St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-07
Third Party Men Fill the
Hotels Preparatory for
To-Day's Meeting.
The Sage's Latest Move to
Make Himself Gar Of the
Peoples Party.
He Wants to Root Out All OPP
position to His One Great
Desire,
Which Is to Place IgnatiuS
Donnelly in Some Big
Public Position.

party cOnStrucVeu from Tic 1hillhCoOe"
Farmers Alliance?
/ The Sage of Nininger is now and al
ways has been found hard man to
down politically. To be sure he has
been defeated time and time again,
when candidate for public Office, but
these defeats have simply served to in
tensify his thirst for the excitement
and temporary honors to be found in
political life. That he is now engaged
in earnest in one of the greatest political
schemes of his checkered career is
plainly evident to the careful observer
of his movements. This scheme con-
templates nothing less tnan the organ
ization of political party in Minnesota
that shall know no
God Save DOnnelly.
Although he is now the head of the
Farmers Alliance, the Sage is fully
aware of the fact that he is more than
likely to be deposed at the coming an
nual meeting, and he proposes before
that time TO have all his friends in the
Alliance into the Peoples party. at the
head of which he will stand, i'll very
truth, monarch of all he surveys"
him to call a meeting of the executive
committee of the Alliance on the same
day and at the same place set
for a meeting of those to whom
was delegated the work of organizing
the Peoples party in the North Star
state. Both Of these meetings are
booked at the Merchants to-day, and
some interesting developments may be
looked for. At the late Cincinnati cOn-
Vention it will be remembered Mime
sofa was represented wholly, or almost
so, by Mr.. DOnnelly and his friends, and
as a consequence to them was delegated
the task of organizing the state, those
appointed to superlntend the work being
the Sage himself. Hon. c. n. Perkins, of
Mcleod county, and Andrew STEINER
son. of Polk county. Later on when the
national committee of the new, or PeO-
pies, party met at st. Louis, the Sage
laid before the gentlemen composing it
a resolution authorizing tine organizers
in each state to call to their assistance
all the friends of the cause they chose
or deemed necessary and mt.
This was the second great step In the
Sage'S plan of whipsawing his enemies
in the Alliance. The third step will
be taken to-day when the executive
committee Of the Alliance will be asked
to indorse the new party and recon-
mend that the great Alliance of the
state go over to it in body. This the
members of that committee may
Decline to DO
simply because the executive committee
has no such power. In speaking of this
yesterday 7. j. Meighen, of Fillmore
county, a member of the executive COM
mittee, said:
1.-The executive committee of the Alliance
as ! understand il, has no power TO lndorSe
| the Peoples party. Only convention, IN
| which all the subordinate Alliances OF the
| state were represented, could take such
| step. am myself heartily in favor of the
| new party and am ready and willing to do
| all in my power to organize it in this
state, but i do not see how the ex-
ecutive committee can do anything
at the meeting tomorrow. | do not know
that any one has any idea of securing an in
dorsement from the executive committee
This meeting is q regular one, and is for the
transaction. rs / understand II, OF routine
business only. l presume the two meetings
were called at the same time for the purpose
| of securing as large an attendance as pos
| sible at the meeting of the advocates and
| organizers of the new party.
MIR. Meighen has generally been
| classed as a follower of the Sage of
Nininger, although he is hardly thick
and-thin supporter of the senator from
| Dakota, The view he takes of the
powers of the executive committee
would seem to settle the matter of the
committee indOrSing the new party.
| This will make no particular difference
with the Sage's plans, as he is now
authorized by the resolution adopted at
| the committee meeting III st. Louis to
| appoint as many organizers as he
| chooses in the various counties of the
I Il = ff hot oil
these organizers will be
DOnnelIy Men.
Indeed. it was to this faction of the AL
| tiance only that invitations to attend
he gathering at the Merchants to day
were sent; all others who are present
will be simply there on their own hook,
and their number will be few.
1.-THE whole scheme is now perfectly plain"
| remarked a well known Alliance man at the
| Merchants last evening, land l don't see
what we can do to head the thing off. Mr..
| Donnelly simply proposes to build up Don
| nelly party in the state, and his object IN Sc
| curing the passage of that st. Louis resolu-
| ton is evident TO all. You see this
resolution gives him and his committee
| the power TO call to their aid i'll organizing
| the state for the peoples party all the men
they choose. These it is not necessary to
| state will all be Donnelly men. To gain this
| authority Mr.. DOnnellY takes the position
! that Minnesota is an uDOrganlZed state. This
is absurd The idea of calling n state unor-
| eanized in which were polled IS, 000 votes for
a third party or peoples ticket less than
| wear ago The whole trouble with Mr. Don
| nelly is simply this. that he feels that he is
| losing his hold on the Alliance, and has made
| up his mind that if he cannot run all of it he
| will at least control as much as possible of
| the organization"
''What do you think the outcome will beT
asked the reporter.
| II confess feel a trife discouraged" was
| the reply. Il can see no way out of the diti-
| Guilty except in a division or split in the
| party, which would of course be disastrous
| TO us l do not believe the great mass of
| Alliance men will consent to any scheme of
! the kind although the followers of Mr.. Don
nelly will, have no doubt go ahead and
! organize their party. 1t is q shame that the
movement should be brought to nothing in
| this way year ago | would not have be-
lieved it possible for one man to work such
| ruin Every division, or sign Of division, in
our ranks sends voters back to the old par
| ties, as any
Mum as an Oyster.
A number of the members of the eX-
ecutive committee or the Alliance
reached the city yesterday, but they
were extremely careful to say nothing.
r. II. McGhee, the Fourth district men,
Der, who halls from Chisago county.
where he publishes one of the best
| A IIiapoa DanarS i'm the state chat