The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
POLITICAL,esG(aOS
LEE
TO BE ACCEPTED With A GRAIN
4, OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
DONNEUEY.
He Did Not Give Owen Any qd-on in Ainne-
additionally Said to - Responsible
s.> An Attempt to Head the Sage on
at Moorhexd.
(From the st. Paul dispatch. J


1t Is very evident that Notwithstanding
the manner in which a lot Of the small fry
Populists of the state turned Ignatius Dom
nelly down at st. Louis. the Sage is still,
in the estimation Of Candidate Bryan, and
the managers of his show, the biggest Pop
ocrat in the Minnesota camp. He sets q
pace altogether too swift a pace for the g.
spots who are trying to down him, and
since the visit of Bryan in Minnesota he
Is several points ahead of the game Mr.
Donnelly is not supporting Mr.. Owen, the
POpullSt candidate for congress in the Fifth
district, and in some manner Mr.. Bryan
learned of this, and when he was in Min
neapolis he governed himself accordingly.
Soon after his arrival in the Mill City n
committee of Owens friends waited upon
Mr.. Bryan. and asked him in his speeches
to say a good word for Owen. He stated
to them frankly, so they say, that he could
not do it: that he was practically pledged
not to take up Owens cause, or at least.
not to advocate Mr.. Owens election. The
committee then beseeched him to say some
thing in a general way that would help Mr..
Owen along. So strong did the members OF
the committee make their plea that Mr..
Bryan finally agreed to compromise and say
Few words in a general way for the Owen
cause Mr.. Bryan made several speeches in
Minneapolis that evening, but did not al
lude In the remotest way to the candidacy
OF Mr. owen. The committe wondered at
the fragrant breach of faith on the part of
the candidate, and they were naturally in
dignant. Some of the members finally hit
upon a solution that beat the first out of
sight. Some one remembered that Dom
no
ing at Lincoln. Then a member of the
committee called to mind that Mr.. Donnelly
had called upon Mr.. Bryan Immediately af-
ter the committee left. These two circum-
stances furnished a ready solution of the
problem.
All this would seem to be gall and worm
wood suffic lent for the Populists to con-
template, but now comes Mr. Donnellv
with long editorials in his newspaper laud-
ing Mr.. Bryan to the skies as the deliverer
OF an enslaved race.
The little incident has reopened the war
between the Donnelly and Owen followers
in the Populist camp, not only in Minneap
oils, but throughout the state.
MI. Donnelly was billed toispeak at Moor
head last Monday evening and several DAYS
before, that he had written to George N.
Lamphere, editor of the News. and a lead
ing Populist, asking him to see that the
meeting was advertised, anu that the
proper arrangements were rI1ade When
Mr.. Donnelly arrived in Moorhead Monday
morning it was plain to be seen that he was
not expected. There was no one to meet
him at the depot, and one Of the first things
that greeted his eye waseh large poster an
nouncing that man named Quinn would
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for the News office. and what he said to
Mr.. Lamphere was too hot to record on
paper. Then he went but on the street
and met number of friends, to whom he
related the facts in the oase ...z
Is ..
The people he met were Democrats, Re-
publicans and Populists of all shades of be-
lief. but they all joined hands and arrang-
ed meeting that threw Mr.. Quinn COM
pletely in the shade. In fact they had him
begging. for the Donnely faction was an
overwhelming majority. Finally Mr.. DON
nelly consented that Quinn might occupy a
seat on the platform, and speak after he
got through, If anybody cared to stay and
hear him. When the meeting was called
to order Donnelly administered another
roast to Lamphere and the others, who
had attempted to beat him out of his meet
ing, and 1t was plain to be seen that he had
.--e crowd with him.
1t was plainly an attempt to be revenged
on Mr.. Donnelly for some fancied wrong
by humiliating him again, but the Sage
turned the tables completely on his enc
mics, and is again on the top of the Populist
heap.
We desire to add that the editor of
The REPRESENTATIVE never men
toned the name of Mr.. Owen to Mr..
Bryan. We make our attacks openly.
Mr.. Bryan was a diligent reader of
The REPRESENTATIVE before his
campaign opened and is doubtless we'll
informed as to Mr.. Ovens action at
St. Louis in opposing the Initiative
and Referendum which he himself
tried to get the Democrats at Chicago
to put in their platform. Ed. Rep.