Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-12
A NEW POWER IN POLITICS.
Harrison, Blaine and others Hasten
ing to Help Mckinley.
DEMOCRATIC SPEAKERS SCARCE.
Proofs Of Corruption Governor Campbell
has Gathered Up
TO PRESENT TO TIE OHIO LEGISLATURES
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO rHE DISPATCH. 1


ST. PAUL. October 1.-THE Guberna-
torial candidate who receives 1O0,0 votes
in the Minnesota election, little more than
three weeks hence, will sit in the Govern
or's chair from the first Tuesday in January
next The contest is a three-cornered one,
which grows more complicated and doubt
ful every day.
When the Farmers Alliance placed a
full State ticket in the field on q low tariff
platform in July, the movement was recog-
nized as that of an earnest, determined body
of citizens, and members of the old parties
were disposed to credit it with from 20, 900
to 25 900 votes. More than 1000 alliances
had been formed and organized, and the
total membership of the State was footed at
a., 600: but the impression was general that
but little more than half of these would
cast their ballots for S. NJ. Owen, the Alli-
ance candidate for Governor. That even
the shrewdest calculators were in error has
already been amply proven. The Alliance
vote will not stop at %, 600, or 80, 600, or
sc, 900, or 60 600. The new party is gather
ing strength from the most unexpected
quarters.
MECHANICS, MILLMEN AND MINERS.
1t will get not only the bulk of the vote in
the great farming communities of Polk,
hIttsOn, Clay, Otter Tail and Norman coun-
ties, but will poll hundreds of votes in the
railway shops at Brainerd, in the iron mines
on the Nermillion range and in the mills of
Minneapolis. In a word, the number of
Alliance men does not begin to measure the
Alliance vote. The County Alliance has
simply proved a nucleus about which the
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County Alliance is but the SNOWFALL rolling
through and gathering strength as it pro-
ceeds
An Alliance organization has furnished
the machinery, but the power is that great
feeling OF unrest and dissatisfaction under
which the farmer of Minnesota has chafed for
years, and which, though finding frequent
expressions in a small way, has at length
burst all bounds. Will this new movement
overwhelm the old parties at the first at
tempt? Many of the Alliance leaders saw il
Will W. w. Erwin, the leading criminal
lawyer of Minnesota, who deserted
the Republican party to join the
Alliance ranks, has lust returned
from Southern Minnesota, where he has
made a two weeks stumping tour. He saws
the Alliance is as sure to win the fight as
the sun is to rise on election morning. 1t is,
be insists,
only A QUESTION OF MAJORITY"
and predicts that Owen will lead both Mer
riam and Wilson and be elected by from
from 10000 to $4,000 plurality. General
ames Baker, Alliance candidate for Con-
gress in the Second district, makes an equal
ly sanCuine report, ana MIR. Owen said in
an interview this week tnat he was copuem-
plating the probability of his election with
a great deal OF trepidation, as the farmers
expected many reforms that an attempt
to please them all would prove a burden of
large proportions,
The chances. however, are still rather in
favor Of one Of the old parties. Democratic
and Republiea, speakers are flooding the
State in every direction, and the tide which
has set so strongly in favor of the Alliance
is likely TO ebb to some extent. The vote
OF the State in 1888 WAS 262 000 In the
GUberuatorial contest it stood Republican
134, 600; Democratic, 10000; Prohibition,
1S, 600. This wear the vote is expected 10
run about 255, 900. OF this not more than
5000 will be Tor J. P. Pinkham, The Prohi-
bition candidate.
FROM THE OLD PARTIES.
The Alliance vote is now expected to run
about 40, 600, leaving so, 600 for the old par
ties. Which will get the major part of
this is question which only the casting of
the ballots can decide. 1t is conceded that
30 per cent OF the Alliance men were for
mer Republicans, but of the Industrial
Union vote, which has deserted to the Alli- |
ance. nearly so per centwas formerly Demo- |
cratic
Local questions are also having a great |
weight. Several of the acts Of Governor |
Merriam, during his first term. have proven |
distastelul 70 Duluth, and the result is that |
only one of the five daily papers there, al /
though all are Republican, supports the |
Governor for reelection. In Minneapolis /
the census quarrel is still ranking. and |
Governor Merriam will lose heavily on the I
simple ground that he is st. Paul man.
Two OF the Flour CITY dailies support o ven.
ana the Tribune alone gives Merriam a
lukewarm support. The prediction is free
ly made that Merriam will receive not more
than 1000 or 5000 of the 81, 600 votes of the
city and county, and that Owen will have a
larger following than Wilson, the Demo-
crat
THE TWO RIVAL CITIES
In st. Paul, on the other hand. there Is a
general disposition 10 stand by Merriam on
the strange and amusing ground that if
Minneapolis should, during this winters
legislative session, engineer a combination
and pass measure or the removal of the
CdplldI, NoNeThOr merriam, as st. Paul |
man, would stop the high-handed proceed
ing with Il handy veto. The opposition to
Governor Merriam because of alleged use
Of doodle" against McGill in securing his
in 1888, and that to Judge Will
son because he mas been for many years a
railroad attorney, is having but slight effect
upon the campaign, and it is not unlikely
that some one OF the petty local quarrels NAV
throw votes enough to decide the contest
The struggle for control OF the Legislature
is being watched with great interest The
present outlook is that the Alliance and
Democrats will control the State Senate and
mat the Republicans will have small ma
iorltY IN the House The Senators bolG
their office tour years and will have a voice
in the selection of a successor to United
States Senator c. <. Davis.