St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-04
The Sage of Min lger has repented.

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officers. body, soul and breeches-at
least he declares that such is the case.
Of course MI. Donnelfy is sorry for
his past misdeeds, and to express his
heartfelt contrition he yesterday visited
the Office of tine Great West and direct
ed DR.. Fish, the editor of that paper.
who few days ago declared that I'VE"
meaning himself and Donnelly-
"wouid buck whatever the alliance con-
vention did, in case President Hall and
Secretary Lathrop controlled it," to
''knock down" a four-column roast on
Messrs. Hall and Lathrop, which had
been set up and was to appear in the
Forthcoming issue of that paper.
The reasons for Mr.. Donnelly's
change OF base are as interesting as they
are peculiar. One of them is found in
the great strength the movement is
would meet any one who should at
tempt to stop its onward course. An
other is because Mr.. Donnelly wants to
succeed Senator Cush Davis in the
United States senate, and he knoWs-at
least he was so infOrmed-that he can
not hope for the support of the farmers
when that election comes up unless he
''totes square, in this campaign.
Not only will Mr.. Donnelly not at
tempt to work the Farmers alliance in
the interests of Gov. Merriam, but he
will also take the stump and work as
hard as he can for the success of the
movement in all parts of the state. One
of the first places he will visit is to be
Otter Tail county; there he will seek to
assist in stiffening up the backs of the
local alliance leaders and in organizing
them for campaign against the Repub-
lican machine which sat down SO hard
on the alliance last week.
Mr.. Donnelly's repentance being so
sincere. and his grief and sorrow so
evident, he has again been restored to
his old position in alliance circles. May
he never go aStray again.
Secretary John Lathrop, of the Farm
ers' alliance, yesterday issued the formal
call for the Second district congressional
convention of the alliance, an outline of
which was published exclusively in yes
terday's GLOBE. 1t is as follows:
To the subordinate alliances of the Second
congressional district: In accordance with
the written request OF the several sIballIanees
of the Second congressional district, you are
hereby directed to elect one delegate from
each suballiance, to meet at KaSota junction,
in the county of LIE Sueur, on the 18th day
of July, A. ID. 1890, at 10 o'clock a. M, to
organize congressional alliance for said
district: also to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of
nominating a candidate for congress- and, in
the event that you do so determine, to nomi-
nate candidate for congress from said dis
trict.
Dated st. Paul July 3, 1890
Secretary State Farmers Alliance.
Friendly papers of Second district please
copy.
The Farmers alliance leaders are
preparing for what they declare will be
the greatest political campaign ever
fought in the state. Able speakers are
mence on the stump as soon as the
ticket has been nominated. Among
those who will do the talking are: Hon.
w. w. Erwin, of st. Paul; Editor S. M.
Owen, of Minneapolis; Hon. Ignatius
Donnelly. of Nininger: Gen. 5. II. Bar
rett, of Morris; Gen. j. III. Baker, of
Blue Earth, and many others OF state
reputation.
While it is not known whether he will
accept the nomination. if offered to him,
there is movement on foot to NOM
mate Secretary John Lathrop, of the
state alliance, for congress in the Second
district at the farmers convention to be
held at Kasota Junction, on the
18th of this month. Mr.. Lathrop
is pioneer tariff reformer, has
until late years been Republican.
and would make good run if
nominated are the arguments being
used in his behalf by his friends. He
is one of those fellows, however, who
believes the Office should seek the man,
and not the man the office; and, if he
is nominated, it will be without exer-
ton on his part.
The executive committee of the Farm
ers' alliance will meet in this city. at
the Clarendon hotel, on next Monday,
when a conference will be held with
the labor federation of the state, and an
affort made to combine for the coming
election.