St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-18

losopter. Why this staring white
blank-the only one in this list or in
any similar list? All! There has been
, some cunning, foxy knave at work, who
wanted to get part of the public plum
| der, and wanted at the same time to
cover up his tracks. Now, suppose the
name lad read thus:
ernest Smith, Otter Tail county, Deer
Creek, aged twelve, nephew of Hon. John b.
! Hompe.''
Then his constituents would have
gotten onto the Hon. John. the spotless
patriot, the immaculate economist.
They might even have inquired how
much of the boys pay (s262) was ao-
sorbed by the amlable and public-Splrlt-
ed uncle, for surely little boy would
| not be worth $3.50 day to any one.
! But think of the cunning that left the
boys address a blank; and the impu-
dence which attacked me because my
son. man of family. trained lawyer,
secured for himself the clerkship of the
! judiciary committee.
Oh John! You are a source OF UNI
bounded delight to the thoughtful stu
dent of the capacities OF human nature.
Simply Contemplate.
And Hompe has to drag into this con-
| troversy even the excellent lady who
| was employed by the state Farmers
| Alliance to help me in my official cor
respondence as typewriter and Stenog-
rapher. 1t Is simply contemplate.
This lady, widow, who had once been
wealthy, belonging to one OF the most
distinguished families in this state, an
honorable and accomplished parsonage.
had been forced by stress of fortune to
hire out her time and talents to the
| fnr 10 nit nj
per month. 1t was barely enough to
| pay her board in st. Paul, and out OF it
she had to pay also the hire of
| typewriting machine. If she had done
nothing hut work for the Alliance l
should never have asked a penny for
her, from the senate; but she was III
| the railroad committee room, just OIL
| the floor of the senate, and one-halt oil
her time was occupied in making type
written copies of bills for different SEN
/ atorS. 1t was none of her business. but
she was too good-natureI and lady-llke
to refuse; and there she sat, pounding
away on her machine, day after day, for
| the benefit of the senators, and, lndi-
rectly of the state, for it is in the inter-
est of good legislation that clean, col
rect copies of bills should be had, IN
stead of the blurred and poorly written
ScrawlS which committees are often
called to act upon. She asked nothing,
but saw the injustice of it, and with
| out consulting her put in bill for the
| pitiful sum OF $50 for her, and it was
| voted to her. That was all she got,
above expenses, for three months
work. But | did not ask even that
until Sl25 had been first voted,
to Miss Amelia Schrode, for services to
senators as telegraph operator. When
I'm frr- n Ing
little bill, it stood 81 yeas to nays.
Hompe, as usual, lodged! And now
like the great ungainly hulk he is, he
dragS this poor little lady into public
print. by name. and seeks to wound her
through ME. Shamei shamei The man
is a brute.
DonnelIy's Wealth.
And then HOmpe announces. as a
matter of startling news, that am a
rich man. 1t is tue that have a good
deal of property, worth considerable
money. but most of it produces no in
come, it Yields only taxes and assess
mentS. Moderate wealth is no disgrace
to any man, and a man is not diSquali-
fed from fighting the battle of the pao-
pie because he is not a pauper. The
question is not whether have fortune,
but how did obtain it? Through
all the viStationS Of hail storms
and failure of crops HOmpe, L
am told flourishes like green-bay-tree,
while his neighbors, situated apparently
just as he is, are falling into bank
ruptcy. Now, if Hompe could have
shown that there was the slightest SINH
lar faint of suspicion on my possessions
it would have been proper to bring the
matter up in the discussion of my pub
lie career. But he we'll knows that my
st. Paul properties were purchased
away back in 1856 and 1857. thirty-six
years ago, long before | held any Office
in the state; and that the same is true
of most of my farm lands. During my
whole six years in congress ! bought
but two pieces of land, and paid 500
down on each, the rest of the payments
made gradually, out of the crops; and
yet my salary during those six years
amounted to nearly s90,000 And Hompe
would have further found, il he
had been just enough to ex-
anime into the matter, that part
of my wealth consisted of books which
| had written. and which have become
standards in English literature, yielding
regular annual revenue. Hompe is
not fitted to read. much less understand
these productions. They are as far
above his comprehension as the orbit of
Aldebaran is beyond the intellectual
apparatus of one of his mules. Carlyle
said to shallow woman, who had COM
mended something he had spoken:
MADAME, hope | have said nothing
which you can understands So say to
Hompe: II hope L have written nothing
which you can comprehend"
And Hompe is foolish enough to re-
veal the real motive of these attacks.
He says:
Some of my friends will question the wis
| dom of writing these letters at this time: that
| it will divide and weaken the Alliance. and
| prevent successful campaign next summer
! 1t seems TO me that whatever chances we
had for success III the state this year were
thrown away by the action of the late ALI
ance convention, unless wiser couns Is pre-
vail at tie Peoples party convention next
summer.
Alliance Is Alive.
In other words, the Alliance is al
be resurrected by the Peoples party
making Hompe their leader and stand
ard bearer. We shall see. Time will
demonstrate that Hompe is the fellow
that is dead, and that the Alliance is
more alive than ever. 1t is, in fact.
question of $4,000 PEOPLES party voters
on one side and {Iompe, Hodgson, Hos
kins, Hall and the devil on the other.
That's the way the Alliance will he d.
vided.
There appeared in the Chicago Times.
Feb. 4, 1892, telegram from st. Paul,
which stated that Hompe, Hodgson and
two other men Il don't pane them be-
cause | hope the statement ISLANDERS
them, had formed a combination to
eliminate tine Donnelly influence from
a
Hompe started in on these letters. and
Hodgson bought. or had placed in his
hands, a newspaper owned by wheat
gamblers and elevator men; and which
from stem to stern has been, ever
since. filled with lies and foul abuse of
myself. And then the telegram goes
on to say:
Now the (Alliance) organization really
wants to unite with some party i'll order to
have say in political affairs, as it has
right to, and the best means to accomplish
this is now all important topic of discussion
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