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


letter fully approving the course OF
the peoples party in Minnesota; and
saying that this did not constitute
"fusion." II, he said, we had agreed
to vote for four democratic electors
in exchange for votes, that would
have been fusion, but in a one-sided
course, where the votes came to us,
there was no fusion about it; and
that Fish had done great wrong
to the party and it's candidates to
make such charge in the midst of
the campaign. Fish wrote a letter
to TaubeneckI to defend himself, but
that gentleman refused to notice
him. II, therefore, Fish's name as a
man has gone down, in dishonor, and
am glad to believe that it has, it
was his own actions that blasted it.
60 where he will he wears the brand
of Cain,-of traitor and liar,-on his
back; and this is right for the first
duty that the eagle of truth owes to
itself is to pick the lice out from
among it's feathers.
S. NJ. OWEN AND FREE SILVER.
'One word more in illustration of
the endless lies of this man. When
S. NJ. Owen was running for governor
on the alliance ticket in 1890, Fish
attacked him savagely in his paper.
He did all he could to prevent his
election. He did all he could to pre-
vent his campaign being carried on.
Now he is soldering over Owen with
the SLAYER of his crocodile jaws.
What is the excuse? He stated to
you tonight that he opposed S. M.
Owen because he, Owen, was in 1890
opposed to free silver. say to you,
Mr.. President, that this a base and
unfounded lie. Mr.. Owen never op-
posed free silver; he has always sus-
tanned it. What he took issue with
some of the peoples party upon, was
the sub-treasury scheme. That was
a detail Of legislation, not a matter
of principle. It was a matter which
should have been postponed until the
reform party was in power. While
there is much to be said for it, it was
the most vulnerable part of our plat
form; so vulnerable that the Omaha
convention practically abandoned it..
1t was derided and denounced by
our opponents as ridiculous and alb
surd; they claimed, untruly, that we
were going to have the nation lend
money on pumpkins and cabbages;
they made their whole fight on that
issue, and Fish did the sameW
1t was about this sub-treasury
scheme that the whole fight in Min
nesota was made to turn. and the
grand purposes of our party and it's
great and noble principles were lost
sight Of"
| FIsH'S SAFETY VAULT.
And Mr.. President, let me call
your attention to another point.
He has just said to you that I
charged that he had rented vault
in which he placed his accumula-
tions and populations in that 1892
campaign. He denies that fact; he
says he never rented a vault. See
how cunningly he tries to escape the
point of the charge. The truth is
that the vault was rented by his
partner, DR.. Frain. But Fish adj
mitted, in the columns of his own
paper, fearing that we would prove
it, that he did have in safety vault,
at the close of that campaign, the
sum of $1,000. He said that it be-
longed to his mother-in-law! And in
the same breath he said it was the
accrued profits of publishing his news
paper. But he also told us that he
had lost $500 in 1892 publishing that
paper, and tonight he told us that
he had lost $1,000 during the past
year in the same way; and yet he
tells us that he had saved $1,000
from publishing that paper! Mr..
President where did that 81, 800 come
from? Why did he not put it in a
bank? Why resort to the secresy of
saftey vault? Where did it come
from? 1t was part of the salted-
down price of his honor and man.
hood; it was blood-money; the life
price, of the peoples party in that
campaign of 1892. It was Judas's
thirty pieces of silver.
| FISH DESCRIBED
''It is difficult, Mr.. President, to
meet such an adversary. His fertili-
ty is boundless. When L{lave ami
lated one lie, like the heads of
Hydra a hundred more spring up in
it's place. A lifetime is too short to
keep pace with the inventive power
of this remarkable scoundrel. Mr..
President, I have lived to mature
years; have been in politics some
what; have lived in Washington; I
have had much experience of human
nature; I have seen it in it's Hottest