The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-05-25

means known to his cunning brain to get
the nomination for governor, and failing in
that he attempted to disrupt the conven-
ton; but not being able to effect that pur-
pose, he appeared to Submit, only to Sc
cretly and in the dark defame the party and
its nominees through the medium Of the
Great West, the editor Of which was as
vile tool Of hypocrisy, deceit and venom
as ever disgraced this state.
Q4.) If we are the most grievous load
the Peoples party has to carry, how came
it that in 1892, when a candidate for
governor, we ran 10000 votes ahead of
our presidential ticket? How came it,
that tho Republican party delighted to
honor us, electing us for four years
lieutenant governor of the state and six
years member Of congress? Have any Of
our assailants ever been elected to any
office? Why have our constituents in
Dakota county elected us for nearly
twenty years to the house or senate?
Which one Of our slanderers could be
elected dog-catcher in any county in this
state.
We were not candidate for governor
in 1890; we received some votes, and
when Owen was nominated we took the
stump for him.
If the editor of the Great West was "a
vile tool Of hypocracy, deceit and venom
why did S. M. Owen unite with him TO
defeat our reelection as president of the
State Alliance? Birds of feather flock
together"
But the best answer to all this foul
abuse from the mouth of F. G. Gibbs,
is the following extract from a letter
to Mr.. H. J. o. Reed, of Minneapolis,
written by the self-same Gibbs. and
printed in the Minneapolis Times of
March 3, 1897. Mr.. Reed has the original
letter and can show it to any one.
while we are not given to hero worship,
knowing that they may without a moments
warning pass away, leaving us to continue
the battle alone, and knowing on the other
hand that truth and justice are as lasting
as the eternal hills, that principles and not
men must be our motto, yet 1t is becoming
in us at this time to express our admira-
ton and extend our gratitude to our great
champion, Ignatius Donnelly, for the ex-
traordinarily able manner in which he has
upheld the principles of the Peoples party
in our state legislature this winter. For
tunate, indeed, are we as party, to have
in the legislative halls one Of the ablest
defenders of human liberty and human
rights the world has ever known. England
has but one Gladstone, Germany but one
Bismarck; neither has America more than
one Donnelly."
At that time F. C. Gibbs was a strong
anti-fusionist. What has changed him?
Then 1 was Gladstone. Now I am a
corrupt fellow, an ""Old Man Of the Sea-"
who sold out reform ten years ago. for
money; "a grievous load" who had made
diabolical attacks on the virtuous Judge
Macdonald, now Republican; in short
'vindictive,' filthy lying scalawag!
20 tempora, o mores!"
And what have done since the legis-
lature adjourned to deserve all this
abuse? ~
0O For what purpose did Mr.. Donnelly
want the nomination atthat time? Perhaps
no man knows, unless it was to abandon 1t
for a price, as he had before done with the
union labor nomination. and take the stump
for the Republican ticket. Again in '94 we
find Mr.. Donnelly with his knife in hand
ready to stab thes Peoples party to it's
death through his diaboiical attacks on it's
state chairman, Judge Macdonald, and his
warfare on S. NJ. Owen, for fear he would
be a candidate for United States senator.
Again we saw him pour forth all the vim
dictiveness, the utter falsehoods and the
filthy language of which only Donnelly is
capable, and to which only a Donnelly
would descend, against the Peoples party
Io}o fO.
gressional district in '96. thereby doing his
best to defeat the principles he pretended to
espouse.
Q5.) This is rehash of an old and
false charge The events took place in
1888-ten years ago. 1 had been in Eng
land and returned home the day before
the convention met of the Farm and
Labor party IN WHICH ONLY TWO
COUNTIES. OUTSIDE OF ST. PAUL
AND MINNEAPOLIS, WE'RE REPRE-
SENTED. Against my protest they NOM
mated me for governor. I made dozen
speeches and spent $3.50 of my own mon
ey, when the whole thing fell to pieces,
and the ticket was withdrawn by the
state central committee. There was no
Alliance party or Peoples party then;
and 1 had to support either the Republic
can party or the Democratic party. AS
an old Republican / sustained the party
that had repeatedly honored me. This is
all there is of that SANDER. "A short
horse is soon curried.'
O6) The cup Of his iniquity is not yet
full, it is his deliberate purpose at this time
to disrupt the coming Peoples party state
convention, and failing in that he hopes to
cause a bolt from the convention and the
nomination of a separate ticket, which will
develop enough strength TO de1eat John
Lind.
| have just been handed circular letter
by one of our local Populists Of this place,
which he received from the notorious Re-
publican ward heeler. DR.. Henry Fay, OF
Minneapolis. In reading it detect the fine
Italian hand of Ignatius ponnel1y. L Will
quote but little of it, as it is too trivial to
consider. The whole sum and substance of
it is frantic appeal to the Peoples party
voters not to unite and win as it would be
just as well to let the Republicans win this
time.
% Now, let the mask fall from those
hypocritical fakirs, Donnely, Fay, Hanley
& Co. Fay, a self-confessed Republican
ward heeler; Hanley, a self-confessed liar
and money extortioner q have his own let
ter to prove it), and Donnelly, while not
self-confessed. publicly known to possess
trinity Of devils that would have paralyzed
even one of the unfortunates of old.
(16) Every man reserves to himself
the sacred right Of revolution. II the
Poonla'S royfv coouoc IN 1,nnrocnDt Don.