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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
THE WEEK IN OIL.
ALocal Trader Breaks the Marker-Fluctu.
ations and Daily Clearances

There was very little in oil yesterday worthy
Of noting. N. w. Stevenson sold 5000 or 20
600 barrels, which depressed the market to the
lowest point 1t rallied ON New York and Oil
City buying. and closed ss higher than the
opening. The gain for the week was cents
Fluctuations for each Of the six davs we're.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
Boston Stocks.
PHILADELPHIA Stocks.

Closing quotations Of Philadelphia stocks fur
nlshed bv Whitney Stephenson, brokers, No 81
Fourth avenue. Members New YORK Stock Ex-
change;
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15

SICK HkADAcHk-car.er,s li,u. Ly,.r PHI,
SICK HEADACHE ,,
slOA ACKNOWLEDGMENT Little Liver Pflls
SICK HEADACHE Little Liver p,us
,sas-1-rrsss
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15

When baby was sick. we gave her Castoria
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria
When she had Children-s she gave them Castoria
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
Feature. Of the OIL Market.

Rehned, New YORK. Too.
Refined, London, sad.
Refined, Antwerp, HAE
Refined, Liverpool, u-16d.
Refined. Bremen, 6e0m.
A. B. McGrew quotes; Puts, Ss<; calls,
s2xQ92N.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15

Clearances for the day and week are shown
in the following table:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15

The total sales of stocks at New York yester-
day were 81, 1852 shares, including: Atchson,
1900; Erie. 1000; Missouri Pacific, $500; Read
ing. z, 4l0: Richmond and West Point, 394O;
st. Paul, $780,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15

MOnty Oh CaII at NeW 1OfK yeSterday was
easy, with no loans, closed offered at 8 Prime
mercantile paper easy at 454G815. Sterling ex-
change quiet but steady at "a 8516 for 60-day
bills and 81 IS for demand
The weekly statement of the New York
banks, issued yesterday, shows the following
changes: Reserve, increase, 81 or 525; loans de-
crease, sl,S7O.lOO; specie, increase. ST2 800;
crease, Sl,2l77OO; circulation, increase. s200OO
The amount OF reserve held by the banks above
the legal requirement of 25 per cent is $685.
So
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15

The Birmingham Land Improvement Com
pany, of the Southside. composed of number
of leading business and professional gentle
men, with a capital of SlOO, 900. whose organiza-
tion was referred to in THE DISPATCH a short
time ago, has purchased a tract of so acres.
conveniently situated, which it will cut up into
lots and put on the market Surveyors are at
work plotting the tract, and will finish the
work in about two weeks.
A committee of the company recently visited
Pullman and other model towns in the West
and will utilize some of the ideas thus acquired
and which are new to this part of the country.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
Hue Earth County selid. .

The Blue Earth County Alliance
held q meeting December 10th, and
by an almost unanimous vote re-
solved in favor of Hon. Ignatius
Donnelly for president of the Alli-
anoe; and thatsplendid and able gen.
tleman, Lysander Cook, was elected
as the delegate to the annual meet
ing. Mr.. Cooke is q warm, outspoken
friend of Mr.. Donnelly..
This practically ends the contest.
Blue Earth County did not sustain
Mr.. Donnelly in the last two state
conventions Of the Alliance; and the
ex-Secretary, Mr.. Haigh, who is one
of the officers of the Heckla Insur-
ance Company, lives in that county;
and it was understood that he was
going to carry the county for Hall or
Sprague. All the subordinate alli-
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
More Delegations for Donnelly.

More Delegations for Doanelly.
1t is laundering all around thesky.
The farmers are coming up in squads,
platoons and regiments. They pro-
pose to have harmony by burying
the men who have made all the trou-
BILE, and brought the Alliance to the
verge OF ruin.
Alliance No. SAT, Maxwell, Lac qui
Parle county, sends Josiah Darling,
instructed for Mr.. Donnelly.
The Elmo Farmers Alliance, Otter
Tail county, elects James Murray,
delegate and instructed him to vote
for Mr.. Donnelly.
The Hastings Allianceelected Har-
vey Gillitt delegate and L. n. Wilcox
alternate; instructed to vote for MIR.
Donnelly for president.
Thomas ]. Meighen of Forestville,
Fillmore Co., has just organized three
new alliances in that county; and all
three of them will send delegates IA
vorable to Mr.. Donnelly. Mr.. Mel
CHEN is one OF the ablest and most
prominent farmers in Fillmore coun-
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
Tho Bloody Fifth"

It has been given out, for months
past, that the 5th Congressional Dis
trict was solidly hostile to Hon. Ig-
natius Donnelly for the presidency of
the Alliance. On the 18th inst. a
meeting of the County Alliance Of
Otter Tail county was held at Fer
gus Falls; although this county is
the very hot bed of the opposition
to Mr.. Donnelly and is the home of
Hompe, Boen, etc., yet his enemies
could not get votes enough in the
convention to instruct the delegate
from the county alliance to vote
against him. The next day in the
congressional district alliance, a res
olution instructing the delegate to
vote for Mr.. Donnelly for president
was lost by only one vote. If there
had been a full attendance from the
nine counties in the district, the res
olution would undoubtedly have
passed. There were but four coun-
ties outside of Otter Tail represented,
by one vote each, viz: Grant, Wade
ma, Wilkin and Clay; and each one of
the delegates from these counties
voted in favor of Mr.. Donnelly. Out
of 20 votes in the convention Is were
from Otter Tail; and yet resolution
of instruction to vote for Mr.. DON
ly had 9 votes against 10; although
Hompe abused Mr.. Donnelly in a
filthy manner, in language fit only
for the rum shop or the street brawl.
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ernor, to whom he paid a high trib-
ute as a man and a fit leader. = :
Throughout his whole speech there
was not a single discordant note, it
was all alliance and alliance candi-
dates, and it had good effect. :
The result is the alliance fires are
burning brightly and Blue Earth
county will elect the Alliance ticket. !"
And the result was a splendid vote
for Owen and the election of all three
of the Alliance candidates for the
House. And now Mr.. Owen is in
favor of slaughtering Donnelly, lest
Albert Scheffer and Jim Hill and
Sprague and R. j. Hall and John
Lathrop might not be 'harmonized. :"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
Correspondence and Rel

A Tremendous Undercurrent.
Immediately on our return from
Florida, before getting street car
for our residence, q well-known re-
publican politician accosted US. In a
moments conversation, he said:
"Donnelly is being showed in with
hell fire from all Sides"
"Who is doing it?" we asked.
every railroad agent, official, and
attorney, is in the field working
against him with an energy never
known before in the state" "etc.
This statement is true. 1t was
made by an ex-state official-a man
of age and great respectability. If
Mr.. Donnelly is defeated it will be by
these piratical agencies. The men
who have developed this insane and
outrageous crusade against Mr.. Don
nelly are the paid tools of the corpor-
ations. We have no hesitation in
saying that the foremost men in the
alliance-some who helped manage
the late campaign-are the paid hire
lings of Minnesota bankers, or rail-
roads, or old party politicians. They
are rotten
Mr.. Griggsby has moved down to
st. Paul to be their mouthpiece.
Good man for the place. His history
will bear him up in the work.
These men are notable in every
thing except honest effort to advance
alliance legislation. They are cum
ming politicians, like Hompe, bragg
ing on the sly over their control of
counties and school districts Il but as
heartless as a thistle-pod when the
great wrongs of humanity come up
for adjustment.
Mr.. Donnelly represents a princi-
pie: That is, shall the real, active,
trenchant, radical, go-ahead, do
something, militant alliance men con-
troll the alliance or shall it be the
catch-fea OF every political big purse
who feels an insect pulling at the
strings?
A tremendous issue is this candi-
dacy OF Mr.. Donnelly. Years of his
tory wait upon it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
Aaaan1as Come Again.

Tom Hodgson says, in one of the
daily papers, that when Mr.. Donnelly
made speeches this fall, in favor OF
the Alliance he did not say one word
in favor OF Owen. Thomas is night
blooming cereus of truth and veraci-
ty. He knows very we'll that his own
paper, the Daily News of St. Paul, in
it's issue of September 24th, pub
lished an interview with Gen. James
II. Baker, candidate for Congress in
the Second district, in which, speak
ing OF Mr.. Donnelly's speeches in Blue
Earth county, General Baker said:
"In this connection he, (Mr. DON
nelly), urged support of the Alliance
state ticket, particularly mentioning
Hon. s. N. Owen, candidate for gov
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
Frank Mead on tho Presidency o.
the Alliance.

Frank Mead, now of Minneapolis,
is one of the best known writer's among
the public men of the state. He is a
man of ability and thinks for himself.
He has lately written letter to the
Princeton Union, about the pending
contest for the presidency of the Ali
ance, which will be interesting even
to those who do not agree with him.
We make few extracts:
"Mr. Donnelly wants to be presi-
dent of the Alliance; why should he
not ask for what he wants? He has
earned by hard work, everything
that the politico-industrial class can
give him; why should he not call to
the attention of the new industrial
party the facts of his long and poor
ly recompensed services in the inter-
est of the farmer and the working
man? Mr.. Donnelly has peculiar
claims upon the Alliance outfit. He
is one of the most brilliant men in
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
Happy New Year.


Yes. we hope it will be a Happy
New Year to all-and certainly there
can be only good in good wishes.
The Year of Grace, 1890, is almost
gone. Like all else in human life, it
has been rather "mixed." Some
times we "caught on" and every
thing "came our way" On other oc-
casions we bet our money on the
wrong horse and were sadly left.
Sometimes we have had lots of fun
and at other times we have found
this to be a ''hard, cruel world"
We have made some new friends and
lost some old ones. We made lots of
hay, but our potatoes were few in a
hill, and small at that. If we should
strike a balance, we should find that
on the whole we are considerably
ahead-more sweet than bitter.
For itself, "The Burlington" has
done pretty well this year, thank
you, and rejoices in the acquaint-
ance of many new patrons, while the
old ones are still with us. Thankful
for the past. we are yet more hopeful
for the future-and in the future,
when travelling by rail, take "The
Only" For rates, tickets, time
tables, etc., call on your local ticket
agent, or write to w. j. C. Kenyon,
Gen. Pass. Agent, C. B. & N. r. R.,
st. Paul, Mimi.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
Alliance News and Gossip.

Pennington Alliance, No. 65, un-
animously endorsed Hon. Ignatlus
Donnelly, Dec. 9Th, for president of
the State Alliance, and appointed
Hon. A. A. Osborn delegate and Hon.
D. F. Akin as alternate.
Subordinate Alliance No. 253 held
q meeting in Verril's School house
and elected Michael Johnston as dele
gate and James Kahn and Thomas
Fitzgerald as alternates. All in favor
OF Mr.. Donnelly for president. James
Peters, Barney O'Hara, and William
Ryan were elected delegates to the
county alliance meeting, and Alex.
Kain, James Fitzgerald and John
Gibbons alternates.
The Union Alliance, No. 969,
Hokah, Houston Co. held meeting
December 9Th, and agreed to send a
delegate to the State Convention ia
vorable to Mr.. Donnelly for president
of the State Alliance.
Subordinate Alliance No. 1926 held
it's first meeting Dec. 9Th, 1890. at
Smiths Mill. Blue Earth County
Lewis Silkey was elected delegate and
instructed to vote for Hon. l. Don
nelly for president. Charles Cum
mings was elected alternate. Hon.
John Diamond was present and
made strong speech in favor Of Mr..
Donnelly for president. This alliance
is called "The Mckinley bill Killers
Alliance"
N: NcColley of Winnebago city has
just organized three new alliances in
Faribault county. He expects to be
at the December meeting. He is a
strong supporter of Mr.. Donnelly, for
president of the Alliance.
The Green Valley, Lyon County AL
lance held a meeting Dec. 9Th, and
unanimously resolved in favor OF
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19

the state, and will be about the only
man of his generation in Minnesota
whose name will be known to future
generations. Possessed OF great tai
ents, he has cheerfully given his time,
his strength, his great intellectual
abilities to the service of the men who
labor-and that. too. without money
and without price. If Mr.. Donnelly
had foresworn politics after the
Granger movement fifteen years ago,
as many of the leaders of that party
did; and, like them, sold his talent
to the corporations, he might, like
them, be a rich man to-day.
"But he did not sell himself to the
corporations, but kept right along
fighting plutocracy in his own way.
l am not saying that his mode OF
warfare was always wise, right, just
and judicious, but at any rate he con-
tinued to fight, and often in a solid
phalanx composed only of his own
vigorous and unconquerable person
ality.
"And for thirty years he has con-
tinued to be the mark for all the vi
tuperation that could be poured up
on his devoted head. Once seated in
the editorial room of one of the lead
ing daily papers of the state, the
leading editorial writer remarked
It's awfully dull. What shall
write about?' Score Donnelly, sug-
gested one of the listeners. Il would
but l have that topic saved up for
Sundays paper will your Sun
day roast be political or literary?'
'Oh, political Then rip his literary
pretensions up the back. for tomor-
row. Il guess I WILL replied this
teacher of the people with a yawn-
and next day there was a glowing
screed denouncing the then new vol
ume of Atlantis.
"Mr. Owen manifests a desire to sup
plant Mr.. Donnelly as the leader Of
the Alliance forces. He has neither
the genius, the knowledge of the sub
ject, the aggressive qualities, nor the
muscular intelligence of Mr.. Donnelly
But it is very probable that the new
broom will supplant the old one. 1t
is quite clear to me that Mr.. Owen, OF
some other gentleman of mediocre
intelligence, will assume the leader
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
The Reason Of IL.

Some one asked Mr.. Donnelly why,
with all his literary labors, lectures,
and legislative duties he wanted to
take upon himself the great task oi
the presidency of the Alliance. He
replied by telling his friend, "to read
C@sar's Column; that would show
him the motives which actuated
him. That he believed the republic
was going headlong to the devil, and
that it was the duty of every man to
do his best to save it,"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19

ty. He took a leading part in the
last state convention.
The Pipestone Farmers Alliance is
in favor of Mr.. Donnelly. R. E. Helm
emann will be the delegate.
Brown County Alliance sends Ole
Jorgenson as it's delegate. He is a
friend of Mr.. Donnelly. He will prob
ably also represent his sub-alliance.
Lincoln county, the home of Secre-
tary Warren, comes up solid for Mr..
Donnelly.
Renville county will be in the same
shape. Also Lac qui Parle county.
That indefatigable worker, Hamlin
V. Poore, vice president for the Sd
district and chairman of the finance
committee, has just organized two
new alliances.
The Currant Lake, Murray Co.,
Alliance, No. 8O7, elects a delegate
and instructs him for Mr.. Donnelly.
Sub-alliance No. sos, Ellington,
Dodge Co., elected it's secretary, u
rich Sem as delegate and L. D. Bal
lard as alternate, and instructed them
to stick to Donnelly through thick
and thin.
Dodge County Alliance passed g.
resolution that it's delegate should
stand by Mr.. Donnelly.
Alliance No. 385. Sunburgh, Kan
diyohi Co., elected o. Eliason as it's
delegate, and passed resolutions in
favor of Mr.. Donnelly.t
Hon. j. L. Wright, president of the
county alliance of Olmsted county,
just elected q member of the House,
is q warm friend of Mr.. Donnelly; he
writes that at the meeting. of their
sub-alliance, held December 9th, ev-
cry member present was in favor of
Mr.. Donnelly. Mr.. Wright says: 81
do not see why Mr.. Donnelly should
not get all the delegates from both
the sub-alliances and the county alli-
ance in this county. would be glad
to see the State Alliance differed by
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
81 90 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
The Next Presidency of the Alliance.
Ignatlus Donnelly Overwhelmingly the Choice Of
the Alliances
Correspondence and Reports Pouring in by Each
Mail.

ances that have yet held their meet
ings in Blue Earth county have been
favorable to Mr.. Donnelly. A splen-
ded delegation will comeup. Among
them will be the three members lately
elected to the House, from that coun-
ty, viz: Hon. E. T. Champlin, who is
very likely to be the speaker OF the
House, Hon. J. M. Currier, very
bright man: and Hon. K. Knudson,
who stands high with all who know
him. Add to these, Lysander Cook,
VIM. Webb and Hon. John Diamond,
and it is a delegation that any coun-
ty can be proud of.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19

Our members must have leaders,
and it is fortunate that the Alliance
has elected one of the most brilliant
Americans in Senator Donnelly. The
Alliance and Senator Donnelly next
winter will have the opportunity of a
quarter OF a century placed in their
hands. The Alliance in acknowledge
ing his leadership, which would create
no jealousies, and Senator Ignatius
Donnelly in devoting his splendid
abilities to inaugurating such re-
forms as shall satisfy the farmers and
working men of Minnesota will be do
ing their whole duty, and will cover
themselves with imperishable glory.
st. Vincent New Era.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
A Waterloo.

if the demand for the election of Mr..
Donnelly to the Alliance, at the
annual meeting, would be eoverwhelm-
ing and practically unanimous. In
addition to the facts given elsewhere
we would state that Iver Hagen,
treasurer OF the Pope County Alliance,
writes that "every delegate from
this county will be instructed for Mr..
Donnelly for president" Hon. L. B.
Cantleberry, member elect of the
House from Pope county, confirms
this statement. He says that his
own sub-alliance instructed it's dele
gate to vote for Mr.. Donnelly; and
he thinks the delegation from Pope
county vii be solid for Donnelly.
L.C. Long, deputy county lecturer
for Mobiles county, was unanimously
elected by the County Alliance of that
county as it's delegate. He was un-
instructed because he was a "Don-
nelly man from away back" Mr..
Long writes:
"We feel that the factions in the
Alliance talked about so much in
the newspapers, are simply the true
blue leaders and the rank and file of
the Alliance on one side and q few
hireling sooundrels who want to run
the Alliance for their own benefit on
the other side. Every man I have
talked with says we must stand by
Donnelly and the GREAT WEST"
The Zumbrota Alliance OF Goodhue
county held a meeting December
18th, elected a delegate to the state
convention and also elected delegates
to the county convention. Every
man instructed for Donnelly. So
writes 0. A. Strand.
A meeting of the st. Vincent Alli-
ance, close to the northern boundary
of the state, was held December 18th;
and on motion of B. McGovern it was
unanimously resolved to elect Will
liam A. Adams as delegate to the
annual meeting, and Instruct him to
work and vote for Hon. Ignatius
Donnelly for president.
j. @. Cronkhite, of Argyle, writes
all the delegates so far elected from
Marshall county are in favor of Mr..
Donnelly. Mr.. Cronkhite has done a
great work in building up the ALI
ance in Marshall and Kittson coun-
ties.
C. A. johnson writes from Rockstad
that he thinks all the delegates from
Polk county will support Mr.. Don
nelly.
Andrew W. Peterson, secretary of
sub-allianee S72, Comfrey, Brown
county, writes that his alliance favors
Mr.. Donnelly.
In fact from all parts of the state
comes the same story. The end of
the gang that has distracted and dis
rupted the Alliance and almost de-
stroyed it is at hand. They will be
buried under a tremendous avail
anche of the farmers of the state.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
ship of the alliance forces in Mime
sofa always provided there contin-
ues to be any forces to lead after
1892"
Press Opinions,

Press Opinions.
That celebrated labor paper, The
Free Lance, of Minneapolis, says in
it's last issue:
I'VE present our readers with the
circular letter of Hon. Ignatius Don
nelly, in which he asks to be elected
President of the Alliance. We hope
Mr.. Donnelly will be elected, as he is
unquestionably the foremost Alliance
man OF the State and has earned the
position by his loyalty to the inter-
ests of the people. Politicians from
both old parties will fight Donnelly,
but we believe the farmers will stand
by him.
The Hutchinson Leader says:
Mr.. Donnelly, with characteristic
frankness and boldness. has an
nounced himself candidate for the
presidency of the Minnesota Farmers
Alliance, but the prospects are that
the small fry and narrow-headsi in the
organization will be able to defeat
him. Political parties do not often
honor their leaders nowadays. The
man who has been fearless, indepen-
dent and outspoken in the cause he
has .championed, and who has de-
veloped and exhibited the "genius OF
accomplishment" has at the same
time been making jealous foes in his
own party who will knife him at the
first opportunity. Ignatius Donnelly
is the father of the Minnesota Farm
ers' Alliance. No score of men in the
state have done for it one-half as
much as he. Though he has been
called a demagogue and has been
taunted with having been in all par
ties. yet the fact stands out to his
credit that wherever he has been pol
itically he has always fought for the
cause Of the farmer and has never
lost sight of the principles the alli-
ance maintains. He is an intellectual
giant and his heart is good. He is
the kind of timber the alliance needs
much of and if given the leadership
which he has earned he will honor
and advance the cause of the agri-
culturalist.
The Sauk Rapids Sentinel Qnd.)
says:
"Hon. I. Donnelly should by all
means be elected President of the Al
lance organization, He is the one
man who can guide it to prominence
and future victory. Without just
such men as Senator Donnelly the
Alliance will be failure. With him
at the head, and other good men to
aid, there is no telling what this great
new party may be able to accomp-
lish."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
Lao Qui parle County.

Lac qui Parle county, the home of
ex-Secretary John Lathrop, held it's
county alliance on the 18th inst.
Fity-one delegates were present.
and forty-seven of them were in
favor OF Mr.. Donnelly. Official report
and letters next week.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19

men IN whom we could place some
confidence. Had that been the case
this fal} the Alliance would have
elected It's state ticket"
We get similar reports from all
over the state.