St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-26


To the Editor OF the Globe.
Your valuable and veracious sheet
charges that | offered to give the Demo
Gratis four electoral votes in Minnesota
for Grover Cleveland and Adlai Steven
son in exchange for a Democratic in
dorSement of my candidacy for gov
ernor.
There are some falsehoods so trans
parent that the light of day shines
through them.
If L had made such an offer and the
Democracy had declined it, they would
have been the biggest asses in Christen-
dom. For 10! have they not Endorsed
the whole Peoples party ticket of Kan
sas, from head to foot, without the
equivalent of single electoral vote?
And does not the national Democratic
committee recommend a precisely SINH
lar course in Colorado? And might not
four of Minnesota's electoral votes.
taken from Ben Harrison, turn the
scale and give Democracy the national
government. with its 60.G0J officehoiderS
and its hundreds of millions of patron
age?
If | had made snch an offer, and the
Democracy had declined it. the only
explanation would have been that the
colossal railroad power, which domi-
mates and darkens this state, would
rather see Harrison or the devil presi-
dent than see Ignatius Donnelly APP
pointing the board of railroad commits
sioners of Minnesota.
Now the only trouble with YOUR
charge is, it is not true. 1t is abSurdly
false.
Ii you had looked in, Mr.. Editor,
upon the Peoples party state conven-
ton. which met in Market hall July Is,
you would have seen that that gather
ing of able, clear-headed. determined.
self-governing men was utterly beyond
the domination of any one man or any
fifty men. If | had proposed to them to
fuse with the Democrats and give them
four electors. never would have
been nominated tor governOr--they
would have pitched me inconti-
nently out of the window. And L
understood that as well as any man
in Minnesota. Those electors were, all
but two of them, elected by the dele
gates from the seven congressional dis
trIctS, and if | had waltZed in among
those delegates with club, [ could not
have cOerced them into electing four
Democrats, or any other but those
standing Squarely on the Peoples party
the power to pledge me Democratic
Endorsement, in convention to be held
three weeks thereafter. in case l had
been fool enough to make the suicidal
attempt you allege.
Remember. Mr.. Editor. that the first
requisite for a successful lie is that it
should have about ii some color and hue
of probability.
II l have sinned at all it is in the fact
that L answered civillv the questions
put to me by Democratic friends. be-
fore our convention met and acted. l
told them, one and all, that fusion was
an impossibility: that no power Oh
earth could bring it about in our con-
vention; that to attempt it would be
to break up our party and send our
members rushing back TO their
original organization. Some of these
gentlemen then said to me that they
were in favor of the coming Democratic
state convention indOrsing the whole
Peoples party ticket; that it was sim
ply question whether the Republicans
should carry the state or the Peoples
party; and that there were ten points
where the Democrats agreed with our
organization where there was one
where it held the same views as the Re-
publicans. l thanked them for these
sentiments, but expressed my belief
that the Democratic state convention
would be forced by outside capitalistic
influences to act in such way as to in
sure, so far as it could, the triumph of
the Republican state ticket, and that
there was no probability of any real
reform save by breaking away from
both the old parties. From that belief
l have never wavered, and l conse-
quently propose to help the Peoples
party to beat you both. And it will.
And so permit me. in conclusion, to
deny the horrible charge for such you
seem to regard it), of having fay red
''fusion' on any terms with the De-
mocracy. L do not wonder you are
shocked. l am. l remain. respectfully
yours. lGNATIUS DONNELLY.