The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-20
MORE SLANDERERS.
THEY SPRING PERENNIAL.

MORE SLANDERERS.
THEY SPRING PERENNIAL.
1t is most astounding thing how
men will persist In lying about our
humble self.
There was fellow In Litchfield,
Mimi, named j. w. Knight, who
worked for US on our farm in Ste VEINS
county. in 1877, nineteen years ago.
to the amount OF $103.O6, and we paid
him that sum and took his receipt in
full. And yet every time we came be-
fore the public for office that scamp
would write us letters demanding
money and threatening us if we did
not pay it. In 1892 we were the can
didate Of the Peoples Party for gov
erDor and we received another of his
epistles; and thereupon we hunted up
his receipt and put it in our pocket;
and when we came to Litchfield to
speak we found him in the audience,
and SO we 'took the bull by the
horns," and read his threatening let
ter and then read his receipt in full.
The crowd yelled. Knight then ros
and said that while it was true tn at
we had paid him in full he was the
only one OF our men that we had paid.
We thereupon unrolled the sheet of
cap paper on which Knights receipt
was written, and showed that it con-
tanned long list of other receipts,
some twenty odd, one under the other,
from every man who had worked for
us that year, and every receipt sin
full Of all demands" The shout that
went up from that audience ended
Knights beautiful operations.
Not long since minister of the
Christs gospel and an advocate of
Prohibition. circulated similar stories
about us, and we replied, denouncing
him as slanderer. and announcing
thai we owned considerable real es-
tate and personal property, standing
in our name, free of all incumb-
rance. and that if any body had any
claims against us we would waive the
statute of limitations and meet the m
on their merits. That was the last
we heard from the reverend slanderer.
He had not even the manhood to
apologize for his falsehoods. He
praised God and went on lying.
And now the scurvy breaks out in a
fresh place. A friend writes us from
Alexandria, Minn., that a man named
Charles Terrell told him that his
father had an honest claim against
us,-he did not say what for,-and that
we had refused to pay him. We do
lot think that any man named Ter
rell ever work ed for US, or had any
business with us, of any kind, during
the course of our natural life;-we
can find no such name on our books:
If he did work for US we certainly
paid him in full;-and it we did not
let him present his bill now; it is
'out!awed," Of course, but we will
waive all that and meet it on it's
merits; and our granaries are full of
unencumbered grain from which he
can collect his pay, If his claim is
just one.
And now our Alexandria correspon-
dent further tells US of 1.-TWO lickspit-
tie Republicans" one w. B. Nilsson,
a Justice Of the peace, who declared
that ''in the counties where we had
lived the records were full of judy
ments against us, some by hired
men," The records are open to in
spection, and there are no judgments
against US, not for ten cents, in any
court in the world; and we were never
sued but once by a hired man, and
that was by party who acted for
short period as foreman, on our
Stevens county farm. He stole
enough fencing lumber from US to
build house. We discharged him.
He commenced proceedings in the
midst of harvest, when we could not
leave the field to defend ourself with
out great less; we let him take judy
ment; when harvest was over We sued
him for the lumber he had stolen and
got judgment against him, and we
then attached Herewith the judy
ment against ourself and so paid the
debt. We were too merciful to send
AlAA4 w oAA0 SVooO ~ ASOu WuCAC AC OS.
longed.
We ought not to complain perhaps
Of these continual ISLANDERS. They are
the best evidence that we are doing
effective work. The hit bird fluttcrs.
Where the shots strike the feathers
fly. When the enemy cannot answer
our arguments they start a lie about
us. The boy said:-"If can't lick
you can make mouths at your sis
ter"
Trot out your SANDERS, worthy gen.
tlemen. You must do something to
serve the party Of God and Morality.
Take your victims into the thick
brush or behind the barn, and whisper
into their ears:-'I worked for Don
nelly and he never paid melt was
out in South Dakota.-or North Da.
kota,-or Idaho,-or Rams chat ka,-or
somewhere. What is the use Of talk
ing about the crime of 1s73-Donnelly
owes me! Bad man that Donnelly!
He is the real issue in the campaign
of 1896. Bad. Bad man."
Judging by the way the crop of
slanderers rise up we must have hired
about one-half the whole population
of Minnesota on our Stevens county
farm, and never paid one of them: aud
not one OF them ever sued US or tried
to collect his claim!!