New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-06-22
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The Sage of Ninniger Roasted to Turn by
Hon s. M. Owen.

The Sage of Ninniger Roasted to a Turn by
Hon SIM. Owen.
In Wednesdays Peoples Party con-
vention the sensational incident of the
day was S. M. Owens answer to the in
sinuating attacks of his old enemy, Ig-
natius Donnelly. Mr.. Owen was terribly
in earnest, end his scathing denuncla-
ton will go down in history as one of
the severest tongue lashings ever admin
istered to any man. Mr.. Donnelly's at
tempt TO reply was a miserable failure.
The following is the Minneapolis
Tines report of what Mr.. Owen said:
81 defy any man living to prove to the
slightest extent any charge hurled at me
by my enemy. I have been s!andered
and bounded for two years, but have
been silent under it all for the good of
this party, for the salvation of cur move
ment, to prevent a factional fight in our
ranks, and because I could not bring my
self to wallow in the mire into which I
was invited to descend. I was willing
to lie crucified for the good of the party.
I would not be the cause Of any faction
al fight i'll our party and 1 kept my sill
ence. But now that silence IS broken, I
propose to show who is the traitor here.
SIN 1888 the man who ISLANDERS me
was supporting Bill Merriam and get
ting good money for it, Great confu-
sion followed and it was several minu-
ties before Owen could 60 on.
"This man pirates of loyalty. Henev
felt single sensation of fidelity in all
his life that could not be dissipated by
the sight of little lucre. Now he comes
here and tells us to be loyal. Az to fu-
sion can only say that to me principles
are more than parties. If the democrats
will vote forwhat we believe in we will
welcome them gladly under any name
whatever. I want to See principles tri
umph. We can triumph if we are united.
Had we stood together we should today
be the debating party and it would be
the democrats that would DO tagging us.
But we have been disrupted by SANDER
and dishonorable acts inside of the party
by men who now pirate of perfdy. This
man is leader who never smiled on a
movement without blighting it. He sup
ported the republican party in 1888 and
for the first time in the history of the
state that party was In the minority. He
took the alliance party under his wing
and lost 10000 votes and finally killed
it. Two years ago he said he would ruin
me. He has been at it ever since. But
the two years that this man has been
pouring all the venom of his nature on
me have been the most prosperous years
of my life. His enmity and vindictive
scurrility brought me friends by scores,
who formerly held aloof from me be-
cause they feared was on friendly terms
with this monster
Here followed regular riot. The
crowd was in perfect confusion, and a
stampede seemed imminent. For ten
minutes Owens opponents stamped,
shouted and howled. But he stood his
ground and patiently waited. 'sYou
shall hear me if have to wait all night"
cried he.
Mr.. Donnelly came to the rescue when
. crisis seemed imminent.
81 want my friends to give Mr.. Owen
fair chance" he said. 81 only want
She opportunity to defend my character
from the assaults made upon me-
For gears continued Owen, 81 have
been silent from high and patriotic mo-
tives, but when this man hurls his dast-
ardly charges at me here in the face of
my personal sacrifices for the party,
can no longer remain silent. Every
charge BY Donnelly rejecting on my 10y
atty and integrity / deny, and / have the
evidence to prove them all vile and in
famous ISLANDERS. Donnelly worked