The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26


Kingston. III. July 9. 1900.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly. Minneapolis.
Mimi.
Dear Sir: I have read your letter Of
acceptance and know it was written by q
man who thinks and reasons when he
talks, and knows what he IL talking
about; who doesn't have to borrow and
piece together, more miss than hit. odd
bits of knowledge toraged from "the mo-
bodies of past centuries"
have also read your sizing-up Of Bry-
an, at Cincinnati. as four years ago you
sized him up on the Texas matter, and
reputation OF Vice-Presidential Candi-
date Watson, Of his pledged allies. As
you sized him up, 60 did four years ago,
as a man that preferred policy to Justice,
and was then nearer to the presidency
than he will ever be again.
This time he repeats himself and rubs
It into his would-be allies by rejecting,
or consenting to the rejection of Towne,
marking his own the principal Of man
who STRAINS at gnat and swallows. q
camel" Great principal! He stands
stoutly ~ by 16 to /, and violates de-
liberately for the second time the most
sacred principals Of justice, decency and
common honesty toward the victims Of
misplaced confidence in him, and he
jokes about 1t as If he didn't know the
vice-presidential nominee wouldn't be
Towne and should not be Hill.
A candidate OF party making a great
"roar" about the administration refusing
peace to the Philippines until they had
first submitted Internationally to the
invasion, authority and Jurisdiction of
the United States, calls upon all his al
lies. or, by silence, sanctions a conven-
ton program demanding of those allies
unconditional surrender to the authority
Of the Democratic party first OF ALL
Shut your eyes and open your mouth"
when we say. and see what we give you.
Wonderful starter this, for the party
tune of "Anti-Imperialism!"
Look further for wonderful faith cons
ditions! Twenty-four votes, said to rep
resent $50 delegates to the convention,
were cast in the resolutions committee
against 16 to /, and were confession in
open court that these "a men did not
know 16 to l was good craftsmanship,
or, knowing it was good, corruptly voted
against 1t. All the same, in either case,
unit to have any say in the management
of Democratic craftsmanship of 16 to /.
or of any sort of reform.
So 1t amounts to this, that any re-
former. as before mentioned, who will
give moments time, or a farthing in
the interest of such a party must be u.s.
Ing his common sense as cushion to sit
on. when the only proper thing to do is
to change the program, sit on his vote
and keep hold of the string and use his
common sense to reason with, and guide
him in tracking the political "varmints"
OF the money and other trusts.
II Teller and Towne and Butler feel
themselves compelled to serve with these
political scavangers in the refuse of po-
litical perfidity, dead and damned and
rotten. with no pay but the stink, let
them speak for themselves, not for those
who are free at home, to tie them to a
deliverance worse than the peril of the
republic, especially after the consider
alton, the vice-presidency, has passed
to other hands and voids this contract
as to their allies
Free men who, for the moment,
thought policy and trickery better
soldiers than truth and Justice, don't
have to fight for party daubed all over
with "untempered mortar, perfidity and
defeat. even before the battle begins"
Free men don't have to keep two dogs
to fight each other while the wolves de-
YOUR the sheep. They can shut off their
"feed" and shut it down tight, at once,
their votes. They can then put their
feed" into one grand dog that will kill
the wolf
They can kill two political buzzards
dead easy" with. nothing No votes
are nothing. This is the first thing to
do, and do now, without waiting for
November. as quick as you can wink
your eye. 4
Free men, who still have control of
their own votes, If they don't know what
Is right or wrong, don't want
to find out, or cannot. and
Ny0NXy DHADNI