St. Paul daily globe., 1890-06-23
Hon. H. G. Stordoek Talks of
the Situation in the San
culinary Fifth.
The TillerS of the Soil Have
the Bit in Their Teeth
This Time.
They Propose to Have a
Merry Time With the Mer-
riams, Pere ct Fills.
Knute Nelson Seems Most
Likely to Be the Choice
of the Alliances.
Special to the Globe.

train to Fargo two days ago the GLORE
correspondent met III. G.. St0rdock, of
Rothsay, the late warden Of the state
prison. who resigned when the present
board of trustees was put in. Mr.. Stor-
conservative and thoughtful man, who
can see the drift of events as we'll as the
next. He was on his way to attend the
annual county meeting of the alliance at
Breckenridge, at which he expected
nominations for county officers would
be made. He was full of the
decision of the executive COM
mittee Of the alliance to call a
state convention. asked him if he was
personally in favor of such a measure.
Said he: "Some people accuse me OF
being sorehead, but there was never
a man more unbiased and free from po-
litical prejudice than l am at present.
With nice little business at R0thsay,
and determination not to re-enter poll
tics for love or money, l can afford to
be unprejudiced, and l tell you that the
action of the alliance executive COM
mittee means an awful lot of trouble to
the Republicans of tile state of Mime
sofa. am heartily with the alliance in
it's plans of redress, and If there Is
anything can do to help its plans along
/ shall do it. We have waited for re-
lief from the Republican party long
enough, and what is needed is thor
ough cleaning out of
The Political Stables.
eff the alliance does the right thing
this fall, the Merriams, father and son.
can't raise money enough to put the
Young man back into the governors
chair again. Now | do not want you to
run away with the idea that l am per-
sonally prejudiced against Gov. Mer-
riam, for am not. l consider that, on
the whole, he has given the state sat
isfactory administration. He has done
some things that the alliance does not
approve Of; but, on the other hand, his
been successful. But we want man
who is known to be. first of all, with
and for the farmers. If the state con-
vention is as careful and conservative
as I hope and believe it will be in its Sc
lection of candidates, we can
do what we will in the state
this fall, for the alliance people are not
the only ones who are dissatisfied with
the way things are run at present. 1t
would be good politics for the Demo-
Gratis to join us in making nominations,
or to indorse those that we make. For
governor there is one man that would
sweep the state like wildfire; and, II he
is nominated by the alliance. as hope
tocrats in the Republican party, for the
voters of Minnesota won't. Whois that
man? Knute Nelson, of Alexandria
the only man we ever had in congress
who had the courage of his convictions,
and the manlineSs to tell what he
wanted. He may not have got all the
little plums that he might have got by
staying behind his party walls, but his
constituents thought all the more of
him, and to-day he can get
Anything He Wants
from the people of Minnesota. And
that reminds me that our present con-
gressman, Comstock, cannot get every
thing he wants. In fact, think he is
going to have hard fight to get the QUE
people up here are terribly disgusted
with his course on the Mckinley bill,
and, although he is admitted to be per-
sonally an agreeable gentlemen, what
they want is not agreeable gentlemen,
but men-men who have the courage to
work and fight for what they know
their constituents want and ought to
have. / do not believe the people of
the state quite realize yet how terribly
in earnest the farmers of the Fifth
district are in regard to this matter.
They mean business this year, that is
certain" In regard to legislative mat
ters MIR. StOrdock expressed the Opin-
ion that Col. G. III. Brush, the repre-
sentative from the counties Of Clay,
Wilkin and Becker, the Forty-fourth
District, would find it very hard to carry
his district again, on the ground
that the farmers had found they had to
wait long time before they could get
audience with him while he was in st.
Panl, and that of all regulations for
politician the hardest to get out from
behind the shadow is a reputation for
''uppishness," or stiffness to ones con-
stituents. In regard to Senator Holmes,
of the same district, Mr.. Stordock
thought there was more hope though
he admitted that if the farmers called
an alliance convention to nominate,
even he would find his return would
not all be plain sailing. "The
fact is," concluded Mr.. Stordock, "the
farmers have taken the bit between
their teeth this year, and whether they
do ill or wisely my opinion is that for
once they propose to do at least some
thing, and that something what they