The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-18
service or the administration of JUS
tIce; and who would think OF turning
either Of these over to corporations?
. = JUST As We EXPECTED.

JOHN L. MACDONALD DESERTS THE
POPULIsT PARTY;-BUT THE POPU-
LIST PARTY HAD FIRST DESERTED
HIM.-HE TURNS REPUBLICAN.
The following telegram comes from
Washington to the ST. Paul Dispatch.
1t will be read with grin Of delight
by all the Populists of Minnesota.
Washington, Dec. 13.-J. L. Mac
Donald chairman Of the POpuliSt
state central committee of Minnesota,
will no longer support the tenets OF
that party on the tariff issue. He has
come out strong for protection, and
states that the country will not ex-
perience its normal commercial activ
ity till there has been revision of
the GormanBrice bill, on the prOtec-
tive lines. Jug6e Macdonald is an
ardent free silver man, and he will un-
doubtedly affiliate with the free silver
wing of the Republican party. The
Judge confided his views to some OF
the old members Of the House to-day
with whom he served when he repre-
sented the Third district in Congress.
Judge Macdonald claims that he has
always believed that the only way fer
the United States to force England
into an international monetary agree
ment is to place a stiff duty on the
manufactured goods OF that country.
The only unfortunate part Of this
business is. that it will be trumpeted
all over the United States, by the old
party newspapers, las 1T is in the
above message,) that he is "the chair
man Of the Populist State Central Commit
tee of MINI esoto;;" and we will hear for
the next three months that the PeO-
pies Party of this state is falling to
pieces.-is dead-because even the
chairman of our state committee de-
serts us. This will do an immense
damage to the cause all over the
Union. Where Macdonald is not
known from side of sole-leather.
1t was lamentable bluader on the
part of Mr.. Owen to select such man
for that position:-a mistake which
he has already repente d in sack-cloth
and ashes. He did not know him; but
If he had consulted with us we could
have told him that Macdonald was
not at heart Populist; that he had
neither energy, ability nor honesty.
We served with him in the State SEN
ate years ago, and he was then one OF
the most INSCRIPTIONS tools of the
corporations that ever disgraced that
body. His battle against ourself was
inspired by the Money-power. Six
months before Mr.. Owen was NOM
mated for governor, in the winter of
1884. Mac Donald told George w. Day,
one of the Executive Committee of
the State Farmers Alliance, that
''the first thing to be done was to kick
Donnelly out Of the party!' AS we
were not a candidate for any office,
| and had just made a speech at the
State Alliance convention advocating
Mr.. Owen for governor: and had spent
81, 800 to kee p alive the Alliance
newspaper; besides doing, without
compensation, an amount of work for
! it which we could not have been hired
to do for any other journal for 800 a
week, it seemed to us that the assault
was most unjust and uncalled for.
| And then, when the scamp became
| chairman of our state central COM
mittee, instead of doing anything to
help elect our ticket, he proceeded to
use the whole machinery of the party
to supplant THE REPRESENTATIVES,,
with daily paper, to be owned by
the gold-bug banker Of Chicago-Jo ohm
r. Walsh! This was to be the Moses
to lead the people of Minnesota out of
the slough Of Plutocracy!
But let by-gones be by-gones.
Thank God the wretch is now beyond
the Entertainments. He was only dan
gerous, like Judas, inside the fold,
where he could betray those who
trus ted him. Now he will sink into
his native insignificance.
And he is a Republican, Think OF
that, decent Republicans, and pack
your trunks and get out Of the party
as fast as the Lord will let you.
We hope Tams. Bixby will deodorize
the cuss before he lets him pass the
threshold of the G.. o. P. Let the
Azotine company turn it's hose on him
to sweeten him.