St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-20
The Movement of Immense
Proportions and Growing
in Strength Daily.
Several Seats in the Senate
Within the Grasp Of the
Changers.
Officers Of the Order Are All
Men Of Pronounced
Ability.

are not welded to the ancient princi-
pies of party politics and political econ
Omy, those who are moving on the same
lines as the social Democrats of Ger
many will be pretty we'll represented in
the next congress. OF course they are
not socialists, and would probably re-
sent being called socialists.
But the fact remains that nearly ev-
cry departure made by them from the
old theories of industrial economy finds
its counterpart in the platform of the
socialists of Germany, who at the gen.
eral elections of this year polled over
100000 votes, and elected thirty MEM
berS to the reichstag.
Headquarters of the New Power.
The National Farmers Alliance has
its headquarters here i'll a big, ruinOus
old building on North Capitol street.
and almost under the capitol dome.
Here is published the national organ of
the order. Each of the twenty-four
states in which there are state OrganiZa-
tionS has its organ of the state organiZa-
ton.
1t is only tour or five years since the
initial organization was formed, and
that was merely for the purpose of pre-
venting the thievilg cowboys of Texas
from rounding up and running Off the
stock of the farmers in the vicinity of
their ranges.
At first there was no attempt at Sc
crecy, but soon some of the farmers who
had been members of the Knights of
Labor established system of signals
and passwords similar to those of the
Knights of Labor, and since then there
bnc hoan juSf cuffiaiQ SncraaV In nrp-
vent the admission to the meetings of
those who were not members of the
order.
Since that time the career of the Aili-
ance reads like romance of history.
Within two years the Alliance has alb
Sorbed the Wheel" an organization of
farmers that three years ago came near
revolutiOniZing the politics of Arkan-
saS. has taken in the Mutual Benefit
association of several of the Western
states, has state organizations in
twenty-four states, has upward OF 3,000.-
600 members, has established friendly
relations with the Knights OF Labor aud
the trades unions, is proceeding
rapidly towards organization in the
remaining states, promises at its gen
eral assembly. which meets at Ocala,
Fla, on the I'd of December. to have
representatives from state organizations
in every state of the Union to make
formal alliance with the Knights of La
Dor and to play a mighty part in the
politics of the country from this time on
until radical changes are made i'll the
industrial economy of the country.
Possible Power in the Senate
In the recent elections the Alliance
Il ,1Ir io...fr nE I,n
lures of North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Florida. Georgia, Alabama, Kan
sas and South Dakota. In these states
United States senators are to be elected
to succeed Pugh in Alabama, Vance in
North Carolina, Hampton in South
Carolina. Call in Florida. ingalls, in
Kansas, Brown in Georgia and Moody
in South Dakota.
1t is not probable that Alliance
members, pure and simple, will be
chosen in place of all these well-known
and loEg-serving senators of the South
and West. While the members of the
Alliance are for the Alliance, the men,
cries of the war have not died out, and
even as to some of the senators who
have openly opposed the principles of
the Alliance, like Vance, of North Car
DINA, the reverence in which they are
held on account of the memories of the
war may be sufficient to keep them in
place. This will certainly be the fact
in the case of Hampton, who, however,
has been shrewd enough to express
fair share CT sympathy with the puT-
poses of the Alliance.
Very Little Show for Ingalls,.
ingalls, will be fought to the death,
and has little OF no chance of re-elec-
J., I.c To %l>oA
to man of his supreme abilities it will
be easy to overcome q small matter of
fifteen or sixteen opposing votes. The
leaders of the Alliance laugh at any
serious suggestion of his reelection.
Col. W. E. Hutchins, popular ALI
ance man of the southwestern part of
the state, has been announced as his
opponent, and if he be accepted by the
Alliance he will receive the votes of
the Democrats. If necessary, to &C
compliSh the defeat of ingalls,.
In Florida r. F. Rodgers president
of the State Alliance, will be candi-
date against the longwinded Wilkinson
Call, and the latter will certainly be de-
feated by Rodgers or by another. His
absence from the senate will be a sub
ject for congratulatiou among the SEN
atOrs and among the people of the
whole country, for speaking mildly, he
is the most inSufferable and continuous
bore that ever trod the floor OF the SEN
ate chamber.
Other Lively Southern Contests.
In Alabama r. f. Kolb, the present
the state, will dispute the return of
Brother Pugh, who can be almost as
well spared from the senate as Brother
all.
Far more important than these con-
tests. however, is the possibility that the
Alliance will be a vital factor in the
presidential campaign of 1892. There is
little doubt that the order will not have
even reached the zenith of its power at
that time, but will have added nightly
to its strength to a degree that will
enable it TO carry the electors of several
states in sufficient number to throw the
election into the house of representa-
lives. which would insure the election
of a Democratic president.
The question of going into the fight
for electoral votes, as well as many
other questions of interest not only to
the a lliance, but to the whole country,
will be considered at the coming gen
eral assembly.
a Very Important Meeting.
There is no doubt that this assembly
will result in further consolidation of
elements that have lost faith in the de-
sire or power of the old parties to bring
about reforms that are antagonistic to
the wishes of the putocracy class.
The order is differed as none of its
forerunners have been. Mr.. Polk, the
president. is able, interchangeable and
enthusiastic, and has a distinguished
lieutenant in j. H. Turner, the secre-
tary of the national organization. The
order is coming to be better understood
aud sympathized with every day by the
great laboring class of the country.
Who shall say that in 1892 the ALI
ance and all those who are sick of the
old parties, farmers, trades unions.
Knights of Labor, socialists, national
lists. single takers and chronic kickers
of both the old narties may nnt ,,e..I