The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-01-17

rule ana destroy Tine eHecL OF any
thing he might say that went on his
page, and that the reform party
would be compelled to start paper
n it's own defense, and this would dis
tract and divide the party.
ANOTHER LIE.
Fish tells you," Mr.. Donnelly con-
tinued, "that in the campaign of
1892, after was nominated for gov
ernor, I requested him to betray the
peoples party movement, sacrifice it's
ticket, and persuade the democrats
to nominate me on their ticket for
governor. He says that this was a
very damnable and hideous piece of
treachery and betrayal of the inter
ests confided to my hands. This
would be true, if his statement were
true; but he further tells you that
he proceeded to carry out this intend
ed fraud on the peoples party, and
that he visited several democrats to
try and cOnsummate it all. Ambi-
tfon might have excused or palliated
such treachery on my part, but what
excuse had Fish to do my dirty work?
And he says he did it! He says my
attempt to sell out the party was vile
and horrible, and yet through all the
rest of that campaign he sounded my
praises to the skies, urged the people
to support me for governor, and COW
cred the walls of our lows and viii
lage with great placards, with my
picture upon them, in which I was
represented as the "Great Com
moner," who had fought the battle
Of humanity for Is years. And now
he says that he knew during this
time that I was one of the most de-
spicable of mankind, ready to betray
the whole organization and all hui
mainly, for my own proft!! There
are some lies, Mr.. President, so i'm
probable, so unreasonable, that they
become absurd. They answer them
selves.
THE TWINE QUESTION.
Every farmer in this state knows
that the twine-factory at Saltwater
alone stands between him and the
dominion of the Irvine Trust; and
one great object which has brought
rs here is to devise means to help
maintain that twine-plant. And
yet this wretched creature has
covered our seats in this hall with
copies of his bedraggled and consump-
tive sheet, full of attacks on the
alliance and it's officers, attacks
which had no other motive and could
have no other result than to discred-
it our organization and break it up,
in the interest of plutocracy. And
here in this paper, I find an attack
upon the Twine-plant. He calls it
"Donnelly's twine-plant." He quotes
the prices of materials in 1894 to
show that the Irvine could have been
sold for less in 1898. "Donnelly's
twine-plantn' What had l to do
with it more than the scores of good
alliance men in the legislature who
helped to establish it? And what
did Fish do last year? He was the
agent of Chicago Ring, which, to
discredit our state-prison Irvine, got
up a trashy article, made of jute,
and soaked it in some preparation, to
dye the outside, to look like the
prison hemp Irvine, while the inside
remained of the original light color;
and he flooded the state with it to
reduce the sale of the prison Irvine,
by this villainous imitation, and to
discredit it by the failures of his
bastard workmanship. But this is
not all. The REPRESENTATIVE
week after week, advocated the use
of prison Irvine, in it's editorial col
umns; but our business manager in
serted an advertisement for the
Bailey Irvine factory, sent from Chica-
60, for which he charged 500, Il have
nothing to do with the business af-
fairs of the paper, and was very sell
dom in St. PauD. The paper was
poor and struggling; it's ADVERTISE
ment columns are always open to
customers; and it took the advertise
ment. It turned out that the Irvine
so advertised was Fish's bogus, stain
ed jute stuff. And now Fish boasts.
absolutely boasts,-that he played
trick on us, and got us to advertise
his rotten wares! (Applause). And
he taunts US with it! Imagine the
devil kicked out of Paradise, hanging
around the back door, chuckling and
grinning and rubbing his hands over
the fact that he had tricked Adam
aud Eve into eating the apple!
DONNELLY's RELATIONS.
He tells you, also, that it is a
gross offense of mine that son of
mine and son-in-law are holding Of
flee in St. Paul. My son is, am hap
by to say, bright young lawyer, a
man of ability, over 30 years of age,
With q wife and family. he has made