The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04


short memory or base desertion of a
friend, and deliberately going back on
his agreement, ha opened at the Janu-
airy meeting of the Peoples party state
league in 1896.
Immediately previous to the meeting
in Harmonic hall Prof Dobbyn came
to me and said that there was to be
a conference meeting of a few trusted
workers in the parlor of the Brunswick
hotel to agree on a man we should
combine on to defeat the Clark gang.
I attended the meeting, and, as usual,
Lynch, Aver, Dobbyn and a dozen or
more of the faithful were there. Dobbyn
explained the object of the meeting,
which was to agree on a man to be
elected to the executive board of the
league from Hennepin county, so that
the control Of the delegation should
not fall into the hands of the Clark
faction. He nominated Attorney
Lynch as one. Quick as wink
some one else nominated Attorney -
forget his name, but he was the NOM
inee Of the fusionists for county attor-
of Hennepin county last falD, when
| some one of the designing crowd quick
ly followed with the nomination of
another Dobbyn satellite, when l object
ed to the "snap" proceedings and told
them that there were other Populists
| besides the half dozen who so far SEEM
| ed to be pushed to the front on all oc-
casiOns by Dobbyn, Aver, Lynch and
| Brown. l nominated J. A. Temple and
| he was elected as one of the three men
| we should support, Prof. Dobbyn per-
sonally agreeing to support Temple.
| Now, as to the result. When it came
! to the election of the three delegates
a couple of hours afterwards, Lynch
/, and were both elected by good
+! majorities over the Clark faction Then
| when the third was to be elected, mag
inc my surprise, If you can, when Prof
Dobbyn, Gin the interests of harmony,
as he said seconded the nomination OF
H. J. o. Reed, an opposition candidate.
named by H. S. Seed, and staunch
| friend of DR.. Clark, Reed was elected,
and when I took Dobbyn to task fo1
| his "treachery" to the conference nom
| inee, he admitted that he did wrong
and made a mistake, but thought he
was working for the best interest of the
| party in trying to harmonic the fac.
lions and at the same time boosted thai
Reed could do no harm if he tried, as the
majority Of the delegation was agains
him. After this insight into the true
character of Prof. Dobbyn, l had nc
further use for him, as l firmly believed
and still believe that, he could at any
time break his promise, if he thought he
could gain point by so doing. Wher
it is also remembered that Dobbyn
while himself a candidate for the leg
islature on the Populist ticket in 1S9-
openly advocated the election of Hon
Seagrave Smith, Democratic nominee, in
stead of Sumner Laid, nominee of hi
own party, and that he got at leas
$25 from Smith for "puffs" in his paper
I think that it is quite plain that Prof
VIM. R. Dobbyn is certainly not tn
man to be on the national committee
of the Peoples party for Minnesota
and that whatever he says POLITICAL.
ought to be taken with considerable
degree of allowance. l fear his 'itcl
for Office has numbed his finer sensi
bilities of honor and patriotism. On
thing sure, no matter what he ant
the "sell outs" of 1896 may say abou
the Nashville conference meeting o
late date, l know for a fact that MI
Donnelly's course is Endorsed by al
true Populists and that when the tim
comes the TRAITORS" of 1896 will hea
something drop hard.
c. B. MABEN.
| Aitkin, MINI.