The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-08-01

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ing more than two hours, put the cold
steel into Ignatius Donnelly,. turned 1t
around several times, and then turned 1t
around again. Donnelly sat- meanwhile,
betraying no pain of countenance or
word, his face, on the contrary, being
wreathed in smiles and his voice being
pitched in the most melodious key.
Minnesota is easily the center of inter
est today on Donnelly's account, and will
papers. The plan of the Donnelly faction,
in the state delegation, was to elect Dom
nelly as the member of the committee
on resolutions. In this they failed, this
important place going to S. NJ Owen
by a very heavy vote.
Samuel rebuked David for taking
Uriah's one little "ewe lamb" Mr.. Owen
has been nominated for congress, and up
to this time this paper has been support
ing him; he expects to be elected and
draw $1l 600 during the next two years.
We are not a nominee for anything;-we
are spending our time and money for the
benefit and preferlnent Of others. But,
not, satisfied with prospective congress
sfonalA honors and emoluments, Mr.. Owen
rea ched over and seized our one little
"ewe lan1b.'' He doubles sthought that
as we had made Minnesota's position on
that committee ill,lstrious he would fall
heir to our honors. and become q promi-
nent figure in the deliberations of the
convention. But ambition is not a sub
stitute for capacity. Mr.. Owen disap-
peared unnoted in the vacuum The
PLATFORM is barren statement of thread
bare facts, unrelieyed by single flash of
genius; it is as stale, fiat and unprofita-
bic as congressional agricultural re-
port. Mr., Owen should remember that
you should rob a man of his money, his
clothes, his dinner and his good name,
but there is no known method by which
you can transfer to yourself his brains
We have been the victim of a shameful
conspiracy. Every point was linked
with every other.
First, that little miscreant Williams,
associate editor of the Penny Press, made
foul and libelous attack upon our rep
utation.
Second, Mr. Martin E. Tew of Clark
field, editor. delegate from the Second
district, man we had never injured or
antagonized, went down to St. Louis
week before our convention met, and
proceeded to send out kilograms all over
the United States that a great many Peo-
pies Party men in Minnesota desired the
nomination of Congressman Towne, of
Duluth, for president; and subsequently,,
articles appeared in the St. Louis papers
that the Minnesota delegation were unan-
imous for Towne.' Mr.. Towne was not a
candidate for the presidency, and we do
not believe that he had anything to do
with the movement: he had just left the
Republican party; we had spoken for him
at Duluth and called on all Populists in
the Sixth district to vote for him. Mr..
TeW's effort was bald-faced scheme to
head off our candidacy by dragging in
Mr.. TONNES name for a position he did
not seek. Who paid Mr.. Tew's expenses
at ST. Louis for week prior to the OPEN
ing OF the convention? What motive ac-
tuated him to try to trample upon vet
cram in the ranks who had been advo-
eating reform while he was sucking milk
from his mothers breast; and who had
been the choice of five-sevenths of the
districts of Minnesota for president,
while Towne had been named for that
place by only one? What is the mean
ing OF all these conspiracies? And why
should men who we have been most kind
to, and never injured, like S. NJ Owen,
r. J. Hall, VIM. R. Dobbyn, M. E. Tew,
e. s. Reishus and L. NJ. Aver unite in
combination to degrade us?
God did not fit us to get down into the
dirt and scramble for petty place with
intriguing wire pullers. We had a dream
that we might lead mankind out of the
abyss into which it. has fallen. We
thought we knew what ought to be done
and had the courage to do it, We
thought Minnesota stood behind u.s. Alas!
We note how Georgia holds up, as one
man, the standard OF that gallant hero
Thomas E. Watson. He has no Owen,
stamped with all the features of medioc-
rity, who insists ON climbing ON his back
and traInpling him into the dust.
And when they turned us down. they
passed resolutions of compliment! OF
course they did! Mr.. Dobbyn offered
them, and with many honeyed phrases!
In the same way, in 1892 Mr.. Owen sailed
off with the nomination for governor, we
supporting him; but when our son-in-law
was presented for state auditor the
Owens faction jumped upon him and de-
feated him; and then offered resolutions
of coincidence for the death of our dear,
uCou, WAAO. Icy Wclc lCdQy ~ Keep
the bread out of the mouths of her living
children while they poured empty COM
pliments over her silent dust.
Our soul is weary of this whole business
Mr.. Owen can take charge of the Peoples
Party. We shall retire to our library. But
he is not fit to lead free people, Two
years ago he declared in a public speech,
in Minneapolis, that the Peoples Party
were not agreed upon the free coinage of
silver, but should confine their platform to
declaration aginst "the political power
Of corporate monopoly or some other such
inconsequential bosh and trash! To get
the Democrats endorsement of his candi-
dacy for congress he was ready, at St.
Louis, to turn over the Peoples Party to
the Democrats, utterly regardless of the
fate of the great organization which had
risen up in spite of his shallow teachings
We have done. We shall support Mr.
Bryan, and the Popul.st state ticket, until
the end of this campaign, and we shall then
withdraw from public life forever If we
can get good true Populist to buy our in
terest in this paper we shall sell it out at
once. We are tired of working for those
who would destroy us. We banker not
after a conflict with Lilliputians. In the
domain of lifcrof11ro hoy re