The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
THE TWIN OF OUR DAILY.

The Kind of Crew the Peoples Party
of Minnesota Was to Have Been
Sold Out To.
Our readers know that the capitalist who
was to be behind the Macdonald-P Peterson
daily was John r. Walsh, of Chicago
owner of the Chicago Herald and the Chi
cago Evening Post. 1t may interest them
to read what kind of a paper Mr.. Walsh
gets up in the Herald. We can then see
what the Populist daily of St Paul would
have been like. We quote the following
editorial from the Chicago Times of Sept
10:
THE testimony of Reporter Wallace Rice
before Judge Woods brings to public atten-
ton once more the very singular position
IN the recent American Railway Union
strike occupied by that enterprising young
journalist and his employer, the Chicago
Herald. The Heralds report Of Rice, tes-
timony fails to give that part of 4
lating to his celebrated attempt to influence
the American Railway Union toward a GER
tam national bank John r. Walsh's), with
winch that newspaper is somewhat init
mately connected. The Tribune is equally
guarded in it's treatment of Mr.. Rice as
witness, while the Inter Ocean, for reasons
best known to itself, goes to the extreme of
caution and fails to mention even the fact
the trust newspapers seems to continue
without a Jar
Partly to make amends for the failure
Of its contemporaries to print the news,
and partly to point out a fact of some
Importance brought out by Mr. Rice's tes-
timony, the Times will recount in outline
the facts in the famous case.
throughout the American Railway Union
strike and boycott the Chicago Herald was
UNNECESSARILY bitter in it's attacks on the
Work1ngmen. Their leaders it called anar-
chlstS and criminals their strike it called
a rebellion, their enemies it eulogized as
hlgh-minded and generous citizens. It's
pages teemed with abusive cartoons di-
rected at organized labor in general but
sudden and heavy fall in its circulation
led it to abandon this feature of conscience
less Journalism. SO virulent and immoder-
ate was the abuse heaped upon Debs and
his associates that the whole world coniec-
tured that some hidden interest was con-
cealed in the attacks Not until the Times
published the affidavits of the leaders of
the American Railway Union that the Her.
aid reporter, Rice, had offered the influ-
ence of both the Herald and the Evening
Post in exchange for the deposits of the
American Railway Union funds in the ma
tional bank of which the owner of those
papers Walsh) is president, was the motive
laid bare
he defense of the accused paper was
emlnently characteristic. 1t turned its mud
batteries upon the owners of the Times
lampooned, slandered and villified them i'm
moderately and without regard for the
truth. 1t accused them of being the own
ers of property rented for improper pur-
poses, and gave the addresses of a number
of such buildings, none of which belonged
to the persons thus vilified. The epithets
applied to the owners of the Times were of
such grossly indecent character that the
paper in which they were printed was. dur
ing the continuance of it's rage. unfit for
admission to respectable family. No
excuse was offered for the torrent of filth
except that the Times had published a
false charge against he Herald but no
proof of its falsity was ever offered ex-
cept an affidavit by Reporter Rice which
has been shown to have been periured
first, by the printing in the Times of his
letter making the outrageous proposition,
and, second. by his testimony in court
Thursday, when he swore that he did do
exactly what in his affidavit he declared
he did not do. Since the publication of the
facsimile of I2ice'S letter the Herald has
made no further reference to the matter.
not even by way of denying the mans
authority to make the proposition
Would not the Populists of Minnesota
be in a pretty mess if John L. Macdonald
could have persuaded them to add to the
list of Walshs papers the organ of the
Peoples party of this state? The Repre-
sentative did a great work to expose and
break up this cunning game