St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-15
THE ALLIANCE NOMINATIONS

The delegates to the Alliance conven-
ton will principally be in the city to-
day, and the result of to-night'S caucus
ing will practically settle the nomina-
tions to be made tomorrow. There has,
perhaps. never been time in Mime
sofa politics when the farmers were re-
ceiving more attention from the poll
ticians than just at this time. This is
SO because of the disposition manifested
by the farming classes to sunder party
ties, and to strike out for themselves in
an effort to do something in their own
behalf. 1t is the first time they have
presented a formidable Independent Or
ganization, and the fact that they bid
fair to become power in state politics
is the cause of the Difference and atten-
ton now being bestowed upon them.
Their convention tomorrow will be
the test of the ability of the farmers to
hold together and to make themselves
an active force in Minnesota politics.
If they can maintain through in
dependence and make their nomina-
lions entirely free from outside political
influences, they will then have estab-
lished themselves as political power.
But if they betray weakness, or exhibit
a servile disposition to the machine
bosses, they will simply disrupt the
Alliance organization and bring its
members into disrepute.
That there will be desperate at
tempt to hitch the Alliance to the
MERRIAM machine and to make it an
agency in furthering corporation in
terests. is PRETTY clearly understood. AS
heretofore outlined in the GLOBE, the
plan is to work the Alliance in Gov.
MERRIAM's interest through the instru-
mentality of Mr.. DoNNELLY. 1t is also
understood that the latter gentleman
has mapped out four several plans
of action, whereby he hopes to
serve Gov. MERRIAM's interests. The
first is to prevent any nominations.
Failing in that, the second line of cam
paigp is to capture the nomination for
himself. Faing in that, the effort will
be made to load the platform down with
lsms and schisms so as to make it so OBJ
noXiouS that decent man wouldn't
want to stand on it, nor a conservative
voter support him if he did accept the
nomination. Then, as dernier resort,
when everything else has failed, Mr..
DONNELLY will either bolt or try to
burst up the convention in row.
If the convention allows itself to be
led captive by MIR. DoNNELLY. that will
be the end of the alliance independence
and usefulness. No person understands
better than Mr.. DoNNELLY himself that
10 man can serve two masters. His
dual attitude of being a MERRIAM par
tiSan and an alliance champion at the
same time is so wholly inconsistent that
it serves to expose Mr.. DoNNELLY's
real purpose in seeking the alliance
nomination. His sole object in being
an alliance leader is to use the organi-
cation in the interest of his real master.
With this fact so patent to the public
mind, the only effect of nominating Mr..
DoNNELI.Y as the alliance candidate
for governor would be to advertise the
transfer of the alliance organization for
consideration to the MERRIAM ma
chine.
j We have no disposition to dictate, or
even to suggest proper candidate for
the alliance, further than to say that if
the alliance wishes to preserve it's indie
pendence and to command popular re-
spect it will name for it's candidates
men who are identified with the agri-
cultural interests, and who are not
farmers merely for the revenue that is
TO be derived from bartering in politics.
Hence we say the action of to-mor-
rows convention will test the real
strength, integrity and patriotism of the
alliance movement. On the principle
that tree must be judged by its fruit,
we anxiously await the product of the
conventions deliberations.