The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03
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Let This Matter be Settled.
An alliance supposed to bel down
in Waterville has resolved against
purchasing the GREAT WEsT-and
adds thereto q let of scurilious hog
wash about the GREAT WEST having
matureda devilish plan to unload the
paper, etc.
Such outrageous abuse is beneath
contempt. And yet it requires no.
tice. We are not proud, nor giddy-
nor rich, nor handsome we are
too Acknowledgement for that lot Of
Smart-Alecks. The editor of this pa
per lay sick in bed. To his residence
came Eva Mcdonald, R. 81. MCGEE,
and one or two other members of the
Executive Committee: They handed
us a paper containing a proposition
to purchase one page of the GREAT
WEST, with provision for censor
ship of the rest. Eva Mcdonald was
the head of the delegation.
That is the first we ever heard or
dreamed of any desire to secure the
GREAT WEST. At the close of this
proposition there was a request for us
to make a proposition to the Execu-
tive Committee if this proposition
presented by Miss Mcdonald and
Others was not satisfactory. The
Business Agency and the GREAT
WEST were then connected together,
and we had from three to four thou
sand dollars interest therein. We
put the price for both plants at $11,-
600. We had no desire to sell-it was
not our suggestion. The business
was paying well, and increasing.
The following affidavit will clinch
this thing:
State of Minnesota
County of Ramsey IS
Personally appeared before me, a
Notary Public in and for the County
OF Ramsey, State OF Minnesota,
Everett W. Fish, who says he is edi-
tor and proprietor of the GREAT
WEST newspaper; that on or about
the last week in January 1891, Miss
Eva Mcdonald, R. H. MCGEE, and
Others came to the residence of at
faint and submitted a written
document to affiant which docu-
ment purported to be from the
Executive Committee of the State
Farmers Alliance, and was a
proposition to control a portion or
all of the editorial utterances of the
GREAT WEST as since officially
published by said Executive Com.
mittee; that said acknowledgement
a proposition from the affiant if said
document were not satisfactory, and
a return proposition was made to
sell the plant to said State Farmers
Alliance. And further amant declares
that no person had ever before sug.
gested to affiant the purchase or par.
tial control Of the GREAT VEST by
the Executive Committee, or had al.
faint ever by word, writing. manner
or implication suggested such a
change to any person whomsoever;
it was complete surprise to him. And
further affiant states that the COM
mittee OF Miss Mcdonald and others
represented that they came as a COM
mittee from the said Executive Com
mittee. EVERETT w. FISH.
Subscribed and sworn
to before me this 31st
day of March, A. D.
1891. E. R. HoLcoMBE.
Notary Public, Ramsey Co., MINI.
SEAL.
This ought to settle the matter
about our having any scheme to "un-
load" the strongest reform journal in
the world.
Now, friend or foe, you can know
how to take any statement made in
public or private, by the city-farmer
gang, who are working the state.
When they get off any more of their
dirty stuff you can simply know that
they are lying