The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-10
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Il am working so hard for your pa
per that hope my interests and
wishes may be respected. l had just
written to our committee to order
10000 copies of the Great Vest, at a
cost of $500 or $500; but it will not
pay us to send out papers that stir up
diSSenSiOnS in our ranks"
The campaign had been a verita-
BILE gold mine to Fish. Besides col
Letting thousands of dollars for the
alliance, and charging them even the
ten-cent pieces he paid for getting
shaved. as we'll as for his board bill in
his own house in St. Paul: and the
hire Of an employe in his printing
office: he had received nearly two
prices for all the job work done by
him, and had printed nearly 1000
supplements for our committee: and
all this time he had not organized a
single alliance or revived one.
Three days afterwards, hearing
that Fish was denouncing Owen and
doing harm wherever he went, I
wrote him again. This letter was
dated October 10Th. and written
from Fergus Falls. l said:
"My Dear Sir: l enclose you thirty
more subscribers for the Great West,
at 1Oc each. Charge me $500.
II hear that Probsttield and others
are very mad at me because of the
Great Vests attacks on Owen.
Il have made up my mind that if
these attacks continue, and / am
thereby defeated for governor, l
shall unite with the Democrats to
send Owen to the United States SEN
ate, and thus punish the man behind the
scenes.
''The action of the Great West, in
denOuncing our party, because the
democrats are ready to vote for four
of our electors, without any solicita-
tion or bargain on our part. is bear
ing fruit, as the enclosed slip shows
DONNELLY A TRAITOR.
"'Fergus Falls, Mimi, Oct. IT.
Special-Speakers who have been out
in the country districts, among the
Scandinavians say that the belief is
prevalent among them that the fu-
sion between the democrats and peO-
pies party is simply a sale by Mr..
DOnnelly, and that he has now be-
trayed the peoples party as he did
the labor party in 1888. 1t would cost
Mr.. Donnelly great deal of time to
explain this
Il may have to come out and re-
ply to this kind of assaults in self-de-
fence. | shall be sorry to do so, but
cannot submit to political murder
without the biggest kind of fight.
Il am sorry to hear that you intend
to make the Great Vest of this week
still hotter against our committee.
L beg you not to do so.
Il enclose you check for $21.l5, in
full for subscriptions taken for the
Great West, at Elk River, Ada, Hal
lock, Stephen, Warren. Mcintosh.
Fertile and Hawley. Very respect
fully and truly yours,
IGNATIUs DONNELLY."
What was Doctor Fish's reply to
this? If he had been an honest man
he would have asked me at once what
[ meant by ''the man behind the
scenes" If he really desired to see
the party succeed he would have left
Owen alone, at least until after elec-
ton. He was away in South Da-
kOta, making speeches. He never
answered my letter, but he tele-
graphed at once to our committee in
st. Paul, "Cdncel all nny engagements u,
MINNESOTA" And in the next issue of
his paper (Oct. 28th) he quoted a
fierce attack on Owen, from a Min
neapolis paper, and put over it great
head lines, thus:
"OWEN REMOVED"
"A TRAITOR OF HIS PARTY GETS HIS
JUST DESERTS"
Is it any wonder that with such in
f1uences at work we lost half our
vote? Is it not rather wonder that
we had any vote at all? For t,ro
months before the election the first page
of each issue of the Great West con-
tanned nothing but continuous re-
port of an alleged attempt, made
three gears before, to blow up a newspa-
per office in Kansas, thousand miles
aacay! For any effect on the pending
campaign, he might just as we'll have
published report of the GunpOwder
Plot in the 18th century, with the
examination of the witnesses given
in detail. In fact the Book of Cen
eSis would have made much more in
teresting reading.
1t was not campaign. 1t was a
slaughter-pen, with sinister-faced.
hireling, bowling butcher, knife in
hand, wading around up to his knees
in blood,-the blood of those he had
been paid to protect,-his mouth full
of shrieks about "Christ," and Jus
tice," and "God," and Humanity :.
and his pockets bulged out with cor
ruption money.
For in the meantime had learned
that he had safety rauH and
stoaced a,ray IN 1t has gains, carrying
the key himself. A bank ac-
count might be examined. The Of
ficers of our executive committee
were every one of them satisfied that
he would come out openly before cleo
ton against the ticket; and we had