St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-20
Alliance Members Will Make
No Mistake Under OWENS
Leadership.
Hopes OF Republican Bosses
Will Not MatepialiZe--The
Alliance Solid.
Otter Tail County Farmers
E Want to Organize a Ma
tional Party.

this state, will be elected. there is no
question that the contest for his seat
has already commenced and that it will
cut a very considerable figure in the
organization of the two branches of the
legislature next January The far-see-
ing members and leaders of the ALI
ance are convinced that were this sena-
torlal contest to come before the legis-
lature elected two weeks agothey would
be able to send one of their strong men
to the United States senate.
But will sthe Alliance be as strong in
the legislature that will be chosen in
November, 1892? This is the question
they are asking themselves and answer
ing in the affirmative to outsiders who
venture to make inquiri eS on such a
delicate subject. The state senators
elected this year will in all probability
hold over to 1895. and will thus partici-
pate in the election of the man who will
succeed Senator Davis. OF the senate
of 81 the Alliance have at least round
dozen of firSt-clasS men, and with the
aid of the Democrats have clear ma
jority.
The great fight in this state in 1892,
then, will be for the control of the lower
house of the legislature. Ii the Ali
ance holds its own it is safe to say that
the victories won On the 4th of this
month can at least be duplicated in the
fall of 1892.
Will the Alliance be able to hold its
own, is the question. Another equally
pertinent one is. "What course Will the
Alliance members follow ill the coming
session.
Editor OroD who caapac l,,r common
consent, to be the recognized chief of
the Alliance movement. declares that
success is only possible through indie
pendence, and even goes further and
asserts that a combination with another
political party will be death to the
movement, Of course, by these state
mentS Mr.. Owen does not mean that
the Alliance shall refuse the support of
either of the other parties either in the
organization OF the house and senate or
later. But what he does mean is simply
that the Alliance members shall adopt
certain course and stick to it without
regard to either OF the old parties. DO
their duty and trust to the good
sense and gratitude OF their
constituents for the future.
AS part of this plan the Alliance
members of the lower house will meet
III caucus and decide upon candidate
for speaker. He will be presented to
the house. and If the members of either
of the old parties choose, they can help
elect the Alliance candidate.
! This plan. while it looks very plaus-
ible,' will hardly work. and there is
little doubt that the clerkships will all
be divided up before the speaker is
really elected. The Alliance may name
a candidate for speaker, but if it does
There IS an absolute certainty that the
chief clerkShip of the house Will go to
the party that helps the Alliance candi-
date for speaker Into Office.
= The interest taken in the Alliance
members of the legislature and the
probable course at the coming session
by Mr.. Owen goes to confirm the ru-
nIors that he is in the field for the
United States senate. His anxiety IN
the matter can only be explained on this
basis. If the farmers members make
good records there will be an excellent
chance for them 10 increase in numbers
in the session of '93. and in this event
no one could defeat Mr.. Owen for the
At least IS per cent of the Republican
politicians of the state are devoting
themselves to predicting the collapse of
the Alliance movement through the
failure of the Alliance men in the legis-
lature-elect to do their duties and sat-
lSfy their constituents. But these men
are sore, jealous and malicious. They
realize that in the defeat of their pet
ringsterS and corporation tools their
winter occupation in the lobby has gone,
and the farmer members can rest as
sured that these men will leave no stone
unturned to discredit them before the
people of the state.
Regardless of the croakings of the
machine managers, how
ever, it is safe, as well as just. to say
that a legislature, containing more in
telligent, conservative and honest men
than Will be found i'll the session of 81
was never elected in this state. The re-
that the farmers and Democrats voted
their tickets regardless of the men
named for Office upon them, but this is
not true. The voters of Minnesota sell
dom. if ever before, exercised such
great caution in the selection of their
legislators. Take as an example the
Fiftieth legislative district. Here Sen
ator E. q. Holmes was defeated
by Hon. II. Nj. Probstfeld. Of
course this defeat causes the corpora
tons a groan or two, but no one will
deny that the interests of the people
will be in far better hands as result of
the defeat of Mr.. Holmes. Two years
ago there was widespread feeling i'm
the same district that Banker Holmes
was not the proper man to send to the
jOrity over Hon. X. l.. Frazee at that
time to 500, but he pulled through. This
veal, although every method of the
modern practical politician was en-
plOyed, Mr.. Holmes went down before
the incorruptible ballots of the farmers
of Cay, Becker and Wilkin counties.
Another good example of district in
which the farmers exercised cOnsidera-
biecar and did some good work is to
lie found in the Forty-sixth district,
composed of the counties of Crow Wing,
Mile Laos, Morrison and Todd These
counties have total Republican ma
jority of from loo to 1900, but this was
Unable to carry through Hon. j. c.
Flynn at the late election for senator.
" lille Mr.. Flynn is personally very
good fellow and all that, he has long
had the reputation of being great
thepeople just turned in and elected
Hon. George Geissel, prominent mer-
chant Of Morrison county, i'll his place.
these are only two instances of at least
twenty-five that might be mentioned in
connection with the senate alone. The
fact is all the people wanted was honest
men. and for these they voted regardless
Of party. The Republican politicians
Nho are counting so much on
the failures of the coming lep-
iSlature are certainly doomed to
disappointment There are too many
good men in the ranks of the anti-Re-
publican majorities in the house and
senate to allow the Republicans and the
rascals to get far out of the straight and
narrow path. The Alliance men will
make no costly mistakes under the lead
ership of Sydney Nj. Owen, and the
fight tor the control Of the legislature
of 1893 will commence with the organi-
cation of the two houses at the coming
session.
1t Is quite safe to predict that neither
c. X. Davis nor any other Republican
will be elected United
States senator in 1898.