New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-06-07
DEEP AND DARK IGNATIUS.
So writes DR.. Fish in the Current Issue Of
his Paper.
Facts which Show the Lizards Trail to be
Luminous by Comparison"
Interesting Developments of falsehood
and Fusion. $50 it Reads.

In the Great West this week DR.. Fish
gets back at Donne]ly as follows:
This week our subscribers expect to
read that an action for libel has been en-
tered against the chief conspirator of the
fusion yang-and fifty thousand popu-
lists would rejoice thereat. But it cam
no. be. The man who betrayed the la
Dor party in 1888 and took $1,700 for
his old party tariff work, (and wrote
"Cacsar's Column the same year) and
who betrayed the cause again this year
is a wonderful schemer. Thank God, we
are on to him now, and checkmate him.
before he gets us into his clutches.
Iynatius Donnclly sits down and medl-
tatcs If DR.. Fish gives all the facts Of
nv carccr-if this fusion blunder and
my infamous letters and circulars open
his eyes, and if he gets the truth in re-
gard to my sell-out in 1888 and the fu-
sion ..of 1892, I'm a dead Donk. must
crush that man or be crushed. II,
He things awhile longer-then dips his
pen in ink. have it, he says, I'll charge
him with villainy SO tiercely that even
the saints will shudder.
But he may sue for libel!
All, but if can throw even a shadow
across his path, though false as hell, he
won't dare to! III paint a perjurer's
prison to him.
But the fellow is innocent and may
dare anything'
Well, let me sce--the prosecuting at
tornev is in my family the
assistant prosecuting attorney is my son
Stau. Pm democratic fusionist, Slough
ton is a democrat, it's a democratic city,
nv sons brothcr-in-laW is the democratic
boss here. and have democratic son-ln-
law IN the statcl,ouSc. guess I'm safe.
But Fish may 60 to some other crconnry
All. sure. Let him go--Ill fix it! will
write charge in such awful language
such fiery terms. so mprchcnsivc--that
it will blackrn Fish'S character forever
but when the matter comes into court,
charge is there 1t will fastcn tlishonor
on the fellow, but charge no crime. L cts
see, how will this do to begin;
'You are either an honest man or a
rascal. E:cry man is one or the other.
If you are the former, etc, ETC." That's
good. good 1t sounds horrible, but it
aint. I'll fill up a quarter of column of
that stuff, and now must come to bust
ness A preface of little mud wont
hurt. here
II plainly, distinctly and unequivocally
- Ah that 'slovel y-''charge that you
Everett w. Fish, (see, that makes it
strongly otherwise known as Dr.. Fish,
(hy high, old Pegasus,) while publishing
x x claiming = * alleging, etc, etc. -
no" go loI nllll- 'la\c, aI NuleIcHt
times, and especially during the political
campaigns of 1890 and 1892, taken large
sums of money, amounting in the aggre-
gate to several thousand dollars, from
prominent republicans politicians, or the
officers of the republican state central
committee" There, now l will embcll-
ish with an Grafton on perjury, etc.
making it Il stew Of hell's hottest
broth. If he's guilty he'll never
open his yawp. If he isn't, why
he'll sue, or try to. If for civil damages,
why even my books, the paying ones,
are not in my nanie-and it will cost him
a thousand dollars If he tries the GRIM
inal side he'll discover that I've not
charged him with anything in the least
criminal! It'll kill him dead-it would
be shameful, if true! But thunder, it's
no crime, I've done it myself, time and
again, and Fish knows it, too - that's
what's the matter! d-n him.
We went soberly and righteously to
work-went to Chicago, found his pub
Usher dying to see that property to get
a libel suit in ahead of us found that
the income from his books when we were
paying his campaign bills was $500 a
month, and now scarcely hundred
found "Caesar's Column" and ''Ragna-
rock" the two paying books, were not
in his name-found that though he un-
dertook to cover his tracks in a ridicul-
Gus way, l would be able to establish
who wrote "Donnelliana''- found about