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

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should be able to show, at any time
in five minutes, just where he stood
Mr.. Lathrop said that no man could
perform the duties Of the Secretary as
required by the constitution. Mr.
Donnelly replied that if Mr.. Lathrop
could not perform them he should
resign and the committee would find
some one who. for $4,000 a year,
the salary paid him, would keep the
books in perfect order and ready for
inspection on moments notice.
that if Mr.. Lathrop had staid at
home, and attended to his business,
instead of cavorting all over the
state, and hanging around St. Paul
and Minneapolis for days and weeks,
setting up schemes and combina-
tions, with the politicians OF the
cities, there would not be to-day the
complaints that are heard every
where.
Mr.. Donnelly said, in the commit
tee, that he had found, by past ex-
perience, that everything he said or
did in the committee was at once re-
ported to the city papers and per-
verified and garbled to injure him.
That he had moved in the matter
out of no personalfeeling but because
the welfare of the Alliance demanded
it; that he did not want to injure MIR.
Lathrop, and he would pledge him
self to say nothing OF the matter to
any reporter, and he requested Mr..
Lathrop's friends, on the committee,
to follow his example. This was
agreed to; and we have seen what
was the result. zone of the members
of the Executive Committee goes to
the reporters OF the st. Paul Dis
patch, a Republican city daily, and an
enemy OF the Alliance, and puts forth
the statement already quoted, in
which he says Mr.. Donnelly was
mad; but fails, very cunningly, to
tell what he was "mad' about; that
he threatened to resign from the Ex-
ecutive Committee, but does not tell
that it was because he was not willing
to be party to any robbery OF the
Alliance, by a plain violation of the
express provisions OF the constitu-
ton.
But this is not all. This zone OF
the Executive Committee" states,
farther, that Mr.. Donnellv objected
to the publication OF w. W. Erwin s
great speech. What was the fact in
the case? Mr.. Hall proposed to pay
over $4,000, out Of the treasury OF
the State Alliance, to Albert Schef-
fer's newspaper, the Daily News OF
st. Paul, for 10000 copies contain
ing Mr.. Erwin's speech; and this was
to be a tirststep toward making that
paper the organ OF the alliance.
Mr.. Donnelly said that this was
part of the same scheme which had
cursed the alliance for three years
past; to turn over the alliance to the
st. Paul banker and politician, Al
bert Scheffer; who had no interest in
the farmers, and had twice fought his
efforts to stop usury and cut down
the rate of interest on money to
eight per cent. per annum. That the
Alliance had a newspaper, The
GREAT WEST, which had published
5000 pamphlets in four languages
for nothing, and which had done a
tremendous work in building up the
Alliance in Minnesota; that the pa.
per was now engaged in printing Mr.
Erwin's speech, and if there was to be
any money paid out to any newspa.
per he thought it was due to the
GREAT WEST; that they should have
an opportunity to make bid fol-
the work. He asked for DELAY Of
one hour until they could be heard
from. Mr.. Hall said that the GREAT
WEST had no sympathy with the al.
liance,-that it had been constantly
engaged in abusing him,-Mr. Hall
Mr. Donnelly replied that Mr.. Hall
fell into the natural error of suppos.
ing that he was the Alliance: but
that the GREAT WEST might come to
the conclusion that fidelity to the
alliance required that he, Hail.
should be denounced. Mr.. Lathron
then raised the question that as the
order to print $4,000 or 10000 COD.
les OF Mr.. Erwin's speech was made
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