St. Paul daily globe., 1892-03-03

and were an incentive to his action. They
are certainly grateful TO the railroad kings
and rings.
But how was he to destroy me? The Wash
burn family had attempted it vain. The
Pioneer Press has made the same assault. and
1t came limping off, And now L say TO
HomDe, in the words of Brutus:
You have done that you should be sorry for
There is no terror. CassiuS, i'll your threats;
For am armed so strong in honesty.
Ihst they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which respect not.'
His Charges.
Ny friends say to me that his attacks are
such mess of ridiculous trash that should
not dignity them by replying to them; II L
was alone concerned should follow this ad-
vice. But l believe these assaults are in
tended to injure the Alliance, and will injure
it. and. in justice TO that great organization.
have concluded to answer them.
Never in the history of politics have there
been such frivolous charges. He asks the
people to so back and thresh over the old
musty straw OF a legislative journal to find
how | voted on questions of adjournment
Artemus Ward tells us that when a fellow
whom he did not approve came to court his
''darter," he got clear of him by getting his
father-in-law, who was seventy-five years
old, had lost his front teeth, and had very
monotonous voice, TO read to him, out of the
proceedings of the legislature of the state of
Maine, the debate upon an appropriation to
build bridge. twenty years before. in re-
mote part of the sfate. The lover stood it for
two nights and then fled the field. Hompe
would have finished him i'll one night.
Tithe of Hint and Cummin.
1t is very customary thing if a man has
determined to sell out the people OH great
things, to be very particular to vote with
them on little things. The Master pointed
out this trait of human nature eighteen CEN
turies ago, when Ile said
Woe unto ye, Scribes and Pharisees-hyp-
ocrites!-Ye pay tithe of Mint and anise and
cummin, and have omitted the weightIer
matters of the law,-judgment mercy and
faith. Ye blind guides which strain at gnat
and swallow a camel. Ye make clean the
ouside of the cup and the platter. but within
they are full of extortion and excess"
| never knew Il rogue yet that was not
ready to vote, i'll the legislature, at all times
against an adjournment The man who will
put 1000 into his pocket, as the price of
whole peoples prosperity, will tear pas
sion TO tatters. to very rags, and tickle the
ear of groundlingsn by fighting a little ap-
preparation OF $40. That's human nature.
The Mighty Question of Adjourn
ments.
Hompe charges that at noon, Friday. JAM
16. actually voted TO adjourn over until the
following Monday Horrible most horrible !.
He omits to mention that there had just
| been motion made to adjourn till Tuesday,
| and that had voted no Senate Journal, p.
| sly. He gives me no credit for this vote.
| There had then been motion made to
| simply adjourn. which mean to adjourn till
| the next day, Saturday, and this was also
| voted down, the nays and yeas not being
| called 1t was therefore evident as the SEN
| ate would neither adjourn to saturday nor
| Tuesday, that 1t must adjourn to Monday.
| and so voted. The vote stood 80 TO II. If
| cost the state So, 600, as Hompe says. by voting
| to adjourn to Monday, l helped to save the
state $1,000 by refusing to adjourn to Tues
| day. and so the state is $1,000 ahead. But
Hompe did not state that had so voted. He
concealed that fact.
| And observe his dishonesty He says that
| adjournment cost the state $1,000. The only
| statutory day lost was Saturday, and the cost
| of the whole legislature, house and senate, is
| but 81, ,6J0 day. Now, the senate consists OF
| fifty-fye members. who receive S. per day
! This amounts to S275 ins.ead of S3,0G0 and
| all the clerks and officers WOnld bring 1t up
| to about S3SI. Now Hompe knew this per
| fectly well. He knew we had no control, as
| senators. over The adjournment of the house
| and yet he
Saddles the Senate
or rather me alone-with the cost of run
| ming both houses, and calls one day two
| days. and 1884 $1,000, all to make point
| against man whose sole offense is that he
| stood by his pledges to the people while
| Hompe had betrayed them. Hompe's mode
of computing the time is like that of the fell
| low who got out of bed in the morning and
| began growing at his wife, Hurry up the
| breakfast he cried, 4 haven't had thing to
| eat since yesterday, and tomorrow will be
three daYsr Whether the senate adjourned
| for one day or two days at that time. is a
matter OF very little moment. Honest and
| decent men desire to go home occasionally
| to visit their families. l have heard
of fellows who were governed by no
| such feeling. but whose broad lib,
| erality, like the constitution of the United
| Suites. recognized no distinction of race,
| color or previous condition of servitude. ~
| My own belief is that occasional adjourn
ments TO permit the Legislators to get clear of
| the fetid and corrupt atmosphere of the cap
| ital city, and breathe the pure air of their
own homes, and receive new ins piration
from their constituents, would be worth
| more to the people than all it could possibly
cost. If / had my way should have the leg
isiature assemble on Dec. /, sit for month,
then take holiday of week or two; then
sit for another month, and then take another
holiday, their play to be discontinued while
at home. If we had had such law as that
last winter. Hompe uight today be an hon
ored light of the Alliance, instead of being a
blasted anc ruined man.