St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-27
FEIC IS FOILED.
His Plans to Get on the Alli-
ance Ticket Frus-
trated.
How a County Conference
Was Made Into a Congress
sional Convention.
Eight Men Meet Without a
Call and Nominate Henry
Feig.
Not a Delegate Was Present
From the Other Fifteen
Counties,
And No Call Was Ever Sent
Out for Such Meet
ing.
Feig Was on Hand for a Con-
ference Early in the
Morning.

The voters OIL the OeNtulH coHsi0o-
sioEal district should defeat the Repub-
lican nominee for congress by a major
itv so large that both he and his mas
ters will know that the people have no
use for them.
In the Seventh district the Republic
ans have been and are making the
most notorious and disgraceful Doodle
campaign ever known. Money has
been poured out like water wherever
1t would win vote or secure an iota OF
support. The people of the Red river
valley have had horde of political mer-
cenaries from St. Paul and Mime
apolis turned loose upon them.
So-called preachers have been talking
to the people everywhere. At the pres
ent time J. }. Lomen. chief clerk OF the
secretary of state. Is at Work III Norman
county: Oscar Lonegren, of the public
examiners Office, is in klttson; two
men, Anderson and Ryan, are III
Marshall. going from house to mouse
misrepresenting the opposition and hir-
ing workers.
All these mercenarieS are working Tor
iusi two men. Henry Feig, the nominee
for congress of the ancient
Polk County Ring,
and Knute Nelson, the railroad and
wheat combine candidate for governor.
The mass of the people favor neither of
these men. They know for whom they
stand and the methods that are being
nsed to secure votes for them. The
honest, hard working farmers of the Red
river valley do not believe in the party
of Donaldson, of Kittson; Stephens.
Aaker and Mcclure, of Polk; Comstock
and White. OF Clay, and others OF that
ilk. They know the old rings, and to
their sorrow.
But the most desperate and dishonest
glove made in the Seventh district was
made on Oct. q. almost the last mo-
ment that it could be done. This was
the filing of certificates in each of the
sixteen counties of the district by John
Is. Hompe and Frank Hoskins, as chair
man and secretary, certifying that at
an Alliance congressional convention
Of the district Henry Feig had been
nominated for congress.
No such convention was ever called
and none such was held.
The certificates flied by HOmpe and
Hoskins are false in fact, and If they
do not constitute case Of perjury they
approach very near to it. Knowing all
the facts of the so-called fleming con-
vention, Hon. w. T. KelSo, the Demo
cratic nominee in the district, yester
day fled the following protest with the
auditor of every one of the counties:
Conspirators Balked.
AS the regularly nominated candidate
of the Democratic party of the Seventh
congressional district of Minnesota, |
hereby protest against the filing of a
certificate of nomination of one Henry
Feig, signed by one John B. Hompe. as
presiding officer, and one Frank Hos
kins, as secretary, of an alleged conven
ton of the Alliance party of said dis
trict, and against the insertion of the
name of said Henry Feig by you in the
official ballots to be printed as the can
didate OF said party, OH the ground that
the statements i'll said certificate are
false. and that no convention of the said
Alliance party for said district was held
at the time and place named in said Ger
tificate OF at any other time and place.
WILLIAM +. KELSO.
In case the auditors of the various
counties disregard the facts in this case
and place Eeg'S name on the ticket and
he should receive more votes than Mr..
Kelso or Mr.. Boen, there are sufficient
grounkS for a contest, and one would
Undoubtedly be successful. There is a
limit beyond which fraud and cOrrup-
ton dare not go.
No Alliance congressional convention
was ever called or held in the Seventh
district.
Had it not been for the fact that
Hompe and Hoskius and their tools
knew that an Alliance convention, COM
posed of delegates from the entire six
teen counties of the district, would GER
tainiy nominate either the Democratic
candidate, Hon. W. +. Kelso, or the
Peoples party nominee, Hon. II. E.
Boen, such convention would have
been called. There was county con-
vention of the Alliance party OF Otter
Tail county properly called. and held in
the village OF Henning in that county on
Sept q last. at which 4 county ticket
was named. The only call under which
any convention met in Hennlng on the
9th of September will be found below.
In it 10 mention of nominating. a cam
didate for congress is made, and no del
egateS are invited to attend from the
other fifteen counties. But read the
call:
Alliance County Convention
The members of the Alliance party of
Otter Tail county are hereby called to
meet in mass conference and conven-
ton at Henning, OH Tuesday, Sept. 81,
1892, at II o'clock a. m. to consider what
action Tie Alliance party shall take in
the coming campaign and to nominate
candidates for the legislative and
county Offices to be voted for at the
coming election. and to transact any
other business regularly brought before
the conference. Ali are invited to at
tend who are opposed to the transfer
and delivery of the splendid organiza.
ton which swept this county two years
ago, by few of1iceseekers, to the sup
port of the corrupt political machine set
up in this state, district and county un-
der the name of Peoples party, and
who believe that the reform movement
should not be delivered 70 the support
poslng Dc eG159pf as reform for canddotes. s .'"eS
The Alliance party invites the coop
Mation Of all who believe III the aboii