The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-30

trum to gallery; the St. Paul Daily
News failed and the compositors were
left unpaid; the farmers of the Da-
kotas had to take bank checks for
their wheat; riots broke out at Weir
City, Kansas, on the Lake front Chi
cago, and at Scranton, Pa, in which
many were killed and wounded A
terrible fear and panic possessed the
whole country.
All this time we had been taking
grain out Of our granary and selling it
to keep The REPRESENTATIVE alive.
Here are some OF our payments: May
6, SIP: 13, s.; 26, $l5; June II, $25.75;
IA. Sl075 IS, $40; %, $lO.75; 20, $l2;
July 6, $3.50; s, 1926; Is, $l0.75: 2l
$40; 1851; 81. 81; August I, $40; IL,
$2l so; IA. $40, IS. 81: Septem Der l, $40;
d. 80; 10, $l6.25; -, $40; 80 IS; Oct.
!, Sl0; 6, $3.50; s, $3.50; 10, $25; Nov.
2, SIC; 16, $40; 22,$l5: Dec. 5, $40; 1850:
20, $40; Jan. II, $35; %, $40; 81, Sc; Feb
!, $l5. 1854. IS: a, So; "a $24 50; March
1. ST.; 3, $40; 8, Sl4.75; 10, $3.50; 90, $32;
p, SIG; "a, S.. April 4. s.; 10, $l6.40: IA,
$l5l.3O; and so on, until our actual
payments in cash, apart from our
vast unpaid labors editorially,)
amounted to $1.3lS27. And all this
we we're doing at a time when you
could hardly borrow 800 at the banks
on government bond
In the midst Of this work [ proposed
to suspend the paper for six months
until conditions improved; | had no
more int rest in it than any OF her
member of the Alliance. Stoughton
heard of this and followed me out of
the office and proposed that if would
not give it up he would work for $l2
week; and if times improved while he
was at work, and the paper could earn
it, he was to have the other 81 per
week; but he expected me to guaran-
tee him personally the $l2, and the
rest was to depend upon the pros
perity of the paper, and its ability to
pay the money out Of it's earnings. He
said if the paper stopped he did not
know where he could get another job
in those trying times to support his
family. l agreed to his proposal and
buted enough out Of my own pocket
to make up his $l2 Soon after this
Mr.. Eckford went to attend the Kelley
Institute at Minneapolis, and Mr..
Stoughton was empowered, temper
arily, to open all letters and handle
the money and pay the bills, giving
due credits on the books. The first
thing he did was to take advanta of
his position and credit himself in the
Ledger with 500 week, from the first
day he was connected with the paper,
making $l,O40; when he never had
been engaged for 500 week except
conditionally as stated, and was then
working for $l2 per week. Then he
was mean enough to grab nearly all the
money that came into his hands, leav-
ing the young lady compositor with 81
or So week He even took more than
the $12 a week due him and put it in
to his pocket, in direct violation of
the statute of the state, which pun
ishes such action with five wears i'm
prisonment. He was paid every cent
that was due him and more: but sub
sequently, June Is, 1894, he had John
L. Macdonald, of ST. Paul, write let
ter to each of the members of the
Executive Committee Of the State
Farmers Alliance threatening to sue
them individually for $4ls60 due him
as he alleged, when in truth he had
been overpaid on his contract: for GER
tainly there had been up to May, 1894,
when he left us, no improvement in
the business of the country or the pa
per to justify more than the SIP per
week which he received: in fact most
Of it came from my own pocket. l wrote
Judge Macdonald in reply, to let
Stoughton "blaze away" with his law
suit.
He never brought suit; but when he
thought, from my appeal to our sub
scribers to pay up that the paper was an
ertre1nis he came to Minneapolis to in
duce Eckford to join with him in an
effort to throw the paper into the
hands Of a receiver and thus crush it,
And this is the man whom Mac
donald, as chairman of the State
Executive Committee of the Peoples
Party, made, in 1894, Secretary of that
Committee, displacing that able and
efficient gentleman, Mr.. Paul Fon-
tame. And between them they cou-
Quoted the most inefficient, baseless,
shadowy, senseless, soulless campaign
that was ever put on this planet since
God made the first jackass and "a tile
snake Macdonald amounted to moth
ing and Stoughton was equal to fifty
per cent less. Instead of striving to
elect the Peoples Party ticket their
energies were exhausted in trying to
crush The REPRESENTATIVE; and
erect in it's place by the aid of the ma
chinery of the party we had done SO
much to create, an organ for our party
to be owned by John r. Walsh, the
plutocratic. millionaire banker of Chi
cago, who already possessed two Of the
strongest gold-bug papers in the
country
Our readers can understand the pro-
found nature Of our devotion to the
principles of our party when they re-
member that we stood firm against all
these repeated acts of ingratitude and
Insult and Ia hOra6 niubt and dav for