The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10

lance, gives notice OF rOuslng all-
ance meeting to be held at Appleton,
June 4th. Mr.. Donnelly will be in
vited, and other speakers. Committee
of arrangements:
O. S. Clapp, Chairman. Appleton.
Mr.. Filley, Toilet Robson, John Scott,
Gilbert Oleson, Pat Duffee, John
Nugent, C. O. Christianson.
Then Mr.. Clapp enters upon a long
analysis of the Lectureship question.
He makes an error in saying that
'sDoc. Fish said he would not come
up for Lecturer" We never made
any such statement, though not in
tending to take any Office on &C
count of broken health. We with
drew" solely so that we might state
that Miss Med. was not member of
the alliance. Mr.. Donnelly did not
thereafter decide that Miss Med. twas
eligible His statement was MAIDEN
introducing her, long before, when he
did not know that she was not a mem
Der, and that we were! Then again,
Bro. Clapp, Miss McD. has just been
elected member of 621-abouttwo or
three weeks ago, after the failure in
Todd Co. We have nothing to say
in regard to this. Her being a fire.
brand in the Executive Committee
and antagonism to President D. is
not the ''motif." It is the purely con-
stitutional ground that no one not
member of the Alliance could be an
official. We have been reasonable all
through-making the statement
clearly at the State Meeting. Now,
brother, how much nobler, kinder
greater, would it be for Miss Med. to
resign, at the request of hundreds OF
alliances, and help us preserve the Or
ganic law. Is her pride worth the de-
struction of the alliance? Was it
wise, anyway, to make a salaried re-
porter of the Daily Globe the one
great, powerful, responsible official,
controlling our work, and admitting
a hundred or so persons to the floor
OF the next convention? However,
we make no point OF this. Ifshe is the
State Lecturer, let her remain. II
not, then there is no discussion.
The good words for the GREAT
WEST and ourselves melt us, and
make us regret that any divisions
should separate us. But Bro. Clapp.
before God you do not, you certainly
do not know the desperate nature OF
the fight to keep the alliance power
. under the thumb of city politicians.
P. B. Martin writes OF the G. w.:
1T is a snorter!''
VIM. Parrott writes us an excellent
report Of the Lincoln County ALI
ance. He says Albert Warren wrote
a very lengthy defense of himself for
not making a financial report:
''First, hesays his committee was not
created by the alliance. and therefore
is not obliged to make a report Of
their transactions. True for if they
had been such men as Albert War
rem would have been more con.
spicuous by their absence. Perhaps
he will admit that part Of their mon.
ey came out of the pockets of alliance
men. Next hesays he offered a report
of the amount raised at the State
Meeting and DR.. Fish refused to pub.
lish it. That part is OF little conse
quence, as every alliance man knew
that three months ago. We called
for the expenditures, not the amount
received, and We did not get them
ED. G. w.. He makes a wicked stat
that those who howl most contribut
ed least, and some raised money fol
the Com. fund and withheld it. That
fits 1872 precisely. We did raise some
money for that purpose, but owing
to the composition of that commit
tee Warren is from Lincoln County
decided not to send it. And we acteC
wisely, especially after the
SCORING WARREN GAvE: THE CHAIR
MAN OF THAT COMMITTEE.
Darlington Phelps] at our county
alliance"
We understand that Warren actu
ally accused Phelps of appropriatine
the funds.
Mr.. Parrott closes by hoping thai
Warren will either showup or forever
shut up.
The GREAT WEST would SUCCESS
that Mr.. Warren either keep hi
promises to the State Meeting, or re