The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-08
COUNTY ALLIANCE MEETING

The regular meeting Of the Blue
Earth County Farmers Alliance was
called to convene at the Court House
in this city on Friday morning last at
10 o'clock, but there not being pres
ent ut this hour sufficient number
to transact business satisfactorily,
the meeting adjourned until 200 p.
NJ. This change of time precluded
the possibility of THE FREE PRESS
publishing the proceedings last week.
The attendance was quite small,
there being but seven Alliances re-
presented, and only fourteen or III.
teen members present.
After the preliminary matters, such
as electing II chairman, reading mn
utes of previous meeting, appointing
committee on credentials. &c., were
disposed of, communications from
Senators Window and Mcmillan, rela.
tive to the resolution passed at u
previous meeting of the Alliance. pro.
testing against the repeal of the duty
on Manitoba wheat. and forwarded
to those gentlemen as a sense of the
feeling of the farmers of this locality,
were read. Both Senators express a
desire and determination to guard the
interests of the people OF Minnesota
as best they can, and the farmers can
rest assured that their interests will
be especially guarded.
Maj. j. G. Thompson. chairman
called to his relief Mr.. Ira b. Rey.
nolds, while he read a call that had
been pre.arranged for the holding Of
a convention to nominate legislative
and county tickets. The resolution
was to the effect that delegates should
be chosen on the basis of the popular
vote of 1891 one delegate to every
$50 votes-and all persons in sympa.
thy with the Alliance movement in.
vited to participate at the caucuses.
This proposition brought out con.
siderable discussion. Mr.. J. Nc.
Given and John Diamond were en-.
phatlcally pronounced in their oppo-
sition to such a movement, claiming
that it would let down the bars of the
Alliance to that extent that the old
parties would come in, capture the
primaries and run the convention,
literally freezing ont the limited
member of Alliance men. Lysander
Cook seemed to be about the only
fervent and unwieldy champion of
the liberal grounds upon which the
call was based, and scored Diamond
pretty severly tor what he (Diamond)
had said about Cooks previous candi.
dacy through the Garden City Grange.
Finally, to bring matters to point of
understanding, Mr.. Cook moved to
refer the subject to a committee for
consideration, who, in turn, should
report back to the meeting the result
of their deliberations.
The committee selected was COM
posed of l.. Cook, ]. Diamond, II.
c. Howard. J. C. McGiven and j. G.
Thompson and the following is the
recommend they submitted and which
was adopted, and is now in full force
and effect.
Res"lrsd-That the Blue Earth County Farm
ers Alliance meet at the Court House in
Mankato, September22nd. 1882, at one O'Clock
L. NJ, for the purpose of nominating legis-
lative and county ticket, and that each Al
lance shall be entitled to three delegates,
and the people OF each town or ward In this
county who are in sympathy with the ALL
ance movement and In which there 10 NO
organized Alliance shall be entitled to three
delegates each, said last named delegates to
he elected on the evening of Sept. 10th. AT
the usual places of holding elections.
1t will be observable that where
organized Alliances exist, the dele
gates will be chosen by the Alliance
exclusively, and in towns where there
is no organization, the people at
large are invited to join forces. re-
CARELESS of party lines, prooided, al
Gags. that those who participate are
in sympathy with the Alliance move
ment.
Gentlemen were appointed in vari-
ons towns to look after Mr.. Latimer's
Congressional chances, after which
the meeting adjourned.