St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-28


time in the hope, apparently. that some
one would object. but, as no one did, he
put it to vote, and it was unanimously
adopted. When the newspaper scheme
came UP and the projectors we're heard.
l rose and stated that the Representa-
tive Publishing company had been con-
templating for some time past the
establishment of daily newspaper, as
we announced in our last issue, and
tional expense. l said l had not the
slightest objection to Mr.. Westerfieid
and the other capitalists Gncluding
Macdonald), starting the paper, or start
Ing dozen papers; but did not think
it right to use the state machinery Of a
political party had done so much to
create for the purpose of building
paper which would and was intended to
supplant and destroy the Representa-
tive; that if that machinery was to be
used for the benefit of any paper it
should be used to help the publication
which. for more than year. at heavy
loss to some of US, had held up the ban
uer of the party when the clouds were
resolution that the Representative be
indorsed; whereupon Tom Lucas, man
who is fire-brand and perpetual in
jury and menace to the Peoples party.
rose and assailed the paper savagely,
because the editor expressed an OpiiiiOn
that party politics should not be obtrud-
ed into municipal affairs.
Tom Lucas Catches 1t.
Mr.. Donnelly then goes on to pay his
respects to Lucas in his inimitable way.
Among other things. he says: God
help us if Tom Lucas owns the Popu-
lists of Minnesota" He questions the
political honesty of Lucus. and SAYS:
''1f he had been paid by the Repub-
licans to go into our state convention of
July 10 to raise diScord and break us up
he could not have acted differently from
what he did,"
Proceeding further, he discusses
Lucas actions when the report of the
committee OH resolutions was presented
to the recent state convention as fol-
lows:
''As soon as the platform was reported
this wild man Of Borneo got out of his
tree, dropped his cocoanut, rushed for
the platform, and. although he is not q
farmer. nor anything else but peren-
squash from pumpkin, he made saw
age attack on the platform, in the name
OF The farmers, because the subtreasury
plan had been omitted! Thus trying to
Stir up the farmers TO row and fight,
la the Chicago convention. But when
he found that not single man in the
convention seconded him he SUNK back
to his seat. Now, either he was paid to
do all this-Or he is fool--and a super
serviceable and extravagant fool at
that.
ION the afternoon of the day of the
convention, as there was no opposition
to S. Nj. Owen for governor, some one
moved that he be nominated by ac-
was fighting Owen then Che is his
champion now, and was on his feet at
once, and howled that they wanted
platform adopted first, and that every
man nominated for any Office by the
convention should specifically pledge
himself to sustain every plank of it.
The idea was that Owen was not
Populist and must be tied hand and
foot. He carried his point. His object
was also to prevent scene of great
enthusiasm, which might have helped
the ticket. This is proved by
the fact that the next day. when Owen
was nominated, Lucas was present, but
he never asked Owen single question
about lndorsing the platform. Nor did
he ever question any other candidate as
to the platform. He simply craWled
into his own mouth aud was silent for
the space of five minutes: all astoniShed
Nature took her fingers out of her ears
and sighed sigh OF profound relief"
AS parting shot to Lucas, Senator
Donnelly says:
"Great God! If Tom Lucas is the
Peoples party the rest of US had better
follow Doc Fish into South Dakota. In
the presence of Lucas Fish becomes
endurable. nay, admirable"
Wants Macdonald Removed.
Mr.. Donnelly then suggests that Lucas
be suppressed and Macdonald be taken
from the committee. His language is:
"NOw, we make no threats-we speak
coolly and dispassionately-but We say
that it Will be worth a good MANY
thousand votes to the Peoples Party of
Minnesota to suppress Tom Lucas and
take John l.. Macdonald from the head
OF that committee. He is not fit for the
place. He is neither generous, nor
wise, nor liberal, nor energetic, nor
honest. He has worked for month to
get up a scheme which will divide us
into two factions and tear us to flinders,
from Pembina to the Iowa line"
He charges Macdonald with being a
politician without followers, and de-
clares that in the state senate he was
the abject tool of plutocracy. In cor
robOration of his charge he quotes Mac
dOnald's vote on several measures. One
was in opposition to the resolution
which Senator Donnelly offered that as
condition precedent to the extension
of the time tor the completion Of the st.
Paul & Pacific railroad the company set
aside $4,000 acres to pay the actual set
tiers along the lines of the road for
work performed in grading the road
bed or furnishing ties. Another was the
measure since adopted by congress and
known as 1.-THE long aud short haul
clause" against which Macdonald voted.
Macdonald'S vote in favor Of repeating
the rate-iXing law oil railroads is also
referred to, as is also his effort to refer
the resolution to investigate the alleged
Leech lake and Red lake pine land
Swndle. Macdonald, according to Sem
ator Donnelly's article, also voted in
favor of the bill whereby settlers in the
Red river valley north of Glynden have
been obliged to pay large prices for
their lands, whereas they might have
had them free. He also voted against
extending the time for payment of the
raVages OF the graSShoppers and against
the bill to give the people school books
at one.half the former price. On this
latter point, Mr.. Donnelly says:
1.-The school book ring spent $4,000
to defeat the bill; Macdonald voted
with them. But it passed, and In ff-
teen years that bill saved the state
sl,5OO,0O0 in the price of school books,
and preventing constant changes of
books.
"And this man undertakes to be the
Moses to lead the Peoples party into
the promised land, and who, as a first
step, proposes to crush the Representa-
tive"
The charge is made that Macdonald is
not even Populist. The senator quotes
the following letter written by Mac
donald to the Representative of May
81, 1894:
''Mr. Owen believes as many others
do myself included that it is bad policy
for any political party, especially one
inst coming into pXIStnnca IN uO tOn