The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12
# Meeting OF REFoRMERs.
The Peoples Party and Farmers Alliance State
Executive Committees Meet
in Joint Session.
REPRESENTATIVE"
ENDORSED!
Addresses from Gen. Weaver of Iowa and U. S.
Senator Peffer of Kansas.


ering, in defence of the editor of the
Great West. There was however a
general feeling that Fish was not
worthy of further notice in the col
umns of the REPRESENTATIVE; that
no one believed his charges, and that
it only dignified him and them to re-
ply to them. There was a strong
feeling in favor of denouncing him by
name, but it was suggested that the
same end could be better obtained
by endorsing the man he had been
attacking so fiercely.
And thereupon J. I. Vermilya, of
Olmsted Co., first vice president of
the state alliance, and candidate for
congress last fall in the 1st congress
sional district on the populist ticket,
drew up and offered the following
resolutions:
ENDORSING MIR. DONNELLY.
"Resolved, That we have entire
confidence in Hon. Ignatius DOnnel-
ly. We believe that he has been and
is the best friend the farmers and la
borers have had in Minnesota, for
the last thirty years.; and that dur
ing all that time he has been the
target of plutOcracy, and their hire
limgs.
This resolution was adopted with
out dissentin G voice, unanimously
Hereafter the Representative
will take no further notice of Fish or
his newspaper. 1t was agreed that if
Fish assailed any peoples party man
the individual SO assailed should
have the right to defend his good
name, over his own signature, in our
columns; but the paper editorially
would take no notice of Fish or his
assaults
"FUsION."
The following very significant reso-
luton was next adopted,-by a
unanimous vote:
Resolved, That we resent the i'm
putation that the peoples party of
the state of Minnesota in the last
campaign, ''fused" with the demo-
cratic party, as an absolute, unjusti-
fable falSehOOd.
ENDORSING THE REPRESENTATIVE.
The question of endorsing the
REPRESENTATIVE next came up. It
was wonderful to see the enthusiasm
there was for the alliance paper.
Every man seemed to realize that
the peoples party could not live in
Minnesota without the Represent
TATIvE. Mr.. Thomas J. Meighen,
chairman of the p. p. state commit
tee, who has already contributed $50,
towards establishing the paper, gave
another $50; and said that he would
have thorough and sytematic can
vass made of the great county of
Fillmore. Mr.. Edwin Reishus, of
Lyon county paid in another $50 for
stock; members advanced to the
table and put down their money for
subscriptions; and on every hand
promises were made to take hold, in
their respective localities, and push
the work Of spreading it's circulation.
Mr.. Meighen said emphatically amid
applause: eve want it distinctly
understood that the REPRESENTA-
TIVE will live. no matter how hard
the times are" And thereupon, with
out dissenting vote, the following
resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That we desire to ex-
press our cordial approval and hearty
endorsement of the new alliance pa
per, the REPRESENTATIVE, and we
ask every friend of reform in the
state to constitute himself commit
tee of one to work constantly to sus-
tain it and increase it's circulation
1t is labOring, in moderate and
temperate spirit, to unite all ele-
mentS Of reform, in this state, in
harmonious action; it is owned by the
local alliances; 1t cannot and 1t ecilg moi
sell as Oeu IN the crisis of campaign,
and il it is sustained, as it should be,
1T will give us the state in 1894. We
ask every local alliance and every
| peoples party club and industrial
league in the state, to go to work at
once and help build it up and make
it great power"
This was followed by the following,
also unanimously adopted:
Resolved, By the peoples party
state central committee, that our
chairman Mr.. Z. j. Meighen, is here
by requested to solicit subscriptions
OF stock to our paper, the REPREsEN-
] TATIvE, from such persons as in his