St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-11
the SAGE'S ALLIES.
Thew Are None Other Than
the Republican Leaders
of the State.
He Will Be Useful to Them in
the Presidential Fight
in '92.
Republicans Pleading for a
business Organization"
of the House,
And Frank Searle's Scheme
for Capturing the Speak
ership.

"Why is 1t that nearly all the Repub-
lean papers and quite as large pro-
portion of the leading politicians of
that party are working for the election
of Ignatius D0nnelly to the presidency
of the Farmers Alliance!' was a ques
ton asked by an Alliance-Democratic
member-elect of the legislature of
well-known Third district Republican
yesterday.
Simply because the Republicans are
preparing for the next campaign" was
the very frank answer returned to this
question. "lf MIR. Donnelly gains con-
troll of the Farmers Alliance, the Re
publicans will fix him just as they did
In 1888. They will de ude him with the
Idea that i he holds lie farmers to the
support OF the Republican party in the
state, na lonlI and cOngrt SSiOnal fights.
aid looks out for the election of some
Alliance men TO the legislature, the Re
publicans will turn in aid eject him
United States senator. OF course they
would never do any such thing. But,
you see. if Donnelly can break up the
farmers movement in the state the Re-
publicans will prot ably be able to carry
as they did in 1888 in which event the
sage, of coul ST.. would be thrown over
eX"rtlv as ht was two years ago"
There is little doubt that Mr.. DON
nelly is again thoroughly infatuated
with the idea that he can be elected to
the United States senate, and that this
result can only be attained through a
coalition of his friends with the Rrpub-
lican party. 1 he publication of his ex
traOrdinary letter. asking for the presi-
dency of the Alliance, for time irri-
tOted the sage greatly. He was careful
in sending it out not to send it to any of
the men who have been opposed to him.
In spite of his watchfulness, however. a
copy of this letter was obtained by the
GLOBE, and lis publication has caused
the Sage of Nininger no end of worry.
He has now started out TO make as Wig
OrOuS campaign as he would make if
he were running for far more reSpon-
sible position. Tomorrow he will beard
the lion of the opposition in his den
and attend the meeting of the Fifth
district Alliance in Fergus Falls.
Ever since the newspaper organ con-
tIolled by Mr.. Donnelly began to wage
war on all of the prominent Alliance
been very bitter feeling against Mir.
DoDnelly throughout the northern part
OF the state. He is blamed with at
tempting to retard the Alliance move
ment in the interests of Gov. Merriam,
and he realizes that unless he can coun-
teract this feeling he has no possible
show whatever OF securing the office he
seeks. But audacity is one of Mr..
Donneliy'S strong points, and after all
the abuse he has poured out upon PROM
1Dent Fifth district men, he will boldly
enter their midst and seek by his tricks
of OratOry to carry the rank and file of
the convention with him.
But this may prove to be an exceed
1ngly disastrous line of policy for the
Dakota county statesman. When he
gets up to address the Fifth district AL
lance convention this year he will find
himself before body composed of the
bardeSt-headed and most Intelligent
farmers in the state. Ii will be a diff
ferent kind of a body than those Mr..
DOnnelly has been accustomed to ad-
dress III times past. The cranks, or
men with one idea, have to large eX-
tent disappeared, and their places are
DOW filled by men who have i'm times
past taken part i'll running the machin-
cry of both the old parties.
1t is not unlikely that Mr.. Donnelly
- will be asked number of very plain
questions if he comes within range of
such men as Register of Deeds Halvor
+. BOen, SenatOr-eiect John B. HOmpe
and Hon III. p. Bjorge,of Otter Tail; w.
+. KelsO, of Kittson county; Charles
Canning and B. NJ. Chesley, of Norman:
Gen. T. II. Barrett. r. j. Hall and Car
Tington Phelps, of Stevens; X. M.
PrObstfield and w. j. BOdkin, of Clay,
and host of other leading farmers of
the "blOOdy Fifth" who might be
named. These men are able TO meet
Mir. DOnnelly on his own ground. They
are posted on his connection with the
Great West, and the schemes he is in
cubating for the future.
The sage'S visit to Fergus Falls is
very likely to be attended with trouble
and disaster, as far as his chances for
the presidency of the state Alliance are
concerned.
The Republican politicians, with only
40 votes in the next house out of ia, are
loudly advocating the "husineSs organi-
zatiOn," whatever that may mean. 1t
has always been taken for granted bv
the Republicans in Minnesota that a
"buslness organization" of the house of
representatives could only be effect
ed by the election of dyed-in-the- wool
Republican as speaker and the par
ceiling out of all the clerkShipS to other
dered.
In all the thirty years that the Re
publicans have controlled the legisla-
ture OF Minnesota they never before
craved a "business or nOn-partisan
organization" Why do they advocate
it SO ardently now?
Is it simply because they have lost
control of the lower branch of the state
legislature?
1t certainly looks that way, and the
fact that this scheme was sprung by one
OF the most intOlerant Republicans in
the state and advocated by the Pioneer
Press, shows that the corporations are
working with the Republicans to cap-
ture the organization of the next house.
No one ever heard of Hon. w. f. Cross.
the originator of this remarkable
scheme, voting for Democrat or saw
Ing good word for one, and it is safe
TO say that he would vote for Demo-
crat for speaker under 10 circum-
slances. His idea, like that of the
Pioneer Press, is that "business or
ganiZatiOn" can only be effected by the
election of a Republican as speaker.
What spectacle is presented by the
poor old Republican party of Minnesota
AT present, pleading for mercy from its
opponents, asking for the speakership
OF a body carried by its adversaries, in
order that it may serve its corporation
masters yet awhile longer. As Il partv
II never gave the weak chance in the
snays wiieh II ..aS Strong by reason of
It's 2IIVoGacy of some great Question. and
VIII be given short shrift by the low
tariff men at the organization of the