The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
SHAMEFUL! S!
A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.
RANK INGRATITUDE.
An Attempt to Destroy the Repre-.
sentative.
WHO AND WHAT ARE BE.
HIND IT,

HIND 1T.
Our readers know how hard this pa
per has labored to heal the wounds of
the party and produce perfect har-
mony and peace. 1t has been merciful
to it's foes and helpful to it's friends. |
thought | had succeeded in the
great work of unity and good will. 1t
seems l was mistaken. A cabal had
been secretly at work, for weeks past,
TO destroy the REPRESENTATIVE. The
head of this movement is John L..
Macdonald, of st. Paul, the chairman
OF the state central committee of the
Peoples party. Although the paper
has never spoken an unkind word con-
corning him. and had made no fight on
him, of any kind, he has never entered
our office or attempted to con fer with
US. The REPRESENTATIVE is large
part OF the Peoples party. II l had
not started it, after Fish betrayed the
cause,-and put in nearly $1,000 to
Keep it alive, during the dark days of
last winter, we would not have any
more Populists in Minnesota today
than they have in Wisconsin; and the
Alliance would probably have per-
lshed. Our paper has been the very
heart and soul Of the movement. The
labor | have performed has been SIM
ply incalculable. l have written from
one to two pages Of this great journal
every week. A few days since | fur
nished New York magazine an arti-
Gle of 1000 words for $40. At that
rate the work | have done, to help this
paper and hold the party together,
would be worth a small fortune. [
have never received one penny for it
and 40 not expect to. | am even vet
paying out from my own pocket, SIS to
$40 week for personal expenses in
cident to the publication of the paper:
and intend to take in part, out Of
my pocket the money to start Swedish
and Norwegian editions Of the REP
REsENTATIvE so as help elect Mr..
owen and the entire ticket. This
whole vast work is labor of love for
the truth and humanity. | am not
asking anything from the party.
John Macdonald knew all this: and
yet he conceived scheme to ruin the
REPREsENTATIvE and bring to
nought all the toll and money | and
Others had put into it. He himself
never contributed one cent to start or
support it. His scheme was this.
There is in St. Paul the material of a
defunct, old newspaper, called "The
Evening News" Its remains had been
bought up by other parties, who ran
1t for two or three weeks, and it
"busted' again, covered with debt.
Macdonald knew that there was de-
mand in Minneapolis and st. Paul for
daily paper. Instead of coming to Mr.
Echtord, or myself and cOuusellinq ecuh,us,
asking us II WE COULD NOT START A
DAILY PAPER, he goes to one n. c.
Weste rfield, Of the Pacific Milling Com
pdny Of Minneapolis, whom we never
heard of in the Peoples party work,
and some other men Of wealth, whose
names have not yet been furnished to
the public, and got up combination
with Geo. S. Garfield, a Republican
and reporter until recently, on the
Minneapolis Tribune: and Mr.. Willard
j. Hull, of Buffalo, New York. who is
a lecturer on a temporary visit to our
state; and then, having his bomb
ready to explode, he called the state
central committee together, on last
Wednesday, and laid before them
resolution to adopt the scheme, and
send out circular, to be signed by all
the committee, calling upon every
Populist in the state to take hold abd
work to build up his nondescript
bantling. OF course, as there never
was daily paper that did not have
weekly issue. there would be week
ly issue also; and the same official ma
chinery that pushed the daily
Record" (as it was to be called
would be expected to push the "Wcek-
ly Record" and every good party man
would be under obligation no longer
to work for the REPRESENTATIVE, but
for the Record" Macdonald did not
propose to put a penny in the venture
himself, Che is 16 weeks in arrears on
the very paper, which he is trying to de-
stroy), nor did the "capitalists" or the
"Pacific Milling Company" intend to
start the paper until enough Populists
had paid up in advance to make it
certain success. And when the Popu-
lists had established the paper the
"cdpitdlists" acou{d oern 1t, and could sell
it out at any time, in the heat of the
fight, to the highest bidder: just as
similar weekly paper The News. in
st. Paul sold out the party in 1890,
and left them in the lurch. And the
"Record'. of 1894, we unders tand is
the legitimate successor of the
"News" of 1901.
Remember that during all the time
these schemes were being worked up
not one word was said to us. 1t was
proposed to hoist US in the air without
a moments warning. When the COM
mittee met there was lively time. l
had not been invited to attend it; and
some of the members were SO indig-
nant at this slight, put upon a man
who was doing more for the cause
than any other ten men in the state,
that they took counsel together. and
Mr.. H. V. Poore offered a-.resolution
that be elected an honorary member