St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-29
VOTE FOR LAWLER,
Gen. Baker Gives Good Adj
vice to the Alliance Men
Of Minnesota.
The Democrats Fighting 10y
ally Against McKinleyism
~ and Wheat Thieves.
Isl
Against These Paramount In
EQUITIES the Alliance Is
Also Battling.
therefore, Their Duty Lies
in Casting Their Votes
for LaWlep.

OAK CLIFF FARM, Oct. 2S.-To the
Alliance Party of the State: Having
been honored by the Alliance party of
the state with the nomination for gov
ernor in July last. and having subse-
quently declined the nomination for
reasons fully given in my letter of
defamation, deem it a duty in this
supreme hour to say word to the
members OF that party. There was, and
still is, very large body of original
and genuine Alliance voters. who could
not follow the new leaders to the new
and unnatural position which the Peo-
pies party has assumed. The whole
Alliance platform had been subjected
TO changes, both violent and dangerous.
The potential energy of tariff reform
had been withdrawn and the SUBJ
treasury plank-a weak invention
substituted in lieu thereof.
Other things had been admitted
into the platform which were wholly
foreign to the tenetS and traditions of
the old Alliance. The assumed die
tatorship and robust ''bossism'' which
marked the new movement. and the
complete surrender TO the principles of
class legislation by the Peoples party.
allenated the old guard OF the Alliance.
Inc Staiwart farmers who had really
made the Alliance all that it was, could
not afford 10 follow the new, cratic
leaders. 1t was the manifest intention
OF these dictators either to wreck the
Alliance or use 1t solely fer the pur-
poses of individual ambition The
healthier and better element of the Alli-
ance naturally refused to yield.
There is. therefore. large body of
eminentiy thoughtful and conservative
Alliance men who cannot support the
Peoples party candidate for governor.
10 these thoughtful men, l respectfully
venture to address word. [ have
studied with jealous care every ex-
preston of thought or utterance OF prln-
ciple, by either of the old parties, to see
II they would advocate or move in the
same general direction, upon questions
we deemed the most vital and pressing.
We had embodied III our Alliance plat
form or July two issues deemed "funda-
mental and paramount" The one was
tariff reform: the other the wheat rob-
berry question. In the one we were
robbed by national thieves by authority
OF statute called the Mckinley bill:
in the other we were robbed
by state thieves under the pro-
lection of the state government
| found that the Republican party of the
state was bitterly hostile to the first,
and the apologist and defender of the
thieves in the second of these PROPOSE
tons. l next found that the Populists
had wholly dropped tariff reform, and
had avoided and evaded the great wheat
question which was filling the minds of
every farmer in the state. There was
n of fnr
our principles but death itself.
Democrats. Register To-day.
Turning from these to the study of
the Democratic platform. found both
OF these principles enunciated with
courageous affirmation. l found that
their papers and orators, with signal
daring. were fighting for both our
cherished principles, and that they
brought TO the battle a powerfully
organized and trained political army.
They being so completely in accord with
us, by every rule OF logic and consist
eney, by every demand of common
sense. we should muster our forces with
their columns. 1t therefore seems to me
to be the plain and imperative duty of
every loyal Alliance man in this state,
for the battle now on, to fight with our
true allies, who ara the Democratic
party. Indeed, a true Alliance man
would have 10 apologize Tor not doing
so.
Democrats, Register To-day.
Onr Alliance friends will remember
that when we separated on the End day
of August, resolving to take no further
political action. as a party, tor this
campaign we left all our members free
to take such course as we indiyidu-
ally might choose. keeping ouly
in mind TO so act as that we
would do the best possible for the ad-
vaneement of our principles. An an
alysIs of the situation shows that there
is but one thing for us to do. know
that in this advice | respectfully offer
L am sustained by an overwhelming
majority of the Alliance state commit
tee. l therefore earnestly recommend
to every loyal Alliance man in Mime |
sofa to vote for Daniel W. LAWYER for |
governor. By so doing you will pre-
serve your consistency and obtain a
triumph for the two paramount" prin- |
ciples nearest your heart. Very re-
speetfully, j. II. BAKER.