The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-19

concerning the ird ebtedness Of Tbs
REPRESENTATIVE to the Penny Press.
is a lie absolute and unqualified. We
did not owe them a cent under the
terms Of our written contract; no nc
tice was served on us Of any such al
| legged indebtedness, until the time scGs
past for the printing Of the paper, on the
18th OF August. ...s--.1--.-.---
Mr.. Seberger, in enclosing US the
above clipping wrote US as follows:
Minneapolis. Mimi, Aug. IL.
Hon. 1gnatius Donnelly:
Dear Sir-You will see. by the en-
closed clipping that there Is cOnspir-
| acy to force The REPRESENTATIVE to
the wall. Williams says the article
was inspired by the Temple Court peo-
Pile. but they, the Penny Press, 1T ap-
pears, had as much to do with 1T as
| those at League headquarters. You
had better come up. Respectfully,
P. J. SEBERGER.
The Temple Court people, means
the Owen, Dobbyn, Aver, ETC., coterie
who have their headquarters in the
Temple Court" Minneapolis. We
| learned that just before the holding
up Of our paper the 'sTemple Court
people" had been very active and had
held meeting in the Penny Press
building!
That paper had treated US most
shamefully. Its editor, w. w. Will
Jams, without the slightest provoca-
tion, after we had, in 1894, given him
employment for months, and paid him
$18 week, when he was very poor.
| opened an attack on us, charging that
he had letter from us, written him
in 1894, telling him to ''go light on
Jim Hill; he is one of our best
friends" We called upon him to pro-
duce the letter and he has failed to do
so, for the sufficient reason that he
never received any such letter from
U.S. II we had even felt that way we
had too much good sense to have
| written such letter to an employe
who was comparative stranger to us.
We appealed to the managers Of the
Penny Press, and stated that if they
continued to shelter and employ such
man we should properly conclude
| that they approved of and had melted
his attack on us. He is there in their
Office to this day; and has since then,
time after m :, assailed us In the old
party papers Of Minneapolis.
During our {: b ence in St. Louis. at
the National convention, the nest
contemplate attacks were made on
us by the Penny Press. When a tele-
gram came announcing that we had
been named by the middle of-the-road
Populsts for permanent chairman Of
the convention, the Penny Press head
ed it: 'The Mountebank willing to
take anything"
We had given Mr.. Frank N. Stacy
employment when he was on the brink
of starvation, and paid him all we
agreed to pay him, and S. more, and
discharged him simply because the
times were so hard that we were
forced to retrenchment. He went
down to St. Louis instructed to vote
| for us for president. He not only never
| voted for US, but when it was proposed
that committee be appointed, by the
delegates from the five out Of the
seven districts instructed for us, to
request us to release them from their
instructions, so that they could hon
orably support Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. Stacy
fercely and vindictiyely protested
against even this scant courtesy; and
grossly misrepresented our course in
his kilograms to the Penny Press, Of
which he is, with Williams, an editor
On our arrival in Minneapolis on the
morning of August IS, accompanied
by Mr.. Seberger, we went at once to
to the Penny Press Office. We said to
| Williams:
| "We understand that you have tied
up our paper and said to Mr.. Seberger
that you will not let it go out unless
we pay you $40 more. We do not think
we owe you anything, but we are ready
to pay you the $40 rather than have
the paper delayed. Are you ready to
print it?"
"No" said Williams, 1--WE will not
print 1T unless you pay US every cent
you owe u.s."
| "How much is that?'
1.-TWO hundred and seventy -four dol
lars and twenty-eight cents" replied
Williams.
Thereupon we turned to the lady
bookkeeper and asked her to give us,
week by week, the amount of their
bills for press work, etc., and the
amount of our payments, week by
week. as they appeared on their books.
we took them down as she read them
out, Mr.. Sutherland, Mr.. Williams and
Mr.. Seberger overlooking the work
and adding the figures up. The result
was that it appeared that en- the 18th
day Of August. 1896, when the issue Of
THE REPRESENTATIVE No. 172 was
about to be struck off. to be paid for
under the contract, on Saturday, Aug
ust 18th, zee not only did not Owe the Pen.
ny Press one cent, BUT THEY HAD BEEN
OvERPAID $780, 64-1OOl
| All hands examined the books. and
went over them item by item, and
they unanimously reached the same
conclusion.
And the ruffian Williams, who had
so insolently demanded $274. % from
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