The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-10-21
ASSASSINATION!

One OF Une meUnOQS aOOpCoQ Oy the
republican central committee for the
dissemination of campaign literature
is the use of the republican patent
insides issued by the ready print
houses. An extract from one OF these,
the Montevideo Leader of Sept. 23rd
is as follows:
HE [Donnelly] is a singular pro.
duction Of nature. Possessing large
Intellectual capacity, his life has been
a complete and monumental failure.
Only for the ornamental purposes OF
his singular personality he is as en-
tirelv useless today as the sphinx
1t were pity that means C, I'D not
be discover which would make him
as eternaHy silent. y
His defeat in this campaign will not
prevent him from taking up the howl
ing in 1894 where he left it off this
year. But thanks to the good Lord,
he is growing oI''"~ and in the process
SEES of a kindly q ire must cease en-
s1iely in q few yu..s when -"
"Silence like poultice comes
To heal the blows of sound"
What boonit will be to the people
of this Donnellv.ridden state He will
never cease while he live, but he will
not live always. And when HI sleeps
with his fathers, what a nse OF
restfulness and relief will come to the
tired cars OF a weary and overbur-
dened people,"
cit we're a pity that means could not
be discovered which would make him
as externally silent"
If that is not plain Indictment to
murder, then what does it mean?
Good News from the Red River,
The republican papers have been
claiming, all along, that the Scan
dinavians Ct the Red River Valley
had deserted the peoples party and
gone back to the republican party.
Mr.. Donnelly's campaign last week,
in that section, shows how utterly
unfounded are these claims. Every
where the audiences that greeted him
were extraordinary in size and en-
thusiasm. Their zeal in the cause was
shown by the fact that the voluntary
contributions, given at his meetings,
for the campaign, in one week,
amouted to $685. At Mcintosh in
the interior of Polk county a crowd
gathered four times greater that any
hall in that section would hold. The
contributions amounted to $7O.SO;
and over one hundred copies of the
GREAT WEST were subscribed for. TIL
Scandinavian farmers did not wait
to. be called on, but rushed forward
and pressed five dollar hills and silver
dollars into Mr.. Dom ll,'s hands. A
banner inscribed: "For Governor,
Hon. I. Donnelly- Prosecute the
Wheat Ring" showed the predomin-
ant idea in the minds of the farmers
of the Northwest. The Red River
Valley will be practically solid for the
whole peoples party ticket. The re-
publicans cannot hold meetings ex-
cept by hiring railroad trains and
gathering up all the faithful for fifty
miles around at one spot, and then
with band of music they coax in
the boys and the idlers; and then
''smart Alexis rush to the telegraph
Office al d wire to the st. Paul and
Minneapolis papers glowing accounts
of the meeting; and thus the lies from
one part of the state encourage the
liars elsewhere.
The fact is the success of the peo-
Piles party is certainty. Where can
either of the old parties get the votes
to overcome the large majorities in
northwestern and southwestern Min
nesota? The whole republican ma
jority, for governor, in 1890, in the
eight southeastern counties, over the
peoples party to wit, in Houston,
Winona, Fillmore, Dodge, Olmsted,
Wabasha, Mower and Rice, was but
$500, while Owen had but 4,479
votes, in all in those eight counties.
This year the peoples party vote will
be doubled and the republican party
majority nearly wiped out. In the
great cities the peoples party vote
will be from twice to five times what
it was two years ago.
We are gaining every day; the
movement Of public opinion is all on
one side; and we will be 10000 votes
stronger on the 9Th OF November
than we are today.
Let every man do his duty and the
peoples party will carry the state by
10000 plurality.