The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-21
course will be upward and onward
He that is not with us Is against us.
AN HONEST MAN.
And Representative of Reform.

oils called William R. Dobbyn, sur
named the "Professor"-we suppose be-
cause he processes" to be an honest
man.
We want to show what manner Of
honest creature this really is.
We learned, the other day, that
shortly before the National Convention
was held. in 1896, at St. Louis, a Sc
cret gathering of the followers of s. NJ.
Owen was held in Minneapolis There
were present S. M. Owen, Dobbyn and
a number of others. They had been
elected as delegates to the St. Louis
convention, and instructed by unani-
nous vote to urge our nomination for
president. We were not present ana
had not asked for any such action.
But these men, who were bound in
honor to obey the orders of their con-
stituents, met in secret conclave, and
resolved to violate their instructions.
and to prevent OUR NAME FROM
EVER GOING BEFORE THAT Ma
TIONAL CONVENTION!
We get this news directly from a
prominent gentleman who was pres
ent, but did not participate In the
spirit which guided the gang.
While we had not asked any man
to support us for the presidency, and
had no expectation that we would be
nominated, It was deemed advisable
by these conspirators that we should
be kept in the dark until the very hour
of slaughter and humiliation had ar
rived, and therefore, one day before
we started for St. Louis, we received
the following letter from that honest
GU man, Professor (?) Dobbyn. We
had written him, not about the presi-
dency, but about finding suitable
meeting place for the Minnesota dele
cation at St. Louis. Here is his reply:
Minneapolis, Mimi, July 16, 1897.
Dear Mr.. Donnelly:
Yours Of yesterday just received. I
will be glad to make the arrangements
you suggest, or do anything else for
you and the delegation. We have
such a good number of the Minnesota
delegation and have pledged everyone
to stand by you as our first choice.
find that after you Bryan Is the
favorite I wish I could see you for
little while to get your views on ono
or two points Of Importance. I will
frv to a Ct 0J1ic hofnrn On.
ing into the meeting Tuesday night.
Will write our man to have a room in
readiness. Would not the Ordinary"
at the Lindell be the best place?
me please feel at liberty to speak Of
it. Very respectfully,
VIM. R. DOBBYN.
P. S.-The first paragraph in my
paper this week is 'Donnelly is Mime
sofas choice for president"
And yet this knave, who, in the
last issue of his paper before leaving
for St. Louis, had declared that Don
nelly is Minnesota's choice for presi-
dent" had already agreed with tho
rest of the Owen gang that our name
should never go before the convention
and it never did.
And this man, who writes us that
he had pledged" every one Of the min
nesota delegation to stand by" us, as
their first choice for president, had it
all cooked up on the train that carried
him to st. Louis that S. M. Owen was
to succeed us on the platform COM
mittee and he, the bearded one, should
committee. And as soon as the dele
cation got together 1--WE had heard of
the meeting only by accidenD, Dobbyn
nominated Owen for the platform COM
for the national committee-(a regular
tickleme-T Tommy and Tll-tickle-you
game)-ard before the rest of the dele
cation could catch their BREATH the
work was accomplished; and we, who
had gone there as the choice of five
of the seven congressional districts
of the state, for president, was stripped
of our poor feathers by the hand of the
very man whose last utterance in his
paper was "Donnelly is Minnesota s
choice for the presidency"
The professor CO reminds us of the
biblical character who kindly said:
How is it with thee, my brother" and
then "smote him under the fifth rib"
A more nefarious piece of treachery,
deceit and rascallity cannot be found
in the history g American politics. The
men who would engage in such bunco-
game are not fit to be supported by the
state at Saltwater. The thimbe-riggers
who cheat clowns at country fairs are
patriots and philanthropists, compared
with creatures who would work such a
fraud and humiliation upon one who
had never injured them, and who has
not even put himself forward for any
thing
And think of the man who, while a
candidate for congress, and supported
by us in our paper, would grab from
us an unimportant ~committeeship. It
is as if a king on his way to be crowned
would stop by the wayside to pick a
poor mans pocket
We would not refer to Dobbyn and
Owen at tbs time, but that Dobbyn is
out in column screed, in the Mime
apolis Evening Journal. over his own