St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04
DUPING THE FARMERS
Republicans in Indiana Work
ing ALI Kinds of Schemes
to Avert D efeat.
Where Counties Are Demo-
cratic They Are Running
Alliance Men,
Hoping Thereby to Make q
Gain in One Place or I
Another. Il
They Are Also Adopting Q
Democratic Tariff Plank
to Gain Votes.

to Gain Votes.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 1.-[Special
to Chicago Times. THE most interest
ing features of state politics at this time
are the nominations for congress, with
their various and attending circum
stances. The Republicans are showing
their hands as rapidly as the conven-
tons meet. A similar coalition with
the Farmers Alliance as made in the
Eighth district. when the Republicans
recently nominated Senator Mount fol
congress. was formed still more recently
in the First district. The same hanG
that pulled the string in the former con
vention performed the same work al
Evansville in the First district nomina
ton. When the Republicans fixed III
the latter scheme they sent out {
call that ga farmers and workingmen's
convention would meet in Evansville
at certain time. This convention me-
there only few days ago. and to the
surprise of everybody outside of the
ring that manipulated the affair, Col. j
S. Wright, of Spencer county, was nom
mated tor congress. Capt. j. W. Wart-
man appeared in the convention, repre-
senting the labor element, and wanted
the nomination, but he was defeated
The scheme was to get member of the
Farmers Alliance as candidate fol
congress. Col. Wright has never been
anything but Republican. and he is
expected to attract enough Democratic
farmers to defeat Judge Parrott, who
is now representing the district, and
who has no opposition for the Demo
cratic nomination. 1t is stated that
Wartman was much surprised at his de-
feat. He thought he had everything
ready for
A GRAND VICTORY,
but he did not know that his own Re-
publican partisans had been busy for a
He had fixed up scheme to get the
labor union of Evansville to send dele
gates to the convention instructed to
vote for him; but the union, learning
of the enterprise, became disguised at
the attempt to use the organization as a
sort of tender to the Republican party,
and refused not only to send delegates
to vote for Wartman, but positively re-
fused TO send delegates to the conven-
ton for any purpose. He made one
more desperate bid for the nomination
after the convention had met. He and
his supporters had fixed up a reso-
luton to reduce the pay of a
congressman from 5000 to $4,000.
This appeared like economy in
the public expenditures, and to
any ordinary looker-on at a farmers.
convention it would appear likely to go
through like flash. NOt,so. The propc-
sition was voted down, and when the
nominating time came the captain was
shelved. His friends know now that
the Republican scheme. was to have no
one but Republican farmer for the
nominee, and are Of course damning
everything and swear they will not sup
port the convention nomination. The
most astonishing feature about these
Republican coalitions with the Farmers
Alliance is the readiness with which
the Alliance swallows the platforms
made at the conventions. After de-
nouncing the tariff repeatedly and I'M
mistakably at their lodge meetings these
Alliance farmers
COaIesce Readily
with Republicans, who either indorse
directly or indirectly the Mckinley
tariff bill, OR else purposely ignore any
reference to tariff matters, except in
vague and bonn bastic terms, as they did
at Evansville when they nominated
Col. Wright. The Democrats of the
Ninth district stand no earthly chance
to elect straightout Democrat to con-
gress. The Republican majority runs
from 5000 to 1000. This is Joe Chea-
dies old district. but the Republicans
grew tired of him, and at the Kokomo
convention recently Judge Waugh, of
KOkOmo, was named as his successor.
There are indications now that the Re-
publicans will have an opportunity to
take little of the same sort Of medi-
cine that they have been prepar-
ing for the Democrats in other parts of
the state. The Democrats of this dis
trict will probably make no nomination,
but will support the candidate Of the
Farmers Alliance. That candidate has
not yet been nominated. but it is under
stood that helwilI be Samuel A. Gun
ningham, of TippecanOe county. He is
not lawyer. but is said to be man
ability and integrity and with all the
qualifications necessary to make cred
table representative. He is also cred
tied with being an excellent campaign
speaker, industrious in political mat
tiers, and it is boldly claimed by those
who know him best that if nominated
for congress, although in district with
Republican majority of 1900 against
him, he would make it
ssDisagreeably Interesting.
for the other fellow. The TiptOn Times
says that Mr.. Cunningham is scholar
and gentleman. would be popular
candidate among the farmers, and would
get host OF Republican votes-proba-
bly, enough to defeat Judge Waugh. T he
Republicans continue to nominate SEN
atOrS and representatives from the
Farmers Alliance wherever this is
practi cable in the Democratic counties.
At recent meeting OF the Republican
state central committee it was noted
that the hopes of the party's success lay
in this direction. One member said
that in fourteen counties the
Republicans had successfully PLAYED
this game. In the joint sena-
torial convention of Wells and
Huntington counties held last SATURDAY.
Hugh Alexander was nominated for
senator and George A. Yopst, of Hunt
ingtOn, for prosecuting attorney. Both
of these men are ordinary Republicans
of the regulation stripe, but it is pub
Ished far and wide that they are Farm
ers' Alliance men. The resolutions
passed are of the same material as used
at Democratic conventions, and are out
of place in Republican platform, but.
this was done to catch the farmers of
both parties-the whole thing bearing
the Farmers Alliance brand. 1t is
stated that some of the most intelligent
men of these counties are members of
the Farmers Alliance, but that they
Will Not Re DragOOned
into voting for men who will come TO
indianapolis next winter and support