The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-08

pies party and build up free silver
party; and that the labor element of
Montana were greatly dissatisfied
with his course, and had appealed in
their distress to Fish() to know some
thing of this terribly bad man.
Mr.. Donnelly paid no attention to
Fish's falsehOods,-he considered
them beneath his contempt; but a
friend of Mr.. D.-Mr. M. N. Pond, of
Faribault,,-came to his defense in a
strong article; and this, reminding
Mr.. Donnelly of Fish's ISLANDERS, led
to a correspondence with prominent
leader of the K. of L. of Montana
who had engaged Mr.. Donnelly, and
who sent him the following letter:
H. H. MAYHEM,
NOTARY PUBLIC
And Justice of the Peace,
ANACONDA, Mont, Oct. Is, '93.
HON. IGNATIUs DoNNELLY,
Hastings, MINI.
Dear Sir: Yours of the 18th inst. to
hand and contents noted. In reply
would say that this is the first I ever
heard about the Knights of Labor
not being satisfied with your services
while here; and as for the Labor Day
committee, am in position to say
that we were perfectly satisfied in
every respect. That it was the gene
raj comment upon the streets that
your address was all that was expect
ed and that we needed "a few more
Donnelly's."
l will say that [ am a member Of
the assembly of the Knights of Labor
that had the management of the La
Dor Day celebration in charge, and I
know that they were satisfied.
l have looked into the matter and
[ find that there was some one in
Minneapolis who wrote a private let
ter to some party here, advising him
to beware of Ignatius Donnelly, and
charging that he sold out the peoples
party to the republican party. l had
not heard of this until / started out
on hunt for the persons who should
be dissatisfied with your work while
out here. The man who got the let
ter is not here now or [ could find out
who wrote the letter, but I am told
that it came from some editor Of
some would-be reform paper.
If any of the peoples party people
are not satisfied, it is because you
were not allowed to follow your own
inclinations and make the Labor Day
grafton q regular peoples party adj
dress. The reason we, as commit
no hn nh
not allow the question of party poll
was for the simple reason that our
order is made up of all parties and if
we allowed the peoples party to cap
ture the day this time, the republi-
cans would want it next, and then the
democrats would make grand howl
for it; and the outcome of the mat
ter would be that we would have to
abandon the Labor Day celebration
altogether in order to get clear field
outside Of politics, or run three par
ties at once and together.
l heard you speak here twice, and I
can say that you said nothing in my
hearing against the peoples party,
but, on the contrary, you rather
showed in all your intercourse and
lectures while here that you we're a
strong peoples party advocate. I will
try and run down this man Kelly aud
let you know as much as am able to
learn. You can be sure that the
mine-Owners had nothing to do with
getting you out here. paid all the
bills and made my report to the
Knights of Labor here, who furnish
ed the money. Hoping this will be
satisfactory until l am able to look
the matter up, 1 remain fraternally
yours, II. II. MAYHEM.
Mr.. DOnnelly has also written to
Mr.. Fl. B. Martin, editor of The IN
ion of Minneapolis, labor organ, to
know If he, or anyone in his employ,
Note any such letter to Montana;
anNMr. Martin writes him that nei-
ther nor any employe of his did
anythinG OF the kind. Mr.. Donnelly
is satisfied that the letter was writ
ten by Fish, or inspired by him; and
that it was part of the malignant
persecution with which that exposed
fraud has followed Mr.. Donnelly for
nearly a year past, simply because
Mr.. Donnelly would not consent that
Fish should have an opportunity to
sell out the peoples party again in
1894 and 1896. The man Kelly, that
Fish says was his informant, does not
seem to be known to Mr.. Mayhem,
who is one Of the most active and
prominent members of the X. of L.
in Montana.
For the information of our Mon
tana subscribers-of whom we have
quite a number-we would say that
Fish's charge that Mr.. Donnelly had
sold out the peoples party to the re-
is an unmitigated false
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