The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-09-26
WORD ABOUT THE FALLEN
DONNELLY.

Editor Free Press:
Donnelly's speech is like the Demo
cratic pamphlet the Observation-Disclosures
candidate Currler was distributing the
other day, TRADE of abuse against the
| Republican party and the railroads.
According to Donnelly the Republican
I party is now intent upon crushing out
and reducing to the condition of SER
vile and impoverished tenantry, the
very people for whom, Donnelly remem-
bers, they secured free homesteads in
spite of the Democratic party. Yes, Mr..
Donnelly, in the early history the writer
has listened with much pleasure to your
eloquent eulogies upon this glorious act
of the Republican party and your equal
! ly eloquent denunciation of the Demo-
cratic party for their opposition to this,
as we'll as all other measures designed
and calculated to promote the general
welfare. There has been no change in
the policy of the Democratic party since
Mr.. Donnelly's better DAYS, from the
DAYS when John Calhoun became the
leader of the dominating and domineer
ing element of the Democracy and
threatened Old Hickory with nulllfica-
ton. No great measure for improving
the condition of the people, promoting
the general welfare, prosperity and glo-
nv of the country has had its origin in
or the support of the Democratic party.
The Republican party has been equally
steadfast in its maintenance of the
principles of liberty, equality and Union
upon which our fathers established this
grandest Republic and greatest govern
ment, and under which its prosperity,
growth, population and wealth, from the
day when Mr.. Donnelly was "Gov. ad
Doh ga ba
States, Twill Mr.. Donnelly excuse me
for the mention of the Gen1 just here;
IT was voluntary slip of the penn to
the present day finds no parallel in the
worlds history. But there is great
change in Mr.. Donnelly from having
been in years past one of the ablest and
brainIest eulogists of the Republican
party and its glorious achievements. He
has become one of the most bitter re-
vilers and pours his maledictions upon
them with more than Democratic venom
vigor and malice. Their only policy has
been opposition to anything Republi-
can Mr.. Donnelly in his better days
would have scarcely INDUCED in his
wholesale charge of corruption against
the last legislature had he known Mr..
Barr as has this writer, from boyhood
to the present time, as one OF the most
conscientiously honest men in the State.
He would have blushed specially to have
advised men who claim to desire the
selection of honest Representatives, to
leave him, the nominee of your old Re-
publican friends, to bring forth the fruits
meet for repentance. But that great
change has come over Donnelly no one
can doubt, and none but the Democracy
that he has 30 often and so justly scored
for their unwise, unpatrlotic and bitter
opposition to the most important and
try's good. But Donnelly has sadly
changed. He is no longer the Donnelly
of old that this writer would like to re-
member with some at least lingering
traces of old time friendship, but the
Donnelly of old and the present Donnel-
ly are two people He used to be not
only bright, intelligent gentleman, but
social, companionable little freshman
to meet, full of anecdote and good ma
ture, but.a wonderful change has come
over the Donnelly of the olden time. The
heart once filled with kindly emotions
for all throbbing with the most earnest
loyalty and devotion to his country and
Justly proud of the patriotic party which
has given free homes to thousands of
his fellow countrymen, driven by Brit
ish oppression to leave their native
land and seek refuge on the free Soil Of
America, and proud too of the honor of
membership IN the party that had risen
in the majesty of their strength to crush
hydra headed Democratic treason which
threatened the dissolution of the grand
est Republic on earth in the interest of
slavery and British free trade; proud of
every opportunity to raise his clarion
voice on all proper occasions in behalf
of the cause of liberty and Union and in
praise o the party that maintained it
is now full to bursting with
bitter hatred of that party. He can
scarcely find language sufficiently strong
and energetic to express the sentiments
of his soul. He hates the Republican
party as intensely as Satan hates the
holy water, and the railroad corpora
tons almost as intensely as he does the
Republican party. He can see no good
in them, recognize no benefits to his
own state from their construction, no
right to the control of their own proper
| ty, and that an honest mans existence
in railroad corporation is moral i'm
possibility. He INDUCES now in exclt-
| ing harrangues to incite class wars and
promote dissentions among the people,
only to bring upon the country he once
loved anarchy, confusion and civil war.
What has caused this great change in
| this once great man is to many puzzle.
1t is uncharitable or seemingly 80 to at
tribute it to the innate cussedness of his
heart, and as charity is the greatest of
Christian virtues, this writer charltably
attributes 1t to the vagaries of an over
wrought brain. The intense brain work
require to discover the lost Atlantis re-
legate to (deserved) "innocuous desue-
tude" the pretender Shakespear and
bring to the front as the greatest dram
atlst of the world "Thou are the great
est, meanest, basest of mankind" Ba
con has overtaxed the brain of the old
Donnelly, de1anged the intellectual ma
chinery and if something is not done
soon to relieve the malady of the mind,
he will soon 60 to h or the Democra-
CIV, SYNONYMS in good American Eng
lish. b.
An TmnOrtant Matter,