St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-03
Another Batch of Medicos
Turned Out From Hahn
nemann College.
The Board Of Education Fa-
vors Three More High
School Buildings.
Elder Stewart and the Trib-
une--DirectoryWar Before
the Commissioners.
THE ALLIANCE ENDORSEMENT.
Thomas III. Lucas Contributes
Some Choice Bits Of History.


Some Choice Bits Of History.
Thomas H, Lucas, member of the
last legislature and well-known in labor
circles, has been interviewed upon the
Endorsement of ALDER Scheffer for gov
ernor by the Farmers alliance. He is
of the opinion that the Endorsement con-
ceals big colored man, and that it
means Doodle, with bis b.
ut is an out and out Doodle scheme"
said he, ''to turn the labor vote and that
of the farmers over to Scheffer, and does
not represent in any respect the honest
sentiment of either the farmers OF the
Iaborers. 1t wOnld be good thing II
the press would take hold of the matter
and air it thoroughly"
1t will be remembered that when the
meeting was held certain labor leaders
in the city were invited to be present.
They went, but retired before the meet
ing was over. 1t is now claimed that
the Scheffer men made overtures to
these labor leaders, Mr.. Lucus among
them, and induced the executive COM
mittee to invite them to be present:
They went, but as soon as The DRIFT OF
the conference was discovered the Mill
neapoliS men withdrew at once and came
houie. Lucas saysa Gen. Barrett,
Il. Fl. Toombs, Senator. nixon
and II. c. Hodgson were in charge
of the movement, but ignores
j. II. Drake completely. Lucas says
he, would have nothing of Scheffer, but
thought Barrett should come out. I'm
mediately after this conference" he
continued, from every part of the
state these four men commenced to
work I'D the Scheffer boom. And as
they knew full we'll that the organized
labOring element would not support
banker, they determined to call a meet
ing of the executive committee OF the
Farmers Alliance and spring Scheffer
on them. At this meeting the fact was
soon developed that Mr.. Scheffer had
but four supporters and one OF these
was not member of the alliance. The
move to indOrse Schetfer
WAS sTRENUOUSLY OPPOSED
by the other members of the committee.
who did not favor indorSing any man at
that time, holding that it was ineXpedi-
emit to indorse candidates OF to pledge
their influence like lot of ring poll
ticians in order to pull the wool over
the eyes of the members of the alliance
in any such way. They averred that
they believed in the right of the people
TO be represented in a convention made
up of duly elected delegates, and not in
allowing the entire body to be bulldoZed
by committee. Gen. Barrett, who was
not present at this time, was invited to
attend and address the committee, but
as there were certain gentlemen present
to whom he did not like to expose his
scheme, he declined to speak at that
time. The next day the obnoxious gen
tlemen were absent. Then by dint Of
bulldoZing and threats he told them that
they must indorSe Scheffer or they
would lose his support. Then the rest
of the committee agreed to support
Scheffer Professionally in this way:
That his name should be fairly proposed
to the Farmers alliance as a body at
some future time. But the after events
of these four ringsters, viz:
Barrett, Toombs, Hodgson and HiXon-
as they are working tooth and nail
among the alliances of the state to OBJ
tain the Endorsement of Scheffer through
the various papers purporting to be
from the local alliances. hoping by this
means to control the future alliance
state convention, if one is ever called.
''Now, to show the true inwardnesss
of the Scheffer movement, l will state
that his personal friends even went to
the extreme stretch of honor of sending
letters to members of the last legisla-
ture threatening them with certain de-
feat if they did not bend the submits
sive knee to this great modern expo
nent of true Democracy, Albert
Schetfer. Some of the members
of the alliance committee stated
previous to the Endorsement of Scheffer,
that it would never do for them to 60
back to their constituents as indorserS
of the man, who, through his banks,
was interested in perpetuating the
present financial system, that had been
the means of covering their farms with
mortgages, as no man in office could
be expected to go contrary to the bust
ness out of which he had made his great
wealth.
"My reason for making this matter
public is simply to save the unwary
from falling into the trap set by four
men, backed by the influence of Schef-
fer'S wealth. -