New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-17
IG. I'm EXCEsI.LE'NT HEA IT H.
So BE Says ina Lsttar to the Minneapolis
Tribune.
Pushing Aside the Marble Slab Of his
Tomb, BE Says Hell Stick.

Ignatius Donne1Iy, the Peoples Party
nominee for governor has written a let
Ter to the Minneapolis Tribune relative
to certain stories to, the effect that he
would withdraw and in reading it one
sees all Of Donnelly's caustic style and
remarkable dictien. Here is the letter:
Editor Minneapolis Tribune: Will you
be kind enough to give me sufficient
lfspace in which to deny certain tertt:sails-
ling fabrieatlons Of the public press. con
.cerning myself For. a time I was sinlp-
/ ly amused by these inventions, but I find
them repeated broadcast until they are
obtaining general credenee and are an
noyfng and distressing my friends.
One newspaper the other day casually
remarked discussing the probabilities
of the camp ign that might resign my
nomination for governor and return to my
farm. Another kindly suggested that if
II { had any desire to withdraw could
get my physician to order me to do so
on account of my health. In the hands
of a third artist this grew into a state-
ment that was actually about to- give
up the contest. A fourth repeated this
with supplement that my doctor had
ordered me to resign. A fifth explained
that my sickness was due to overwork.
And then Dakota papers kindly re-
marked that I had been paid a handsome
sum to get sick and withdraw. And
thereupon whole concourse of state
papers has given it out that am very
sick and absolutely out of the field and
that the Peoples Party ticket has gone
to pieces.
You remember, Mr. Editor, the old
story of the man who was said to have
swallowed something Gas black as a
crow and the report grew by successive
stages until it appeared that the unfortu-
nate individual had swallowed three
black CROWS alive at that2 Really, if
these inventive and romantic gentlemen
OF the press are not stopped in their
creative career | shall expect to read, In
a few days, full account of my last
sickness and death, and all the details Of
my funeral, together with the glowing
obituary notices with which the delight
ed newspapers will consign me to my
last resting place.
And SO i push aside the marble slab
of my tomb and stick my head out long
enough to protest (however much it May
dlsappoint the world that am not sick
or dying, Or dead; that have no physi-
clan, and cannot Tecollect that I ever
had one, that never, was in better
health in my life; that have not thought
for one instant of withdrawing from the
contest for the gubeFnaterial chair; that
on Monday next begin series of rs
4 speeches, in all parts of the state, and
=
i rhat [ propose to make the coming cam
i paign the liveliest ever seen in Minnesota
4 If my excellent friends, Hon. Knute Mel
/ son and Hon. Daniel LaWler, doubt the
truth Of any of these statements I shall
4 be happy to have them both accompany
me, and we will discuss the questions OF
the day IN a good natured, courteous and
ineislye manner, for the entertainment
and enlightenment Of the voters
i Neither is it true that the Peoples
Party state ticket is In the throes Of dis
solution Hon. John e.. Macdonald has
not withdrawn for the benefit of Mr.
i Nethaway. Hon. Kittel HalyoFsen has
not resigned the nomination for Heuten-
ant governor. 1t is true that three OF
the candidates on the electoral ticket.
for good and sufficient reasons, have
Withdrawn, but their places will soon be
filed.
We are advancing to certain triumph.
i The Wiping out Of the $4,000 majority
given to Cleveland in Alabama four
years ago, and the carrying Of that state
for the Peoples Party ticket by 1000
maj joTity, is sufficient evidence that the
whole line ofSouthern states Will 90 down
IN November next Like row of bricks;
while the Republicans, west of the Mis-
sissippi, will scarcely have enough shreds
of popular support left to cover their
nakedness, as they stand shivering be-
fore the bar Of public opinion.
No, Mr. Editor, this is not the time
4 for the Peoples Party Of Minnesota to
disrupt, dissolve 81 absquatulate. Yours,
in excellent health.
Slept Seventeen Ysa1a.