The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-20
SHAMEFUL
FALSEHOOD.

A-nnther Shameful falsehoQj. !,
Campaign Roorback
SqueIched.
j have received the following let
ter and, as requested, suppress tn.
name Of the writer:
TWIN VALLEY, Dec. /. 80
HON. IGNATlUs DONNELLY:
For the last two or three davs
have been getting few subscriber.
Tor the REPRESENTATIVE. asked
one gentleman who had already sub
Scribed Tor thirteen weeks, to let me
extend the time for one wear more
He said, "NO, guess ] shall have
enough OF DOnnelly when thirteen
weeks are up (he had not vet seen tho
first copy" We had a good natured
argument for while and he said
DOnnelly cannot deny that he took
5000 in the Union Pacific. railroad
swindle.'
l asked him to show some proof
and he said that when Knute Nelson
was travelling through this section
last fall, speaking, he made that
statement, and Mr.. 2. S. Olson con.
tradlcted him whereupOn he (Nelson)
produced the report Of the congress
slonal investigating committee, an
pointed during Clcyeland's admins
tration, and read the above state
ment from IT. This statement, the
gentleman says, was taken by the
committee from the Congressional
Record, and is therefore, in the gen
tleman's opinion, invincible and un-
deniable evidence. I did not believe
the statement, although | knew the
gentleman To be honest in his own
way.
He is one Of those gentlemen who
read six republican papers and would
under no circumstances read a paper
or book that in any way confiicted
with the orthodox creed Of the repub-
lican bosses. / believe he is one of
the hundreds who consider it. the
. solemn duty Of every voter to put a
halter on his neck and connect it by
a chain TO the tailboard OF one Of the
political band wagons and trot along
behind until the time comes to shut
fle off the mortal coil; there to re-
main through thick and thin, wet
and dry, high tariff or free trade,
free silver or no silver, government
money or Wall street mOuey, not for
the man but for the party, not for
the principle but for the name. No
matter who the candidate may be-
Jim Hill or joe Wheelock, Carnegie
or Reed, Gabriel or .Lucifer,--if the
ticket reads 'republicanism," in it
goes. & ~.
AS I said, before, take no stock in
the story, but for the benefit Of the
many people who listened to Gov.
Nelson on that evening. l wish you
would very kindly explain the matter
through the columns Of the paper
and greatly oblige A READER.
If you publish this letter wish it
would appear without my name.
have done what | could for the Rep
several subscribers in few days and
expect to make it fifty before June,
and feel confident that shall sue
ceed. / am one of the million ad-
mirers of yourself and your books.
The REPRESENTATIVE has many
subscribers in this section, and many
readers around my home in LeSueur
county, among whom is my father,
who would not like to see my name
appear in print.
have nothing but kindly feelings
toward Gov. Nelson, and should be
10th to believe that the statement
referred to in the foregoing letter
correctly represents his action. II
he made any such assertion, it was a
most unworthy act.
II Gov. Nelson had any proof that
received 5000 for 1.-THE Union Pa
cific railroad swindle", while I was in
congress, it was his duty to have pub
Iished the facts in full. 1t was his
duty, when challenged him TO a
public discussion, to have met me
with his overwhelming proofs and
driven me from the platform and out
of the campaign. It was his duty
when he and both spoke at Haw-
ley on the same night, Oct. II, 1892,
to have accepted the invitation OF
the citizens Of Hawley and our state
central committee, for joint de.
bate, and crushed me then and there
under the weight Of the testimony in
that terrible book. 1t was his duty
to have furnished his proofs to the
Pioneer Press, when that journal
was securing the face of the earth
for evidence of my corrupt acts in
congress. They would have paid tens
of thousands of dollars for it. Nay
it was the duty of the republican
state central committee to have pub
lished full copy of the alleged
proofs in that book, in Gov. Nelson's
valise, in every republican newspaper
in the state; and to have distributed
copies of it at the door Of every hall
where ! spoke during the campaign
And it was also the duty of the dem.
ocratic state central committee to
have taken similar steps, SO as tt
bring my pertidy home to every voter
in Minnesota, and thus have helped