The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
A LIAR and SLANDERER.
NINA SlDOG-HE HAS GOT
TO PROVE UP OR GO TO
PRISON.

ter from prominent member of t.
Peoples Party. Although he did not
write it for publication the matter
concerns US so nearly that we take the
liberty Of using it.
WEGDAHL, MIMI, Nov. Is.
Hon. Ignatius Donnely:
Dear Slr-l am curious to know who
pays Rev. Jane Pinkham for the lee
lures, he is delivering throughout
the country. His lectures are all
right, or nearly so. for a POpulist; but
in private he is sta bbing the leaders
the Peoples Party. l did not get
chance to speak with him, but have it
ate converse tion, he charged you with
selling Out-during the Coal InveStiga-
tion-to the Coal Combine for $50, 900,
naming time and place. also who were
in the deal Further that you have
thus corruptly gathered up fortune:
but are mean enough to beat others out
OF their honest dues.
do not write this to you with the
intention that you should explain, but
having been Prohibitionist and
knowing that nearly all old time Pro-
hibitionists here are Populists, and
that the Peoples Party has to depend
on the people who read and think, and
have lost faith in the Dem. and Rep.
parties, l took this Pinkham's work
for some OF their damnable schemes
to get confusion among the Reform
people. Knowing your sagacity l
thought l would give you this hint
that you might nose it up. and expose
their trickery before too much Of it
could be done.
think good many schemes will
be tried by the old party bosses the
next year, and it is to our interest to
be wide awake. | will report every
time anything su spicous turns up. |
don't believe in any SQuabbles between
the Reform people. They must all
stand together in order to knock out
the old rascals who have been running
this state. 1t could be done if they
would stick together. This letter is
in private for hint. Yours truly,
G. j. ARNTZEN.
We pronoun nee the Rev. Pinkham
liar and sianderer, and an unmitigat.
ed child of the devil, "the father of
lies;" and we believe him to be doing
this dirty work in the pay and under
the orders of the Plutocracy.
We propose that he shall prove his
charge, or recant and humbly apollo
gize, or go to the penitentiary for
criminal libel. He has charged me
with being bribed while state sena-
tor. That is a penitentiary business.
The meanest creatures we have on
Gods earth are these wolves in sleeps
clothing; whose religion consists in
the cut OF their collars.
1.-The tender creatures eyes with sweetness
swell.
Heavens in those eyes, but in that heart is
HE'LL
His charge is not only lie, but it is
a palpable lie; self-evident lie on its
very face.
Every one knows that we pursued
the Coal Combine to the bitter end
during the Legislature; and after the
Legislature adjourned appeared be-
fore the grand, jury in St. Paul, to Sc
cure the Indictment of John J.
Rhodes, the head Of the Combine. that
he might be sent to states prison.;
and we only failed to send him there
because the Ramsey county grand jury
was full Of tools of the Rings. No
member of the Legislature can be
found who will say that we ever aba
ted one jot Of our fierce fight against
the Combine. We quarrelled with
some of our best friends on the SUBJ
ject, and denounced the judges who
had been not unfriendly to US, who
shielded the Rims g, n the most vehem-
ent and savage manner.
And why should the coal combine
pay us $500 What we're we to do
for that money? What could we do?
When we had collected the evidence,
as we did, and made our report, to the
Legislature, as we did, the matter was
turned over to the courts and juries
for action. What could we do at that
time that would be worth $4,000 to
the Ring? The lie is of glass and the
sun shines through it.
Will some one give us this man
Pinkham's address, that we may send
him copy Of this paper and arrest
him if he does not sustain his charges
or make proper amends.
We are tired of this kind of hireling
persecution and propose to stop it if
we have to empty half the pulpits in
the state.
We also call upon Pinkham to give
the name of any person or persons
whom we have "beaten out Of their
honest dues" That also is lie out
Of whole cloth.
When we were running for Senator
in Dakota county, in 1894, rascal,
dressed like wOrkingman, was sent
through the back districts of the
county, to tell all he could meet, in
saloons and elsewhere, that he had
worked for us on farm, in South Da-
kOta, for a year, and did not receive
cent of his pay. AS we never owned
or worked farm in South Dakota, or
lived there at any time in our life, it
is easy to see that the knave was hired
to defame US, and was not sufficiently
posted in the details Of our private
history to make successful liar.
1t is sufficient answer to all such
falsehoods to say, that we own, in our
own name, subject to execution, unen-
numbered real and personal estate, in
Ramsey, Dakota and Stevens coun-
ties, worth $4,000; and that there is
not judgment or mortgage against
us in the world; and that we have un-
encountered grain enough in our gram
airy to pay our little current bills ten