The Irish standard., 1892-09-10
DoNNELLY AS A DEMAGoGUE.

The people OF Minnesota are all willing
to admit that as a brainy man OF litera-
ture and oratorical power Ignatius Don
nelly is without rival in the state. AS
politician he has been so vacillating
and inconsistent that few who know his
public career place any reliance in his
integrity as reformer. He has been on
ali sides and has advocated all kinds of
political vagnries. During his residence
in Minnesota he served as representa-
tive in the national congress and on
several occasions be represented his dis
trict in the upper house OF the state
legislature, but never has he been the
author of any measure which has brought
relief to the people. Notwithstanding
this fact, he is now the Peoples Party
candidate for governor of the state. and
many of the farmers and laborers look
up to him as a Moses who will redress
their grievances and lead them to pros
perity. Mr.. Donnelly appeared in this
city last Monday and addressed mass
meeting in Normanna hall in the even
ing. In the course of his harangue he
took occasion to rldicule Daniel W..
LAWYER for honestly declaring in his
Labor Day speech that the forbearance,
moderation and intelligence of the labor
/ ing population of this country would do
moro to solve the labor problem than all
the declarations Of politicians put to-
gether. Mr.. Donnelly was astounded
that the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor should say such thing and like the
unprincipled demagogue that he is he
proceeded to show that Mr.. Lawler was
behind the times and had not kept pace
with the advanced ideas of government.
When Donnelly is justly accused Of
changing his politics as often as the
chameleon changes it's color, he always
explains his rapid movements by claim
ing that he is in advance of the party
which he last left. Mr.. Lawler is too
slow to keep up with Donnel]y. He has
always remained Democrat while the
Sage of Nininger has been joining and
deserving every party that has sprung
up for the past quarter of century.
Donnelly expects the government to do
everything for the alienation Of human
distress. He would have paternal gov
eminent to remedy every i'll that aff1icts
the laboring man. He wants it to raise
up magnificent yeomanry and not a
rich aristocracy. He would have the
government fix the limit of wages to be
paid in protected industries or establish
board or commission to decide what
wages shall be "Carnegie," he says,
SHOULD be given good interest on the
money invested at Homestead and divide
the rest of the profits among his lab d.
srs." That is the way Donnelly tails to
the working men, and the minimizing
among them believe it to be the quintes-.
sence OF political wisdom when it comes
from the mellitlous tongue of the Sage
of Nininger. The Peoples Party, of
which Donnelly is the mouthpiece in
Minnesota, have platform bristling
with visionary schemes, They demand
that the government absolutely control
and supervise railroads to prevent the
people from being charged exorbitaut
rates Of freight. The Peoples Party in
Ohio demand that the government man.
ufacture and sell Intoxicating liquor.
The Peoples Party want the government
to do everything instead OF allowing the
citizens to carry on business without any
interference from it, The people least
governed are the best off. The Demo-
cratic party has at all times strenous]y
objec ted to governmental interference in
the affairs of the people. It wants no
legislation for manufacturing industries
in any part of the continent, but is IL
favor of giving them all fair and equal
chance. It will never rest satisfied
until the Mckinley tariff bill is repealed
and the mushroom growth of million
aires, enriched at the expense of the peo-
pie, is rendered impossible. It believes
in the cardinal doctrine of political econ
omy that the wages Of the >laboring men |
depend solely Oh the law of supply and |
demand, and believes it is utterly impos-
sible to raise the scale of wages by the
ntopian scheme proposed by the literary
conoclast and political visionary from
The classic shades of Niringer. Since the
aomition of Donnelly for governor on the
Peoples ticket he has made no attempt
% explain the chimerical platform on
which he stands. He fnds it easier to
,riticise the other candidates, especially
he Democratic standard bearer, and
hat fact has led many to the suppose
ion that the Peoples pa.;y movement as
represented by Donnelly is deep-laid
scheme OF the Republicans to divide the
Democracy Of the state in order that
hat they may prove triumphant in the
PRESENT campaign. The farming and