly hurt, from under some large
timbers which held the debris from his
body. 1t was narrow escape.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
\ HALL OF HORRORS.
Tanned and Fortified Bodies in a C,,th.an.,
Vault

vault.
! Through the gothic portals of ST u;ob
aei 5 Cathedral a crowd is surping
oand OF Spanish gypsies with cav hand
kerchiefS tor a moment are brilliantly ont.
/ lined against the sombre walls Of the
church and then pass singing out of sigbt
IN wave OF color, writes Ernest DpIa9cv
Person from Bordeaux. Mvraid VOICE
mIngle IN Growsy hum. A medley &c
French and Spanish and Italian words fall
confusedly on the ear. EVERYWHERE ifa
speaks III Its many tongues. BIT let no
| step within the vault beneath the tower
and we are face to face with death in ali
its terrors. Death unmasked. not the darL
God who brings enchanted rest to wear
worldworn hearts.
The wavering yellow flames of the ola
guardian lantern sheds aghastly glow ON
thu, figures standing upright along the
wall They are the half petrifed bodies
OF men and women and children that were
brought here from the churchyard after
the revolution
The darkest dream of Poe, the most nor.
rlble conception of the painter Wiertz are
surpassed by this cave of awful and
paIid spectres that seem to make menace
and leer at you as the yellow light falls up
on Them
You might imagine you stood amid the
hellish crew who revel on the summit of
the Broken on Walpurgis night as YOU
meet this line OF dead. They stand in all
sorts of attitudes, crouching. leaning
against each other, and some have even
| the air of trying to climb the wall. in
order to escape from the ghastly COM
pany.
The strange earth in which they were
buried completely tanned their skins and
partly petrifed it. But here and there it
has fallen away, revealing the crumbling
bones beneath. Time and the action of the
air have strangely contorted and twisted
the bones and muscles
Some with hands clasped and face fixed
IN terrible smile. as though mocking at
death. Others with awful agony on their
parchment features, as if they had endured
the torrents of Hades. Still Others
express fury, with their hands elinched in
rage.
As the light falls on them they seem to
be suddenly endowed with life, and the
eyes burn with sudden fire that causes a
shudder of fear in the hearts of the living
who contemplate them
One of the most appalling in this hor-
rible host is that of a general who was
killed in duel You can see the great
wound and his mouth is contracted IN
smile of scorn. Then family of horrors
who died of poison.
BY the time one has looked upon half
dozen Of these fearful figures there is
sudden sense of terror, feeling that we
have passed from earth to The regions of
the damned The old caretaker who lives
quite near his horrible neighbors seems
suddenly to change in form and features
and his face assume the look of the King
of Evil.
And it is with a sense of relief that tbs
ghastly eortege is left behind and the tur-
quoise sky and bright, glad sunlight are
behed once more. Only a step from this
tower of tears into the song and sunshine
of the street.
So near is life to death
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09

a benefit of total receipts amountino
s4'ooo: inst at the end ofhis journey xbe ~
ne arrived In Portland too late for '4 zen
regular train. his cash exhausted tben , ID
fused to order special engine n ~; re-
HIM through. Thus seven precious hem hug
OF Tune, as valuable to him as II w ~ =, ! !
Phileas Fogg. were lost. " was 10
In parting he was about to sbako -.
own hands as he had done on onr arri ua1
when | suggested to him that he n1ie,b.
shake one hand ofia little girl and | wo, Il
shake the other. He readily accepted tbe
compromise. 1t did not occur h fba Mil hi
osopher that she was conductor &c P oIad
trlclty and that had probably shortenoa
ms ME and Enlightened my own by stealing
the yltalizIng current. q
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09

We are frai creatures physically the most
robust among US. The unhealthy man or woman
is in great measure incapable of benefit to society.
IT, for instance blliousness trouble Of irequehcs
and often obstinately resistant of ordinary medl
cation, obstructs the harmonious action q H.
liver and the bowels. the sufferer Is snze 'e -
dyspen;lc The three disordered conditions are
sure 10 be confirmed by neglect. Under 5te
erroneous impression that there i no hope ~
him. an impression in all likelihood confirmed z!
the use of Objectionable remedies the SURE +
snt n ba.ona nepI~rtful nav, even reckless, anu
tbxt the sooner he i removed from the sphere =
humsn endeayor, the better for all parties SoH.
celsed What series Of mistakesl lis IlFe9 y i
responsible II Il an incorporate part Of atmsell.
How discipline it BY the aid Of HostetleI
stomach Bitters, 8 certain medium for the res
Enlistment 81 united regular action IN the stoi.a
a,e liver aud bowels 1t also cures and prevents
rnalarial, rheumatic and kidney troubles.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09

A CmoAGo dispatch of two or three
days ago contained an interesting account
of the discovery by Prof. Joseph Hirsch of
process OF extracting aluminium from
clay at a cost Of few cents a pound. The
announcement Of this discovery was first
made several months ago, and denounced
at tho same time as a fraud, but Prof
Hirseh insists upon his original story, and
it Is so alluring that we prefer to believe
it to be true. Aluminium is the largest
and at the same time one Of the strongest
of al the metals 1t is easily manipulated
and imperyious torust Prof. HRS ch
laims to be able to extract sixteen pounds
aluminium from 100 pounds Of clay, and
says he has already made 1000 pounds
and will soon be ready to manufacture that
quantity daily An interesting statement
is that four sleeping cars Of the Thompson
patent are to be built Of the metal made
by Prof Hirsgh al once. The value Of
aluminium has long been appreciated and
more than one chemist has INDUCED in
wild dreams Of ENG one day able to cheaply
supply it, The influence Of Prof. Hirsch
discovery, should he he able to establish
it. upon the mechanical and industrial
arts. cannot Well Dc estimated Brick and
stone will soon cease Is he used in build.
80, and iron rauIa ha almost ,,,,l.,,e,,.,,