St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-05

that there was possibility of bad.
bad Democrat breaking into the state
house. Here is what he said concern
ing Minnesota politics few days ago:
Minnesota politics is pretty well mixed.
The Farmers Alliance nomination mas com
plicated matters, and l think the OLD parties
Will run neck and neck race. MY peileI IL
that the farmers are being plundered on
every hand. The need of relief brought the
Alliance into existence. 1t has already done
much. and can do more. 1t has reduced the
price of binding twine so per cent. II has
reduced interest on mortgages from 10 per
English syndicate which would furnish
money at the latter rate. 1t has brought the
price of farm machinery down to reason
able figure. 1t has already saved the Amer.
can farmer millions of dollars, and IL VIII
save him yet more. He has been gnlled and
robbed and plundered by swindlers away
from home. as well as those who poster his
lie at the farm. The Alliance was neees-
sary, and has proved itself of inestimable
value. Its primary idea is the betterment oil
the condition of the agriculturist and the
protection of his interests against fraud
Query: How long will Mr.. Donnelly
allow his friend. Gov. Merriam, to run
neck and neck" with the Democratic
candidate before he comes to his relief?
Inc democratic state committee, which
has been called to meet at the West hO-
tel, in Minneapolis, tomorrow, will be
banqueted by the Jefferson Democratic
club of that city this evening. Many
of the most distinguished leaders of the
party have been invited to attend,
among them being Hon. Daniel Buck.
of Mankato; Judge Thomas Wilson, of
Winona; Hon. E. w. Durant, of Still
water; Hon. Dan w. Lawler, Hon. g.
ID. O'Brien, Mayor r. A. Smith and
many others of st. Paul; Hon. L. +.
Bowen, of Duluth, and numerous 9TH
ers. There will be number of rafting
Democratic speeches.
In its mad efforts to discredit all
Alliance men who declined to be either
bought or bulldozed into voting for Ig.
natiuS Donnelly i'm the Farmers Al
lance convention the Great West seems
to be able to find nothing too false OF
malicious to print about them. In its
last issue this paper contained the fol-
lowing screed, intended to injure Hon.
John B. Hompe in his canvass for the
state senate in Otter Tail county:
A letter on our table states that Mr. Hompe,
of Otter Tail, candidate for state senator,
was author of the shameful assault on Henry
Plowman in the DAILY GLOBE, morning OF
the 18th. 1t would not be fair for this paper
to advise the Alliance people of Otter Tail
county TO make a political corpse OF any
wretched traitor who would so abuse an able
Alliance man-without more information.
We doubt the statement because we can't
believe Mr.. Hompe would be such fool.
Our columns are open to Mr.. Fl. TO defend HIM
self from this charge-it comes from an
attache of the Globe. If Mr.. Hompe declines
to clear himself-which we cannot believe
there is but one course to pursue-that is, re-
tire Mr.. HOmpe to the shades where such
knavery and folly may breed unseen. Mr..
| Plowman is an honored and intelligent gen
teman, whose labor in this field oyerlooks
Mr.. Hompe mountain high.
The above article is both false and
malicious. doc" Fish may have re-
| ceived the letter he mentions, but if he
| did the writer of the letter told him
| cool and deliberate falsehood. The
| writer of this article was the author Of
what he terms 1.-THE shameful assault0n
Henry Plowman, published in the
DAILY GLOBE of the 17th," and Mr..
| HOmpe was not the source of the in
formation contained in that article.
When DR.. Fish says that he has any in
formation of this nature coming from
ian attache of the GLOBE" he is simply
uttering falsehOod, and in this case
striving to damage man in his own
| political party by so doing. The Fergus
| Falls Journal published the above clip
| ping; it ought to publish this denial.
The Howard Lake Herald, heretofore
| Staunch Republican paper, has bolted
| Gov. Merriam's nomination. 1t is edited
and published by Frank N. Stacy,
| graduate of the state university and one
of the brightest young newspaper men
| in the state. His family has been
prominent in the Republican party OF
| Wright county for many yearS-indeed.
his father was the Washburn candidate
| for United States marshal year ago.
Here is the emphatic language used by
| Editor Stacy in defining his position
during the present campaign:
| The Herald has been asked if as Republi-
| can it can support Merriam for governor. To
| which we frankly answer-"As a Republican,
! never" If it was our desire, on the other
hand, to deal the Republican party the most
| deadly blow in our power, we should unhes-
| itatingly advise Republican voters to elect
] Merriam to a second term as Republican
| governor and standard bearer of the Repub-
| lican party. When milionaires scheme and
| buy their way to Republican nomination,
| and Republican voters indorse them for it,
| what better can an enemy ask? To give the
| governors chair to such candidate is to
| give as premium on corruption the highest
| gift of the people of the state. To rally
| join hands with the most dangerous element
| in politics. What our alternative may be
| there is time enough to determine. This
| much we know now-that these columns
shall not subserve to Millionaire Merriam's
| interests, to the danger of the party and the
| people.
1t is safe to say that his position will
be Endorsed by majority of the voters
| of Wright county on election day.
| The Sibley County Independent sizes
| up the Republican platform after the
| following manner:
| A good many Republicans are dissatisfied
| with the platform adopted at the state con-
yention on account of the tariff plank, as
| they have reasons to be. 1t was not what
| was expected and comes far from being what
| is needed in an off year. No one eau tell
| Just what it means, whether free trade tariff
reform or protection. Compared with that
| flimsy affair and will not tend to strengthen
| the party. The Independent doesn't go
much on party platforms, any way, as very
| few Of them are ever lived up to- but we
would much rather have seen one upon
which every Republican could stand without
| being ashamed of its significance.
Saturdays Mankato Free Press en-
| contained an interview with Hon. DAN
| iel Buck, in which he repudiated the
| interview published in the Pioneer
| Press of few days previous. In which
he was set down as saying that he
would decline to accept the Democratic
nomination for governor, if offered to
| him. TO a reporter of the Free Press
MIR. Buck intimated that he might have
| something to say on the subject later.
Gov. Gordon and the Atlanta Consti-
tuition seem to have abandoned their
Northern boycott as bad job. They
never should have begun for the same
reason.
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