The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-05
Parker's Lake, Aug. 80.
GRAND LETTER.
A Voice From Outside of the Stat

A Voice From Outside of the State.
To the Editor:
The fractional fight in Minnesota is the
natural result of recognizing with official
position men who are monomaniacs on
the subject of their own superlative holt
ness, and the general cussedneSS'' of the
rest of the human race.
During the campaign of 1890 the men who
are now trying to run the reform craft
into the breakers of discord were in so
far as they were represented, a thorn in
the flesh of the movement.
Thomas Lucas has never been friend Of
S. NJ. Owen, and in 1892 he called him a
traitor because he refused to accept the
nomination for congress in the Minneap-
oils district.
1 question no mans sincerity, but 1 may
surely question the judgment and conss-
tency of men like the present malcontents
who are sowing the seed of discussion and
whether maliciOusly or not, singing the
movement to death.
The Representative is the best organ the
movement for fraternal government has
ever had. Every number is a feast of
wholesome intellectual reform food. Its
columns not filled with the rabid moth
ingS of the present journalistic school or
the noxious blatherskiteism that is too
often disseminated in the name of reform
1t is an educator of the best type and
highest order. 1 cannot understand how
any Minnesotian who loves the good cause
it's success.
AS to Mr.. Donnelly, he is an intellectual
giant, but in his judgment of men as guile
less as an infant. E. w. Fish would never
have been in position to act as the assas-
sin of Donnelly if he had not permitted
Fish to foist himself into notoriety by
hanging onto his coat tails. So with LII
cas-. Donnelly has always had weakness
for Tom Lucas, and but for Donnelly's
patronage Lucas would long since have
sunken out of sight. The same might be
said of others who have been a curse to
the cause and source of suspicion against
Mr.. Donnelly himself.
AS to the senatorship, I have always
been a friend of S. M. Owen and do not
believe that it is with his consent or ad-
vice that his brother or anyone has op-
posed, or is opposing the candidacy of Dom
nelly for the United States senatorship.
Minnesota has but one citizen who will
bestow more honor than he will receive in
an election to that position, and that citi-
zen is Ignatius Donnelly. l was surprised
when read the report of the state conven-
ton to find no Endorsement of his candi-
dacy.
The surest rebuke of Washburnism is the
election of his antipodean Donnelly
While resident of Minnesota 1 often
misjudged him, but + my estimate was
based upon the character of his factotum
Fish, rather than what / know of the
man himself. Away from the heat of those
factious times, and after a more thorough
study of his works, I am inclined to as
sign him the position of seer whose vi
sion pierces beyond the common ken into
the holy mysteries of coming days He
may also be Moses to become the leader
and deliverer as we'll as the prophet Of his
people.
This congressional district will undoubt-
eddy send Gen. Jas. B. Weaver to the next
congress; with Weaver in the house and
Donnelly in the senate, how the throne
of God Mammon would tremble.
1 do not wish to misiudge any of my fell
low citizens. am too often, misjudged my
self to recklessly infringe the motives of
others; but 1 cannot understand how dis
sension is to promote, our success, and
whether its promoters are paid now, as in
the case of Fish, 1 cannot say; but earning
Republican Doodle, they are more fools
than knaves If they don't get it. Let him
that stands by Owen, stand by Donnely
also, and all pull together for the funda-
mental principles of human government
as declared by the fathers in 1776 at Fhila-
delphia and the sons in 1892 al Omaha Re
specially. GEO. MULLER,
Council Bluffs, Iowa.