The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-12
HORR-ESCO REFERENS.
MIR. DONNELLY REPLIES TO THE
HORRIBLE HORR.
He CheWs Him Up and
Spits Him Out of
the Window.
SOPHISTRIES KNOCKED End
WAYS.

When the Republicans held their
State Convention. last summer, they
were conscious that they were run
ming emptens," so they sent out and
imported Goliath of Gath who was
to knock the socks off any number of
Populist dwarfs. The conquering
hero came and let himself loose
against the Peoples Party:-he had
nothing to say about the Democrats
he considered that time and events
had made them a historical remem-
brance; but the Populists.- All. he
skinned them aliye-Or thought he
did.
Well when this formidable importa-
tion-this $4,000 Durham bull, from
the Tribune office, New York, had
cleared the ring, (Which he had had all
to himself all the time and was paw
ing and snorting and believing and
kicking up the dust, the Republican
party in the galleries meantime howl
ing with delight;-we thought we
would take a modest hand in the fight
and SO we jumped the fence and be-
gan to hurl a lot of darts into the
monster. The result was that the
whole country from Maine to San
Francisco has been ever since petri-
fed by the astonishing roars of the
beast.
But, to drop the metaphor, Mr.. Horr
replied to us in the New York
Tribune: and his reply !ids be-
come a campaign document,
for the Republican party of the
nation. A friend wrote us from
Virginia, the other day, that every
post office there. and in fact every
post Office in the United States, had
been supplied with hundreds and
thousands of copies of Horr's reply;
every Republican paper in Minnesota
has been furnished with it, as plate
matter; and the Pioneer-Press, quite
recently, republished it in full on it's
editorial page. Not one of them
could be induced to quote line from
this article.
We should have answered Mr. Horr
sooner, but a lot of little flee dogs, a
kind of rat terriers, small, noisy, clat-
tcrlng, crea lures, have been biting at
our shins, and tearing our coat-ta lis.
and we have been kept busy kicking
their heads off. We have now about
got through with the job; (there
wasn't anything in them,) and so
we turn our attention once more to
Mr.. Horr.
He commenced by drawing his en-
broidered pocket handkerchief from
his pocket and whimpering. He has
been abused, so he has. We called
him names. We made faces at his Sis
ter. 1t is shame. so it is. We said
he was an 'ass." 1t was vul-gah. If
man cannot come thousand miles to
attack the Peoples Party, and make
fun of it, and tell ridiculous stories
about calves, ETC., without being
whacked over the head by some
rampagenous reformer, there ought
to be statute for his protection.
Cleveland should call out the regular
army; the courts should issue injunc-
tions. In short Populists should wear
gloves when they hit a Republican
paripatetic stump-speaker on the
nose, and make the rich red blood flow
freely. 1t isn't nice. 1t is cruel. 1t
is in bad form. 1t is naughty.
Well, now, if Mr.. Horr is not ready
to meet all cOmeTS he should 90 back
to New York lock the door. and get
into featNer bed and stay there un-
til this fight is over. We western peo-
pie are rough fellows-we havn't as
much "culchah,' as our eastern
friends. We call a spade a spade and
an ass an ass. Its way we have. We
don't mean any harm by it. We are
simply -salient-staccato
He then says he is working for liv-
ing for the New York Tribune, and he
asks:
''Is it a disgrace to be employed by
great metropolitan journal, such as
the New York Tribune is everywhere
acknowledged to be-"
This is very neat and adroit adver-
tisement of the paper he works for
He should have his salary raised But
Mr.. Horr understands perfectly we'll
that no one objects to his working for
living; or to his working for the
New York Tribune. 1t is when he
leaves his business, as a colporteur and
canvasser. and goes to making stump
speeches, and insulting and abusing
better men than himself that he LAYS
himself open to attack; and he cannot
crawl behind the Tribune or make
touching references to his dire neces-
sity for bread and butter, as a de-
fence.
Neither is it just. The St. Paul
Globe said, the other day, alluding to
the very speech we are ans wering:
He closes this with suggestion to
Mr.. Donnelly that in the future he
should try to be governed by the rules
which are recognized as proper among
gentlemen and not descend to the use
of vituperation. Those who have
heard Mr.. Horr upon the stump will
be somewhat amused at his as
sumption Of dignity. He has earned
the reputation of being the prize buf-
foon of the Republican party"
Now ace wouldn't say that: for Mr.
Horr is a very bright man. We heard
him mop the floor of Congress with
Sunset Cox, wit himself, and it was
one of the finest things we ever listen
ed to. He must be getting into the