New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-29
WANTS OWEN TO PLEDGE.
Donnelly is After The Populist Candidate
For Governor.


In the open letter of Ignatius Donnel-
this week he applies himself to Mr.. Ow-
en- as follows:
"There was general talk all over the
state that the convention which nomlna-
ted Mr.. Owen for governor would IN
dorse me for United States senator, and
when the convention met, a large ma
ioritv of the members were my friends;
in fact. they passed a resolution imply
ING that the convention should choose a
candidate for United States senator, and
that every candidate on our ticket should
be pledged to be true to him. But Mr.
Owens brother canvassed the whole con-
vention to prevent them from passing
any resolution in my favor. The plea
was that would be weight on the tic
ket. Two years ago ran 10000 votes
ahead Of the Weaver electors. This did
not look as if my name would harm the
party. But when MY friends were
worked upon through this plea to come
to me, said to them: "Gentlemen, don't
let nv interests or ambitions stand for
one instant in the way of the success of
the party. From this time forth l am
not candidate for United States sena-
tor"
"And so, driven into the background,
as if bore infection about me, and my
son-in-law trampled under foot by a
party had done so much to create, 1
never shirked. I took up my burden,
ready to labor for the triumph and glory
of others, who knew we're not friendly
to me.
"And now this man Macdonald, ap-
pointed by Mr.. Owen, gets up game to
destroy the Representative.
"Why? This is the question in mems
mouths everywhere. 1t IS said, even by
candidates on the state ticket, that Mr..
Owen intends to use his election as gov
ernor as steppingstone to the United
States senatorship. If he is elected gov
srnor and Mr.. Clough is elected ]ieuten-
ant governor on the Republican ticket
"a very probable outcome), the Republi-
cans will turn in, with part of the Pop
ulists, to push Mr.. Owen into the senate
and make Clough governor. We are net
denouncing Mr.. Clough. He is better
perhaps than his party; but if the Repub-
icans continue to hold the state govern
ment for two years more, all the iniqui-
ties we complain of would he perpetual
ted; and our triumph would destroy our
party. Mr. Owen would sail on to Wash
ington to draw his salary, and make gig
antic speeches on the great doctrine that
the political power of corporate monop-
oily must be destroyed; and the Peoples
party would be mess of ruins; itwould
be more thoroughly destroyed than the
monopolies,
"Our state convention did not nomi-
nate Mr.. Owen for governor with a view
to send him to the United States senate.
They nominated him because the state
was full of wrongs and expressions, and
they believed that he would fill out his
term of office as governor, and do all he
could to help the people. There is a
moral obligation on him to do this, if
elected; and we shall not be party to
the practice of any fraud upon the PEG
pie, which may turn the whole state fol
the next two years over to the pine land
and elevator rings"
"Not for my own sake (for am not a
candidate for senator). but for the many
good men in our party who are fit fol
the place, I demand that Mr.. Owen shall
at once publish letter positively pledg-
ing himself as an honorable man, that he
will, if elected, serve out his term as
governor; and that. if elected senate,
next winter, he will positively refuse I'm.
der any circumstances, to accept the Of
flee. If he declines to write such let.
ter the state will understand that he il
not running for governor, but for U. S
Senator, and it will be proper then tt
inquire whether another convention
should not be called and some one nom
mated for governor who will positively
pledge himself to serve as governor til
the end of his term, and thus try to re-
form the abuses Of which the people
complain"
U. S. Grant has been sentenced to
seven years in the state penitentiary fol
forgery, Watson gets three months il
Jail fer sowing wild mustard on Judge