St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-08
Last Tuesdays Elections Clear
the Alliance Atmosphere
> in Minnesota.
Wild Financial Schemes to
Be RELOCATED to the Rear
Next Year.
One Problem at q Time Is All
That Party Leaders Will
Push,
And the Question Next Year
Will Be the Mckinley
Tariff.


IN Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota
are having an effect for good on the
third party in this state. In the three
commonwealth named above, the farm
ers. who rose in revolt in the fall of
1890 and swept the men who helped to
pass the Mckinley tariff act off the po-
lltical boards, have been going wild on
what they term the financial question.
In Kansas, following the lead of Sen
ator PETER, the tariff question was en-
tIrely cast aside, and the multitude of
Alliance campaign orators and lecturers
talked fiat money just as enthusiastic
ally and wildly as they did when the
old Greenback movement was the craze,
and the result was that the new party
sustained a crushing defeat i'll the
GraSshopper state. Whether this one
defeat Will end the movement in KAN
sas depends altogether upon the course
taken by the leaders.
In Nebraska and South Dakota also
the Alliance tickets were defeated, but
these two defeats were not so bad for
the new party as was the one sustained
in Kansas. The tariff question was put
to the front iii both, and had the plat
might have been different. In South
Dakota especially, the low tariff senti-
ment is largely in the majority, and
with the wild financial scheme of the
Alliance leaders out of the way, a sub
stantial victory could be gained against
the protective tariff monopolies.
In Minnesota the farmers have never
been enthusiastic over the sub-treasury
bill, and have refused to indOrSe it in
the annual meetings of the state Alli-
ance. Leaders in the movement like
Gen. j. IL. Baker, of Blue Earth county;
). NJ. Owen, of Hennepin; Senator John
b. Hompe, of Otter Tail; Senator E. E.
Lommen. of Polk. and various others are
Bitterly Opposed
to it, as we'll as to like yagaries of the
Southern Kansas and Dakota leaders.
The Sage of Nininger. has never been
very much in earnest in its advocacy.
and Will not be at all sorry if, at the
coming annual meeting to be held in
Minneapolis in January, the sub-treas-
ury and other financial schemes are
shelved, and the tariff question again
pushed to the front.
While there is room for difference of
opinion on the free coinage question,
there is very little of it to be found
among the people of Minnesota. The
free silver craze at first took the farm
ers with it. but little investigation
made them doubt its efficacy as
cure-all for all the evils of the body
polite, and at the present time they
care little about it, The elections held
last week have helped them to reach
this conclusion. and have seemed to
show them the way in which they must
20 if they wish to accomplish anything.
AS one of the leaders said in speaking
OF the situation Yesterday: Zone great
question at time is enough TOR US to
solve. The tariff question is well on its
way toward solution now. and it Will be
extremely foolish for either the Alliance
or the Democracy to allow anything
else to be lugged III at this time to put
off action looking to reduction in the
tariff. The victories of last year can be
repeated in Minnesota next fall if the
fight is made OH the same issue"
The remarkable and unexpected ALI
ance victories a year ago in manner
turned the heads of the leaders of the
movement. They at once imagined that
n little more work and organization
would give them great many OF the
Western states. But in their enthu-
Siasm they forgot the issues upon which
they won in 1899, and many of the peo-
pie promptly changed sides. In Mime
sofa, however.
While the Alliance leaders are saying
little just at present. in regard to fusion
with the Democrats, they are doing a
great deal of thinking, and are no longer
claiming that they can carry the state
without assistance. Now they see that
this cannot be done. With three tickets.
Republican, Peoples or Alliance and
Democratic i'll the field, nothing except
a tidal wave, which is not only improb-
able, but also unlikely, could win the
day for the new party, while the chances
are that not more than one congress
siOnal district could be carried by the
farmers-the new Seventh district. A
fusion with the Democrats, if it could
be arranged, would give the Alliance a
share of the state offices, some presI-
dental electors, and at least two MEM
berS of congress, who would help to
secure the changes in national legisla-
ton demanded by the farmers. Without
this fusion the farmers will, i'll all prob
ability, come out of
The Battle of 1892
in Minnesota with nothing save few
members of fhe legislature.
For some time past several of the AL
lance leaders have been revolving
plans for fusion, and. while they have
itO lHlClIi0ll VI dllcliIpliilS W lOIC0 lHO1T
views upon the party, they think they
have hit upon very fair solution of the
problem. In the last state election the
Democrats polled S5.S44 votes for Judge
Wilson for governor, while the Alliance
gave s. NJ. Owen IS, 513 votes. Dividing
up the nine electors to which Minnesota
will be entitled in liberal manner, they
would have upon the ticket four Alliance
men and five Democrats. In this
state neHt year the following state
offices will have to be filled: Governor,
lieutenantgovernor secretary of state,
state treasurer and attorney general,
both the auditor and the clerk OF the
supreme court holding over. Besides
these seven congressman are to be
elected. A fusion between the Alliance
and Democrats would be fair according
TO these Alliance leaders, if arranged as
follows:
Electoral Ticket = Five Democrats,
four Alliance men.
Observation-Disclosures.
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State-Alliance.
State Treasurer-Democrat.
Attorney Generai-Alliance.
congressman.
First District-A Democrat.
Second District-AlIiance.
Third District-A Democrat.
Fourth. Fifth and Sixth Districts
Democrats.
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