St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-11
Donnelly Now an Active Cam
dldate for the Alliance
Nomination.
His Wires All Laid and War
Declared on Hall and
Lathrop.
The Sage's Idea Of a Ticket
for the Changers to
Name.
Many Men Suggested for Gov
ernor and Perhaps None
to Be Chosen.
"When the Devil was sick. the
Devil a saint would be;
When the Devil was well. the
Devil a saint WAS he.'


When the Devil was well. the
Devil q saint was he.
Shortly after the publication OF the
letter written by the Sage of Nininger
to President Hall of the Farmers ALI
ance, in which Mr.. DonnelIy casually
remarked that he twas an eminent man
before the alliance was born and would
be after it was dead" it will be remem-
bered that Mr.. Donnelly, with the most
abiect apologies, assured the officers OF
the alliance that he was sorry for his
many attempts to disrupt the alliance.
and further pledged that il he were
taken back into the fold he would never,
never write any more letters roast
ing the alliance or its officers,
and would not only ''pull straight in
the coming campaign. but would also
take the stump for any man nominated
by the convention. This pleased
Messrs. Hall and Lathrop. the latter In
particular, and shortly afterWard Mr..
Lathrop declared to a GLOBE man that
'sMr. DonneIIy was all right; that he
had given him Uathrop) his promise to
work faithfully for the cause. and he,
for one, felt sure that Mr.. Donnelly was
sincere in his promises"
But Mr.. DOnnelly was very sick when
he made these promises. He had
stopped over badly i'll his letter to Pres
ident Hall. and he knew that unless the
influence of that letter was cOunteracted
he was dead duck in the alliance, and
he eounteracted it. Full of humiliation
and with every evidence OF regret, he
appeared at the meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the state alliance. and
when the subject Of holding conven-
ton for the nomination of state ticket
was preached he interposed no Objec-
ton, and was, indeed, q strong advocate
OF 'sindepeHdent action" This was so
much different from what the members
of the committee had expected OF Mr..
Donnelly that he was at once taken
back into the fold with OPEN arms. his
letter writing forgiven him and treaty
of peace declared.
Mr.. Donneily has since recovered. and
now, like the proverbial bull in a china
shop, is not only creating a great row,
but is also smashing Up some crOckery
which had been nodded with exceeding
great care by President Hall and Secre-
! tary Lathrop. aided by Gen. Baker and
others.
The fact is Mr.. Donnelly wants the
farmers nomination for governor and
3he wants it very badly, too. In every
section of the state where his followers
are at all numerous delegates to next
weeks convention are being Instructed
for him. In other portions of the state
''dead' alliances are being s'reSusci-
tated," and every new breath
aof life breathed into such
organizations produces Donnelly
svote. "For once in his life," remarked
LA gentleman at the Merchants yeSter-
day. ''Mr. Donnelly and his friends APP
pear to have campaign fund to labor
switIi. Of course, this may give out i'll
the campaign for the nomination; and,
should the sage get this, [ would not be
at all surprised if. on account OF lack
of funds, he would pull out of the con-
test as he did two years ago after he
had accepted the labor nomination"
''But he was withdrawn by the state
committee of the labor party, was he
nOt?'' asked the GLOBE reporter.
''Of course he waS,s was the reply.
ssBut who appointed that committee
was it not MFR. Donnelly? In fact, Mr..
Donnelly was withdrawn by commit
tee named by himself. The same pro-
gramme is on foot just now with the
alliance, and before the end of the
campaign Mr.. Donnelly will be on the
stump for Gov. Merriam"
The nominee of the Farmers Alliance
this year will be IgnatiuS Donnelly Or
no one.
In case the friends of Nh. DonneIly,
Gov. Merriam and his supporters find
they have not votes enough to nominate
aud decide that there snail be no
independent ticket placed in the
field this year. Nominations can
be made only by a two-thlrds
vote, and it will require little
of the kind of hustling now being done
by the followers and workers OF the I'M
maculate Donnelly to secure minority
large enough to prevent the nomination
OF any one save Mr.. DonneIly himself.
The fact that Mr.. Donneliy is now a
candidate for the nomination at the
farmers convention is not the only evil
dence that he has repented OF his re-
pentance. By no means. At the time
Mr.. Donneily begged to be taken back
into the temple, DR.. Fish, of the Great
West, did the repentance act also, and
for one or two weeks the Great West
refrained from abusing the leaders of
the alliance. This was one OF the
terms insisted Oh by the powers that
ben before the pair were restored to all
their ancient rights and privileges. But
the Great West is at it again, and Its
last issue fairly bristles with hints and
vague rumors of what it will do if the
heads of the alliance dO certain things
which, by the way, are right in the line
of their duty. How much of this is
written by Mr.. Donnelly 10 one knows,
but that great deal is his work is
claimed by certain alliance men, who
have been "roasted to turn" by
this paper. 1t has become DoRnelly's
mouthpiece, and its detection is the
surest indication that Donneily's re-
nantanpn was very ShOrt-ilYod.
1--WE been thinking over this mat
ter,n remarked an alliance man yeSter-
day, s'and Ihaye fixed up the following
alliance ticket, which ought to be salts
! factory to MI. Donnelly and the Great
West:
Governor-Ignatius Donnelly. Nininger.
Lieutenant Goyernor-Dr. E.. W. Fish, st.
| Paul.
Secretary of state-Rev. John Allison, Most
| Anywhere.
State Treasurer-Thomas Fl. Toombs. Grant
| county.
| Auditor-Henry Plowman, Otter Tail
| Attorney General-Anybody, except
wicked lawyer.
Clerk of the Supreme Court-seth Bottom
| ley. Faribault.
| Platform-Down with the supreme court
| and passes like Tom Toombs for everybody.
The politicians who are presuming
| that slate will be presented to the al
lance convention by its officers next
week are destined to be disappointed.
| There will not only be more than one,
Iobut there will be many candidates, or
Iarather well-known men, trotted out for
the chief place on the ticket. Gen. L.