St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-19
So Soon After the Battle Don
nelly Shows the Cloven
HOof.
His Hand Is Exposed and the
Alliance Need Not Fear
Him.
Merriam Must Try His Cam
paign in the Triangular
Fight.
Kittel Halvorsen Accepts the
Nomination for the Fifth
District.

"Regardless of what may be said, I
shall not support the Alliance ticket"
said Ignatius Donnelly with great en-
phasis to young friend OF his Yester-
day afternoon.
AS was predicted by the GLOBE some
time since, Mr.. Donnelly has bolted the
ticket he and his friends helped to NOM
mate, and to which they pledged their
support in the convention hall Thurs
day last. In that convention, as the
GLOBE prophesied from the beginning
of this contest, Mr.. Donnelly and doc"
Fish were merely agents for another
man. who, as all now know, is none other
than the present governor of Minnesota.
They were pledged to carry the con-
ventiOn for him, and to further that
purpose, they travelled from one end of
this state to the other, under the guise
of alliance lecturers. Everywhere the
burden of their songs was abuse OF
every honest man iu the alliance, from
President Hall and Secretary Lathrop
down to Senator HiXon, F. G. Hodgson,
Hon. Charles Canning, eX-PreSldent
Atwood, and Hon. j. j. Furlong. SO
outrageous were their misrepreSenta-
tions that many subordinate alliances
thought of passing resolutions condemn
ing the course of these veteran alliance
leaders. The agitation and work of these
men accounts for the large support MI.
Donnelly received in the convention.
But the delegates were Alliance men
first of all, and when they understood
that nothing except the nomination OF
the sage would be satisfactory to Fish
and his claqueurs, they at once deserted
him and went over in body to 5. M.
Owen. The latter had been identified
with neither faction, and, as a delegate
remarked yesterday, mo honest Alliance
man could see any reason why Mr.
Owen should not receive the support OF
Mr.. Donnelly, as we'll as that OF MI.
Hail."
The real reason for Mr.. D0nnelly's
bolt is because his employer, the gov
ernor, demands it, and his wounded
vanity helps him to make the break.
The scheme of Mr.. Donnelly was out
lined in the GLOBE several weeks ago,
when it was stated that MIR. Donnelly
was irving to work the same deal on the
farmers that he did on the labor party
two years ago. Had he been given the
nomination, he would have formed
convenient excuse six weeks
or so later for pulling out
and taking the stump for Governor
Merriam. He would probably have
made another astonishing discovery
that he would have to choose between
that faithful representative of the peo-
ple. w. r. Merriam" and the repre-
sentative of some mythical corporation,
and he would have gone the same path
over which he travelled two short years
ago. Independent action he was
against until he found that 1t could not
be resisted. He then became an en-
thusiastic advocate of it with the
intention of securing the nomination
for himself and-Gov. Merriam. He
failed, and, Notwithstanding his prom
ise to stand by the ticket, he has
kicked out of the traces i'll less than
twenty-four hours. So soon has he
given UP his fight for the "dear people"
and against the corporations that one
can hardly believe that he was ever en-
gaged in such contest.
How many Alliance men can he carry
with him in his 'bolt' is an interesting
question, and one that needs little argu-
ment to demonstrate that it will be an
exceedingly small number, and these
only the men who would have support
ed Gov. Merriam for financial or other
reasons. On the last ballot, when Mr.,
friends had deserted the latter en- masse
and not dozen had even cast COM
plimentary votes for the sage; and said
one of the leading Alliance leaders yes
terday: "Even these will refuse to fol-
low Mr.. Donnelly in his revolt. Some
people," continued this gentleman,
g may think that Mr.. Donnelly is play
ing the baby act,' but this is not the
case. He is playing what would call
the financial act.' If he and his friends
could have accomplished their little
scheme all would have been lovely.
They wanted no SQUIRE Alliance fight
this year. They know MIR. Owen will
make that kind of contest, and so they
are against him."
The executive committee Of the AL
lance held a meeting in Room 10 at the
Clarendon yesterday at which all the
members save Hon. John B. Hompe, of
Otter Tail county, were present. The
general outlook was discussed and a
few accounts audited. The meeting
lasted but a short time, owing to the
peculiar frame of mind in which the
Sage of Nininger found himself. He
imagined that all the members of
the committee had dared to vote
against him, and he was mad and
sore clear through and through.
Whether his failure to create rumpus
at this meeting or his conference with
fol III
to declare that he would bolt before the
known, but it certainly can be attrib-
uted to one or the other of these two
causes.
A prominent citizen of Hutchinson
has the following to say concerning
Judge D. A. Adams, heretofore prom
inent Republican of that place, who
wrote letter denouncing Congressman
"Dar' S. Halls course on the Mckinley
tariff bill:
In your issue of July 13 inst, in an article
headed "Mr. Hall Repudiated,' occurs one
error that should be corrected; You say
''Mr. Adams is not a farmer. by the way but
q real estate man and conveyancer,'' etc.
Now while this is partly true. it is not the
whole truth. Mr.. Adams owns between SOC
and 600 acres of farming lands near Hutch
inson that he is farming, and it was as 8
farmer that he wrote on the tariff question.
The following correspondence was
yesterday made public by the Alliance
congressional committee of the Fifth
district:
To Hon. Kittell Halvorsen, Belgrade, MINI
Dear Sir: The undersigned committee
| charged with the management of the Far
mers' Alliance and Labor Unions campaign
| in the Fifth congressional district OF Mime
ahx-r. ffr11Iu 11rOa unl ciupifx
| your acceptance Of your nomination as
| the Alliance and Labor Unions candidate
| for member of congress from said district t
| be voted for at the coming election. We cal
! your attention to the fact that, al