Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-10-28
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY.
D0NNELLy AND PARSONS.
Address a Largo Audience at the
p. Z Opera House--Mostiy Free "
80 = 49,. Silver.

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Address a Largo Audience at the
Z Opera House-Mostiy Free
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! Hon. Ignatius Donnellv, nopulist
candidate for governor, and a. G.
Parson, candidate for congress,
spoke at the opera house last.eyen.
ing to a good sized audience.
Mr.. Parson was the first speaker
Of the evening, and was introduced
by c. E. NJ. Brown in a few well
chosen remarks. The gentleman
read his address, and tho things he
said he was against wereasthe de-
monitization ofsilver, the rule Of rail
road and wheat rings, bossisn the
buying OF Offices by capitalists, the
liquor traffic, and the laws which
were making corporations richer and
the poor poorer, trusts, etc., and the
speaker went away back to the time
when PharOa eOrnere( all the pro-
ducts OF Egypt and compared that
time with the present, and said we
were rapidly getting in the condition
that country was in. Our nation
was also compared to Rome when
1000 OF her citizens Owned the empire.
| He also quoted Abraham Lincoln as
saying that after the war the wealth
| would be in the hands OF the few and
then the republic would be destroyed,
and the speaker claimed that this
prophecy is rapidly being fulfilled.
Mr.. PEARSON clailns that all candi-
dates for state Offices should furnish
a statement Of their expense account
during Il campaign, and If it appears
that they have been guilty OF buying
their way into Office they shall be
sent to the state prison instead Of to
the capitol. :*~.5
Jay Gould and the oil kings were
roasted to Il turn, and accused OF
sending money to the country to aid
in the election OF officers favorable to
them. -. =.s
The speaker closed by saying that
he wanted the voters to leave the Old
parties. Join the Peoples party and
vote like honest men for laws to
eliminate all the evils from our land.
Hon. 1gnatius DonncIly was next
introduced and was greeted with
applause as he advanced to the
front OF the stage.
After making the usual compli-
menta1y remarks with regard to the
size of the audience and the growth
and prosperity of our city, he said
he was sorry that the Republican
and Democratic candidates for
governor were not here to discuss
the issues with him from the same
platform and stated the number of
times they had been invited to do
SO but had declined. He then roast
ed the daily press especially the
Pioneer Press and said that u news
PAPER was a lot of types with u liar
behind it and claimed that all papers
but the organs OF his own party were
misrepresenting him.
Mr.. Donnelly then spoke on the
silver question, which he said was
one OF the most important issues Of
the campaign, and gave what he
said was the true history OF the
decentralization of that metal, which
occurred in 1873, and explained how. it
effected the people Of the United
States. He said that the Bank of
| England was back OF the scheme and
used John sherman us the tool to do
the work, and he had done more
harm to his felluwmen than all the
criminals in the nation. He backed
his statement about the Bank of
England by saying that in 1874, an
Englishman, after drinking con-
siderable Wine, had told an American
how the bank had sent him over
| with money to get the hiil through
and that he succeeded. The speaker
then went GA to state how the
! demOnitiZatiO, ri slivc;. was q
| benefit to English capitalists. The
story he told, he says, las never
| been printed in any paper but the
| organs Of his party, an! then the
press got another roast, and was
, accused Of running in accounts OF
races and prize fights instead Of
more important news until the
average American youth wants TO
be a "sport.''
! The Democrats he said had prom
| ised to pass free silver bill, but
instead OF doing it when they had a
chance they took their Doodle and
! did nothing about the bill
Donneliv wants free silver and
claims that the taking away Of it's
| value in 1873 hurt the wheat grow ers
in the north and the cotton raisers
i'll the south and illustrated his
statements by comparisons. He
claims that men OF both parties in
the silver producing states are join
ing the Peoples party because the
other parties will ('oncthiny toward
| free silver.
The Old parties were accused OF
being owned by English capitalists
and the Bank OF England. he told
the people that both parties had
sold them out, and yet they voted
their ticket, because their fathers
| uA; grandfathcrs belonged to these
parties. The speaker said "a mule
might as well say, my father and
grandfather were jackasses, there
fore am ;.jackasa. 'f
nonne!ly said parties We're honest
in Jackson's time but had CHANGED
greatly since, and when he SAID ii
BUCHANAN had had his way we
would not now have the country
that we have, some one in the audi
encc said buchanan was a good
Dem oclat, the speaker sat down on
him rather. hard, but it was what he
deserved. The sage said he was call
ed inconsistent, because he had be
longeu to SO many parties, but that
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