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

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ALLIANCE ELEVATOR Co.:
Please find inclosed $1,000, for
14inch pillow, steel beam double
board, and also $3.50 for an extra
share for the pillow.
The other pillow received was VERY
SATISFACTORY Yours truly,
j. N. LUNDQUIsT.
The Secret Work.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
There are many reasons why the
secret work should be adopted by the
State Alliance.
1. Our annual meeting would not
be overrun by the emissaries of the
Railroad corporators as they have
been in the past We would see no
more OF Charley Gilman.
2. Men, like Hodgson, who are not
farmers but salaried insurance
agents, would not be able to force
themselves on the floor, for they
could not obtain the pass word.
3. Our convention proceedings
would be known only to ourselves,
and we would not have to wash all
our dirty linen in public; land we
have had a laundry-full of it lately.
4. The sub-alliance could weed out
the men who have crept in, and who
cannot very we'll beexpelled, but who
are not entitled to membership under
the constitution, by simply refusing
them the password.
5. We would have no more COM
plants from sub-alliances of bankers
and lawyers intruding on their meet
ings without a particle of right, and
making speeches and running their
meetings..
6. We would thereby place our
selves in harmony with the Southern
Alliances, and be ready for any ma
tional movement
Z. We could better conduct our
purchasing department if all our
work were secret.
We should, OF course, have to take
precautions so that the religious
scruples of any of our members
should not be violated. This has
been arranged very satisfactorily in
Kansas and other states The chap
lain service, we believe has been re-
moved.
Let the sub-alliances discuss this
matter, and instruct their delegates
how to act upon the question at the
next annual meeting. The meeting
means reformation or death to the
alliance 1t cannot go as it has been
going. That is plain to every one
VERI.
The man who wrote the following
also wrote, "Not for publication!
But if we cut his name off, he can
stand it. We'd like to shake his hand
till his feet drop off:
MAGNOLIA, MINI, August IS, 1890:
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
DEAR CoMRADE Week before last
you made me mad. You said the
names of the central committee had
been given to the daily papers and a
precious lot they were! By your
comments last week, l see you did
not mean me. Twas told by Mr.. La
Due, when he came home, that I was
one of the committee. Twas also no.
titled by the President Mr.. Hall, Of
my appointment. Also by Mr.. Phelps,
OF the meeting of said committee on
the 10Th in St. Paul. For three rea-
sons l did not go to that meeting.
LIST. am not well. I'd, my finances
will not admit of the outlay-and Sd
l am a Donnelly-Fis man from away
back-and if l met with that COM
mittee would feel as the Irishman
told Col. Ingersoll like kernel of
wheat in a bushel of -
Besides, I am only a country clod-
hopper who went into this business
from principle-and from what saw
of Hall Gardner Hodgson ct, AL,
would stand no show.
If the Donnelly men had worked as
did last March he would have been
our President-and now our nominee
for Governor.
What show do wehave? The rank
and file in this part OF the state are
Donnelly men. Our alliance has 225
members The six alliaaoes which |