St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
The Alliance Party and the
Farmers Alliance at Log
gerheads.
Donnelly Realizes That He
Has No Grip Upon the p.
Former, l.s.
But Chairman Phelps Has
Some Very Decided Views
Upon 1t. 9i
Prospects Of Two Conventions
Being Called for the Next
Campaign.

That fight of large proportions is on
in the Farmers Alliance of this Stateino
one who has observed the workings of
the different committees..and branches of
the society during the last week in par
ticular can doubt. Simmered down, it
is simply a Donnelly and an anti-Don
nelly contest. When the Sage was
elected president of the Alliance last
December he fancied that he had
everything in his hands. Later on he
found that he had little or nothing to do
with the control of the political party
known as the Alliance. The control or
that was lodged by the July convention,
which nominated Mr.. Owen for gov
ernor, in state central committee,
constituted and run as similar commit
tees of the old parties. To head off this
committee the Sage, at the late meeting
of the executive committee or
the Farmers Alliance, had a
series of resolutions passed declar-
ing that the state committee OF the AL
lance was merely temporary organ
iZation and that its power ceased with
the close of the campaign. This the
chairman of that committee, Darlington
Phelps, denies in most emphatic
manner, and declares that, regardless
of what any other organization may do,
his committee will call a convention in
1891. The following are the reSolu-
tons:
The Resolution.
Resolved That the committee appointed
in July last by joint convention OF the
Farmers Alliance and certain real or pre-
tended representatives OF city labor organlza-
lions, of which Darlington Phelps was ap-
pointed chairman, was purely campaign
committee to represent the combination III
the pending election. and It's function ceased
with that campaign, and that althougn IL
contains many excellent gentlemen 1t has no
right whatever at this time to set itself up
up now as the peer and rival of the execu-
tive committee of the State Farmers Al.
lance and thus make our organization
double headed concern. and that any
such course means the diversion and de-
struction of the State Alliance.
Resolved, That while we are in favor of an
independent political party we call upon all
friends of the Alliance on said committee, or
otherwise, to discountenance any effort SO
made to create a side issue to be possibly
manipulated by cur enemies by the creation
of two state conventions ana two parties; let
all divisions and differences of opinion, if
any such exist, be relegated TO the next an
nual convention OF the state Alliance to be
held on the first Tuesday of June next, and
that the question of state central commit
tee shall then and there be settled by a ma
jority vote of all the delegation.
Mr.. Phelps Views.
These resolutions are the most atroc
| ious exhibition of the spite of dlSap-
| pointed demagogue ever seen in the
! state.
The convention of last July founded
| new party in Minnesota; party of the
industrial classes principally, but of no
| one class organization exclusively. Inc
| principles OF its platform were not the
| temporary topics of one campaign, but
such questions as will be vital to the in
duStrial classes for years to come.
| This party, born at that joint conven-
4 ton, obtained legal existence only
| through expense of time and money by
its state central committee in con-
| forming to the requirements OF law
| necessary before its candidates could
be voted for under the statutes. Care
fully and earnestly the committee
so performed its duty that as result
the Alliance party of the state of Min
nesota is to-day party. A party of
record on the archives of the state.
A party having a legal existence under
the statutes governing the state Au-
stralian ballot system. 1t stands as the
peer of and On an equality with any old
party. Yet, by the above resolution, Mr..
Donnelly denies its existence, and
would dissolve it into air, and leave the
candidates elected by it the representa-
tives of nothing save memory. But it
is more than the peer OF the State
Farmers Alliance. 1t is whole, Of
which the latter is component part.
as above, the Alliance party
can be and is perpetuated in
such existence from one campaign to
another only through its state central
committee. Similarly are the Republic
can and Democratic parties perpetuated
only through their state central COM
mittees. 1t is the duty of the Alliance
state central committee to keep the
party in condition OF advancement
1t is the power of this Alliance state
central committee, and its power only,
that can call the next convention of the
Alliance party in 1892. No division"
of any of the organizations comprising
the party will be of its creating; no
obstruction" of its seeking. Any such
calamitieS will come, if at all. from the
work of selfh demagOgues in the organ
iZati0nS themselves.
This committee has no ill-will for the
executive committee of the Farmers
Alliance; it makes no attack thereon.
proposed attack upon itself by Mr.. Don
nelly. If he sees fit to attempt in this
way the division and destruction of
the Farmers Alliance, or of the Alli-
ance party, and TO compel any portion
of either to affiliate with any old
party, the only result of such attempt
will be the wall from him, mo signs,
but O my breathing. No tears, but o. my
shedding" The Alliance party is a
party: it will have no interest in Great
ing another. Its existence is not mat
ter to be settled by any subordinate
organization. 1t exists.
The $4,000 voters that followed its re-
spected and beloved leader. Hon. S. NJ
Owen, through the last campign need
have no fears for the future. Its state
central committee will fearlessly and
c0nscientousiy perform its duty.
| Whatever conventions may be called by
other parties or would-be-parties in '92,
the committee will call one. 1t will
endeavOr to see that its thousands of
recruits may be as intelIigently in
formed as to what will be the needs and
duties OF that convention as will be the
Alliance veterans of the last campaigns
Certain it is that for the state central
committee of the Alliance party such
resolutions have no terrors, being as
they are full of sound and Jury, sfgnlr
flying nothing"
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