St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-17

After he had spent several weeks can
vassing the southern part of the state,
and incurring an expenditure OF $500,
he returned and found the committee
entrusted to raise funds for the CAM
paign had secured the vast sum
of $50. Thomas McGaughey, who was
nominated for lieutenant governor on
the ticket, a prominent labor repre-
sentative, came to him and said "This
tOmfoOlery must stop. We cannot 60
forward on this fund.-" and Mr.. Don
nelly declared he was absolutely forced
to get out. He continued:
have been the subject of criticism and
abuse from all sides, and it is very singular
fact every man in this state that has fattened
on the farmers, every man that has grip on
the throats of the farmers every man who
has got his hand on the pockets of the farm
ers is my personal enemy; and am proud of
the fact, because it testifies clearer and louder
than the lightning and thunder OF heaven
that am not purchasable. Applause. Ii
had been it would have been easier to buy
me in the quiet of one of those hotel rooms
than placarding me as a thief for twenty
years. have worked for eight years for the
Alliance, and great many years before for
the grange, delivering thousands OF speeches..
Ii had been paid for them as l have been
paid for my literary addresses 1t would have
put from $4,000 to $4,000 into my
pocket; but l have never received one
cent Of compensation from the grange
or the alliance l have never asked for
cent, and until lately did not even get back
my expenses. These things are the pest an
swers to all the attacks made upon me. Now,
then, what would say, passing from these
personal questions, Is this: That we must
have harmony N.Y., one OF my ancestors may
to fight for it, Laughter We must have
harmony. l regret as much as anyDcdy any
differences that may have arisen. | do not
think that have provoked any OF these dit
ferenceS ! am so constituted, however, that
if any man kicks me on the stern there are
responsive thrills in the cranlum. The story
is told of R0litician in New York who had
dealt him a hard kick with the foot which
met with no obstruction until 1t struck the
base of the skull. l have got a backbone,
and thank God 1 think good deal of 1t.
What are the results we are laboring for? We
want legislation. We want to fill this hall
next winter with just such men as are here
to-day. [Applause.]
Mr.. Donnelly remarked that they did
not want any week-kneed men. One of
the railroad magnates said, about a year
ago, he would rather have legislature
of farmers, because, he said, the lawyers
he could not buy for less than a thou
sand dollars, but that he could buy the
average farmer with bull calf that was
worth $3.50.
This sally was greeted with laughter,
which was renewed when delegate
shouted: "Bully at that"
Mr.. Donnelly proceeded that it was
not enough to nominate farmers; they
must be the best men of their respect
i've localities. and men of honor and in
tegrity, if there were any left in the
community. They must 60 to the leg
islature determined to subordinate pri-
vate greed and private interest to the
good of the people. He added:
If we do that why | believe that the
Farmers Alliance legislature. house and
senate, will meet here next winter, and l
would undertake in two weeks 10 remedy
one-half of all the abuses growing out OF
bad government that this whole state suffers
under. [Applause.]
Mr.. Donnelly got in his usual dig at
the legislature of 19S7-hoW all the use
full legislation passed by. the house was
defeated in the senate-"tnat dastardly
senate" That senate killed bills pro-
viding for the assessment OF mortgage
notes and reducing the legal rate OF in
terest from 10 to per cent. Such das-
tardly practices and conduct were never
seen in any country as were perpe-
trated by that senate; such utter con-
tempt ot the people: and the people
property for these raScals. Mr.. Don
nelly mentioned that the Alliance had
arranged with an English firm to loan
money to farmers at ~ per cent. He
advocated the scheme of postal savings
banks. He said
Let us see what could be done if such law
were passed. Hundreds OF millions OF the
accumulated earnings of this people-the
common people of the country-would be
fn fha nd of a q
| an interest of per cent per year. What
| could the government do with that? Why,i
| all this great Western country the farmers
| are being swept off the face of the earth.
| The great middle class-the yeomanry class
| are being destroyed as they have been de-
| stroyed in the old world. Let the government
| turn around and say: I'VE have got hundreds
| of millions belonging to the people for which
we pay per cent; we will let that money to
| town and country to those Westerners, at 3
| per cont. to be loaned to the farmers on
| mortgages on their lands. Applause. Why,
| the moment that that was done those harpies
| that have been sucking the life blood OF the
| people for 10, these many years, and have in
tested these lobbies until the stencil of their
presence almost fingers yet in these halls
| laughter and applause] these men would
| say: Our occupation is gone; we have got
to come down to 3 par r,o cent qt ~, per per
| of the country will rise up and be blessed, ,and
| all men will be happy and prosperous and
| no man will suffer but the thieves: and the
man who is thief and desires to rob his fel-
| low men, he ought to thank God every day of
| his life that he is allowed to live and is not
in the penitentiary. Laughter and ap-
| plause.]
Mr. Donnelly enlarged upon watered
stock; how. by gigantic rascalities, the
big corporations take $10.000,000 out of
the farmers pockets. No man had a
right to saddle industry with bogus cap
| ital. He condemned the Mckinley bill.
The Republicans at the last election
were pledged to revision Of the tariff.
| MIR. Mckinley told them: ''You can
revise thing up, as well as revise it
down." He hoped success would at
| tend that movement, which, he trusted,
would become so far-reaching as to send
a representative of organized labor into
| the White house. He concluded:
We want in that White house man who
| will put fence around congress and white
wash that fence, and put upon it a warning
| to Wall street to keep out OF the premises
| TApplause. We want some man there thai
| will be to this industrial movement what
| that great man of blessed memory, Abraham
! Lincoln, was to the Republican movement
| [applausel-honest and fearless, and de.
| voted to the right; and l believe see a day
| coming when such a revolution will be pos
| sible in this country. Applause. AS O
4 step toward that result, hail this tremen-
| dous gathering as a most auspicious omen.
Mr.. Donnelly resumed his seat amid
reiterated applause.
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