St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-31
CORRIDOR CHATS.

These are dull days, politically speaking,
around the hotels The politicians who will
be so numerous few months later, are now
resting their weary limbs aud scheming
brains for the numerous battles to be fought
and won or lost next year Those who do
happen to drop into the city these days
usually deal only in "reminiscences Of former
campaigns. and occasionally tell tale that
has been told that is worth repeating. Such
gentleman, whose name is withheld for OBJ
vous reasons, spent an hour or so in the
Merchants lobby yesterday afternoon, and
passed away the time telling how he came TO
lose confidence i'll the Sage of Nininger as
statesman and politician.
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''Some years ago, commenced this gentle
man. Judge Wilder was named by the Dem
oerats in our district for congress, Maj.
Strait was the Republican nominee and Mr..
Donnelly was the candidate of the Green
hackers. | was at that time running ma
tional bank in a small town and was manag
ing to get along comfortably and perhaps
make little profit for the bank. although
afterwards found it to our interest to turn
the bank into private one and surrender
our national bank charter. One day in the
course of the campaign I was surprised to
see Mr.. Donnelly walk into the bank.
l invited him to accompany me home
for dinner and be accepted. That evening
took him ID the public hall and remained to
hear his address. He started in by roasting
the national banks, telling the people of the
immense profits these banks realized from
their notes lost in circulation. He told them
that there was not an hour or a minute that
immense sums were not flowing into their
Golfers by means of the notes lost i'll this way.
listened and marveled but said nothing"
when we returned home after the meet
ing my wife asked the Sage if he would not
like lunch" continued the speaker. Mr..
Donnelly answered i'll the affirmative, and it
was brought on. While we were disposing of
it began to laugh, and the gentleman from
Dakota inquired the cause. l SAID
81 was amused, Mr. DonnelIy. at what you
said about national banks
= why how is that?' said the Sage, putting
on an innocent expression. Was l not cor
rect?
NOW Mr. Donnelly,' said, where were
you in 1863 when the national banking act
was passed?
80 was in congress- answered the Sage.
"'Then Mr. Donnelly, you know the pro-
visions of that law as well as 1 do,
and you know that the national
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their circulation They do not redeem it and
every cent made through notes lost goes to
the national government. We have our
money on deposit in Washington to secure
the circulation and ten per cent more than
we have
That is true" said the Sage, although 1
had forgotten it. l am very sorry that said
what did will write letter to the local
paper and correct this matter at once" l
assured the Sage that this was unnecessary
and the matter was dropped"
And now comes the interesting part of
of the story" continued the gentleman, land
the part that completely destroyed my conf
dence in him. The next day he was billed TO
speak at little town near where / lived,
and as the trains ran badly, l ventured to
taSe him over i'll my carriage l introduced
him to a friend and started homeward. L
met friend. and stopped on the other side
of the building until the sage commenced
his speech. 1 then decided to remain. The
Sage soon reached the part referring to
national banks. and. to my surprise. repeated
what he had said the evening before word
for word was disguised and drove away.
Since that day have had no confidence in
the Sage of Nininger''
Hon NJ Mullen, the member of the Demo
cratic state central committee for the Ninth
judicial district, was prominent figure i'll
the Merchants lobby yesterday afternoon.
lIr. Mullen. while business man and not a
politician, is one or the best political man.
ayers in the state. lie lives at New Ulm, the
lively capital of Brown county, which latter
has become Democratic in the last eight
years Largely through his efforts. In speak
ing of the efforts of the Ohio Democrats to
induce ex-PresIdent Cleveland to take the
stump in that state. Mr.. Mullen Said it seemed
absurd to ask him to speak with that free sill
yer plank in the platform.
Il believe" said he. branching off to dis
cussion of the silver question, that we might
coin our own silver, but l do not believe the
United States should be made the dumping
ground for the silver of the whole world"