The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-05

tended meetings., and got subscrip-
tions for upward of $50, three per
sons putting down IS each. Now we
don't propose putting this money at
the disposal OF Darlington Phelps.
A. L. Gardner, or T. C. Hodgson, and
a lot of Doodle ringsters. l speak
plainly, because l happen to know
Messrs. Norton, Lang, and others of
Dodge county, to be men of honor,
who would not lend their names to
an attack on any man unless right
eously merited. We can't trust the
officers of the State Alliance. Please
help us DR.. This money weighs like
lead in our pockets, and we want to
put it where it will do good. Our
alliance was represented by two dele
gates at the state convention, who
were both Donnelly men. I take sides
(if there is any with the GREAT
WEST. because I know it speaks the
truth. attended the state meeting
last March and was at that caucus
up in the Capitol, where they put a
man to watch the door and were try
ing to agree on man for president
OF the Alliance. They tried to be so
very still that a good many delegates
were getting excited, when l got up
and told them that l thought the
Fifth District was bad off if they had
q candidate they were afraid to trot
out before the whole Convention and
took my hat and walked out, and
the rest followed. But l was told by
a personal friend from another town
that they held two more caucuses at
the Clarendon that night This same
friend rode in on the same train with
Atwood, from St. Cloud. He said
that he had not talked with him five
minutes before he (Atwood) advised
him to ''beware Of Donnelly" The
whole business was a plot to defeat the
best friend the poor men of Minneso-
ia ever had or ever will have
I saw Atwood at Fergus and in
conversation with him he referred to
the charges against himself and 9TH
ers in the G.. w., and oh dear! he
was all broke up. [ asked him why
in the name of heaven he did not
clear himself if those charges were
false. This answer was that they had
no paper that would publish their
side OF the story. On the other
hand we offered to publish any de-
fense.-Ed. am glad that there is
one paper in the state that dare to
stir the reptile up, and I think that
any man who is too much of a gentle
man to read the GREAT WEST and
listen to it's warnings is too tender a
lamb to be turned out among the
wolves of this cold world!
/ talked with Mr.. Bodkin, at Fergus
Falls, and in commenting on your
famous wheat controversy with Pills
bury he said that he knew that you
had the best end of the argument.
He said he told those who thought
you did not know what you were
talking about that you might not be
prepared to answer just then but you
were all right; and in speaking of the
luSulU w NIL. DOuucIl,y III Sdlu ludU
was just what brought him down
that day. Says he, they are going to
try to traduce Mr.. Donnelly here to
day, and if they do / shall speak
right out in meeting. He said that
when the last Legislature was in ses-
sion he was there in the Capitol and
saw Donnelly fighting five OF the best
lawyers in st. Paul-fighting not for
Donnelly, but for the farmers of Min
nesota. Says he, II can see him now
as he stood there, and if they try to
abuse him they will hear from me-
That's. a terrible middle of La
throp. | see our Alliance, No. $40,
put down with no returns. We made
returns in July just before the con-
vention. will send you full particu-
lars after the next meeting.
GEO. A. BLANCHARD,
President Alliance $50.
AUGUSTA, Wis.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
I like the ring of your paper, espe-