Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
GETTING TANGLED.

The correspondence between Ignatius
Dounclly and President r. J. Hall of
the Fifth District Farmers Alliance lately
exposed through the columns of the
newspapers is becoming quite interesting.
Here is tile correspondence:
Believing that the attack on the leading
members of the fifth district alliance by
the Great West in its issue on the 23d
inst. will cause bitter feeling hostile to
yourself, and that your presence at the
meeting to be held on the Goth of June,
as the invited guest OF the alliance. will
be unpleasant to yourself and to the
members of the alliance. | hereby with
draw the verbal invitation extended to
you some time ago to attend said meet
ing. The leaders Of the fifth district
alliance are not thieves. liars and traitors,
but are honest and unselfish workers for
the advancement of human liberty, JUS
tlce and right. | cannot believe that
you are the author of or party of these
ISLANDERS.
To which Mr.. DonneIly sarcastically
replies:
Your valued favor of the Goth inst is
received. When you invited me to at
tend the fifth district alliance meeting
on June II, made up my mind to be
with you at that time to help along the
alliance work. You told me at the same
time that you were gong to st. Cloud to
see MIR. Atwood to see about the issuing
of the call for the convention. You
went there. The call was issued. 1t
omitted in its list of speakers all refer
ence to myself and named in my stead
W. W. Erwin of St. Paul and others,
Mr.. Erwin is an able gentleman and my
friend, but he is not farmer or a mem
Der of the alliance. Iconsider this action
of Mr. Atwood deliberate insult, and as
you are president of the fifth district al
lance, and conferred with him as to the
case, I could not but feel that you were
a party to it. l could not think that At
wood, sour and Malignant as have long
known him to be, with an atrlbillovsness
of natvre in inverse ratio to his lnsignii
cense, could have ignored the state lee
turer of the alliance, after you had in
yited his presence. without your authority
and consent. | had, therefore, written
to my friends that should not attend
the meeting, and your notice for me to
stay away was therefore unnecessary.
When I speak in the fifth district it will
be as private citizen. and | shall feel it
my duty to show up the creatures who
are striving to use the alliance for their
have already feathered their nest to the
extent Of two thousand a year each.
Canning desires to 20 to Congress by
turning the Republican leaders of
the alliance over to the Democrats.
Furlong has got fat Office out of the
hal insurance company and Atwood de-
sires to use the machinery of the alliance
to lift himself out of his native nothing
ness into notority. 1t is the duty of all
real friends of reform to expose and
smash such creatures. The Great West
has not yet told half the truth about
them. AS for myself. l have worked
for eight years for the alliance without a
cent of reward.
was man of eminence and influence
before the alliance was born, and will be
when it is dead. ask nothing of it but
the. opportunity to serve 1t. l have
fought lions in my day, and l am not
ready now to go on the warpath against
jackals or jackasses either. The 9Th OF
June will suit me very well for the exc
cutiYe committee meeting,
Now there is no one who takes more
interest in any movement that is likely tt
better the condition of the farmer thar
we d. and we think the Alliance is {
move in the right direction. But il il
our honest opinion that if the farmers O.
the. state would kick DonnellY and tn
Great West overheard they would hav'
no such family rows and would acccomp
lish great deal of good for themselves
tt doesent sound well for DOnnellv ant
the Great West to be calling the leader
of our Alliance dishonest" men. The,
are too we'll known.