The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-02
AN ASS.
He Is Brazed In Mortar by f. W.
Harvey.

To the Editor:
/ find the following in the Helena Herald:
"Ignatius Donnelly, Minnesota's remark
able demagogue, has made public his inten-
ton of retiring finally from politics, and in
earnest Of this purpose has resigned the
presidency of the Farmers Alliance. Pub
lie congratulation upon this fact will be
seriously qualified by his announcement
that he will hereafter devote himself to
literary pursuits. Nevertheless, Donnelly is
a man of exceptional talents, of a certain
kind"
Still another ass brays," and the only
exception the friends of reform will take to
such braying is in regard to the time; for
while we could endure it for a certain
number of years with no great loss of
sleep, the matter assumes a painful aspect
when we reflect that the life of this pecu-
liar animal is upwards Of 50 years. I am
glad beyond expression that our great lead
er is so conspicuous a target for the hire
lings of the plutocratic and subsidized press
to shoot at. With argus eyes they peer
into every nook and corner for his slightest
utterances, seemingly tickled to death if
they can CLEAN item justifying an at
tack. From his intellectual eminence they
are dwarfed in the distance; so, incapable
of rising to his plane of thought and con-
ception, incapable of seeing noble game,
they can only mouse among vermin. Hence
every generous and benevolent expression
his noble uterances, are mscorstrued, and
as they measure his corn in their half
bIrshel the community is treated
al al
apology styling himself editor. When
will humanity learn to be just? Igna thus
Donnelly demagogue! Great Cod Mr.
D. has done more during any week
during the past % years for oppressed and
outraged humanity than the little sniveling
and snappsh cur who gave currency to that
vile calumny will do in hundred years.
Mr.. D. needs no defense at my hand He is
more than capable of fighting his own bat
ties; but 1 want all such mendacous para
sites to know that the people of a great
aggressive and growing party, of which Mr..
d. is the most conspicuous leader, resent
all such base filings as the above. In the
vatican of Rome they found mirror of
such remarkable properties that it not only
reflects the eatures, but also the charac-
ter, the true inwardness of the beholder
[ recommend that this mirror be procured,
and that the Herald editor be forced to
take one look thereat, and if he does not
go ara hang himself, then l fail to size him
up. want to say to him and all such,
that since the death of Scotland's mighty
Wallace, his claymore has lain quiescent
among the souvenirs of that people, be-
cause no man could be found capable of
welding it.; so when Mr. D. lays down that
pen that has done much for the eleva ton
of the race to a higher nobler, grander
plane of existence, like the claymore of
Wallace there 1T must lie, for no arm will
be found able to WELD it, and chief among
the illustrious names that have shed I'M
dying luster upon the pages of our event
full history. will stand that of our
own benefactor. Ignatius Donnelly,
while high up on the scroll of infamy, by
The side of Arnold and Aaron Burr. and
characters Of that ilk, will be found the
names of such as the editor of the Herald,
who have used what little ability they had
to the ruination of the people by advocat-
ing the reign Of plutocracy in the ascen-
dancy of the Republican or Democratic
parties Mr.. D. has fought the powers of
blackness for nearly 80 years cheered on
by the hope that, as the right must uti-
ly see the end of legaliZed tyranny and OPP
preston. Had he been spelling for official
elevation, he Is too shrewd a man to take
the course he has. Like Henry Clay, he
would rather be right than to be president.
genius in the field of literature, with a
ma ssive and imperial mind stored with the
rich lore of ancient and modern times
with a power of oratory scarcely equaled
but not surpassed by any other man of
this republic, no high official station could
possibly enhance his fame. That is secure
and the name of Ignatius Donnelly will
live in the remembrance of grateful hearts
when the shaft of marble which indicates
the repose of his ashes shall have crumbled
to it's original dust. f. w. b. HARVEY.