The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-01

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inst, contained the following:
"A few remaining officers of the AL
lance were in the city this morning,
but they knew little of Mr.. Donnelly's
actions. Yesterday said one of
the members of the Executive Com
mittee, Mr. Donnelly was in one of
his worst moods, owing to his recent
defeat in the convention. He came
down to our meeting unshaved, and
looking quite fierce, so that we knew
what to expect. He was opposed to
us in the matter of publishing w. w.
Erwin's speech, and tried to make
row so he might have an excuse, as
believe, of withdrawing from sup
porting our ticket. In the morning
he made threats of leaving us to
make the fight alone, but he nvere
limited, when he left us, that he was
saying goodbye for the campaign"
A plain statement becomes neces-
:sary of what took place in the meet
ing. Mr.. Donnelly generously tried to
prevent the subject of dispute from
becoming public, and made the COM
mittee pledge themselves to keep it
secret. Instead OF doing so one OF
them sets forth, in the above garbled
form, a part of what transpired, so
as to place Mr.. Donnelly in dis
.creditable light before the public.
What was the matter of discus
sion?
Mr.. Donnelly called attention to
the fact that the constitution re-
quired (Sec. IA, art. LIP. y, that the
Secretary should report to the state
lecturer at the end Of each week the
new alliances organized since his last
report, with the charter number OF
the same, and the names and address
OF the officers. Mr.. Donnelly said
that nineteen weeks had elapsed
since Mr.. Lathrop had been elected
Secretary and he had never received
a single report from him. That pro-
vision of the constitution was in
tended as check on the secretary,
as we'll as guide to the State Lee
turer in his work. He also stated
that on the goth of June last
he and DR.. Fish had organized an al
lance at Saratoga, in Winona coun-
ty, and 50 had been given him tofor
ward to the Secretary for the char
ter; that on the 21st of June he had
sent that money to the Secretary, by
check to the Secretary's order,
as appeared by notation in his
book in St. Paul; but that on the
18th OF July he had been called upon,
during the meeting of the State ALI
ance, by delegate who complained
to him that they had never received
the charter! Mr.. Donnelly further
stated that the constitution, (Sec. II,
Art 1, p. ~ required that the Secre-
tray should make a full and accurate
report OF all "receipts and disburse-
ments by him to the Finance Com
mittee, at least two days before each
meeting of the State Alliance" No
such report had been made before the
special meeting just held. The con-
.stitution further required, (Sec. ID,
Art. 1, p. ~ that the secretary
should make IAN itemized statement
of the date and amounts OF all re-
ceipts and disbursements" at each
meeting of the Executive Committee.
That there had been a number of
such meetings but not single report
had ever been received. Further
more he, Mr.. Donnelly, had heard
nothing but complaints of alliances
who, weeks and months after they
sent in their money, had not received
their charters; Of deputy lecturers
who could not get back the money
which had been paid over to the Sec
rotary for their use, and who were in
consequence cramped for means to
carry on the work of the Alliance.
That letters had been received from
Dawson saying that Mr.. Lathrop
was squandering money right and
left. That he Lathrop claimed that
there were hundreds of dollars in his
hands which he had told his son to
bring down to the special meeting,
and his son had appeared without
the money! That he, Mr.. Donnelly,
had demanded that the books should
be forthcoming prior to the recent
meeting of tie Alliance, so that all
examination and report could be
made upon them; Mr. Lathrop told