The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

to stand in front of my factory and pay
$50 IL carriage hire to bring men to vote
for it,
On the other hand. Hobart, when
saw him in his store, said: It's true that
my brother is rich and I'm poor, but I'm
not envious. 1 had the opportunity to. get
rich myself, but | wouldn't sacrifice the
members of my family to do it. So I'm
satisfied to be poor.
There's no feud between the colonel
and me. I've read in the New Testament
that we should not hate our enemies and
doesn't that imply all the more foreibly
that one should not hate his own brother?
We simply differ on the question of tenn
perance. This is d prohibition state, and
we are determined to enforce the law"
Although the hostility between the two
branches of the family began nearly fif-
teen years ago, the first antagonism was
displayed in public in 1894, when Hobart
ran against his nephew, Rose, as candi-
date for the state senate Rose defeated
his uncle in Derry, and, with a party of
friends, drove triumphantly to Nashua,
where the district caucus was held. in a
carriage drawn by six dappled gray
horses.
At Nashua Rose was defeated. and the
toWnspeOple still relate how Hobart in
the excess of joy, ran from his store and
nailed to q wall opposite the railway sta
ton telegram announcing his nephew's
defeat. When the unsuccessful candidate
returned to town, driving his six horses,
William Pillsbury, ore of Iobart's sons,
set off six dynamite cartridges to en-
phasize the citation Of the poor Pills
burys."
Roses friends We're so indignant that
they left the Republican party. and their
detection nearly caused victory for the
Democrats. Hobart's followers then
lni,, Nv
ton last winter of the colOnel's son as
speaker Of the lower branch of the legis-
lature.
a GENERAL FIST FIGHT
But the political battles were as moth
ing to the famous Pillsbury fight in the
main street Of Derry, which, eyewitnesses
described to me as follows: you see.''
said the townsman, "1n the winter of
1895 the police of Derry were all the col
onels men. They bored hole through
the floor of Masonic hall and spied on one
Of the other crowd. There was arrests.
and all Of 'em went to court next dav.
Rose Pillsbury was prosecutin' VIII Pills
bury.
when court was out Rose came along
the street with his arm fuEl of law books,
Will met him ana knocked the books out
of his arm. Then they began to pound
away.
each wanted to help his own son win.
But as it happened, the colonel owned a
business block where the fight was on.
While Hobart owned the store beyond it,
Neither would let the other cross his
sidewalk, so they stood there Quarrel-
ing.
" You can't trespass on my property
says one, and You won't cross nv side
walk, says the other.
" Nate Williams then started to punch
one OF the colonels men, and pretty
soon half the men in town was In the
fight. Each side claimed victory after it
was over, so l guess it was about
draw"
The feud waxed more fiercely after that
and began 20 center about the Derry tav-
ern There is only one public house in
Derry, and the Hobart faction declare
that, as it Is unlawful to sell liquor in
the state, the hotel must be conducted
on a temperance basis.
Hobart Piilsbury formed law and or
der league, the president Of which is
Prof George Bingham, the head of the
Pinkerton Academy. Spoilers" haunted
the tavern, raids We're made by con-
stables, and in the last few years five
tavernEeepers were ruined and driven
from business. Finally the tavern was
closed, and strangers could obtain no
resting place in Derry.
Partisans of the colonel openly charge
that the raids were instituted only be-
cause Rosecrans Pillsbury had an interest
in the hotel. The colonel and his son de-
clare that 1t is essential for the exist
ence of the town that q public tavern be
maintained there, as 1t Is necessary that