The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-21
IMPORTANT.
A GREAT GATHERING IN July

The Alliance Executive Commit
tee Summoned to Meet.
One set of critics says to us: s'No
more of this fight with Fish, An
other set cries-"Go ahead, give us
all the facts" It is difficult to
please both. Those who have read
the early numbers of this paper will
recollect how reluctant we were to
have any dispute with Fish, of per-
sonal character. But he forced the
light upon us while constantly
shouting" I am attacked. 1 must
defend myself.'
fortunately witness has appear
ed who shows that weeks before the
first number of this paper was pub
lished, Fish declared to him that he
would "trip u.s. (the peoples party,
"up the back''; that he would COM
pei Donnelly to defend himself, and
that thas paper must die! Now this
paper was started by the alliance
and peoples party, and has the same
right to live that any other paper
has. These attacks with $4,000 cop
les a week, paid for by the pluto
Gratis, are part of a scheme to crush
the peoples party, the alliance and
the whole reform movement. I ask
every friend of the right to realize
the gravity of the situation, and
take off his coat and go to work. If
any man will take the laboring oar
L will gladly retire. 1t is a pleasant
task to work for nothing and be
covered with abuse and insults: and
then be told I should not defend my
good name. Remember, friends,
that if l abandoned you, and stuck
to my books and lectures, 1 should
soon be the best praised man in
America. All the obloquy heaped
upon me, during all my life, has
been because defended the rights
OF the many against the robberies of
the few.
AS president of the State Alliance
| have called meeting Of the execu-
tive committee of the State Alliance
to meet July 9th, at 1890 a. m. at
the Merchants Hotel, St. Paul. 1
have also written Thomas J. Neigh
en- of Fillmore county, chairman Of
the Peoples Party State Central Com
mittee, and requested him to call
his committee together at the same
time and place. There is a great
deal to do; and this will probably be
the only meeting between this time
and the annual convention of the
alliance in January next. / know
the committees would be glad to see
all the prominent men of the alli-
ance, or the peoples party, present at
that time. Can you not make it con-
venient to be there, and let us have
love-feast and season of reunion?
The old fires are starting again.
Mr.. Long writes us he is having
splendid meetings. But we must push
the work.
In the meantime read the follow
ing letter. Mr.. Vermilya is a most
honorable gentleman, who was, last
year, the peoples party candidate
for congress, in the 1st District.
He is also one of the vice-presidents
of the state farmers alliance and is
every way man to be believed.
Our Business Manager, Mr.. Robert
Eckford, is ready to swear that Fish
made precisely the same remarks to
him. Fish is working, in the pay
of the Plutocrats, to destroy the Re-
form movement in Minnesota:
DOVER, June 13, '93,
EDITOR REPRESENTATIVE:
1 notice that DR.. Fish says he was
driven into the fight with Mr.. Don
nelly Hin defence of the peoples par
ty.' 1t looks to me the peoples par
ty would have been just as we'll off
without the fight.
When in st. Paul last March 1
wentto DIR. Fish, thinking to har-
monize matters, believing that
there was room for the Representative
and the Great West both and a
chance to do a grand work. DR..
Fish has many enemies that wont
take his paper, and SO has Mr.. Don
nelly, and it looked to me that if we
could have two papers, with DR.. Fish
and Mr.. DOnnelly at the helm, we
would be able to carry the state at
the next election; and friends that
would be worth everything to Mime
sofa. A peoples party governor, with
a legislature of the same order
would send the coal combine sour
rying toward the place that is heated
without coal; and those Pine Land
thieves would find Minnesota un-
healthy; and the elevator ring would
be holding their heads to keep the
hair on while the peoples party kick
ed them out of the state, and the
watered stock gang would be making
our binding twine at Saltwater.
Now friends, l expected DR.. Fish
would see it as / did; and that he
would take hold with all his ability,
and help to push the great ship of re-
form, with all her great load of op-