New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-01-13
FARMERS ALLIANCE
The State Convention of the Farm
ers' Alliance Meets in Min
neapolis.
lgnatius Donnelly Reelected Presi-
dent Without Much Oppo-
sitiOn.

ers Alliance convened in Minneapolis
with about 600 delegates present
They were welcomed on behalf of the
city by Mayor Winston, in very appro-
pirate speech.
0. r. Erickson welcomed the delegates in
the name of the Minneapolis wage worker
A committee on credentials was APPS
pointed, Of which Andrew Stevenson of
Polk was made chairman. Johnson of
PiPestone was made reading clerk, Kinner
OF JACKSON document clerk, and Greenman
OF Dodge assistant secretary
President DonnelIy then delivered his
annual address. He opened up with some
alliance statistics, then with an explana-
ton OF the failure to get out the 81, 600
pamphlets containing Alliance literature.
he expressed dissatisfaction with the work
OF the lecture bureau during the past year
and said in regard to the election Of new
lecturer:
We do not want to elect any man simply
as all honor to him, and then have him
stay at home and do nothing. You must
have the strongest assurances that he will
work-Work-workt to the utmost of his
ability; for the lecture bureau is the very
heart, kernel and marrow Of the whole
Alliance organization. This it is that has
created nearly all our Alliances, and this it
is that must keep them alive after they are
organized.
NIL. 1IOuIlc1ly lcIe OpCIeu up OH LHG
newspapers in severe deBouncement. He
said:
Our plunderers know that the people
have votes enough to vote them down and
correct all abuses. They cannot keep US
from the ballot box with guns and cannon.
Their only resource is to deceive us through
the agency ofnewspapers, which enter into
every house and penetrate into every mind.
The editors of these sheets are valued for
their powers of sophistry and misrepre-
sentation. They seldom attack the Alliance
openly. They seek to undermine it by de-
nouncing it's honest leaders and praising it's
traitorous leaders. Wherever there is any
difference in our ranks they seek to pry it
open with crowbars of falsehood and deta-
nation. The lying capacity of the news
papers of America is the most colossal ex-
hibition of mendacity known in the world
since the Almighty tumbled Lucifer over
the embellishments ofheaven. 1t is stu
pendous-it is illimitable-it takes away
the breath of simple virtue and bewilders
honest truth into paralysis. 1t threatens
all our conceptions Of primal right and for
bodies redistribution of civilization, It is
a new and terrible force in society, of which
antiquity knew nothing.
In speaking of the money power in poll
tics the sage scored the Wall street men
severely.
lii conclusion he gave the Minneapolis
mllers roast, saying:
1t would be Interesting to see the ele-
vator men and spectators of Minneapolis
saying to the Russian farmers: ''Here is a
shipload of flour; we stole thousand times
as much from the farmers Of the Northwest,
but they are not starving although badly
mortgaged, and we thought we could give
you this much, because we know we can
steal another ship load any day in the year
from the farmers of Minnesota. AS trustee,
therefore, for the Farmers Alliance or
Minnesota, we hand over to you miserable
devils this noble contribution. Bow down
and worship us as generous hearted men,
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The principal business of the afternoon
session was the election Of a president.
2. III. Rahilly, Of Wabasha placed in
nomination, 1gnatius Donnelly
Frank Hoskins, of Henning nominated
Mr.. Brandenburg, which caused consider
able excitement, and some hot words
passed back and forth before order was OBJ
tanned.
Several other nominations were made. A
ballot was then taken which resulted as
follows:
Donnelly, 472; Brandenburg. IA; Owen, 4;
Meigher 1; Champlin, 4; Biorge, 20.
Mr.. Donnelly's election was made unani-
NOUS, and being called upon for speech,
he responded in short speech of accept
ance in which he scored the other politi-
cal parties and gave words of advice to the
their power to make the coming year
successful one for the movement.
Mrs. Mcdonald alesh, tn state lecturer,
made her annual report which contained
some very valuable information.
Then came flood ofresOlutOns of everv
color and kind. Inasmuch as the conven-
ton was not a formerly organized one,
they were merely read and referred to the
committee on resolutions Many of the
resolutions were pertinent and full Of JUS
tice and wisdom, while others were moth
ing more or less than ludicrous. When
port the delegates found an opportunity to
indulge in little laughing. To facilitate
matters it was moved to read the names of
the counties and the number of votes each
was entitled to, instead of the name of each
delegate which would take considerable
time. Many Of the delegates, however,
were anxious to hear their names trump
eted through 1.-The curtained halls, j" and so
precipitated lengthy argument by object
ing vigorously. Happily, however, their
ambitious desires We're not gratified.
The reports were all accepted and before
the convention adjourned to convene again
in the evening, President Donnelly an
nounced the following two committees:
Resolutions-Dr e. w. Fish chairman,
Ramsey; James Hanna, Renville; A. D.
Ferris Pipestone f. Eiwell, Goodhue H.
L. Burgess Otter Tail; P. H. Rahilly,
WaDaSha; Gilbert FISH, Rlce; Is. II. warren,
Murray; d. w Hixon, Grant; L L. Gilbert,
Redwood; W. Perkins, Mcleod; George
Mennie, Lincoln; Lysander Cook, Blue
Earth; w. A. Hotchkiss, Fillmore; j. NJ.
Belts, Lincoln
Constitutional D. Stewart chairman,
Redwood; J. J. Money, Yellow Medicine
Marshall; j. I. Vermilya, Olmsted; G. F.
Bohali, Todd; P. Kershaw, Stevens; F. T.
Taylor. Dakota; F. R. Davis, Lac qul Parle;
Hon. F. Borchart, Renyille; w Murphy,
Stearns; A. Kruger, Wabasha: Hynes,
MOBILES; W. Nash, Big Stone; F. M. Currier,
Blue Earth.
SECOND DAY.
The first business was the election of a
secretary. The following nominations
were made: 0. n. Kingsbury, of Fillmore;
Louis Hanson, of Clay; A. L. Stromber &, o
Forest Lake.
The vote was announced as follows:
Kingsbury, 9; Stromberg, 2S4; Louis Han
son, 259
Mr.. Stromberg was declared elected.
For state lecturer, DR.. Fish, Gen. j. III.
Baker and Daniel Duncan werenominated.
The ballot resulted as follows: Fish, 800;
Baker, 228; Duncan, o. On motion DR..