The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1894-01-12
THE ELIMINATING OUTRAGE,
Out. of ~ Delegates, at least a third
are Donnelly's HenChmen.
and they
PeTpetTate an Outrage Never Dared to
be Enacted In a Convention
of AnV Party on Earth.
The1 State Mes.inq, after Listening to D0n
neNy's M0nstr0us Lies and
Fdbyicdti0ns,
Is Broken up by Scoundrels. and the Light
Turned off by DonneNy's ganq

The opening day OF the State Meeting was memoir
able for two circumstances. 1st it only 1877 in
numbers to represent 400 alliances and 3D. it witness
ed the most unmitigated outrage against member of
the alliance and Of it's former officials, ever known
in the history of the alliance
! During the first day everything went along smooth
" under Donnely, until evening By virtue Of the con-
stuton which says that editors Of alliance newspapers
shall he admitted Dr. Fish went in and out freely In
the sening DonneAy began his annual report
He passed through few topics for some fifteen min
utes, and then began one of his lying and
DIABOLICAL ASSAULTS
upon Dr. Fish, This attack lasted one hour and fifteen
minutes-fed with the most filthy alsehoods but
single iota of evidence against the Drs honor
political purity. Of course he said advertised fu
sion'' the state But had the editorial emphat
caly denying fusion with us, and read it afterwards
He had Hanson tell the story OF how said once, in
| howling rage''-that could sell out we'll as he
| and would too!-part true, part false. He said
member of the republican state central committee
'old friend of mine'-had told him thus:
"Fish down to yesterday, said he was
going to sue you'll He's got his money and he ought
to be satisfied"
Very likely that republican central committeeman
would advertise the criminal corruption of himself and
committee to bitter antagonist! How long would
such man be kept the committed Now one OF two
things is true Either Donnely lied las he did the
be is in cahoots with the republican committee! If
are guilty and Donnely knows it from the committee
then Donney is part of the republican secret machn-
leryl If honest, then Donnely lied, in the
Markham bill matter, to destr y But not word
was uttered OF testimony against us-not one.
They got q miserable fellow whose face gave him
away, named Walraf bitter personal enemy of ours
in st. Paula man who picked up quarrel with on
the street here last summer-who said had called Mr.
81 Of a. form that Of
has never passed our lipsl
But still no testimony OF our horrible corruption. He
lspoke one hour and fifteen minutes.
Mr. A. c. Welch, Of Mcleod County, arose and de.
Imanded that should be heard. The Donnelly gang
there four fve-we told six-Minneapolis
cackers in there to execute the Datenclack work for
Donnely-the Donnelly claquers objected But the con-
vention called for Fish and he came. But Donnely
presding against all constitutional and parliamentary
form declared that if Fish replied he would reply to
Fish! Every supposed that this would ten or
fifteen minutes CLOSING the argument
DIR. Fish spoke for hour and fifteen minutes-
and that miserable Donnelly presiding at his
funeral himself shameless and souless got up and
called the Dr. down! Others rose demanding justice.
Among them were A'drich, Of Benson and Goodenow,
of Ppeetone; Donnelly demanded that Goodenow take
his seat etc. and made nuisance of himself in his
easel But the convention insisted on fair play at that
time
Then DR.. Fish turned to Donnely, and said II have
borne with this injustice of DonnellY presiding when he
sone OF the under dscussion-itis outrage and
demand that he leave the chair"
The prince Of political scoundrels had the efrontery
to refuse to leave the chair unless objected
Ne o. rpondsd md the Dr. said, 81 object most
& "YA, ysss' - heard over the hal-end the iat
f1u1tn uu1uDx, vM1I1Na taking bis plaeo Wo 6o ~