St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-10
JOEL HAS A SCHEME.
Legislative Nominations to
Be Given to Farmers
Everywhere.
Everybody to be Traded Off
to Help Out Mer-
RAM.
jDonnelly's Little Petition
Now Being Circulated by
"Doc" Fish.
Bosses Trying to Pull the
Bosses Trying to Pull the
Great Sand-Hauler Off
the Track.


OF the Merriam managers.
But how is this to be done?
BY nominating Republican farmers
for the legislature in as many districts
as possible, on the condition that they
turn in and work for the success of the
head of the state ticket. This is Chair
man Heatwole's scheme at any rate.
sand it will be forced upon the local Re-
publican organizations in all portions of
the state. There are indications of a
revolt against this slick little scheme of
sacrificing everything for the sake Of
carrying through weak candidate at
the head of the ticket. ''Such pr0po-
sition was never before made to the Re-
publicans of this or any other state"
said Southern Minnesota Republican
Indignantly at the Clarendon hotel yes
terday. "and believe that frst-clasS
Instruction will be organized if the
state committee attempt to carry out
their plans.
'What are the duties of the state
committee?" he continued, becoming
more and more wrathy as he proceeded.
GAS understand political usages and
party customs, state committee is ap-
pointed to look after the state cam
paign only. and it has nothing whatever
to do with any local fights or combine
tons. Take Mower county, for instance.
Do you suppose that the loyal Republic
cans of that county are going to allow
Joel HeatwOle and Tams Bixby to die
tate whom they shall nominate for the
legislature? Not in thousand years.
If this is attempted there will be such
revolt against Merriam that he will
,o& L. n1
seems to me that the Republican voters
of the different legislative districts of
the state ought to be perfectly compe-
tent to decide upon nominees for the
various offices without any advice or
dictatiOn from combination of small
fry politicians. These men have forced
Merriam's denomination upon the party
and are now ready to sacrifice the legls-
lature, the congressman and everything
else to carry him through. There is
method in their madness, however. for
if Merriam should be elected in the
midst of a general defeat his canvass
for Cush Davis seat in the United
2 States senate would receive a decided
impetus. l advise Messrs. Heatwole,
BiXby, Clough and the rest of that COM
mittee to go little slow in this matter
of debating local nominations or there
line"
( That this scheme of giving the earth
to the farmer, as far as the legislative
< nominations are concerned, has the in
+ dorsement of the Republican state COM
mittee is evidenced by the following eX-
tract from all interview with Chairman
Joel p HeatWole, published in the Mer-
RAM organs in the two cities yesterday:
/ II do not understand" said Mr.. Heat
wole, 'why the Alliance people should
be after purely clerical offices when
! their best hopes should center in the
/ legislatures"
This bait to the farmers was made
still more inviting by the aStute Joel,
I who in rambling sort of way gave
the whole snap away. He said that
there was disposition everywhere ON
the part of the Republicans to give the
farmers large majority of the legisla-
tive nominations. and that this ought to
hold them in line. Just the kind of
timber these farmers who are to receive
these legislative nominations are made
of Joel failed to state. Ii of such ma
terial as several members of the last
delegation from Blue Earth county, for
instance, there is good room to doubt
whether the real farmers will be half as
we'll pleased as young Mr.. HeatwOle
would lead people to think.
This latest scheme of Joel's ought to
be engrossed on parchment, and, after
being framed, hung alongside OF the pc
tition which 'Doc" Fish is now circu-
lating for the purpose of placing Dom
nelly's name on the official ticket as
candidate for governor. 1t is very,
very Smooth" but it will hardly work
this year. The farmers of the state are
IN no q N
the time, but the fOOling can't be kept
up forever.
The evening Merriam organ yester-
day printed the following interview,
which probably came from the lips Of
j. A. Tawney, of the Republican state
committees:
What do the Republicans propose to dor
The instructions of the party to the comfy
committees will be to make as many farmers
candidates for the legislature as possible.
They have heard the cry of the farmers and
are willing that they should have legisla-
ture as largely composed of the representa-
tive Of the farming classes as will be prac-
| ticable, a large enough body to represent the
country districts and carry out their wishes.
This is the unselish aid which the Repub-
lican party is willing to give. but their kind
intentions are'being but little appreciated"
1t does really look a little as though
the 'kind intentions" of the Republican
bosses will be but little appreciated in
this campaign by the farmers. 1t is
of toll refuse to walk into the Repub-
liean parlors.
"The Republican party is in the
ascendant" said Joel Heatwole in an
interview published in the morning
Merriam organ of this city. yesterday.
If Joel will just sit down and write an
other communication to President
Harrison and convince him of the truth
Of the above statement, there is little
| doubt that he will be at once made the
monger of the Minnesota offices instead
of Senator Washburn.
| should inform an anxious public that
fairly waits with bated breath to hear
your utterances, just where 1.-THE Re-
| publican party is in the ascendant"
Is it in Milwaukee, in Iowa, Ohio,
Rhode Island, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama or Oklahoma? Mortified
may be the place Joel had in mind
when he made this deliverance. In
case this is the case, it is safe to say
that it is the only place in the United
States where the Republican party has
held its own since the election of Ben
Harrison.
DIR. Fish, the nominal editor and pub
Usher of DonDelly's Great West, yes
terday ATTEMPTED to deny that scheme
is on foot to secure the requisite 1000
signers needed to place Mr.. Donnelly
before the people of the state as can
dldate for governor. The bold-faced
manner in which this man Fish has mis-
represented every man in anywise OPP
| posed to his selfish and corrupt schemes
entities his deniais to little considera-
| ton. But it may be we'll enough to
| state that not only is such scheme as
| indicated above on foot, but it is also a
| fact that ssDoc'' Fish himself has for
nearly week been circulating these
petitions and securing signers, asking
| that the name of Ignatius Donnelly be
placed on the state ticket as candi
| date tor governor.