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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
The Press.

If this movement of the farmers
throughout the nation does not
lead to success-then C@sar's Column
will be built If such a revolt against
the Plutocrats and their party whips
leads to nothing-then hopeless
indeed is the fate of the toiler and
producer! If it fails it will be be-
cause the local press is against us.
You have tremendous power in
your hands, if you will use it, to win
the local press away from it's party
idols. Quietly, but with an absolut-
ism devoid of any weakness. insist
upon the country papers standing
by you fairly and squarely. Let no
hesitation appear here. Be straight,
fair, square, kindly and gentle-but
wait not, nor quibble. In Minnesota,
as in the south, in Indiana and Kan.
sas, cut off completely those who
truckle to your enemies. The effect
has been wonderful elsewhere. In
Warren, Indiana, the most powerful
journal in a large district was crush
ed out in thirty days. In many
places they refuse to trade with a
merchant who advertises in a journal
hostile to the farmers party. No
journal can live a month under such
policy.
Is it just?
Well, we should say it was! What
right has d democratic paper to de
mand support OF the republican
party-or what would a democrat
say if a republican paper should
demand his support?
Again, have you read the Buel
Circular? Have not the Plutocrats
declared their purpose to withdraw
patronage and crush every paper
opposed to them-and support by
''favors' those which stand b,
them?
"To your tents" ye children o
toil-and get your armor on.
Have not the wholesale stores il
our large cities declared a boycott
on you?
See the letter in another column
and act like men! Have you no
read the 81 900 forfeit put up by th'
lumbermen-a pledge that not one Q
them will deal with you?
There is a business-like course t,
pursue. Let these papers and. thes
firms succeed if they can-by living
off their fiends-but do you stan,
aloof like men, and fight like pa
triots of old, who made their tea il
Boston Bay-and danced in the fin
, houses OF old in homespun gowns!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
That $1,000.

Some of the country papers are
fretting horribly because the GREAT
WEST offers the Campaign Commit
tee of an independent party 81 900
as a starter on a campaign fund.
You see they have been accustomed
to having the 1000 go the other
way-into paper and not out OF it.
The Waseca Herald says that there
is something terribly remarkable
about it. And then to show how
wonderful it is, it says: ''for Fish
was poor man in Pope county,"
Well, he wasn't so poor but that for
the sake of political reform he gave
up a business worth $4,000 year,
and was all "cut up'' by the same
gang wh;cr Re GREAT WEST is fight
ing noN.a,n large scale, and will
fight until the end Of eternity rings
down the curtain--when the play is
ended. Our friends need not fear
enemies may do as they are mind
! to about it. The owners of the
GREAT WEST will live up to their
agreement-and if any man, Mr..
Farmer, tells you that one dollar OF
that money comes from any person ex-
Aeept the two men who own this plant
Fish & Frain) they are deliberate
liars. All that we ask is that others
send in their names pledging $500
to be paid during the campaign. Let
us see if we cannot get 1000 men to
pledge So; 1000 to pledge 81, and
1000 to pledge $3.50. This will give
say $4,000.
Some $4,000 OF this should be
put into employing a band OF SO
men at $25 a week to work during
a campaign period of ten weeks.
They could sweep the state, and give
us 10000 votes. Mr.. Donnelly
would keep the field every day and
night. We would do allin our power
25 900 GREAT VESTS could be sent
out every week. The other alliance
papers could he helped. Get up an
enthusiasm, men of brawn-eet up a
party of your own-and "let 'er &C
Gallagher''
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
The MINNEAPOLIS Row.

Minneapolis is in trouble, and we
are glad of it. Seven of her census
enumerators have been arrested for
''stuffing" the census returns, and
two others have confessed. 1t seems
that the citizens had established an
independent census syndicate, took
in every vacant building in the city
and peopled them with thousands of
human beings who lived only as
ghosts of fraud. In this way they
could not only o'ertop St. Paul, but
get five other representatives in the
legislature, and greater congression-
al power. The story OF the bitter
war now going on between the two
cities is a long one, but we sincerely
hope that it will end in uproOting
and destroying the unholy political
combinations between the two cities.
We look upon Minneapolis as a
vast aggregation of stolen wealth.
The state never had any need of her.
The exchange of the state was pro-
vided for twice over in st. Paul.
The jobbing trade has only recently
developed. She is the great reservoir
in which the gigantic robber rings
have poured the wealth of an en-
pire for fifteen years. From her un-
righteous grain trade she has carried
off from ten to fifteen million dollars
q year, controlling both her own
market and Duluth, and teaching the
mixing iniquity to Chicago. Her
vast mills have been as destructive
as her direct grain trade. They have
drawn blood from Manitoba-paid a
tariff which was rebated at Boston
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
The Twiue Matter.

Gov. Merriam has taken up the
Twine Report which was presented
by the Hall committee in it's emascu-
lated condition Ito suit it's views OF
two members who are in the prison
management ring) and urged the
prison officials to go ahead and put
in one plant.
Probably the state at large are
dissatisfied with the GREAT WEST for
standing off and barking at this
shadow of ''something dOne' and
never biting. But so far everything
transpired as prophesied. When the
original report was published, we
surmised that it would turn out not
to be the report at all. And so it
did. 1t was trimmed down to one
fourth it's volume, and ended with a
fearful and vacillating suggestion OF
trial of one system of twine ma
chinery, at a cost OF $4,000. for
machinery, and about $50, 900 to run
a year without receipts.
Not one single item gained by Hall
and Lathrop appears in that report
not known to ten thousand men in
the state, or obtainable in three
days at the cost of postage stamp.
We have maintained from the first
that the whole thing was a shadowy
fraud, was so constructed, so oper-
ated, and would so turn out-and
the GREAT WEST office knows some
thing about it. Nor is this the
slightest attack upon the governor.
1t is simply a statement that the
farmers of this state have been bam-
boozled by the prison management,
and are going to be. And whereas
ordinary hemp, iute or flax twine is
manufactured for six cents a pound
and can be sold at SC. and retailed
at S1Ac., this prison product will cost
the farmer ten cents a pound, and
the state be shown a loser to the ex
tent OF two cents pound. Remem
Der this prophecy.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
18th.
.51NCES:
q which are more than


miles from St. Paul may elect as
an alternate any one from any other
County. No person can vote thus
for more than two alliances. These
alternates are not proxies" A
proxy is where delegate gives away
his power to another. Inthis case the
Alliance itself delegates the power
and can do so or not at will. 1t can
instruct it's alternate just as it's dele
gate.
Our advice to distant alliances is
to appoint some one near st. Paul
as their alternate in case they can
not afford to send a delegate. He
must be a farmer living on a farm
hence do not send to US
We wish each alliance so electine
alternatess would send us record O
their appointments.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
Your Chances of Success /!

The city plutocrat sneers at the
new movement. One of their organs
gave a large meeting of over a
thousand farmers, the name of "The
Farmers Trot."
They know nothing OF the feeling
abroad. They know nothing of the
"justice" involved in this political
warfare.
You number in this state today
$4,000 alliance men in 1850 alli-
ances-and your numbers are in
creasing every day. Through many
large sections no alliances are organ
lied where we have scores of sub
scribers and earnest men. There are
to-day 10000 anti-monopolist farm
ers ready for the independent ballot.
There are $4,000 laboring men, and
10000 nationalists. This will give
us over 100000 votes by November.
The 100000 votes will be reduced by
the Prohibitionists to 215, 1000, and
$4,000 will take the banner as be-
tween three parties. But should the
Independents fail to carry the state
ticket, the great campaign will sweep
the old party legislator out of exis-
ence!-and put in alliance law-mak-
ers. Then a second effort will have
splendid county and township COM
mittees to keep up the organization.
The first campaign OF every party
has the disadvantage of having no
primary organization.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27

We respect "a difference of
opinion among alliance men
themselves and all that but
when these party sneaks come
around and stick their noses into the
farmers meetings, and bark against
the organizing of a new party you
ought to slap their faces-and slap
with force. How long has it been in
this country since any body OF men
thought it a duty to organize a new
party when the old parties get got
ten and corrupt? If there is one thing
an American prizes, it is his privilege
OF organizing new party on every
four corners if he wants to. "But
they can't capture everything the
first year" Oh, they can't-well, the
old party soaker ought to be glad of
such weakness-instead of which it ir-
ritates them awfully Organize new
parties every week, if you want to
gentlemen.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
''Assassin.'

The terms used in the state call for
a convention, by which Marshal
Nagle, the slayer of Judge Terry,
was called an assassin, is severely
criticised by the state press. While
the supreme court was entirely out
side of it's Jurisdiction in taking this
criminal case out of the hands of the
California justiciary, still, no reason
able man regards Nagle as guilty of
a crime in defending the Chief Justice.
The call was not written by the ex-
ecutive committee. Mr.. Lathrop
wrote the call. 1t is to be regretted
that any one should jeopardize mat
ters by injudicious language-but
such things will occur, and we must
make allowances. Several persons
have asked us if Mr.. Donnelly wrote
the call, and this explanation is
made on that account. We have
never known Mr.. Donnelly, in his
highest flights of oratorical denunci-
alton, to go beyond reasonable in
terpretation of the facts.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
Another Eixxle,

The plutocrats have sought to
break the tremendous power of this
journal by declaring that this is a
Merriam organ.
1t don't act like it, does it? 1t
don't read like it. Since when has
Mr.. Merriam sought to have the AL
lance nominate an independent
ticket?
When did the editor of this paper
or it's Business Manager-advocate
any other policy? Let the two hun
dred lectures before alliances an
swer the question! Let our radical
assaults upon the old parties an
swer. The attempt to fasten the
odium of partizanship upon us is a
wretched fizzle.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27

Brave Dakotans! Men live over
there! Men who don't ask, when
they act politically, whether they
can succeed the first time or the
tenth We take up those independ-
ent-party Dakota papers with de-
light which thrills through every
nerve-and then the sudden influence
OF a lrome sheet brings us down into
the valley OF humiliation. To think
Of all this feeling, enthusiasm, toll,
investigation, labor and expense-to
break the traitorous party shackles
which puts party before righteous
ness-and then see men afraid
afaid-to stand on their own feet
but tumble to their knees and beg
for favors, crumbs, from the political
brutes who have built the prison pen
around them! Our voice is for an
Independent Party, with other
states, whether the alliances call it or
not!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27

Now is the time when there are
from one to three political agents in
every township in Minnesota work
ing hard to keep the farmers alli-
ances from sending independent-par-
ty delegates to the state convention
of July 18th. They have already got
in their work in two places we haye
heard from. 1t is indeed sad to see
us bow to the will of the very des-
potism we organize to crush!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27

Let every delegate be instructed
twice. First, yes or no on Independent
Party action. Second, not to attend
any caucusses under any excuse.
Meetings of districts to elect district
committee men, ETC., ETC., are not
caucusses. A caucus is a meeting to
unite on some one candidate for
something, dragging in all who at
tend. Be We free-and let every man
represent his constituents on their
honor!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27

What are the alliances organized
for? For the Offices? Then let us
slide back into the stable from which
we emerged. They are safer for sue
cess, than new party! Ny God,
but when it gets so that America will
not organize new party until they
can gobble up the Offices at the first
tilt, what kind of a country are we?
Shame on such an argument-that
perhaps we can't succeed!
Instruct your delegates when you
o1oo< than,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27

A "God bless you'' from the Men.
tor Alliance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
Now Is the Accepted Time

all political destiny conspred bring
resolution strength and of political
months have been enough raise political
giants and crush out the despotism OF putocfacy
The farmers asked that the Great Rag Baby he National Bank be
destroyed money double the paid
priviee2 This interest would
nh treasury
all ood lands would the
The farmer sneered out OF the capitol.
asked that they might the
robbers and Boards Gamblers that the the whisky
disle-no, onehat the protection all that asked
And the party despotisms smile and nay!
The parties promised tariff reduction every platform
Mississippi the glorious old utrdy piles the
collaborating Every
against his constituents the w the party lash
that the blacklist pptrated
fraud black that the bill read in
president
ed and without ceremony For be it remembered
gold! And that prince of railroad wabond Wash
nations the other Senator had
a fishing"
Under the Congress passed
behold the mascuated shred used
bindu up the wounds OF the railways.
of 1t
muscle triumphant actonand with scarcely effort
compan fund.- Righteousness with it. and
weas it the manhood and the courage?"
political shaken it's foundations. ST. Paul
Minneapolis with their monaires the midst OF
the the political They
they hatred and rival
ry-for the first time in their history.
the and
tions held n this country.
The 5th District spoken
the Atlantic
Nebraska and Iowa have called their conventions.
Kansas is moving 100000 strong.
weakened their defense
bunders.
laborng papers already
the The nation has fully 500.
the and manhood the oer
like but like and bequeath the
heritage sheepke give
lesson in patriotism at the hands of ignobe sirs!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27

alliance this state having difficulties making wine
contracts GREAT WEST supply them with the Patterson Mills Jute
carload lots and lots of 500 lbs
vered your paid the mills We getting
engaged John Ceyn the gentleman
work with the Prison Twne Committee to St
again help Mr. Ceyne wired by the GREAT VEST to
take the field personally.
Mr. Cheyne and DR. Fran DR. Fish to
come to andwe fix earliest possible.
expenses will be
paid parties will be
portion the coming meeting
Fish has lecture Mr. Cheyne will with him.
$500 have Dr. Fish
He engaged until after July 5th
manufacturers in
grades twne desired His
thorty possibly than mentioned
pound The Todd Twne
Mills fighting the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-22
LATER NEWS.

Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR ELBRIDGE
G.. LAPHAM, of New York, died at Canan
daigua.
AT Hurricane Island Me-, David Morris
sew. aged fourteen years, and George Row
ling, eleven years old, broke through the ice
and were drowned.
DR.. KN1FFIN and Emma Purcell were az
rested for the murder of Mrs. Kniffin, at
Trenton, N. j.
A TELEGRAM received at Denver, Col,
from the Victoria mines, near Trinidad, says
that cave-in occurred at that mine and that
five men were buried beneath the rock and
earth. 1t was feared that the miners would
be dead before they could be rescued.
THE Western Union telegraph Office in st.
Louis was set on fire by an electric wire and
destroyed
Mrs. C. J. LoB1N, the sister of ex-Congress
man Stone, of st. Louis. was found dead at
her home. Her husband was arrested OH
suspicion of murder.
MONTANA has two sets of claimants for
Senatorial honors-the Democrats with
certificates from the Governor and the Re-
publicans with certificates from the Secre-
tary of State.
The Senate Special Committee on the
Ouadro- Centennial of Americas discovery
have listened to arguments in favor OF st.
Louis, Chicago, Washington and New York
as the best place to hold the Worlds Fair i'll
1892. Each city occupied day in present
ing its claims.
THE Navy Department has received the
official report of Admiral Walker i'll
regard to the cruise of the Squadron OF Evo-
luton from Boston to Libson. The Admiral
says that the vessels proved themselves to be
excellent sea-boats, being easy and comfort
able in all kinds of weather.
A SHIP loaded with petroleum caught fire
at Sunderland, England. The burning oil
escaped from the ship, and, floating on the
tidewav. set fire to three other vessels. A
fireman fell overheard and was drowned
BY the bursting of a water spout in the
Province of Marking, China, upward of 100
persons were drowned, a number of boats
wrecked and large amount of property of
various kinds was destroyed.
AN official Brazilian decree prcclaims the
separation of Church and State, religious
liberty and equality, and continues life sti-
pends granted under the monarchy
EIGHT persons were drowned at Lubbock,
Germany, by breaking through the ice while
skating.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-22

| and letters involving number OF ofhcers or
the Imperial Guard in what is believed to be
desperate plot against the life of the Car.
A BAND of Yaqui Indians had an en-
counter recently with regiment of Mexican
cavalry at Guicherri, Sonora, and several
Indians were killed and wounded.
THOMAS WILLIAMS, bricklayer of Mon
treal, Canada, cut his wife's throat with n
razor. He then cut his own throat and died
instantly. His wife is also dead.
THERE has been skirmish between Turks
and Cretans in the island of Crete, i'll which
many were killed and wounded.
THE revolution in San Salvador has been
suppressed.
THE Erste Fabriken, in Pretoria, the
largest structure in the Transvaal Republic,
South Africa, has been destroyed by fire.
The loss is $500, 900.
The Australian Federation Conference will
open at Melbourne February 8. Delegates
will be present from all the Australian COL
onies, New Zealand and the FIJI Islands.
REPORTS were received in London that the
Portuguese had hauled down British flags on
steamers in Africa; fighting was believed to
be certain.
PROFESSOR WILHELM CONRAD Hermann
MUELLER, the German philologist, died at
Goettingen.
FLOODS are reported in the northwest por-
tion of Queensland Australia. A part of
the town of Normanton is submerged, the
water in many places being twenty feet
deep. The floods cover an area OF 300
miles.
The Car of Russia has called the atten-
ton of the Powers to the violation of the
Treaty of Berlin by the present Bulgarian
Government.
ADMIRAL WALKER. of the United States
squadron of evolution, upon his landing at
Gibraltar, was received by guard OF honor
and visited the Deputy Governor.
ANOTHER engagement has taken place be
tween the insurgent natives of Zanzibar and
the forces commanded by Major Wlssmann,
the German officer. After severe fighting
Major Wissmann succeeded in capturing the
enemy's fortified position near Saadani.
Many Of the natives were killed. Fifteen
Germans were wounded.
The Austrian ship Providenza, bound from
Constantinople to Marseilles, foundered at
sea in a heavy gale. All on board were lost.
IT has been learned that six Of the crew of
the English yacht Inva, which was wrecked
on the Aceiteras rocks Spain, were drowned.
A MAGNIFICENT public festival was given i'll
honor of Albert Victor, son of the Prince OF
Wales, upon his arrival at Calcutta, India.
The Dowager Empress Augusta. of Ger
many, died of influenza at Berlin, aged sew
enty-nine years
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-22
The Governors Joke.

General Gordon, the Governor OF
Georgia, wrote to W. J. Arkell, the pub
Usher of Judge and Frank Leslies, quite
recently, and told him that he was very
anxious to add some new features to his
stock farm, particularly in the depart
ment of mules, and said that if Arkell
would be so friendly and obliging as to
pick out half dozen of this kind of ami
NAL, of gentle disposition and of femi-
nine gender, that the Governor would feel
himself under the deepest obligation.
Gordon declared that he was ambitious
to have the finest and most numerous
family of mules in America. Arkell was
brought up on farm, but he did not per-
ceive the Gilbertiau humor concealed IN
the letter, and in all good faith Proceeded
to Bulls Head and opened negotiations
for the kind of mules that Governor Cor
don had described. His simple and
straightforward request called forth more
uproarious hilarity among the horsemen
than a circus and three good farce
comedies could have produced in month,
and Mr.. Arkell didn't quite sec where the
Joke came in until he was given to un-
derstand by horse dealer who had tenn
porarily got the better of his merriment
that if the mule population had to de-
pend on the system of breeding wickedly
suggested by Governor Gordon the popu-
lation would die cut with the present
generation. At the present time Mr.. Ar
kell is very busily cogitat:ng a scheme for
getting even with General Gordon
New York Mail and ErprtSs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-22
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
In the Senate.

18TH DAY.-The Senate reassembled after
the holiday recess, with the Vice President III
the chair, and with less than a quorum OF
Senators in the chamber Among the nu
merous petitions presented and referred were
two from Kansas and Texas, the former
urging the selection of Chicago and the lattel
Of ST. Louis as the place for the Worlds
Fair Of 1892. "A bill to increase the pay Of
Army chaplairs was reported back adversely
from the Committee on Military Affairs and
was indefinitely postponed. -. Mr.. Plumb in
troduced bill to withhold for time the
contract for the Seal Islands from the Alaska
Commercial Company. Mr.. Call introduced
a resolution relating to the interests Of this
country in Cuba.
18TH DAY-A number of bills were intro
duced among them one by Mr.. Beck to sus
pend the operations of the sinking fund; and
one by Mr.. Faulkner, providing that the
Worlds Fair shall be held in Washington
%. Mr.. Morgan, in two-hour speech, advo
Gated the emigration of the American colored
people to Africa. In executive session
number of minor nominations sent in by the
President were considered.
18th DAY--After long debate, Mr.. Ed
mundss substitute for Mr. Voorhees, reso
luton calling for information upon the W:
W. Dudley case was adopted. Several
Nominations were received from the Presi-
dent. 4. In executive session two nomina-
tions we're confirmed.