St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-03
TO FILL LIND'S SHOES
Second District Farmers to
Meet at Kasota junction
July is.
Farmers Alliance Men to be
Boyeotted by the Repub-
lican Machine.
Col. Hans MattsOn Makes a
Combination With Ole
Lueken.
Why Capt. Snider Will Run
Behind in St. Paul..
Political Notes.

be invaded by the farmers, who are up
in arms against the Ubiquitous Mckinley
tariff bill.
Last evening Secretary John LathEop,
of the Farmers alliance, issued the call
for a convention for the formation of a
Farmers alliance of the Second congress
sional district and also for the nomina-
ton Of a candidate for congress to be
voted for at the ensuing election. This
convention is summoned to meet at Ka-
sofa Junction, in LIE Sueur county, on
Friday, July Is, at 10 o'clock i'll the
morning.
"This call is issued" said Secretary
Lathrop, ''by the express directions and
requests of the local and county aili-
ances of the district, as far more than a
majority, indeed [ may say nearly all of
the local alliances, have voted in favor
Of this action, and so, as is my duty, L
issue the call. Kasota JunctioniS prob
ably the most central point in the dis
trict, and the date, July Is, will permit
the delegates to the big convention to be
held here IN the 10th to attend this one
OH their return to their homes, and will
same them an extra trip, considerable
time and some money"
1t is now wal to the knife between the
Farmers alliance and the Republican
party in this state. en-
The first county in the state in which
the Republicans were bold enough to
throw down the gauntlet was Otter Tail,
and in the county convention which
was held at Battle Lake Oh Tuesday
not only were the alliance men refused
admission as delegates, but not a single
nominee on the farmers ticket, Repub-
licans, and reputable Republicans, too,
though most of them we're, was in
dorsed or taken up by the Republican
machine. A few weeks ago at a largely
attended convention the Alliance of
Otter Tail county nominated a full
county and Legislative ticket. A num-
Der of the present corps of Republican
county officers were placed0ll the ticket
and a laboring a and II or two DEM
ocrats were also given places for minor
Offices. This scored the old Republican
machine and after due consultation with
party leaders in ST. Paul the order went
forth that every man who hoped for a
nomination from the Republican county
convention must drop the Alliance
men like hot potatoes. The bosses
assumed a very threatening attitude
and scared the nominees of the farmers
for three or four offices into writing
elaborate letters, in which a lot of triv-
ial and imaginary reasons were set forth
for their declining to accept the nomi-
nations given them by the farmers.
These letters were published not only
in the local Republican organ at Fergus
Falls, but also in the Merriam organ at
the capital of the state. They were
written to the president of the
Otter Tail alliance, but before
he eve received any of them
copies were furnished the papers men
toned above, thus showing that the
letters were written not for the chair
man of the local Farmers alliance
organization, but for a purpose more far
reaching in its effects.
Heroic remedies are to be used in the
treatmentof the'Farmers alliance move
ment, and the Otter Tail precedent is to
be followed in all parts of the state. If
any extended argument were necessary
to prove that this is the general plan of
the Republican bosses it could have
been found yesterday had any one
taken care to observe the anxiety
with which the capitol officials and Mer-
Ram leaders generally watched and
waited returns from the Otter Tail con-
Yention. The programme had been
outlined, and trusty leaders had been
selected, but there was a remote fear
that Hon. John b. Hompe would break
into the gathering of the bosses and
smash everything. The organization
was we'll creased. however, and the
farmers were sat upon as hard as posi-
bic, and given notice that any farmer.
belonging to the farmers alliance, or in
anywise DETECTING from steadfast 10y
atty to the party of Reed, Mckinley 81
Co.. need expect nothing from. the Re
publican party of Minnesota.
How will this strikesthe farmers of
the state, who are not accustomed to.
being considered the slaves of any
party?
eff there-i is II thing more than an.
other that is calculated to boom the
Farmers alliance movement and make
it a power in the coming election" re-
marked an alliance leader yesterday,
sit is just this hostility that is being
shown by the friends of Gov, Merriam.
| understand that the governor has said
that he does not care for the
Republican nomination if there is
to be an independent ticket in.
the field, and so he has probably
sailed in to prevent a nomination being
made by any means in his power. He
would make more by keeping his hands
Off and not trying TO boycott the alli-
ance. The air is full of independence
this year, and a lot Of rotten political
machines are likely to be smashed into
smithereens."
Col. Hans Mattson, the present secre-
tary of state, is a very clever politician.
He is a candidate for another nominal