The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
VERY IMPORTANT /!
The Lying Pretenses of Traitor
Swept Away. He is Impaled
on a Few Short, Sharp,
Decisive Sentences.
LET EVERY REFORMER READ.

LET EVERY REFORMER READ.
The Highest Authority in the Peo-
pies Party of the Nation
Speaks.
1t is with pleasure we publish the
following very important, voluntary
and unexpected communication from
Hon. Herman E. Taubeneck of
Illinois. Mr.. T. is not only the chair
man of the national executive COM
mittee of the peoples party of the
United States; but he is universally
recognized as one of the most honor
able and faithful men in the coun-
try. Although he had not supported
General Weaver's nOminatio for the
presidency, Gen'l Weaver, when re-
Quested to name the man who was to
conduct his national campaign, at
once selected Mr. Taubeneck. Our
readers will remember him as the
man who was one of the three alli-
ance members of the Illinois legisla-
ture in 1890, who held the balance of
power. He persuaded the other two
to hold out for weeks and months in
an attempt to elect an alliance
United States senator; and when
finally the other two were weak
enough to yield to old party persua-
siOns, and vote for and elect demo-
crat as senator, he laid his head on
his desk and .wept out loud before the
whole assembly. This is not the
kind of man to endorse fusion. We
have not asked him for the following
letter. He wrote us ten days ago
that he had been reading the Great
Vests attacks on Mr. DOnnelly, and
wanted to hear the other side; and
we sent him numbers one and two of
thcREPREsENTATIvE. We did not
think he would throw himself into
the breach in defense of prosecuted
and slandered man, and we did not
ask him to; but he has done so.
After reading this letter Doctor Fish
might just as we'll at once move to
Australia or New Zealand. There is
no place for him in the Reform move
ment of the United States.-ED.
REP.
National Executive Committee
PEOPLES PARTY
| of the United States of America.
MARSHALL, ILL.,, May II. '93.
HON. IGNATIUs DONNELLY,
Hastings MINI.
MY DEAR SIR:-N umber two of the
REPRESENTATIVES, is at hand. This
is the first time l have had a clear
insight into the difficulty between
you and the Great West.
it seems to me that no sane man
would charge the peoples party COM
mittee of your state with fusion, in
simlpy requesting that the names of
our electors should be arranged GER
tain way.
1 cannot, for my life, see how DR..
Fish, If he acas an honest populist, could
oppose such an arrangement. Your
state committee did not sacrifice an
iota of your principles, nor surrender
single man on the ticket. If four
of our electors had been taken off
the ticket, and four democrats put
in their places, then the Dr. might
have kicked; but SO long as it was an
unconditional surrender on the part
of another party, he ought to have
welcomed such an arrangement, and
ASKED FOR THE OTHER FIVE ALSO.
We dre not strong enough yet, to
reject voters from the opposition.
You have done right when you gave
DR.. Fish chance to prove himself
innocent of the charges made against
him. We must, above all other
things, preserve the integrity Of our
party. We cannot erpect to aUin the con-
,tidence of the masses, so long as aoe harbor
TRAITORS. They must be aveeded out AT
ALL COST. Fraternally yours,
Fl r. TAURENECK
GEN. VAN DERVOORT.