St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-18
A Resignation That Came in
Time to Save an EX-
pulsion.
The Sage Of Nininger Dis
satisfied With the Great
Vests Course.
An Address to the New Party
Reviewing the Late
Campaign.
The Republican Party Will
DiSintegFate, as Did the
Old Wings.

lnere is q vacancy III the Otlclal BOARD
of the Minnesota State Farmers Alli-
ance.
And the Great West is no longer the
official organ Of the association.
doc" Fish was not fired" but he
saved himself that fate by resigning the
Office of state lecturer yesterday when
he became convinced that he would be
fired as soon as the executive committee
of the Alliance could get together to
consider his case.
s Both the executive committee of the
Alliance and the state central commit
tee of the Peoples party were called 10
meet at the Merchants yesterday, but
only the latter met, as quorum of the
Alliance committee will not be here until
this morning. The Peoples party com
mittee ostenSibly came together to foot
up the expenses and examine the ac-
counts Of the campaign, but the mem
berS had hardly got together when the
case OF Fish came up. Several mem
bers went to Senator Donnelly and told
him frankly that the course OF Fish had
cost him thousands Of votes.
81 can show you proof that the Great
kWeSt's abuse of S. NJ. Owen and other
good men lost the Peoples party at
least 800 votes i'll Mcleod county
Blone,' said C. n. Perkins, of
shat county. The same reports came
Airom all sections of the state. This
lAad its effect on the Sage. and he eX-
fplained himself fully i'll regard to it.
81 frequently protested against the
course of the Great West," said Mr..
Donnelly, "but could do nothing"
Fish Pulls Out
The meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Alliance was day distant;
but, when Fish found that all of the
members present were of one mind con-
eerning him, he promptly wrote out his
resignation of the Office of lecturer of
the Alliance, notifying the committee
at the same time that the Great
West would no longer re-
main the official organ. This
resignation was handed1.to Secretary
Stromberg, and will be presented to the
official board today, and, it need not be
said, promptly accepted.
All the members of the executive
committee felt relieved at the retire
ment of Fish, and great Geal of an
cient history was brought out. From
this it appears that Senator Donneily
would not have been a candidate for
governor had it not been for Fish. who,
it seems, had point blank refused
to support Owen if nominated.
Mr. Donnelly's preference was to
devote himself to looking after
the legislative contests. Having been
forced into the position as candidate
by Fish, the Sage was disappointed at
the course of the Great West, which
while pretending to give him hearty
support, was continually attacking all
the best and ablest men in the move
ment. These attacks coming III the
midst of the campaign did the Sage's
cause no end of harm. and naturally
enough greatly aided the Republicans.
Hanson Did Right.
Ever since the Democratic state com
mittee nominated the four social ed flu
sion electors, Fish has been assailing
Secretary Louis Hanson, of the People s
party committee, and in bis letter re-
signing from the Alliance lectureship,
he declared that he could not indorse
the management of the campaign. This
disgusted the committee and the follow
ing resolution eXhonerating Secretary
Hanson was drawn up and unani-
mously adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of the COM
mittee are hereby rendered to Louis
Hanson and Robert Eckford, secretary
and assistant secretary of the state eX-
ecutive com mittee Of the Peoples party,
for their long, arduous and faithful
services to the party during the recent
campaign, and for the StrictnesS with
which they have accounted for every
dollar received by them. And this
committee expresses its belief that
the said Louis Hanson in rec
0Inmending that the names of
otr electoral candidates should
be so arranged as to facilitate the voting
for the same by the Democrats acted in
perfect good faith to the Peoples party
and entered into no fusion or betrayal
OF, the principles Of our party. The at
tacks made upon him and our party by
the Republican press were totally un-
deserved, for we nominated those
electors to be elected and we were justi-
fed in welcoming votes for them from
any quarter.
Hon. q. N. Perkins, of Mcleod. and
S. p. Rasmussen, of Ramsey, were ap-
pointed committee to audit the ac-
counts of the campaign committee,
which they did, presenting the follow
ing report:
The undersigned have carefully
examined the books and accounts of
Louis Hanson, secretary OF the state
central committee of the Peoples party
of Minnesota during the campaign of
1892, and we find that he has faithfully
accounted for all funds received by him,
and that his accounts are correct. There
is a balance in his hands to be applied
in payment of outstanding debts of the
committee. 5. p. RASMUSSEN,
G. n. PERKINS.
Committee
The question Of starting new Peo-
pies party paper in this. city was
brought up and discussed. 1t will be a
joint stock company, SOD A. s. Edwards,
of Minneapolis, and GQuis Hanson will
be the managers and Robert Eckford
the treasurer. 1t will AT a staunch Peo-
pies party paper, but Till aim to treat
all fairly, differing In this respect from
the late ''official organ." Senator Don
Helly's dropping of Fish was received
with
Demonstrations of Approval
by the entire committee, and everything
ran smoothly. Men who have always
opposed the Sage in the Alliance con-
ventions and meetings shook hands
with him, and expressed their hearty
appreciation. He was not inclined to
discuss the matter at any length, but
saidi
s'Dr. Fish has been friendly toward
me and IdisIike to say anything un-
kind of him. l will state. however, that
Idid not like his course III the cam
| paign Just closed. He printed too much
about dynamite in Kansas politics and
not enolgh about our campaign here.
His course was very peculiar, to say the
least.o
'Doc" Fish was not in q pleasant