The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-23
ALLIANCE MESIN MINNESOTA.
They Develop Great Strength Tand May
Garry the State Against Both Parties

ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 13, 1S90.-Mr.
| W. w. Erwin, the leading criminal
lawyer of Minnesota, who deserted the
Republican party to join the Alliance
ranks, has just returned from South
western Minnesota, where he has
made Il two weeks stumping tour. He
says the Alliance is as sure to win the
fight as the sun is to rise on election
morning. It is, he insists, only a
question of majority, 'and predicts that
Owen will lead both Merriam and
Wilson and be elected By from
900 to 10000 plurality. General Jas.
Baker, Alliance candidate for Con-
gress in the Second district, makes
an equally sanguine.--report, and Mr..
Owen said in an interview this week
that he was contemplating the proba
bility of his election with a great deal
of trepidation, as the farmers expected
so many reforms that an attempt to
please them all would prove q burden
of large proportions.
The chances, however, are still rather
in favor of one Of the old parties. Dem
ocratic and Republican speakers are
flooding the State in every direction,
and the tide which has set so strongly
in favor Of the Alliance is likely to
begin to ebb to some extent. The vote
Of the State in 1888 was 10000. In
the gubernatorial contest it stood Re-
publican $4,000 ; Democratic, 10000
Prohibition, $4,000. This year the total
vote is expected to run about 1000.
Of this not more than 5000 will be for
J. P. Pinkham, the prohibition candi-
date. = The Alliance vote is now eX-
pected to run about 1000, leaving $780,
900 for the old parties. Which will get
the major part Of this is question
which only the casting of the ballots
can decide. 1t is conceded that seventy
per cent OF the Alliance men were
former Republicans, but Of the Indus
trial Union vote which has deserted to
the Alliance nearly eighty per cent
was formerly democratic. Local ques-
tions are also having great weight.
Several ofthe acts ofGovernor Merriam
during his first term have proven dis
tasteful to Duluth, and the result is
that only one Of the five daily papers
there, although all are republican, sup
ports the Governor for reelection.
In Minneapolis the census quarrel is
still ranking, and Governor Merriam
will lose heavily on the simple ground
that he is st. Paul man. Two Of the
Flour City dailies support Owen, and
the Tribune alone gives Merriam
lukewarm support. The prediction is
freely made that Merriam will receive
not more than 1000 or 5000 of the 35,-
600 votes of the city and county, and
Owen will have larger following than
Wilson, the Democrat. In St. Paul,
on the other hand, there is general
disposition to stand by Merriam on the
strange and amusing ground that if
| Minneapolis should during this winters
legislative session engineer combina-
tion and pass measure for the removal
of the capital, Governor Merriam, as
st. Paul man, would stop the high
handed proceedings with a handy
veto.
The struggle for control of the Legis-
lature in being watched with great in
terest. The present outlook is that the
Alliance and the Democrats will con-
| troll the State Senate and that the Re-
publicans will have small majority in
the House. The Senators hold their
office four years and will have voice
in the selection ola successor to United
States Senator G.. K. Davis.