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

The Campaign Committee.
| If anything more were wanted to
clinch the truth Of statements of the
GREAT WEST that the gang headed
by Hall was in league with both Mer'
riam and Scheffer, in fact with the
plutocrats of St. Paul, to destroy
the alliance, the appointment OF the
campaign committee would be suffi-
Gent.
The committee is simply a complete
reinstatement OF the Sprague gang
in the control of the alliance. The
bona-fide farmer has almost no in
terest there. Not a man on that
large body represents either the
GREAT WEST or Mr.. Donnelly-and
yet these two agencies were the orr
gin OF three-fourths of the alliances in
existence-Sprague himself failing to
keep any of his appointments in the
work until he went up to Henning, to
chase DR.. Fish up-rode 80 miles in a
storm, and charged up the whole
business to the Hail Insurance Co.!
Let us look at the personnel of
this group, and though there are
three or four good citizens the real
central force is entirely the Scheffer
bankers crowd:
CHAIRMAN.-Carrington Phelps.
Mr.. Phelps has always stood by the
Sprague and Hall-Scheffer ring. He
is not a banker now, but has been
until lately-and R. J. Hall himself
said before five witnesses that he
was not fit to be member OF an al
lance. AS for ourselves we regard
Mr.. Phelps as a gentleman. and a
trustworthy man, but not the right
man to lead a labor union campaign.
at large.-A. L. Gardner. In re-
gard to this precious sneak, refer to
the files of the GREAT VEST, and see
how the Dodge Co. delegation official
ly spewed him out as a fraud, bear
ing false credentials. See letters pub
lished, from him to US, and from this
journal to him, in which he revealed
his character OF all the men in the
state OF Minnesota this man Gardner
should be the very last to think Of
for such place then rejected
with disdain. Three alliances passed
resolutions requesting Mr.. Donnelly
not to appoint Gardner as lecturer
and Mr.. D. dropped him. Mr.. G..
pretended to be a delegate OF the
Knights Of labor at the Convention,
and worked like a dragon for Hall.
Tom Lucas is another. We do not
care to utter one word against this
somewhat extraordinary individual.
We refer him to the organized Labor
of the Twin Cities for his "char-
acter." Ii he can get it, well and
good. The universal expression to
us is that he is a wild anarchist. We
do not Judge him hereby on that ac-
count. He came into the convention
as one of those SIS self-credentialed
delegates, and, together with Wesen.
berg, nominated for candidate fol
governor the man who had publicly
and outrageously insulted the State
Lecturer. Tom Lucas is not the man
to represent a great party.
J. G. Meyers and A. O. Grigsby
complete the members cat Large. >
The latter is we'll known in the politi
cal circles of Duluth. He supported
Hall in the convention.
First District.-Carl J. Judson. A
Meat Inspector at St. Paul Stock
Yards. Owns farm somewhere.
Second DISTINCTLY. C. Hodgson-
an officer of a St. Paul Fire Insur.
ance Co., at 1900 a year. The man
who went down to Grand Meadow
(the alliance which got up the Farm
& Labor Party" in 1881 to get
them to throw overheard Donnelly
and break up the party. The man
who went into Mr.. Donnelly's Dis
trict to defeat him for the legislature
The man who "stood by" Hall in
1888 against Crossfeld, and then left
him in the lurch in Traverse County
The man whose letters Hall read to
For THE GREAT WEST:
THE DAl