St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-15
An Idea Of the Organizing
Work Going on Every
where.
Prospects Of a Lively Scrap
at the Coming Annual
Meeting.
Division Over the Question of
Entering the Southern
Body.

| ready things are warming up in the
country. Alliance meetings are being
held in all parts of the state, and they
are largely attended. A number of the
county Alliances have already elected
their delegates, and the local bodies
have not been behindhand. Up to
the present time 70 indication has been
given of any contest for the offices, and
it does not now seem at all likely that
there will be any very hard struggle for
| control. The fact is that the members
OF the Alliance are much more inclined
toward harmony than they have been
for several years past. OF course this is
wise, and, ii persisted in, will place the
third party in splendid shape for the
campaign of next year.
. POLITICIANS who reside in the large
cities, especially if they chance to be
Republicans, have an idea that the
/ Farmers Alliance of Minnesota has
about reached the end of its existence.
They hear nothing of it and naturally
enough get the impression that nothing
is beng done. How erroneous this idea
Is can be aScertained most thoroughly
by reading the various country papers
Hardly one of them can be picked up at.
the present time that does not contain a
been and are about to be held. These
meetings are being held in every school
house and are designed to stir up old
alliances and where none exist. to or
game the farmers. A good example of
this was given in the columns of the
Glencoe Enterprise in the last ISSUE
The following covers the meeting Of the
Mcleod County Alliance:
A meeting of the county Alliance was held
at the town hall here Tuesday; about thirty
members were in attendance. After consid-
cradle balloting NJ. Cutler, of Sumter, was
chosen delegate to the state convention to be
held in January. II. Y. Poore, president of
the RenYille county Alliance. was pres
entand was introduced by ? resident Mobiles
and delivered Il short address on the
principles of the Peoples or Alliance party
He claims that the great and leading ques-
lions OF The day are finances, transportation
ana land, but occasionally the word PRO
lection fell from his lips. On motion Mr.
Poore was selected to canvas aud organize the
Alliances Of the county.
MIR. POore. who is a remarkably active
man. at once set about carrying ont the
command of the Alliance, and in the
same issue of the Enterprise caused the
following list of dates for meetings In
the county to be published:
Alliance Lectures.
Il. V. Poore, Alliance district lecturer. will
speak Mt the following places:
Nov. 24-At school house near Robert
loves. in Lynn
Nov. Alt school house near Jergen Oh
sens. in Lynn.
Nov. 26-At school house near Michael
Austin's Lake Hook district in Hutchinson
Nov. 27-In John Casper district
Nov. 2s--At Biseay.
Nov. 29-At Silver Lake
Nov. 3c--At school house near Anthony
Daneks.
OF course, this is only one county. but
it is fair sample of all Others in which
| the Alliance developed any cOnsidera-
| bic strength last year. Meetings are
frequent, and held at the school
houses the farmers can easily attend
them. When they do turn ont they
hear talk of perhaps an hour long
on the tariff and other questions
OF the day in language that
they understand. The value of this
kind of work is very great, aud cannot
be cOunteracted as the Republicans
hope by the fact that the listeners have
been so fortunate as to have overflow
Ing corn cribs and bursting wheat bins
AT their meetings, of course, the
lecturers do not attempt to influence the
| farmers as to which side they shall
| favor in the annual meeting, because
the meetings are not strictly Alliance
gatherings. Their work is, in a meas
urp, along the lines laid down by the
| chairman of the state committee of the
| Peoples party, I. J. Meighen, of Fill
more county, who proposes that every
community of farmers in the state shall
be visited by lecturers during the com
ing winter. Some money has already
! been raised for the purpose, and more
| Is coming in. THIS method of campaign
| ing and organizing is all but perfect in
the country, and was the cause of the
| phenomenal Alliance vote of last fall in
| Inc aSure.
The Coming Meeting.
Interest in the coming annual meet
ing is already very great in the country,
and in some sections there will be Wig
Orous fights for delegates all along the
| Donnelly and anti-DOnnelly lines. The
| Sage has not yet announced himself,
| and it is not Known whether or not
he proposes to be candidate
| for reelection to the presidency
of the State Alliance. Some
| of his friends say that he does not want
| it and will not be a candidate Others
| claim that he is in the field. Some of
| his opponents claim that he promised in
| his famous letter of a year ago asking
for the Office, that he only desired it for
| one year. This is not correct. Here is
| all he said on that subject:
There is no money in the Office of presi-
| dent. During my term, if elected, there will
| be no politics i'll it-for no election will be
| held during 1891. l simply want the Off ce
! for the good | can do. / do not seek il or
| tie purpose of crushing any supposed enc
| mics; for should use my position. if elected.
to heal the wounds and discussions in the
| organizations so that in 1892 We may present
united front to the common enemy
The only way in which the above
| quotation can be tortured into a prom
Use to take only one term must come
from the sentence which says that dur
ing his term there would be no politics
in the Office. This does not mean that
he would not ask for it again. OF course
if the
Sage Is Candidate
There are indications of fight. There
are great many Alliance men thirsty
| for the Sage'S gore, and there are more
| of them than there were year ago.
| Another important move that will be
made at the annual meeting that will
be bitterly opposed will be in the nature
of resolution by which the Minnesota
Alliance will enter the Southern ALI
ance. AT the present time and since its
organization the Minnesota Alliance
has been in the Northern body
along with Iowa, Nebraska and
| other states. The objection of many
! of the Minnesota Alliance men to the
Southern Alliance arises from the fact
that it is secretorder, while the North
ern body is not. The annual meeting
of the Southern Alliance will be held i'm
| indianapolis this week and Mr. Don
| nelly and number of his followers will
he OH hand. 1t is said they propose to
| pave the way for the admission of Min
| nesOta to the Southern body by accepting
seats in the convention as delegates
+ from this state. OF course il this is
done it will weaken the Alliance con-
siderably in the state, as il will compel
| the withdrawal of a great many who
are now members. but who are opposed
to all secret societies.
Altogether the Alliance is a very active
factor in Minnesota politics al the pres
| emf fine and the coming ANIMAL meet