The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-10
an INTERESTING CHAPTER
Of Secret Political History. How
We were Beaten Last Fall.
Something Every Peoples Party
Man Should Read.

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Something Every Peoples Party
Man Should Read.
expressed in the last number of
the REPRESENTATIVE a hope that
the name of Doctor Fish would never
again appear in its columns. But the
uaan is possessed of Economical
spirit. Not satisfied with attacking
the alliance, by denouncing its Off
cers,-hc next proceeded to try to
crush the alliance itself, by declaring
that it was in the last stages of dis
solution. And now. following this
up, he assaults the Alliance Fire In
surancc Association, seeking to I'M
dcrminc it in public confidence and
destroy it: causing thereby, if he sue
cccds, great loss toa thousand alli-
ancc men, who have invested their
money in it, and greatly injuring the
alliance itself, by whom the company
was set on foot, for the purpose of
protecting the farmers from the ex-
actions of the great insurance COM
panies. Under these circumstances
further fOrbearance ceases to be a
virtue; and it is necessary to show up
the real character of the dangerous
man, for the safety of the people.
With regret therefore, but from a
profound sense of duty, submit to
our readers the following facts,
many Of which are published now for
the first time.
/ referred, in our last number. to
the paper which Mr.. Louis Hanson
signed, and which has been the fOun-
dation of all the uproar raised by
Fish about Fusion. give it now in
full. 1t is dated Oct. 10th, 1892, and
addressed to the Secretary of the
state; it reads as follows:
ION behalf of our respective COM
mlttees we request that the four
presidential electoral candidates
Meighen, a. L. StrOmberg, James
Dillon and A: Fl; Holloway, may be
put on the official ballot co,,secutiuely, the
head OF the Weaver group; and protest
against their order, as above named,
being broken by the Intervention of
the names of other candidates in
P. j. sMA1LY,
Sec'y Democratic State Central Com.
LEWIS BAKER,
Chairman Dem. State Central Com.
LOUIS HANSON,
Secretary Peoples Party Committee.
We again ask any reasonable man,
to tell us what was there wrong
about this request. We ask him to
point out the plank of our platform
which it was in conflict with. If the
names of the nine electors stood. we
will say,-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, !. 8, 8. this
simply asked, that, for the cOnven-
fence of democratic voters. and to
make the election of four of our can
didateS more certain, the order
should be 1, 4, 5, 8, 2, 3. 6, I, 9. Who
had any right to complain of this?
Was not the order in which they,
were named by the convention a
mere matter of accident? Had it any
Importance? Wasn't one man as
good as another? Would not the con-
vention have cheerfully changed the
order of their names if the chances
of success had been thereby in
creased? Was it not matter of to-
tai Indifference to the party anyhow?
But Fish had got his money and
was waiting for his chance. He
found it. He rushed at it. His first
words were words of approval. He
said:
eff it be a simple endorsement. as 1t
appears, without bargain or conniv-
ance, then ALL WELL AND GOOD"
Sat present it seems that the arhole
thing aoas acorked by democracy to make
sure Of no Harrison electors as against
chose four"
This was the natural view that any
sensible man would have taken. But
Fish was only getting "a good ready"
for the death blow. The article con-
tinueS:
LATER.
eve are compelled to admit that
the matter IS not acholly free from, stain
at least on the part of Mr.. Han
son the Secretary Mr.. Hanson
held conference with the demo-
Gratis two weeks ago, and alone, with
out authority, entered into a formal
Understandings"
Now observe the villainy of this.
There is no attempt to show where
the alleged conference was held, who
with, or what the understanding"
was. 1t is needless to say the whole
statement is false. No understand
ing was necessary to enable the
democrats to vote for part of our
ticket or for all of it.; that was a mat
ter entirely within their own con-
troll.
And then this editor of the peoples
party organ @ goes on:
This would be terrible GLOW to
the peoples party If the above letter
were authorized. There is no n,easu7-
ing the evil that could result. IT WOULD
DRIVE NEARLY EVERY CONVERTED
REPUBLICAN FROM OUR RANKS. MOI
wonder the PiOneer-Press said:
Fish was as mad as the devil over
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