New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-09-28
a VERY QUIET ca AIPAIGN.
THE PREVAILING PROSPERITY
OF THE COUNTRY CAUSES
A FEELING OF REST
.FULNESS.
No Wailings are Heard, Save From
Such Men as Donneliy--The
Confidence OF the Masses
In Republican Admin.
istrarion Is Felt on
all Sides.

NAA1 DAO pASSCuU SciicEtClCu Has
been so marked by perfect quietude
| and restfulness as that of 1892. The
reasons for this are obvious to
| thoughtful minds.
| Men, like other animals cry aloud
when they are hurt. Every pleasure
able sensation is received, absorbed
| and digested in silence. The absence
| OF all rant in this campaign is super
!! induced by the plenty and prosperity
that prevails.
There is no wailings heard from
| platforms, when the prophets
/ OF calamity tell to well-fed and pros
| porous audiences the story of how
grim want stalks naked through the
| land.
# Take Mr.. Donnelly, for instance.
He is q farmer, and goes through the
| outlying districts of the state pro-
claiming the abject want OF the pro-
ducing classes. But Mr.. Donnelly is
| not built right to enact the character
| of John the Baptist in a calamity
campaign. He is the typical well-fed
farmer OF Minnesota. His very pres
ence is a glowing advertisement OF the
pro- Effectiveness OF our amazingly fer
tile soil. His "fair round, belly, with
fat capon lined, is astomachic paean
OF praise for the innumerable blessings
/ youchsafed to the agricultural pro-
ducers OF the over-howing Northwest.
The health and strength, and large
vitality embodiedin our plump little
Minnesota orator and romancer are a
steady and persistent contradiction
to his political philosophy.
Look at him as he stands out clear
and bold upon the platform OF some
country school house, carrying his
sixty years OF life as easily as the vir-
gin school girl carries her sixteen.
Plump as old Jack Falsaf, and
almost as successful a liar as that
matchless creation OF Shakespeare,
he speaks in stent Dream tones OF the
sutferings Of the farmers who compose
his audience, while the smell of the
new and full harvest creeps into the
window, and the shrill voice OF the
contented cricket responds with,
you're a liar! you're liar! you're a
liar!!
But the ca'amity candidate does
not mind the chirp Of the cricket.
He has had that truism dinned
into his ears for SO many decades
that he has grown used to it, and
likes his prevaric atingp rototype, lying
old Jack Falstaff he keeps right
ongfabricating calamity for election
/ purposes and pro badly will do so to
the limit of his constituencies wilful
lite.
Prophets of disaster should be made
OF steamer stuff and cast in different
physical mould. Donnelly should
hire out OF one Of our dime museums
a living skeleton, and parade him up
and down the platform as the man
who views a favor at Nininger. There
should be more method in his prevar-
ication. Donnelly himself should
parade ais the favorite OF bloated
monopoly, and point with his short
stubby finger to the starv-
ling beside him, as his own
victim. He should tell how the living
skeleton dieted upon the screenings of
the tanning mill, while the fruits of
the field found persistent Judgement
beneath his own expansive and ex-
panding girdle. Then there would be
harmony in his falsehoods, symphony
in his lies, and perfect meter and
touching ry thin in his unbounded as
severations.
AS future evidence of the existence
OF plenty in this favored land which
sustains s'the robber tariff the
writer would call attention to the
| Hon. Daniel Lawler, Democratic cam
5didate for Governor. OF course it be-
longs to Mr.. LAWYERS profession to be
Well-fed. The city lawyer was never
known to go hungry or thirsty to bed.
The city lawyer is the well-fed spider
Of our modern social system. He for
nlulates the laws 80 that they need
expert Interpretation, then selectst the
experts from his own, number, who
proceed tosinterpre them in the man
ner that will be the most beneficial to
| to their own legal guild. The
city lawyer thus lives upon the fat
OF the land. He is the miller who takes
the erist for his toll, and then hangs
Ion to the toll itself aslong as possible.
Mr.. Lawler takes pride in proclaim
ing that he is not arailroad attorney.
That is doubtless a fact, but there is
exist ng evidence in Minnesota that
the real training schoolfor railroad at
/ torneysin this fertile northwest is the
/ political campaignin the interestof the
downtrodde farmer. Even Mr.. James
]. Hills guide, philosopher and friend
Col. Clough- gained his first political
celebrity as leader among
the grangers" twenty years ago
in their initial efforts to "shake
the railroads over hell" Col. Clough
provided q good shaker and shook
some OF the richest plums into his
ownlap. Will it be SO with Mr.. Law
/ Ter? Perhaps. He comes Of good old
railway stock. Uncle John Lawler,
of Prairie du Chen, was the s'agent OF
the Milwaukee & ST. Paul Railroad,
who attended to legislative matters
/ for that great corporation in it's for
| | nation period. 1t would be to bad
to have that early paternal educa-
ton, not to speak OF inherited tenden.
Iscies, thrown away.
/ Excepting these calamity shoutings,
however, the campaign is a very
quiet one essarily quiet, because
plenty and prosperity reigns' lin this
Il T., ~.