St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-27
WILL IT Be A SPLIT?
Alliance State Central Com
mittee Meets and Issues
an Address.
Ready to Compromise With
the Peoples Party on a
Fair Basis
And With the Understanding
That the Alliance Is a
Legal Party.
S. M. Owen Believes the
Omaha Platform Will Be
All Right.

THE Alliance party, of Minnesota, is
in fact a political party recognized by
the laws of the state"
| So resolved the state central commit
tee of the Alliance party, which fought
| the campaign of two years ago in
I meeting held at the Merchants yester-
| DAY.
There were present Chairman Car
! ringtOn Phelps. Of Mound City; Secre-
tary Albert Warren, of Lake Benton;
c. w. Brandberg, of Otter Tail; Sen
ator Jay La Due, OF Buverne; Hon.
Charles Canning, of Duluth; I. G..
! Hodgson, of ST. Paul; I. ii. Lucas. of
Minneapolis, and j. c. Myers, OF ST.
Cloud-all members of the committee.
Aside from these committeeman Hons.
| M.Owen, of Minneapolis, and Gen.J. IL.
| Baker. or Blue Earth, were in attend
| ance, and addressed the body on the
| situation. The members were all of the
| opinion that the Alliance party of Mn
neSota is. under the laws of the state.
as much OF party as either the Repuo-
| lican, Democratic or Prohibition par
| ties, and that the members of the AL
| lance state central committee cannot
surrender their power to any other body
or at the command OF any one or any
/ thing save convention called in the
regular manner and composed OF repre-
! sentatiYeS of the same people by whose
| order they were called into the service
| two years ago.
The claim OF Senator Donnelly, of the
| Peoples party, is that the Alliance
state central committee was merely
| creation of the Farmers Alliance, and
that, therefore, its duties and existence
ended with the close Of the campaign in
1890. But, while denying this, the
members and gentlemen who met yes
! terday were at all times profuSe in their
| expressions of desire for harmony, and
before adjourning the following resOlu-
| ton was adopted:
Resolved, That the chairman Of the Ali
ance state central committee be and hereby
! IS instructed 10 request the chairman OF the
: Peoples party central committee 10 join with
him III calling joint meeting OF the Two
committees within the next twenty days for
| the purpose OF a conference and of uniting
III call for state convention.
Not 10 DOnnellY
This request will 90. not TO the sage Of
Nininger, but to Thomas Meghen. of
Fillmore county. who is the chairman
| OF the Peoples party state committee,
| and there is no reason TO doubt that he
will call the conference; for while he is
a friend of Mr.. Donnelly lie is very de-
sirons of securing harmony between
! the diScOrdant elements OF the Alliance
| aud will do all in his power 10 secure it.
| Unless, however, the sage changes his
| position, nothing will come OF this con-
! ference, for his friends are in the
majority on the Peoples Party commit
ee, and vigorous crack of the whip by
hin will settle it. In this case there
will be an Alliance convention as well
as Peoples Party convention held for
| the nomination of state ticket.
Before agreeing upon an address to
the people of the state an informal dis
cussion of the situation took place,
among the speakers being Mr.. Owen,
who took the ground that If the
Alliance state central committee
was obliged to call conven-
ton it should be called to
meet OH the same day as that of PeO-
pies party in order that by means of a
! conference state ticket and platform
could be made satisfactory TO both
| bodies. He agreed that the Alliance
| committee named two years ago could
not disband except at the command and
by the direction of convention OF rep
resentatiyes of the people who ere
| ated it.
But the Peoples party convention
| will indorse its previous utternnceS and
| declarations" remarked a number.
"Can we indorse such PLATFORM"
You will notice." replied the Mime
! apolis editor. ''tIat the platforms of the
| Peoples party have been improved at
each meeting. The Cincinnati plat
| form is all improvement on the Ocala
resolutions, and the 81. Louis platform
is better than the Cincinnati one.
| nave no doubt that the Omaha conven-
| ton will adopt platform upon which
we can all get together"
The matter of securing representation
in the Omaha convention was brought
up and talked over. Senator La Due
vigorously advocated the proposition 10
confer with the Peoples party state
committee and arrange for a joint con-
| ference meeting of the TWO state CEN
! trail committees TO agree upon basis Of
| representation in the Omaha c0nven-
| ton. and also for representation in the
! state nominating convention, should
| the tive counties agree TO hold only one.
| This proposition was agreed TO, aud
| took the form Of a resolution printed
alone directing Chairman Phelps to con-
Ter with Chairman Meighen and ar
range for this conference. Before adj
journing the following address to the
independent voters OF the state was
adopted:
Address TO Independents.
To the Independent Voters of the State of
Minnesota:
We. the state central committee OF tue
Alliance party OF the state of Minnesota. in
session at st Paul. OH this 18th day OF April,
1892. have deemed it our duty 10 make public
10
First-That the Alliance parly Of lhe state
of Minnesota is, III fact, political party
recognized by the laws OF the state: that il is
vested with all the rights and responsibilities
which attach TO ali political parties organ
lied under or recognized by the laws OF this
state. That on that famous 1gth day of july
1890 there were III session in the state capt
toll TWO regularly organized conventions. one
in the senate chamber. composed OF dele
gates from labor organizations. having Gre
dentiais under the great seals Of the various
orders another in the hall of representatives.
composed OF duly empowered delegates from
the Farmers Alliances OF the state: that The
Farmers Alliance convention voted III favor
of independent political action and ad
jcurned. sine die; that Immediately mass
convention was there organized and at once
Joined by the labor delegates; that II elected
its officers, appointed its committees, adopted
q platform. nominated full slate ticket and
inaugurated the reform fight as the Alliance
party OF this STATE. BY the direct instruction
of that convention. its chairman appointed
this sg9te central committee with the fun
powers of such a committee. among which
are the authority and dut % perpetuate the
life of the party till the next convention.
That this committee has precisely the powers
of any state central committee OF any party
existing under the Australian ballot law OF
this state.
secona-That this committee is not as
some have asserted, mere campaign CON-
mit.ee appointed To conduct single cam.
paIgi and then dissolve. having Inc party
without an organization or a medium
through which 10 act; but il is what its name
indicates. Il stale central comm Tee OF lis-
ing party and charged with tine duty of pro
tecling the rights and interests of thut party,
n responsibility from which IL cannot be re-
iieyed except by the power that gave II ex-
istenge nam .ly, state convention OF the
Alliance party of Minnesota regularly called.
u is therefore incumbent upon us 10 dis
rharse Iho.e dlltes win all zeal and ildelaty.