The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-07-22
BULLDozER BOUNCED.
The stearns County Alliance Objects to
Misrepresentation.

To the Editor OF the Globe
| A meeting ofthe Stearns county alliance
was held at Spring Hin in, Stearns county.
on Saturday, the 10th inst, at which meet
| ing the county alliance was formed, Its con-
stitutioa adopted ,'ofncers chosen and a series
| ofresolutions adopted setting forth some of
the grievances which the farmers suffer and
which 1t Is intended to endeavor to rectify
by combined action of the alliances. In
! report of this meeting by the Sank Centre
papers. the Herald and Tribune, the alliance
is credited with having adopted the same
and all of the same resolutions which were
adopted by the Nelson. Gilman convention
| held at Brfainerd o short time ago. the Herald
publishing the Brainerd resolutions entire
as a part OF the proceedings Of TIE meeting
| and commenting upon them as being .'iden-
tically the same as adopted by the Brainerd
| convention, Sxwhile the Tribune. in giving q
summary of the proceedings says that "the
resolutions Of the Brainerd convention were
accepted and indorsed." the said Brainerd
resolutions being printed in full in another
part Of the paper. The facts in regard to the
resolutions are that printed slips of the
"Bralnerd resolutions" were presented to the
committee on resolutions, who promptly
and with one accord left OF the last two res.
olutions as not proper for the alliance to
pass upon, the first of them being an in.
dorsement of Mr.. Nelson's course in con-
gress and the last one deploring the "acci
dental" transfer of the government TO the
Democracy, etc., etc. Now. Mr.. Editor, we
wish to deny in the most emphatic and pub
lie manner that these resolutions were passed
at the meeting Of our alliance or that they
were even read before it;ana we also wish to
xl,.xt
have been voted down without a dissenting
voice. I refer, of course to the last two of
the "Brainered resolutions"
We are composed Of farmers, whose poll.
tics are Of all kinds, and are banded to-
gether not for political purposes, but to
endeavor to right, If possible, the wrongs
which we feel as q class that we are subject
ed to under cover of existing laws by the
best and most effectuaI means which sour
combined judgment may dictate. 1t is too
early In the game for us to be made willing
tools, of, either by the press or politicians.
ard lift is attempted 1t may prove boom.
erang for these who attempt 1t. ,...
We do not at present see the object of
these papers in publishing to the world that
we have allowed ourselves to be absorbed by |
one of the political parties-that party being
That there is an object seems almost probable
Tho Herald editor says it was a mistake OF
the compositor in setting up the whole of
the Brainerd resolutions. Was it q mistake
Of the composition in allowing the editor to
say that 1.-The above are identically the
same as adopted by the Brainerd conven-
tisn?" ''' o.,
Was 1t q mistake of the compositor in al
lowing the editor to suppose that an alli
ance would pass ''identicallv the same" re.
solutions that would be passed by a strong
partisan conventions . @H' . -.' ..
Has II been mistake of the compositor
that the Herald has so repeatedly advocated
the cause of the farmers alliances for the
being thoroughly coated with the editors
tsfffy? l .- .... .....
Forgive me for using so much Of your
space, but as their papers have gone broad
cast over the state. wish to correct any
inference that might be drawn from their
misstatemehts, that the Stearns County
Farmers Alliance has been absorbed. Re-
specially yours. q. '"s'a.. -'".E b
''..' 50 DAVID CLEVELAND,
Pres. Stearns County Farmers Alliance.
GettygJuly nth, 1886. -.n. .....,... O..
Hit him again Mr.. President; he
deserves it. IT you don't believe he
thinks so, read his own acknowledge
ment, printed elsewhere. Such blum.
derers deserve to have their motives
iinpugned. H. '.. ....