The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-15

spectacle before the people. No one
from our side of the controversy IS
irving to run your paper for you.
The people are entirely willing that
you shall run your paper just as you
please inside OF your office, but out
side OF your doors they intend to have
q say and they will run you out.
They intend to say that you shall
not force your Objectionable paper
upon them and fatten your hogs at
their expense. You had better sub
side on this racket. 1t will hardly
do for you to plead the baby act in
this direction. Do you intend to In
sist that men shall take your paper
if they do not want it? And willyo
call that free. press?
Dawson Seutinsl:
In his defeat for the alliance NOM
nation for governor, lgnatlus Don
nelly has the satisfaction OF knowing
that body wanted him to head the
ticket. His defeat was brought
about by ignorant labor delegates OF
the cities led by Tom Lucas, the an
archist. These men, under the alliance
constitution, were not entitled to
vote in that convention. Speaking
of this base act of ingratitude, this
shameless sacrifice Of the truest
friend the toilers of Minnesota ever
had, the Great West pathetically and
truly observes:
"No other state alliance has had or
abused such sacrifice. And; gentle
men, the Alliance OF Minnesota will
stumble, in the quagmire politics,
for many a day, before it finds an
other Donnelly' or another farme
like him whose name gives Mimi
ger to history.
1t is uot for nothing that few OF
the intimates of Ignatius Donnelly
shed tears on the 18th OF July. He
has a monument already erected to
him-not on the pages OF his grand
literature, nor on the SCARED forms
of his enemies-but in the hearts oil
those who know his gentleness, his
faithfulness and his wrongs"
st. Cloud journal:
1t has been supposed from the an
nouncements made by the leaders
that one OF the main objects to bt
secured by the Farmers Alliance
through it's appearance as politica
organization was the purifying o
political methods and the rebuklns
of all appearance OF 'boodleism'
that in whatever other direction
there might be failure there should b.
none in this. Imagine then will
what surprise the public reads tn
charges made against the recen
State convention Of the Alliance, a
which full state ticket was PLACED
in the field, charges coming not iron
outside, but from within, from lead
ing members of the organization
men who were themselves member
OF the convention and claim to hav
full knowledge of the inside facts
The whole matter is set forth in dc
tail, in most vigorous fashion, in tn
GREAT WEST. of st. Paul, a recOgniz
ed organ of the Alliance. 1t charge
in general that the convention wa
"run by fraud and mastered by tn
millionaire plutocrats of the Twi
Cities;" that "the farmers will wa
crushed OUT" and that "only 81
7 Alliances out of 1900 were represent
I ed" 1t charges that while lgnatiu
Donnel1y had a clear majority owe
all of SO votes for Governor, throug
e the manipulations of the Secretar
/ and the tellers- the latter appointe
} by the President who was himse
). Mr.. Donnelly's strongest rival-h
' was counted out. It charges that
: number of the leading spirits in tn
< convention, who are mentioned b
4 name, were the recipients OF larg
}. sums of money. specified in each il
+ stance. as a consideration for the
= influence.
What does this mean? Is the All
f ance starting out with all the wors
v characteristics which, even acceptin
the representations of their enemies
e attach to the old parties? Is b>'odl
j ism" any the less dangerous whe
!. practiced in an Alliance convention
4 than when practiced in Democrat
h or Republican or Prohibition CONVEX
v ton? Ii the Alliance is to be col
= trolled by methods such as thes
J. what good can the farmers OF tt
e state expect to realize from it? A
4 they not being made dupes OF t
y men who have merely personal emf
a, to serve?
r Accepting the charges made by tt
r. GREAT WEST as true-and we kno
r nothing about them except that tn
n paper is the only distinctively Al