The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
AN ENTHUSIAST.

He Quotes the st. Paul Dispatch I'm
Praise of q POpulist Leader-He
Thinks the AdmissiOns Of the Enc
my Are Good Testimony and an An
swer to Tons of Political Abuse
and SANDER.
To the Editor:
1 was surprised to find in the St. Paul
Dispatch a character sketch of our own
Donnelly. 1t was written. strange to say,
without scurrility and it dealt leniently
with that gentleman's faults; faults which
are to us his greatest virtues
The Dispatch says he Oonnelly) has
broken away from the party whip. He has
the instinct of leadership, coupled with the
absolute freedom of thought and reason;
but it is pity that these have been wasted
upon pot-house poitics-he is sincere. no
one has ever doubted it. The politics OF
today are too trivial for him."
Brothers, our politics of equal rights to
all and special privileges to none," and
that labor produces all wealth. and that
we do not derive the benefits of that which
we produce which virtually reduces us to
the level of beasts of burden And we find
a champion in the person of Ignatius Don
nelly. for one feel proud of such leader
who takes up the cudgel to belabor enc
mics to the cause of common humanity
The Dispatch says, 1.-THE man of SURPRISING
literary genius stands at the head OF
forlorn hope and fights stubbornly against
overwhelming Odds
Brother grumblers, do you not feel like
being reconciled and feel like starting anew
the battle of right against might, when
at the head, as commander-in-chief of
our forces, he yields the pen in our behalf,
for, says the Dispatch, he possesses 'in-
flexible opposition to political fraud and
chicanery. In 1862 he was sent to con-
gress where he set the CANNES barking
about his heels, and. they have not lost
their voices yet"
Why the Dispatch should print the above
quotation when said paper has malgned
him Donnelly) as a rascal and man of
no principle, a turn coat and bride taker,
ANDY yet it now gives him better char
acAr than they dare give to their politi-
cal proteges-Knute Nelson or w. D. Wash
burn-who are apples rotten to the core.
The Dispatch admits that money was too
freely used to GUST Mr.. Donnelly for the
senate or otherwise he would not have
been beaten and it also says that the
Republican party might have profited by
his magnetism, his indefatigability, his elo-
quence, not to say his craftsmanship"
They seem to deplore their loss and sure
ly their loss is our gain Now can we
appreciate the merits and grand efforts in
our behalf he who away back in the
seventies" was your leader of reform In
the Farmers Grange and Alliances?
ask has he ever gone back on the cause
of reform? Has he not fought at the fight
almost single handed and by the magne-
tism of his intellect stimulated us to take
up arms against a sea of troubles and by
opposing end them?
The Dispatch says he is 'like a lion who
turns aside from a lot of yelping whelps
And it finishes by saying: when he don
nelly) passes into that condition called
death, it will be years before Minnesota
and the Northwest point to another
man possessed of his qualities and enjoy
ing a 1.-THE of his fame"
Where will your Washburns, Nelson's
Fletchers and Pillsburys be in a few years
in the future? Forgotten.
The reverse will be of these men as ir
Caesar. 1.-The evil that men do lives afte1
Them the good is oft inferred with theil
bones;'' because of the small amount o.
good in their composition 1t were better
to bury it.
Truth will triumph. Truth is mighty ant
must prevail. We can all lend a helping
hand to forward the cause. The cause i:
righteous one.
when that the poor have cried Caesar
hath wept." In Washington we have no
seen a Caesar. But the day is coming
| when great many Caesars will seize OF
| the capitol and enact laws in behalf O
| the masses; and the banner of liberty will
| bear the inscription, Equal rights to all
| Specal privileges to none"
| Then forward, march. Into the fight
| And victory to the brave!
JOHN CURLE.
West st. Paul. April Is.