The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-13
Trouble in the Alliance.

Mr.. Donnelly has kept his promise
in regard to working for the Alliance
with extraordinary vigor-in endeav-
oring to put the Alliance platform in
to the statute book. Every moment
Of his time has been demanded and
given-almost night and day-in the
senate, on committees, with an inn
mense correspondence and with in
Vulnerable men with measures, bills
and plans, consulting with him.
He is working at this high pressure
at risk of his life, as his peculiar tenn
permanent and frame is certainly that
OF man liable to drop at any mo-
ment under overwork or excitement.
And he is working practically without
pay. He wrote caesars Column" in
a month, and such works have avalue
OF thousands OF dollars to such an
| author. He has another work half
| finished for which his urgent publish
ers promise a sale of $4,000 copies in
advance OF issue. He gives up all this
literary work for this senatorial fight.
No one can say that Mr.. Donnelly,
since his election, by a vote Of five to
one, has done anything to forfeit one
grain of the confidence placed in him.
He has been blamed because his son
gets $40 day as clerk. Let us see.
Last legislature the judiciary commit
! tee had TWO CLERKS, one at $40 and
the other at 81. .5Oa day. This session
| it has but one-Stanislaus Donnelly is
| doing the entire work, extremely oner
Gus and oppressive. The clerk of that
committee must be a lawyer-and no
lawyer will give his services, in the city, if
a responsible man, for less than that
Mr.. Donnelly, Jr., is a lawyer, and a
man of experience. But Mr.. Donnelly
had nothing to do with his appoint
ment. He was formerly AN assistant
in the Atty Genls Office, and his expe-
rience caused his appointments
he was put in by the REPUBLICANS!
Mr.. Donnelly is accused of putting
Mr.. Giltinan in the State House, a
son-in-law. He had absolutely moth
ing to do with it. Mr.. G. is a man
thoroughly capable,lprobably, of tax
ing care of his own business The
has had his appointment for a term
of years.
Mr.. Donnelly's enemies raised a
clamor that he had made the GREAT
WEST the official organ. against the
wishes of the State Alliance. The G..
w. was made the organ of no one.
The Executive Committee simply
obeyed the constitution and made
the G. w. the proper paper in which
to put the official proceedings, and
it did this by vote Iof five yeas to
no nays. 1t is the only journal that
reaches the Alliances! They might
have designated the Globeto accommo-
date Miss Mcdonald the Pioneer
Press the IN W. Railroader!''-
and not a single Alliance would have
seen the report. The action raised
the most dreadful howls from the city
press and the city farmers.
And now, because he seeks to pro-
vide against that day when the G. w.
may possibly pass into hands OF
inimical parties (for DR.. Fish is in
very poor health and may be COM
PEELED to give up his work J, and be-
cause Mr.. D. does not want to
see this powerful journal turned
against the very life of the Alliance,
the batteries of filthy abuse
are turned against him in every quar-
ter-and one of the supposed officers
of the alliance is furnishing the ammu-
nition for all this.
And what is the offense? Why, with
majority of the Executive Commit
tee, he submitted to the alliances OF
the state-a power, be it remem-
bered, higher than the State
meeting-a proposition made by the
publishers of this paper, as requested,
to sell the paper to the Alliance, and
he merely asked for full and fair con-
sideration!
Could he do less and be faithful to
the alliance?
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