The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
PEACE, SUCCEEDED
BY WAR.
The ROW He HAS KICKED UP.
SOME COMMENTS OF THE DAILY
PAPERS,.
Most of Them Made Before the Rep.
resentative Had Spoken a
Word ON the Subject.

party in Minneapolis, yesterday, Il will
take the Peoples party candidates from
the head of the editorial columns of the
Representatives
You may do what you please about
that" replied Tom Lucas. 1.-The new pa
per will be started in st. Paul. and don't
you forget it,
The fact is, there is large sized row on
in the Populist state committee, and it
may lead to all manner of serious results.
The pickings are few and the cleaners are
many, and when an ear of corn falls from
the reaper the boys trudging along behind
fight like fiends for it. In this particular
row over the starting of a new paper, it is
understood that the Minneapolis men made
a proposition to the Popuist state commit
tee, which to the effect that if the
committee would lend it's Endorsement to
the scheme. a new Populst paper would be
at once started in ST. Paul, out Of the
wreck of the st. Paul Daily News The
promoters of this scheme enlisted the per-
sonal followers of S. M. Owen on the COM
mittee on their side, with the suggestion
that the new paper would be used to head
off Ignatius Donnelly, who aspires to the
United States senate and while doing this
Mr.. Owen could be doomed for United
States senator.
No wonder that Tom Lucas jumped at the
chance to squeeze Ignatius Donnelly out of
the newspaper field, and it is not surprising
tndC the sage kicked vigorously.
The proposition fought over for sew
eral hours in the committee meeting yes
terday, and wide chasm soon separated
the two factions, with Ig. on one side and
John l.. Macdonald and Tom Lucas on the
other, and the fight resulted in a stand-off,
with the odds slightly in favor of the anti
Donnely people. 1t will be ''fit' over
again, and to a finish. at some future date,
Both sides recognize that there cannot be
two United States senators elected by the
;-1, -
two Populist official organs in the field at
once. The cruel feature of the situation is
that Mr.. Donnelly was induced to take
his paper, the Representative, over to Min
neapois by these very people who are now
jumping into the clear field in st. Paul
from which they inveigled him.
From the Minneapolis Tribune Aug "a.
In the Tribune yesterday reference was
made to the meeting of the Populist state
central committee Wednesday at which the
editorial management of the Represen-
tatve was attacked on account of the
writings of the associate editor. 1t
seems from what has been learned since
that the fight was between the forces of
Senator Donnelly on the one side and those
OF S. NJ. Owen on the other. and that the
stake was nothing less than d senatorial
toga. Mr.. Owen seems to have worked
himself up to u belief that there is a posi-
bility of a Populist senator being elected
to succeed VIM. u. Washburn. He feels
that he has a sure thing on the governor
ship, and, not content with that, is looking
after the seatorship also for himself. He
is like the old man who ate u cakes off
plate containing IS. and when his son. who
had eaten nome reached for the 18th cake,
sadly remarked to the boy: "Well, take
the last cake if YOU will from your poor
old father" This being the state of Mr..
owens mind. he is looking for organ to
boom himself with. 1t is understood that
John L. Macdonald led the forces of Owen
at Wednesdays meeting, and that Senator
Donnelly there in person to look after
his own interests.
When Owens friends announced their in
tention of purchasing the defunct st. Paul
News plant and starting a daily Populist
paper to head off Senator nonnelly, and to
boom Owen for United States senator the
war began. 1t had been generally under
stood that the Representative was to
be made a daily paper this fall-at least
during the campaign, and Senator Dom
nelly did not therefore relish the new move.
1t is said that he threatened to take the
Peoples party candidates from the head
of the columns of the Representative
if the new paper was started. and that the
Owen men defed him to do his worst.
The outcome of the meeting that the
st. Paul scheme was not indorsed. Don
nelly's friends claim that this was vic
tory for Them but the Owens men declare
that it was only drawn battle.
The Tribune is mistaken-the project we
are informed by those who We're present,
was Endorsed, and the circulars are TO be
sent out, calling the Populists to boom
the new paper.
The Penny Press. of Minneapolis, of Aug.
%. says:
The suggestion of Lucas that Col Will
liams is too recent a convert to the Popu-
list doctrine to be trusted in this cam
paign, leads us to ask how Lucas could in
dorse paper managed by Mr.. Garfield?
Is it not a fact that that gentleman has
been a Republican all his life. and until
within three months, been identified with
Republican publica tons? Is it not a fact
that since Mr.. Garfield retired from the
Tribune that he has been the press agent
of the Sutherland Park scheme? Is it not
fact that Mr.. Sutherland is to be a stock
holder in the proposed paper? Is it not
also fact that neither Garfield Suth-
erland are Populists, even favorably
disposed towards the Populist doctrine?
business man who claims that he knows
whereof he speaks, asserts that Mr.. Suth-
erland, some three years ago, when farm
and swamp lands were worth at least
90 per cent more than they are today Of
fered to the park commission of this city
that entire $50 acres, concerning which SO
much has been said, for the sum of $1O0, 600
the terms to be pleased the park com
mission. Years afterwards when the same
property, valued from the standpoint of
surrounding and similar landss is not worth
over two-thrds that sum, about $4,000
all told. proposition is made to the board,
under the guidance OF Mr.. Garfield for Mr.
sutherland to donate a philanthropic
act. so acres of this same land. provided
the park commission would pay Mr..
Sutherland $4,000 for the other 50 acres''
The remarkable part of this proposition is
the fact, that when this property might
have been worth, all told 5000 an acre
say in 1891, Mr.. Sutherland was willing