The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04
ST. PAUL, MIMI, JULY 4, 1890.

75S Wabasha St.. st. Paul. MINI
ST. PAUL, MIMI, JULY 4, 1890.
The daily papers state that Messrs.
Hall and Lathrop we're in the city
last week Thursday to make ar,
rangements for the Alliance cam
paign, and gave to the reporters OF
the daily papers their intentions and
purposes. These statements may
not be true, as the daily papers .re
anything but truthful, and purpose
ly overstate things to create wider
-chasm between alliance men. II it be
true that Messrs. Hall and Lathrop
have invited Mr.. Braden, or even
Knute Nelson (much as we respect
these gentlemen), to be candidates,
they are overstepping the bounds OF
propriety. The politics of the ALI
ance have been peddled around st.
Paul Hobbies, corridors and highways
in q vest pocket, for some six years
and to put a stop to it this paper
and it's friends, numbering legion,
have passed through warfare which
has been one OF the bitterest con-
fiicts known in it's history. 1t will
never be so peddled about again, and
If any man thinks that st. Paul poll
ticians are going to run in on the
"Alliance racket" they will not only
get wrecked but also the men who
;attempt the engineering process. If
the alliance treasury is to be drained
of $65 a month in salaries $40 to
Lathrop and $25 to HalD to carry
on this monkey business, there will be
arrow.
AS for the GREAT WEST we say fat
d footed-and early in the morning
that rather than see our fifty thous-
and votes carted off in a wheelbar-
row to the old political camps, we
would turn-about double-quick and
urge a total assertion of "Indepen-
dent" political action. Let the fifteen
sthousand readers of the GREAT WEST
understand that this paper stands
sby them in this wonderful revival of
patriotism CHATS what we call it)-
and not lot of old style political
sstrumpery.
Mr.. Hall and Mr.. Lathrop have
not one word to say or do about the
conduct OF the approaching campaign
nor has the GREAT WEST, or any
other men or man or journal. If the
convention decides upon political ac-
ton it will appoint a campaign COM
.mittee. This committee will have
complete control of the destiny OF the
alliance as a political agency. twill
stand as state central committee,
and it's organization will extend
through every county and township
lin the state, so that by another
campaign it will have the bone and
.sinew for giant work. This journal
.speaks the voice OF 80 out of every
100 alliance men when it says that
FIRST, no faction shall have control
~of that committee; and second, no
man shall be on that committee who
lis not constitutionally eligible to
membership in the state alliance or
some labor organization.
Every man on that committee
ought to be totally free from any
political combinations outside of the
new party.
Ii the Convention lacks for brave
snen to stand right up for grand,
fresh, pure and ideal party then it
will plunge headlong into destruc-
vtion-and the hopes and prayers of a
suffering people will be broken and
denied.
Now, in the following remark we
give only an opinion, but we fully be-
,lieve that the nominees should be
fresh, plain, solid men, whose names
have not been made prominent by
either party, newspaper notices, or
glib speeches-but above all, not
known by their successes in 9TH
er parties. In this we make no criti-
.cism of Knute Nelson. He is a man
of somewhat peculiar history and re-
.markable attitudes worthy man.
There is general misconception as
to the character" which makes a
good governor It is not education.
1t is not commercial knowledge. 1t
lis not that Internal destroyer of con-
science known as political experience.
1t isnot wealth. 1t is ''horse-sense! !"