The Irish standard., 1900-03-17

who had not been honored with a re-
nomination by his party. Pausing sud-
denly, he exclaimed: "There is another
memorable instance in which a Repub-
llcan congressman was not renomi-
mated. When William S. King went
into Canada in the interest of his con-
stituents to look after bulls he was not
back in time for the convention" Then
it was that King arose and protested
against dragging his name into the
campaign, saying he was out OF politics.
There was great excitement. The Re-
publicans cried out: go for him, Bill, -
"Sit down, Donnelly," and so forth.
There were cheers and Kisses from all
parts of the hall, and for time riot
was imminent.
When silence was restored Donnelly
proceeded with his address and defed
intimidation. He charged King with
attacking him daily in the Pioneer
Press during the entire campaign, not
outstanding the fact that in his first
speech on Bridge Square at the opening
of the contest when it was asked,
"What about Bill King?" he said that
he was after bigger game; that King
was out OF politics; and that he
never struck man when he is down.
What Mr.. Donnelly said was perfectly
true, for we listened to his speech in
the open air and heard every word of it.
At that time Mr.. Donnelly was a
magnificent orator, the finest we had
ever heard, though we had heard some
OF the greatest orators OF the country
before coming to Minnesota. His
opening speech OF the campaign Of 1873
was delivered in this city. He stood on
chair facing the suspension bridge
and without any introduction or any
audience he began an address so ell
oquent in language and so resonant in
delivery that he attracted vast null
titudc which he held spell-bound for
more than an hour. Whether one
agreed or disagreed with Donnelly's
political utterances he could not help
admiring his brilliancy as a speaker
Mr.. Donnelly has always been a loyal
and patriotic citizen, and his voice has
ever been raised for liberty and hui
mainly. He was fully justified in vindi-
eating himself from the aspersions cast
upon him by the irresponsible slanderer
OF daily paper, when he said: "Filled
with charity for the dead, have re-
Trained from attacking King in my
own paper or any other, but l do not
feel like submitting to falsehood to do
him honor. 1t may be all right to
teach the rising generation OF Mime
sofa that this man was saint, but it
is not necessary in doing so to make
them believe that 1 am sinner
Some of the Republican editors have
been gleefully holding up Mr.. Don
nelly to their readers as crazy spirit
ualist because, forsooth, he spoke on
spiritualism at the Unitarian church in
this city on recent occasion. They
say that he is in his dotage and that
his head is filled with vagaries on mat
tiers pertaining to the spirit world. Mr..
Donnelly deemed it necessary to ex-
plain his position on this occult ques-
ton. We see nothing contrary to Chris
tan orthodoxy in anything he writes.
He views the subject from a phil
osophic standpoint and does
not tread on the domain of theology
He does not even mention the Bible,
though the sacred volume is tinctured
with spiritualism from Genesis to Reeve
lations, as was shown by the late Rev.
Isaac T. Hecker, the eminent Paulist
priest, in his lectures on the subject sew
eral years ago in Chicago. Igratius
Donnelly is thinker, scholar and a
philosopher, and it is as such that he de-
livered an address on spiritualism at DR..
Simmons tabernacle. Though not pro-
fessedly Catholic he defended the an
Gent church from villifcation in ten of
the principal cities of this country
against Professor Sims, and acquit-
ted himself with marvellous ability. In
view of these facts, we desire to set Mr..
Donnelly Alright in the eyes of our read
ers, and therefore it is that we gave his
views on spiritualism from his own
pen in last weeks issue of the Irish
Standard.
Here is an old story of an Irish court
of law: Mr.. Curran, the renowned Irish
lawyer, on one occasion was trying a
case before Lord Avonmore and a stu
pid Dublin jury, by whom his best
flights of eloquence and wit were wholly
unappreciated. Addressing them, with