St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-17

and were confident that the members of
the alliance would agree If they were
read that they contained nothing that
would in any way injure Mr.. Hall. The
correspondent of the GLOBE tried to get
those letters from Mr.. Hall, but he de-
clined to let them go on the ground that
their publication might injure the
alliance work. BY dint or considerable
argument, however, Mr.. Hall finally
consented to allow copy of them to be
ma lie, on the understanding that they
would not be allowed to appear in print
until after the meeting of the executive
committee of the alliance in ST. Paul,
June 16. Mr.. Hall said he did not want
Mr.. Donnelly to have any preteXt for
claiming that he had been injured by
their publication prior to that committee
meeting. The term of secrecy has now
expired. and the GLOBE presents the
correspondence in question to waiting
thousands Of alliance men. These can
Judge for themselves whether the claim
of Mr.. HALLS friends that there was
to be ashamed of was we'll founded or
not. The letters are as follows:
F Morris, M1nn., May &c, lS9O.-Hon. Igna
thus Donnelly, Nininger. Minn.-My Dear
Sir: Believing that the attack on the lead
ing members of the Fifth district alliance by
the Great West i'll its issue of the 23d inst
will cause bitter feeling hostile to yourself,
and that your presence at the meeting to be
held on the 18th of June as the invited guest
of the alliance will be unpleasant to yourself
and to the members Of the alliance, l hereby
withdraw the verbal invitation extended to
you some time ago to attend said meeting.
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, justice and right. l cannot
halt hot fha hnr of n rty
to these SANDERS. l am, with great respect,
your friend, r. j. HALL,
President Fifth District Farmers Alliance.
Donnelly to Hall.
Dear Sir: Your valued favor of the 26th
inst. is received. When you invited me to
attend the Fifth district alliance meeting on
June IL 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
going to st. Cloud TO see Mr.. Atwood to ar
range about the issuing of the call for the
convention. You went there The call was
issued. 1t omitted in It's list of speakers all
reference 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 a farmer or a member OF the
alliance. / considered this action of Mr.. At
wood a deliberate insult, and as you are
president of the Fifth district alliance. and
had conferred with him as to the case, could
not but feel that you were party to 1t. l
could not think that Atwood, sour and ma-
lignant as l have long known him to be,
with an atrabiliousness Of nature in
inverse ratio to his insignifcance, could
have ignored the state lecturer Of the alli-
ance after you had invited his presence with
out your authority and consent. had, there
fore, written to my friends that should not
attend the meeting, and your notice for me
TO- stay away was therefore unnecessary.
When | speak in the Fifth district it will be
as private citizen, and / shall feel it my
duty to show up the creatures who are striv.-
ing to use the alliance for their personal
benefit. Hodgson and Sprague have already
feathered their nests to the extent Of $4,000
year each. Canning desires to go to con:
gress by turning the Republican leaders OF
the alliance over to the Democrats. Fnrlong
has got fat Office out of the hail insurance
company, and Atwood desires to use
the machinery of the alliance to
lift himself out of his native nothingness into
nOtoriety. 1t is the duty of all real friends
of reform to expose and smash such Great
ures. The Great West has not yet told half the
truth aboutthem.. AS for myself, have worked
for eight1years for the alliance without a
cent of reward l was man Of eminence
and influence before the alliance was born,
| and will be when it is dead. l ask nothing
of it but the opportunity to serve it. l have
fought lions III my day, and 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 executive committee
meeting Very respectfully yours
IGNATIUs DoNNELLY.
Tor. j. Hall, Morris, Mimi, President