The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03

senator. The vote was then taken
and Mr.. Donnelly had twenty-eight
votes out of forty; the rest being di-
vided between Mr.. Akin and two or
three other candidates. Mr.. Donnel-
~ made q brief speech accepting the
nomination. He did go, he said, re-
luctantly and at sacrifice, but he
felt that this was a life-and-death
battle between the people and the
plunderers. He knew that the rail-
road companies we're making special
efforts to pack the next senate. They
gave up all hope of controlling the
House; they knew the Alliance would
have possession of that body: but
they hoped to own the senate, and
this put q vote on any legislation
passed by the House, just as they
did in 1887, and previous years. He
thought, therefore, that if he was
elected to the Senate he could do
some good in obtaining the reforms
demanded by the farmers.
The convention then nominated J..
C. Dawson and Hon. D. F.>Akin as
candidates for the House. Acommit-
tee of fifteen, with Oscar Tuorson at
it's head was appointed to wait upon
the conventions of the old parties,
and ask them to endorse the legisla-
tive ticket of the Alliance. No ticket
for county officers was placed in the
field but it was resolved to adjourn
the convention until the 18th OF
October, and, if both the old parties
refuse to endorse the Alliance ticket,
then put a full county ticket in the
field, and, as Mr.. Donnelly said,
'hold meetings in every school-house,
sub-soH the whole county, and beat
both the old parties" A campaign
committee, with Mr.. Wilcox OF Hast
ings at it's head, was then appointed,
and the best and most harmonious
and most enthusiastic gatherings
ever held in the county, adjourned I'M
til Oct. 18th. PENNINGTON.
FROM VETERAN. OF rs YEARS.
KEYSTONE, Mimi, Sept. 81, 1890.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
I can hardly properly express my
feeling over such quarreling as is
going on in our organization. That
people can be so corrupt and selfish
that they will stoop so low as tc
steal the funds entrusted in Their
care, or that desire for political self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT is so great that
they will sell themselves to the enc
mics for a mess of pottage! What
will become of the producing classes
if faithful integrity can not take pref
erence.
1t cannot be that Lathrop is al
ignorant nonentity when he can re
ceive such an ovation and marks O
distinction, from banker men, who
are generally recognized as thu
"Plutocracy." All, Lathrop, La
throp! are you a farmer! If so yor
ought to be ashamed. 1t would have
been better for you and your fellow
men if a milestone had been hanged
on your neck and you sunk down in
to the deep sea!
How is it that the great, out-spok
en- ''GREAT WEST" is accused of beins
owned by Jim Hill and yet works
with might and main for the cause hi
has undertaken even to antagon
izing men in his own party? And |
Donnelly? Is not his greatest faul
that he is too smart and too homes
for the monopolists, and perhap.
too poor to purchase his way int
the senate?' | recollect we'll how h,
stood we'll with the republican party
but Ex-Governor Ramsey had NOR,
money and thus ousted Donnelly.
Let our Campaign be cleared of tn
false apostates and let us zealousl,
guard our liberty lest C@sar's Column
may be enacted and the ruin of lib
erty. AxEL JoRGENsEN.
President Miller, of the Milwaukee,
and St. Paul road, in his report re
ferring to the antagonism to rail
roads, says that change of publ
sentiment "can hardly be expected
until hOStlllJy TO railroads ceases tt
be q short route to political prefer
lnent."
Antagonist, not to railroads, bu
to railroad management, does no
rest on SO flimsy a basis as Presiden
Miller pretends. When railroad
cease to discriminate against smalle
cities and towns in favor of tn
larger ones, and railroad manage
ment settles down to a basis of rea
sonable equality, antagonism on tn
part of the people will cease, and no
till then. Mankato has suffere,
greatly from this injustice, and 81
long as it continues there will be re
sisteuce, antagonism. or whateve
the railroad magnates may b