The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
The Battle RACES.

years.
The Battle RACES.
Sprague is travelling through Todd
county, and Eric Olson is working in
the Red River Valley. The railroad
companies have their agents out in
every direction. The money flows
like water. It is a square battle-the
railroads against the people. They
fear Donnelly because he is in earnest
They have an argument to suit each
mans capacity. Ii a man is some
what prominent they tell him that
some new man, some plain man,
should be taken up; and they gently
intimate that he may be the man. II
the man is not prominent enough for
this medicine, they work the "harmo-
ny racket Mr.. DonneIly must step
aside; Mr.. Hall also, and Sprague
must be elected. Or if this won't
work, then some less prominent man
muSU De taken up.
The Alliance is engaged in a terrible
battle. 1t is fighting the ablest and
shrewdest man In the state, yes,-in
the United eSta ties, with millions of
dollars in their hands, surrounded by
the most cunning politicians and lob
byists of the age. On our side is an
army of farmers filed with noble pur-
poses it is true, but undisciplined and
many of them inexperienced in public
affairs. We have one leader whose
knowledge of politics, whose ability,
whose devotion to the cause OF the
people, cannot be doubted; and the
enemy send us word that "in the in
terest of harmony we must kill him
off and put up some man who lacks
all the qualities which he possesses.
And this just as the Legislature is to
open and the tremendous contest
with entrenched robbery is to COM
mence.
Let it be understood that the ALI
ance at it's next annual meeting is
controlled by the money and tools
of the railroads., the bankers and
the rings, and it will dissolve away
like morning dew, and there will not
be enough left of it by 1892 to organ
ize a convention.
Come up brethren and save the
Alliance and bury the tools of the
plutocrats. Shut your ears to their
cunning arguments. In March last
they said the Alliance must not elect
Mr.. Donnelly president because they
wanted him for state lecturer, and
that no other man in the state
could fill the place but him. In July
last they were opposed to his being
chosen as the candidate for governor
because he could not be trusted-he
would take the stump for Merriam.
Now that argument cannot be used
because Mr.. Donnelly has shown that
he would stand by the alliance ticket
under the most discouraging circum-
stances. And SO now there is a uni
versal clamor that Mr.. Donnelly
must be defeated again in the in
terest of harmony"
Who is it that will be inharmonious
if Mr.. Donnelly is elected? Why
Scheffer, Sprague, Hall, Lathrop, the
Wheat Rings, the Railroad Compan-
les, the Usurers, and all those whom
the Alliance was organized to fight.
Who Is it that is going to breed trou-
BILE in the Alliance, if Mr.. Donnelly is
elected? Is it the honest farmers?
Is it the men who want the Alliance
platform carried out? Is it the men
who want the robberies of the people
to stop? No; it is the men who are
drawing large salaries from Albert
Scheffer's insurance company; and
behind Albert Scheffer stands the
railroads, and behind them the wheat
rings and the elevator rings, and the
money-lending rings and the whole
awful catalogue of the oppressors of
the people.
When the GREAT WEST asks any
help of the bogus alliance men who
butter their bread at the expense of
the plutocrats it will be time enough
| to offer aid. The G. w goes into the