St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-28
BlLLYS new ORGAN.
Donnelly's Great West Swings
Into Line for the Gov
epnOp.
The Farmers Have Their Eyes
Opened, and Know What
1t Means.
A Corking Letter From a Wis
consin Farmer on
Owen.
Would Like to Move to Mime
sofa to Vote for
Him.
Do,,oIlu ond E;ob hauo bo,ted

Donnelly and Fish have bolted.
When Donnelly failed to secure the
alliance nomination for governor the
GLoRE predicted that neither the sage
nor his organ, the Great West, would
support the nominee, Mr.. Owen, al
though both had pledged themselves to
work for the ticket. A day or two later
an interview which Mr.. Donnelly had
granted to a well-known worker in the
labor cause was printed in the GLOBE,
in which the sage declared that he would
neither support nor work for Mr.. Owen.
This was denied by the organs of the
present state administration, and even
by doc" Fish, the so-ealled editor of
the Great West. Indeed. the latter
stated TO a representative of this paper
that he and his paper would support the
nominee of the convention. although
the paper would first have to roast"
certain features of the convention.
was only one man who was entitled to
that nomination, and that man was Mr..
Donnelly."
The issue of the Great West s.roast-'
ing" the convention is now scattered
broadcast over the country, much to the
indignation of the loyal Alliance work
erS of the state. Out of a score or more
OF letters received by the GLOBE during
the past few days, the following is pub
lShed as giving clear statement of
the way the bolt of the Great West
strikes the farmers:
LUCE, Mimi, July %. 1901 am an
Alliance man. Have just this moment fin
ished reading the Great West, and If that
paper is not doing its best to break up the
Alliance. so that the votes will go to Mer-
Ram, miss my guess. 1t was currently re-
ported sub-rosa long ago. that Merriams
money started the paper, and think the
farmers are being monkeyed with as usual.
venture the prediction that before election
the paper will come out Aat-footed for Mer-
riam, or will stop publication.
If the writer of the above communi-
cation will glance over the files of the
GLOBE during the Alliance convention
and Immediately thereafter he will find
that exactly this course was outlined as
being the one that would be pursued by
Mr.. Donnelly and his organ. As to who
is backing the paper, of course the pub
lie has no direct knowledge. "By their
acts We should know tfiem'' is a pretty
good motto to follow in cases like this.
When DR.. Fish and Mr.. Donnelly at
tempt to delude the people with
the idea that MIR. Owen was
nominated by fraud or anything ap-
preaching it they ale treading on moth
ing but their own disappointed schemes.
If there was any packing done in
that convention, Messrs. Fish and Don
nelly come pretty near knowing which
side did it, and it isn't necessary to state
that the men opposed to Mr.. Donnelly
in that convention have nothing to fear
from a complete exposure of all the del
egates who got seats in that body with
out being entitled to them.
Mr. Donnelly will, of course, shortly
be on the stump for Cor. Merriam, but
the people are 'son to' him, and never
before in the course of his long and
eheckered political career did he have
less influence and fewer votes to de-
liver. TO fight Mr.. DonnelIy success
fully the only thing necessary for the
Alliance leaders to do is to expose the
labor seIl-eut of 1888 by the sage. This
betrayal of the laboring men of the
state two years ago explains the opposi-
ton of the labor delegates to Mr.. DON
nelly in the late convention. They
tried him once and found him wanting.
The farmers are having the same ex-
perience.