The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-24
MIR. DONNELLY'S VENOM
THE MiD-ROADER SAYS MEAN
THINGS ABOUT VARIOUS
PEOPLE
ROAST FOR Mr.. CLEVELAND
Few Shots at MIR. Bryan, an At
tack Mr.. Lind and Praise for
Judges Mitchell, Buck and CAVITY
-Gtrl Killed by "a Beer Wagon
Man Crushed Under Car
Wheels.

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 23.-Ignatius Donnel-
Iy, the vice presidential candidate OF the mid
road Popuists, this evening opened the cam
paign of his party at Harmonic hail. in this
city. There are those who pretend to believe
that the Sage of Nininger' is a back num-
Der: that hts day has passed, and that hts
vitrolc tongue has lost its venom, but his
words last evening showed conclusYely that
his brain is as fertile ever and his tongue
just nimble. His address was practically
an arraignment Of the Democratic party At
its door he laid the blame for the disruption
OF the PopuliSts. To the followers of Grover
cleveland he was unmercful, and Of the be-
levers IN Bryan he was distrustful.
The speech was not long as to tire the
audience, and 1t abounded in enough With
cismS to keep his hearers in good humor,
while his anecdotes were directly to the point
ana told the meaning OF the speaker plainly.
Mr.. Donnelly is past master in the arts of
oratory, and he used them this evening The
expression Of his face. his gestures and the
very pose or the man interested the audience
nearly as much as his words. The speech
abounded in irony and verged upon bitter in
yective whenever he referred to eX-President
Cleveland the Eastern wing Of the Demo-
cratic party or the question OF the tariff.
For Mr.. Cleveland he had not apparently
Vocabplary Sufhclent for the expression of his
thoughts, although, as is we'll known, the
scarcity OF language is one Of those matters
that bothers Ignat!us DOnnelly least.
He referred to Grover Cleveland as 1.-THE
illustrious windbag," This old humbug,"
That Infamous man, Grover Cleveland" and
The eX-hangman of Buffalo"
years ago. was the bitterest enemy the free
silver cause had. He said 1t was responsible
for the crime of % in so far that more
Democratic votes than Republican were cast
for the characterization OF silver. He
merated repeated instances in which the Dem
ocrats. with an Overwhelming majority in
congress had defeated free coinage measures.
He blamed that party for the characterization
OF the trade dollar, and said they used the
trade dollar as stalking horse for the
greater crime of silver demonstration In
numerous cases the Republicans had voted
almost solidly for free silver coinage but the
measure would always be defeated by the
Democratic branch of congress. This con-
ttnued up to and included action upon the
Bland bill in 1898.
Mr.. Donnelly said the Populists could not
trust such a party. He showed upon his
breast medal which had been adopted by
the Populists in 1891 bearing the inscription
Keep in the Middle of the Road" and de-
clared: 1--WE mid-road Populists started there
six years ago, and we are there tonight"
The audience contained quite a number OF
Bryan men and an amusing incident occurrt
when the Sage referred TO the Young man
from Nebraska" At the mention of Bryan's
name these admirers broke out into applause
Mr.. DonneIy stood and waited for the noise
to subside and then, with whitening scorn, he
said:
"Now. my friends no man is greater than
the party he represents. If you think he is, I
!, pity you for your defective intelligence. 1
merely mention the name Of this bright young
man and some Of you break out into meas
ly applause. While the Peoples party was
r. In congress talking about the tariff Che
speaker brought out the word tariff in an
inimitable manner. in which condensed scnrn
was expressed in a drawl of the world Why
statesman should have his eyes in the front
Of his head not under his coat tails. Had
there been no Peoples party, Mr.. Bryan
would never have been a presidential candi-
date. We out him to scnooi and he wound
up by stealing the school books"
He was bitter In his denuncation of fu-
sion and said that the first case of it which
6DDaaF6Q in history when the devil t,OLx
a certain distinguished Individual into the
mountain top and asked him to fuse, saying
that they thought alike, and that there were
good men in hell. The Lord answered by
saying, Get thee behind me, Butler" refer
ring to the Populist national chairman.
In conclusion, Mr.. Donnelly paid his re-
spects to John Lind, whom he regarded as
a very respectable sort Of a man. He took
publican party, and asked if any one in the
audience could tell what were the politics OF
the fusion gubernatorial candidate Lind was
placed before the people as candidate and
the people were told that he was an ''honest
man." He wanted to know il honest m n
were so scarce In this state that the only
specimen had to be nominated for governor?
He read extracts Of letters, in which Lind
had been asked to define his views upon
public questions, and to which he had al
ways refused to reply, saying that the poll
cause he not a candidate for Office. Sum-
ming 1t up, Lind had said that he stood upon
his congressional record, and investigation
showed that while a member of congress Mr.
Lind had thrice voted against free silver
coinage and not once in it's favor. Yet Mr..
Lind was willing to stand upon that record.
Finally Mr. Donnelly touched up Justices
Mitchell, Canty and Buck who were praised
for their Stevenson case decision, despite the
fleet that they had decided against the farm
ers in the famous elevator case, in which the
farmers wished to have an elevator erected
by the state for their use at Duluth.