St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-05
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In Anger and Rage Ignatius
Donnelly Reveals His
True Position.
The Deep-Laid Scheme by
Which He Hoped to Be-
come Governor.
Alliance Men Will Carry Out
Their Union With DEM
ocracy.
To-Night's Caueuses Will Set
tie the Coming Organi-
ZatiOn.

IliSlSI uDOI a DCIlOCl QLlC-61llldIICO COlll-
bination."
Thus spoke Ignatius DonneIly, the
president of the Farmers Alliance, yes
terday, when he found that the Alliance
men positively declined to demand of
the Democrats that they elect his man
Friday, Carpenter, chief clerk of the
house. Shortly after dinner yesterday
Mr.. Donnelly met Senator Mayo In the
lobby of the Merchants, and, calling
him aside, said:
ID you still insist upon h Alliance
joining with the Democrats in the Or
ganiZation of the legislature?"
81 certainly do" answered the veteran
DOCTOR"
Then | shall go with the Republi-
cans and make Mr.. Carpenter secretary
of the senate" said the Sage, thor
oughly enraged.
You are only one man and you can
can go where you please: to hill If you
WISH" was the answer he received.
Il want you to understand" eX-
claimed the Sage. anger and egotiSm
coming to his rescue. THAT you are at
tempting to put Of the play of Hamlet
with Hamlet left out. l am Hamlet,
sir, aud you cannot get along without
ME. | am a great man, a literary man,
| and the people look to me, Sir"
This rather warm conversation eX-
cited considerable attention, and the
story was Soon the chief topic of con-
versation in thu lobby. BY it the sage's
scheme of working for the Republican
candidate for speaker through the guise
of full Alliance nomination is revealed
in its entirety. Carpenter is only a side
issue. as Mr.. DonEelly was never
t,nxxy fn cfonI I,u q fpinn1 nntncc Nm
had a point to make thereby.
But MIR. Donnelly will receive a very
COOL reception from the Republican SEN
atOrS, who do not propose to elect Don
neIly'S man clerk Of the senate upon
any consideration. They DON'T want
any alliance with the Sage, and will
have none that involves the election of
a nondescript in politics, like Carpen-
ter, to the Office of secretary. They re-
member that he is the man who, a few
weeks ago, while seeking Democratic
votes in the house, declared that
81 did not vote for the Mckinley tariff
bill nor for any one who did"
Mr.. Donnelly is a very versatile man,
a schemer from away back, and he has
seldom undertaken a larger job than he
did when he undertook to organize the
coming legislature in the Interests of
the Republicans and the corporations,
to the end that the political ambitions
of himself and Gov. Merriam. might be
promoted. A good history of the move
ments of the Sage leading up to his
ultimatum of yesterday follows:
IL have been an interested observer
of the political movements which have
been made by the players in the tri-
angular game which is now oil the
boards, in which the scenes shift rapidly
from the state convention of the Alliance
in the Newmarket to the Hobbies of the
different hotels, but in which the cor
rIdOrs of the Merchants, nov as in other
times, furnish the broadcast STAGE"
said a prominent and veteran politician
of the state, now enjoying a Iay-off from
the active work but still retaining an
interest in the game, and who brings to
its observation faculties for getting at
the inside of the situations SharpeneC
by a long experience. A GLOBE reporter
found him yesterday afternoon sitting
in the commercial travellers end of the
corridor smoking a cigar and taking in
the crowd of members, candidates for
minor places and the gnsSipS who filled
the capaciOuS corridor, unmindful of the
injunction that ION it thou shalt do no
no manner of work" : have spent my
leisure hours here for a week." said he,
ldlhllS Will lucu III oil pdILicS, plCkIllS
UP threads here and there and putting
them together, applying to the situation
a sort of 'Cryptogram.' using talk for
my basic numbers and 'moditiers,' and
l think l have evolved from the
complex mass a scheme as inter-
esting as the cipher Donnelly dis
covered in the plays of Shakespeare,
and more authentic. Some of it, L
see, you boys have got onto, but you
haven't the whole. To comprehend the
whole, let's repeat a little recent his
tory. Donnelly failed to get the AL
Ii lance nomination for governor. He
played the Achilles Sulk. RumorS were
rife. springing from his known inter-
views with Merriam, that he was about
to take the stump for the Republican
ticket. His alleged sell-out two years
ago was referred to in support of this
theory. The report did Injustice to the
genius and the lofty ambition of the
Sage. He vas after bigger game. The
chess player spurns marbles. The
futrue was mapped out III the
interviews that took place. Mer-
riam wished TO step from the
governors to the senator's chair; Don
nelly wished, if he could not get the lat
ter chair himself. to be governor; Sen
ator Davis wanted to be Mr.. Blaine's at
torney general. The voters were the
chessmen; these three the players. Mr..
Wilson must be defeated; Mr.. Owen
ditto: Merriam must be elected. Owen
was cutting wide SwathS in the Repub-
lican ranks. The fire was sweeping the
Republican prairieS innthe West and
North, and it could not be StOpp ed. a
counter-fire must be stdrtedin the Dem
ocratic field. Donnelly was the fittest
NAH to do it. The latest Achilles came
out of his sulks and took the
stump, but carefully confined his
field to localities where Democrats were
numerous. The game won. But an
unexpected complication came with it.
The Republicans had lost the senate
and the house. The Alliance held the
age. The Republicans must capture
the speakership. The Alliance must be
managed. Who SO we'll fitted as the
ubiquitous Sage? Mr. Donnelly '.puts
modeSty aside" and becomes a candi-
date for the presidency of the Alliance.
The March annual meeting is advanced
the legislature. so that the usual disin-
tegration which always follows the
Sage's accession to position and
power would not have time to
leave him powerless. lie was tri-
uInphantly elected. He forthwith de-
clared that the Alliance must stand
alone. Later he formulated the demand
that the Alliance must caucus. elect it's
officers, name the committees of the
house that it would control and stand
pat until some party surrendered. Very
shrewd this. Under a pretense of 10y |
atty the scheme in hand could b. nicely
worked. If this position were taken
the triumyirate knew that the Demo
orotc xx-ntrl-j MT cnttnit r. tho ~ -, |
it involved. They would not call the
hand. y deadlock would eHsue and
the purcllaseable element i'll each
party, for even the Alliance has
tins, could be seem and MIR. Searle |
would be speaker. But the process of
d-isintegratIon had been too rapid. Mr..
Donnelly moalted his power with even
greater CELEBRITY than ever. The Alli-
aiice representatives 'bucked.' They
absolutely refused. in a conference held
at Tie Clarendon Saturday evening, by
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