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

spectacle before the people. No ont
from our side of the controversy i.
trying to run your paper for you
The people are entirely willing thai
you shall run your paper just as you
please inside of your Office, but out
side OF your doors they intend to have
a 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 will you
call that free. press?
Dawson Seutinsl:
In his defeat for the alliance NOM
nation for governor, Ignatius 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 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 a few OF
the intimates of Ignatius Donnelly
shed tears on the 18th OF July. He
has 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 of
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 be
secured by the Farmers Alliance
through it's appearance as a political
organization was the purifying of
political methods and the rebuking
OF all appearance OF "boodleism"
that in whatever other direction
there might be failure there should be
none in this. Imagine then with
what surprise the public reads the
charges made against the recent
State convention of the Alliance, at
which full state ticket was placed
in the field, charges coming not from
outside, but from within, from lead
ing members of the organization,
men who were themselves members
OF the convention and claim to have
full knowledge OF the inside facts.
The whole matter is set forth in de-
tail, in most vigorous fashion, in the
GREAT WEST, of st. Paul, a recogniz-
ed organ of the Alliance. 1t charges
in general that the convention was
run by fraud and mastered by the
plutocrats Of the Twin
Cities;" that ''the farmers will was
crushed out; and that "only $40
Alliances out of 1900 were represent
ed" It charges that while lgnatius
Donnelly had a clear majority over
all of 80 votes for Governor, through
the manipulations of the Secretary
and the tellers- the latter appointed
by the President who was himself
Mr.. Donnelly's strongest rival-he
was counted out. 1t charges that a
number of the leading spirits in the
convention, who are mentioned by
name, were the recipients of large
sums OF money, specified in each in
stance, as consideration for their
influence.
What does this mean? Is the ALI
ance starting out with all the worst
characteristics which, even accepting
the representations of their enemies,
attach to the old parties? Is brodle-