St. Paul daily globe., 1890-12-30
Opponents Of Donnelly Rally
ing to the Fifth District
Congressman-Elect.
With Them Are a Host of
Farmers Tired Of Fac
tional Fights.
T. C. Hodgson Carves Up
the Sage and His
Methods.
Views Of Many Delegates on
the Situation--Some Pc
euliap Workers.

Hon. Kittel Halvorsen, the modest
and unassuming Alliance congressman
elect from the Fifth district, Will proba-
bly, be the next president of the Mime
sofa Farmers Alliance.
Early yesterday morning the dele
gates to the annual meeting of Mime
sOta's great farmers organization began
to arrive from every direction, and long
before midnight every hotel in the city
was filled to overfiowlng. From the
north came such prominent Alliance
workers as Senator-elect John B.
Hompe, of Otter Tail; Hon. r. NJ.
Probstfeld, of Moorhead, senator-elect
from Clay county; Hon. III. E. Boen.
register of deeds of Otter Tail; Senator
elect II. A. Crate, of Pope; Hon. Henry
Plowman, of Otter Tail; Senator D. w.
HiXon, of Herman; Hon. Charles Can
ming, of Norman county; Senator-elect
F. E. Lommen, of Crookston; Hon. ii.
2. Bjorge, representative-ele from
Otter Tail county; Hon. Alfred Setter
lund and Hon. III. G. Lyman, represent
atives-elect from the Forty-ninth dis
trict: Hon. Henry Feig, of Kandiyohi;
known. From the southern part of the
state comes Hon. John Diamond, (bet-
ter known as "Jack'D Hon. Lysander
Cook, Hon. E. T. Champlin, and Hon.
F. M. Curryer, and Capt. George W.
Haigh, of Blue Earth; ex-President
George W. Sprague 'and Senator elect
II. c. Nelson, of .'old Fillmore; Hon.
John J. Furlong, of Mower; A. Hoidale,
of Dawson; SenatOrelect Jay La Due,
of Rock county, and numerous others.
The delegates were hardly allowed to
reach their hotels yesterday be
fore the enthusiastic workers
in behalf of the sage of
Nininger were on their trails. For this
reason, during the early part of the
day, the drift seemed all towards Don
nelly, and his friends. headed By doc"
Fish. were not slow in claiming his
election by very large majority. With
Stearns, Senator HiXon, Hon. Charles
Canning. Hon. John b. Hompe and
others of thatprominence. the DOnnelly
tide began to recede, and long before
Mr.. DonnelIy laid his head on his pillow
last evening his workers seemed panic
stricken and were talking with that
desperation which is so often a sure
precursor of defeat.
What caused this remarkable change?
Principally the tidings that the
Alliance of Grant county had
just declared in favor of CONGRESSMAN
elect HalVOrSen and harmony. This
news spread and seemed TO take like
wildfire. Even Donnelly's stauncheSt
supporters could not raise their voices
in denunciation of Mr.. HalvorSen, and,
consequently, that large and powerful
element in the Alliance which demands
peace at any cost, save sacrifice of
principle. had solidified around the
name of Kittel HalvorSen, and it will be
cause for considerable wonder if he is
not elected by safe majority over his
self-seeking opponent, whose friends
are kept busy for hours at time eX-
planning things and acts that cannot be
explained. A well-known Second dis
trict Alliance leader, in commenting
upon the situation last evening, said:
considering the almost phenomenal sue
cess of the Alliance in the recent election, it
seems 10 me that the president of the State
Alliance should be a farmer, entirely free
from self-seeklng or entangling combinations
with the old political parties or politicians.
a farmer in whom the people have full con-
dence: free from all factiOnal differences in
the Alliance and could affiliate with the
other reform organizations without resur-
recting past political antag0nisms. After a
careful consideration of these conditions |
have come to the conclusion that Hon. Kittel
Halvorsen, the Alliance congressman
elected from the Fifth district, is the most
Farmers Alliance. His election would
strengthen and inspire confidence in the
future usefulness of our organization; IL
would place it above local politics and let the
first Alliance congressman elected in the
Northwest assume his official duties with the
indorsementand moral support of the $4,000
Alliance votes cast in this state. Alliance
organizations in other states have done this
to add 10 the influence of their congressman
and to forcibly declare that the Alliance
party is i'll the field of national politics to
stay until our rights are secured. a well
known character has announced himself as
candidate for president and has in direct vo-
lation of one of the fundamental principles
OF the Alliance canvassed the state in old
style for the position He is not, nor never
was a farmer. He was born in great city.
by education LAWYER and by profession
politician, and l cannot conceive ou what he
bases his claim for the presidency of the State
Alliance unless it be upon his successful
cultivation of acres of Cheek
One of the amusing things in the
contest now being made by Mr.. Donnel-
ly is the character of many of his sup
porters and workers. A lot of Repub-
lican, politicians and workers are hard
at work in his behalf. From Kandiyohi
county came eReprasentative-elect Henry
Feig, who was nominated and elected
by the Republicans and is now and
always been warm supporter of Gov.
Merriam. Naturally enough to those
who watched MI. Donnelly's peculiar
course last summer, Mr. Feig is work
ing for the election of the Sage.
This is only one of at least score
of similar cases. and instead of help
ing Mr.. Donnelly is injuring
him. Kandiyohi county, heretofore
set down as solid for Mr.. Donnelly, is
now nearly evenly divided between him
and Mr.. Halvorsen, and it would not be
at all surprising if the latter secures
three-fourths of the delegation from
this county. In the Second district Mr..
Donnelly has gained in only one
county, and lost in all others.
During the last few days the Repub-
lican organs and workers have been
claiming that about 400 delegates have
been instructed for the sage. This is
almost wholly false, for there are less
than $50 delegates lntructed for the
sage, and perhaps half that number is
directly instructed against him.