The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-07

president OF the state alliance for
That district, and he has since dom
good work, around the Legislature,
and in visits to Saltwater, with the
rest OF the committee. to look after
securing cheap twine. And no man in
the state would ever have denounced
me for that wise and magnanimous
act, but miserable Judas, who sold
us out for money, and then feared to
race the men he had betrayed: and
lied away and was not present at the
state convention which he so grossly
mlsrepresented. This was the wretch
who having torn us to pieces and re-
duced, by his lies, our vote one half.
attacked me for trying to patch the
broken fragments together, so that
the party might live and not die. We
read that the devil drove Adam and
Eve out of Paradise, but it is no
where recorded that he pursued them
beyond the walls of the garden, and
melted them to batter and beat and
mutilate each other, The devil was
simply a snake; he was not Fish.
And then Mr.. Mennie says:
There is good deal of comment
made on the appointment of Eric o.
son as deputy state lecturer
With this had nothing to do:-
the executive committee recon-
mended his appointment to Mr..
Long, and he of course appointed
him. But I will say for Eric Olson,
that no man in the state is more
cordially hated by the corporations
than he. [ have never known him
do anything dishonest, and he has
done a vast amount of hard work for
reform for which he was never paid
one cent.
He has attacked and denounced
me hundred times, but that makes
no difference: he doubtless thought
he was right and that was wrong:
and he had right to his opinion;
this is a free country, and a man
may be useful laborer in the re-
form vineyard without believing in
me. Eric has been financially strap
ped great many times. and in the
eyes of some people there is no more
dreadful spectacle than a poor devil
who stands up for those as
poor as himself. Nothing is par
doned to poverty:-it is, in itself, one
unforgiveable sin. Every tool of
monopoly in the state has jumped on
Eric, and the Great West more
savagely than any of the others.
Eric, however, is willing to 60 on
foot from house to house, preaching
the gospel of reform, without money
and without price; and we told him
to go ahead, and God speed him.
Watch him, bretheren. If he stands
up to the rack praise him-defend
him. If he sells us out,-like Fish,
expose him, disgrace him. If you
are willing to "give the devil his
due," let Eric Olson have a fair
show. Let us utilize every man who
is willing to work honestly for the
cause. Henry Grafton, the great
Irish orator and patriot of century
ago used to say: "Let us tolerate
each other; if we don't we will have
to tolerate the common enemy"
Mr. Mnnnin f11rthor cavc.
'The way the democrats endorsed
our electors cost us t,co-thirds Of our al
lidnce votes IN ttis toaonship.''ii
There it is! That shows the extent
of the injury Fish's villainy did US.
We would have carried the state but
for him. And Mr.. Mennie appears to
think, because the democrats did not
take the first four names on our elec-
tOral ticket. but selected the men
they endorsed, that it looked suspi-
cious to old republicans. This grows
out of Fish's charge that the men
SO selected were all old democrats,
and that ''aDe must take our incidence I"
But the charge was false as to Mr..
Meighen-he had never been demo-
crat; and l do not know that any of
the others had been, except Mr..
James Dillon of St. Paul, who is one
of the truest and noblest men in the
state.
But the democrats were afraid that
they might elect four electors who,
instead of voting for Weaver, would
be bought Up by the republicans to
vote for Harrison, in case their votes
would decide the presidential con-
test. And so, very properly, they
selected men that some of them
knew and had confidence in. That
was all there was Of it.
But Mr.. Mennie's letter illustrates
the power for evil which one vicious
creature can possess, for time. But
the old saying is,-''if any man fools
me once it is his fault;-if he fools
me the second time it is my fault"
Fish's poison fangs,-thank God,-
are forever drawn in Minnesota.
President Cleveland will call a