The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-19

persevere in the good work; and
would have defended it from the
charge of decadence and death, if
made by another.
l do not desire to speak boast
ully of myself, but 1 would call the
attention of our brethren to my
course as contrasted with that of
Doctor Fish.
| had been beaten for governor !;
I had spent over 5000 of my own
money in the contest; had made a
tremendous campaign, speaking
over one hundred times. had been
betrayed by DR.. Fish, by false crv
of s'fusion;'' the result of the cleo
tion showed that the Peoples party
afforded no promise Of reward for
me or any other man. But the day
after the election I began the
work of reform anew. / wrote
numerous letters. / secured the
promise of Gen. Weaver 10 speak at
the next convention. Isent out cir
culars to all the Alliances, appealing
to them to stand firm, and to send
delegates to the annual meeting
The result was we had a splendid
convention - this 'paralvzed" AL
liance;-we astonished our enemies !;
we encouraged our friends; we
lifted up the PROSTATE banner of
Reform from the dust.
Where was Doctor Fish then? Not
satisfied with stabbing us in in the
back, and robbing us Of 10000 votes
by devilishly cunning pretenses,
the day after election ne resigned
the Office OF state lecturer and re-
fused to longer permit his paper
to act as the organ of the State Alli-
ance, so as to kick the staggering
organization down stairs to destruc-
tion, never to rise again. And why2
He said the Peoples party commit
tee, or rather Louis Hanson, its
secretary, had not done right. But
what had the Farmers Alliance to
do with the Peoples party commit
tee? The two organizations are to-
tally distinct. One is Industrial
the other political. Could
Doctor Fish not have held his Office
for even two months longer! Could
he not have attended the annua,
convention and cheered US up in
our misfortunes by a few kind
words? No; he ran off to Washing
ton upon an abortive and humbug-
ging pretence of organizing the
Peoples party of the nation for the
campaign of 1896, and lett the
Farmers Alliance of Minnesota to
die in 1898.
And now, after refusing to permit
his paper to act as the organ of the
Alliance, or to have himself any con-
nection with it, his paper, week
after week, teens with misrepre-
sentations of myself and with eff
forts to destroy our organization,
and keep it from blishing a
newspaper ofits own. The spirit of
the man is absolutely wicked, He is
determined the Alliance must and
shall die He will neither help it
himself nor permit anybody else to
help it.
We are making no war on the
Great West. The world is wide
There is room for all. He is pub
fishing, he says, free-lapce paper.
Let him go on and publish it. We
are not hindering him. He aspires
to De a national paper, ranging
over the whole United States; sure
ly he cannot object to the AL
lance of Minnesota, modest and
humble in it's aspirations, hav-
ing little organ of its own, that
will not make continuous war upon
our officers, and seek to show that it
is in the last agonies of dissolution.
The Alliance has got some right to
live as well as the Great West.
But the Doctor has certain
method in his madness. His abuse
of myself is dictated by determi-
nation that the Alliance must buy
him out, whether it will or not, and
that, too, for four times what his
paper and material are worth. AT
the last meeting of the state execu.
tive committte of the Alliance he
sent us the following letter:
''ST. PAUL, Jan. 9, 1898.
To the Special Committee of the
Alliance:
Gentlemen Having esta ablished
the "Independent News Associ-
alton" at Washington, d. c., the
supervision of which requires my
entire time and attention, and ne
cessitates my continued absence
from st. Paul, | have concluded to
offer you the Great West.
Believing that your committee
will understand the value of an op-
portunity to secure a clear field for
the new paper; that you appreciate
the advantage that would follow
from having the business, circula-
tion and power OF the Great West
turned in favor of, instead OF
against, the new enterprise; and
more than aught else, the avoid
ance of any schism in the Alliance
ranks;-we feel that in making ar
rangements for birth and future OF
the new journal due consideration
will be given our proposal.
If your committee is so disposed
we shall be pleased to confer with
your representative at any time, in
relation to the matter.
Yours with respect,
EVERETT w. FISH"
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lowing:
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