St. Paul daily globe., 1892-03-03
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Donnelly Gives the First Of
His Counter Attacks
Upon Hompe.
The Lance Of Ridicule Essayed
Before the Shaft of
Sarcasm.
Tables Turned on the Votes
Upon Adjournments and
Expenditures.
Fact, Record and Shake
speare Unfortunately
Used by the Sage.

| right cheek is smitten to present the
| left one for similar treatment; but that
| doctrine would never be subscribed to
| by Ignatius Donnelly. His motto is
when man strikes his right cheek to
smite him back ON both cheeks. This is
the medicine he has prescribed for
| John B. Hompe, and the first INSTALL
ment has just been given out. 1t is in
chapters, and the first one rushes into
| the subject as follows:
am an exceedingly busy man, and my
| time is of considerable value to me-if 10 no
one else. 1t has therefore been with great
regret that have seen John Is. Hompe, or
Otter Tail county. my associate in the state
| senate. devoting columns week after week,
| in an obscure paper in his own county to
| personal denunciation of my record and my
| self. If he had rested satisfied with the cir
| culation which his own paper could give
| these attacks l should not have noticed
| them; but he has furnished advance sheets
| of his diatribes to the state Democratic or,
| gan, the ST. Paul GLOBE, which has published
| them with delight as evidence, howe yer
slight of break in the otherwise solid ranks
| of the Alliance and the Peoples party.
/ 1t has puzzled me a great deal to determine
| what could be the motive for these attacks.
| II they had been put forth before the recent
| session of the State Alli8nce l could have
believed that they were made to affect the
| action of that body. But there IS no conven-
| ton now pending; l am not candidate for
| any Office; do not live in Mr.. Hompe's
! county, or congressional district; l do not
| stand i'll his way i'll any manner
/ There is only one method by which l can
| explain these iaborious, untimely and unpro
| yoked assaults.
I The Usury Question.
| Mr.. Hompe and 1 differed widely in the
7 last session OF the senate upon certain i'm
! Dortant public questions-notably the usury
| law. He claimed that he represented the AL
| lance i'll the position he took. l claimed
that, as their president, elected by all over
| whelming vote, carrying on large othclal
| correspondence with the Alliance of all parts
| of the state l knew better than he just what
| the farmers of Minnesota really wanted.
! And so we locked horns. had no antago-
! nism to Mr. Hompe personally. This was
| shown by the fact that ma de- three speeches
| in the Aliance-Democratic caucus of sena-
| tors. 10 have him appointed chairman OF the
| committee on finance the most important
| committee Of the senate; and succeeded, very
| much against the grain of the Democrats
| who had selected gentleman for the place
| from their own ranks. At the end OF the
session (although he had treated me shame
| fully in the meantime) | nominated him for
temporary president of the senate. 1t was
| sickening dose to take. but he had been
| nominated by ali Alliance caucus, and
swallowed it, for the sake of peace in our
| ranks. Fortunately he was not elected.
1
| atorial combine would not support him.
| | knew, recently that Mr.. Hompe was as
| plrlng to go TO congress from the seventh
| district; that he had legislated Kittet Halyor-
| sou out of the district so as to have clear
| field for himself. but did not raise voice or
| hand against him. | was content that he
| should paddle his own canoe" hoped
! that generosity and magnanimity on my part
| might awaken somewhere II his coarse ma
| ture kindred spark. and that we might act
| together for the good of those we both rep
| resented therefore contented myself with
| voting against the unjust congressional ap-
/ portionment act But L am reminded OF
| what Prospero says in the Tempest" about
| Caliban:
"A devil, born devil, on whose nature
Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
Humanely taken. ALL all lost, quite lost;
| And as with age his body uglier grows,
| So his mind cankeTs''
During that battle last winter in the senate
| / appealed to the Alliance of the state to de-
| eide between Hompe and myself on the
| usury question:; did not visit them. or eau
| Gus with them: l stated the whole question
| fairly in letter in the Great West without
! any abuse of those who differed from me,
| and asked the local Alliances TO come to-
| gether and instruct their senator's what to
| do. The response was so overWhelmiEgiy
| against Hompe's position that he was forced
| to abandon his course, on the repeal of the
| forfeiture clause of the usury law. and at
| the eleventh hour, he voted for the bill
| WnIcn l. supported. udu uO IeelluS III IDlS
! matter-not even one of eXultatlon. had
| simply done my duty. But the farmers
| throughout the state believed that Hompe
| had tried to betray them te the money lend
| ers. They did not think he had been mlsled.
| They respected his intelligence at the ex-
! pense of his character for honesty.
The Last State Alliance Meeting.
| This feeling of the Alliance members man.
| ifested itself i'll most unequivocal manner
or rttr lQct no a
| come down from Deer Creek to that conven
! ton with great sounding of cymbals. blow
| ing OF trumpets ana beating OF drums He
! was going to assail me and blot me out of ex-
| lstence, He was to be elected president of
| the Alliance. There was an endless amount
| of conspiring and wire pulling going on, but
| when the convention met--one of the largest
| and most enthusiastic ever held in the state
--Hompe. to use the vernacular, was mot in
| it, He had the field of plotting and schem-
| ing all to himself for q domestic
| afflietion called me away during three
| days from the convention city. While
| acting as president the duties of my office
| prevented rue from canvassing any one, or
| doing any work in my own behalf: bat the
feeling of that convention of honorable gen.
tlemen from all parts OF this state was so
strongly against HomDe that, as the saying is,
he "retreated into his hole and drew the hole
| in after him. One year before he was star
| of the first magnitude in our councils In
our last convention he had shrunken to an
y
from now it will require l think, the most
powerful lens in the Lick observatory to de-
termine whether he is a'satellte OF Hoskins
or fragment of meteoric protoplasm elected
into space from the abyss of nothlngness
The Voice OF Doom.
The mention of his name III the state Alli-
| anee by some jester, called out jeers and
| laughter. which spread like great wave ali,
over that vast audience. Hompe heard it. It
was the voice of doom. He saw that he was
| found out He began to perceive that man
cannot serve Mammon and expect the aD-
| proval of God. He saw that he could not run
| with the hare and hunt with the hounds aud
| be equally esteemed by both. He understood
| that if a man serves bankers, monopoli6ts
| and railroad kings he must be content with
such consultations as they can afford him,
| and not look to the people he has betrayed
| for popularity. "he giant, therefore. who
had advanced upon the convention. breath
| ing blue flames and destruction, squatted
| down on his hams, and became the most
| gentle, harmless and obscure Of all that great
| host.
Brandborg.
Hompe did not dare to permit his own
| name to go before that convention for paesi-
| dent or anything else; but-determlned to
| be vicious and ugly TO the bitter end-he got
| his lunatic lieutenant to present the name of
| Charles BrandboTg for the Office of president
| without the slightest authority, am told,
| from that gentleman. Mr.. BTandborg is not
especially friend of mlne-I am sorry to
| say it-for ne is an able and honest man; but
| he had fallen under great misfortune, the
| greatest which can happen to any man. in
| noeenU or guilty, (and | believe him to have
| been innocent of wrong intenO: he had
| committed Gains offense; he had stained
his hands with the blood of fellow
| being. In such a case the living is almost
| as much to be cQmmiserated as the dead, for
| he can never shut out from his soul the pitt
/ full memories of the past. And yet Hompe.
| afraid TO face the State Alliance-afraid to
| present his own capacious extremity to the
| duck shot of the indignant agriculturists-
| dragged poor Mr. Brandborg's name for
| ward (Mr. Is. was not present.. with his
great calamity still hanging around him. like
| garment, and set him UP to be shot down;
| to be slaughtered by receiving 40 votes
| against 472 for myself: and to be unjustiy ex-
posed to the laughter and ridicule of whole
state. l can imagine nothing meaner or
baser. than this treatmens OF faithful
! friend.
HOmpe's Rage.
Now had nothing to do with this ahase-