St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-12
A BACONIAN BREAK.
The Sage, DonneIiy, Is Delivered
of a Characteristic Roast.

To the Editor of the Globe.
1t is expected that the news columns of
great journal should be characterized by iu-
dicial fairness to all men. The editorials
may be colored by passion or self interest,
but the report of events, as they occur,
should be given without exaggeration or
Misrepresentation. The newspaper that
fails in this particular loses the confidence
of its readers; it degenerates into an organ
lied type-wrought lie, and is eventually de-
spised by all men.
This being true, cannot understand why
a reputable sheet like the GLOBE should per-
SiStently and YiciouSly misrepreSent me day
after day and week after week. | cannot be-
lieve that the editors of the paper have any
share in this work. 1t is the performance of
reporters who have filled your columns with
the veriest slush of falsehood. gathered in
the buck-baskets of calumDy, from a cabal of
scoundrelS whose headquarters are in a GER
tain insurance office i'll this city. Day by day
this thing goes on. One lie has scarcely been
exploded by events (for have not deigned
to answer the charges) before another leaps
Into life more grotesque and eXtravagant
than its predecessor At the very time when
have been under engagement to speak for
the Alliance ticket you have represented me
as ready TO go out and campaign for Gov.
Merriam. The next day you had me rushing
around the state to secure 1000 signatures,
so that might be a candidate tor governor
myself!
science or sense of shame to arrest you in
such colossal inventions? Why hell itself
would disgorge such senseless and infinite
liar as the man who wrote that as dangerous
to the integrity of its foundations.
Yesterday you devoted column to me and
every second line concluded falsehood.
| am represented as prosecuting John
Lathrop, the late secretary of the Alliance,
and driving him out of his office, which he
resigned Ito prevent me from working for
Merriam The fact is. that six out of eight
members of the executive committee signed
a demand for his resignation, and stood
ready to eXpel him if he had not resigned.
The fact is, that ever since last July the
finance committee has been trying to force
him to a settlement of his accounts and has
not to this hour succeeded. The fact is, that
the Great West. the Alliance paper, has pub
hShed four columns OF reports from the sec
retaries and presidents of alliances, that they
have paid him various sums of money, which
he receipted for, put in his pocket and never
reported in his books or turned over to the
treasurer. The man is a defaulter and liza
BILE to imprisonment.
Instead of prosecuting Mr.. Lathrop, l
sought to shield him, and promised that il
could to hide his shame. This generosity
on my part was met by the foulest
abuse. And thereupon you impugn my
personal courage. 1t is matter of
little, moment to the public. But you
presided over the house at a time when the
roof threatened to fail in. you paid high
tribute to my nerve. and declared that by my
absolute GOODNESS l saved hundreds of lives.
/ have no boasts to make of my courage, but
if any man thinks have none he can readily
submit the question to test which viii be
conclusive to him, if not satisfactory. l do
not, however. think that it is necessary for
gentleman to go to fisticuffs and roll in the
mud with every blackguard who fulfills his
nature. Neither do l believe a man should
quietly submit TO be shot down by every
rufan whose rascalities his sense of duty has
compelled him to resist and expose.
You refer to Gen. Ayerill. / have nothing
unkind TO say of the dead: but it is well
known that instead of my deserving him he
deserted me. He went over to the Washburn
faction and defeated me for congress.
In conclusion would ask, Mr.. Editor, do
you think it the right thing for the secretary
of an organization TO pocket the funds and
give no account of them? Do you think that
the member of society who seeks to protect
it from robbery deserves to be dragged
through the mire of public infamy simply
because his political affiliations or sentiments
may not be the same as yours? And. finally,
do you not think, MIR Editor, that it would
improve some of your reporters to send them
for five years TO a Sunday school or the peni-
Tertiary? Respectfully yours,
1GNATIUs DoNNELLY.
ST. Paul, Mimi. Sept. IL.