St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-30

treasury ana ~
s st5ln i9 are ' eer- E.IenazH.
tain that the
Sage seeks the nomination because he
believes that the chances are favorable
to the election of the ticket this year
The other faction of the old Alliance
party, which sWears by s. NJ. Owen.
Gen. j. Ii. Baker, Senator John b.
Hompe and others of the more conServ-
alive class, who do not believe In the
sub-treasury scheme, are just as certain
that Mr. Donnclly and doc" Fish are
in the employ of the Republican organ
ization Of the state, or if not this, then
working for some particular man III the
Republican ranks. They are not at all
backward in making the claim
that the nomination of Mir: owen
this year by the Peoples party
would be rewarded by his
election, a result that the railway cor
porationS of Minnesota are not at all
anxious to have brought about. 10
prevent the nomination of Mr.. owen
the senator from Dakota has spent both
time and money without stint. While
denouncng the methods of the old po-
litlcal parties and inveighing against
bOssam in politics he has built up
machine that has never been co ualed Ill
the history OF Minnesota.
Today Nj. DOnlelly is the absolute
dictator OF tie Peoples party i'll this
state.
He has the power to mold every move,
to say what men shall be nominated for
state offices, and what kind Of platform
shall be adopted at the coming state
convention to be held July Is.
More than this, he will reach out and
dictate the congressional nominations
in every one of the seven congressional
districts. and have great deal to say
about the legislative tickets, or rather
their composition.
Are there some who doubt the state
ment just made?
If there are, brief review of the
recent victories scored by the Sage in
the Seventh district Will convince them
of its truth, and at the same time show
the great hold OF Mr.. Donnelly. The
two county conventions in the north
that put to flight the Sage's enemies so
completely were those held in Otter
Tail and Polk counties. In Otter Tail
Senator Hompe and his friends were
bitterly opposed to the swallowing OF
the old Alliance party by the Peoples
party, and especially the manner i'll
which Mr.. Donnelly has con-
Quoted the organization of the
Peoples party. In Otter Tail
county he pursued the same course as
in all other counties of the state, that
is, he selected one man, in this particu-
lar case Hon. Il. E. Boon, the present
register of deeds of the county, and a
very strong aId Shrewd manager, and
made him organizer of the county with
power to name a county committee of
which he would be the chairman. which
should call all conventions and be the
central authority of the Peoples party
in the county.
This action was not satisfactory to the !
members, or some of them at least. OF |
the county committee of the Alliance |
party appointed two years ago, and |
which managed the fight Of 1890 when |
Otter Tail went so strongly for the ALI !
ance state. congressional and county |
tickets, and, accordingly. a convention !
of the Alliance party was called TO con-
slider the situation. Up to the very day |
upon which this convention was held, |
the anti-DOnnelly men were supposed |
to be in the lead, but they were inglori- |
ouSly defeated in the convention, the |
Donnely men winning at every stage |
of the proceeding.
The Alliance party in Otter Tail |
county has disappeared and the Peo- |
pies party has taken its place, and the
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nation is Mr.. Boon and not Senator
Hompe. Thus did the willy Sage OF
Nininger punish Mr.. Hompe right in
the home of his friends.
The situation in Polk county was
much the same, except that it illustrates
the fact that when Donnelly starts out
to crush man he does 1t. unless he can
force the victim OH his knees. Polk
county is the home of Senator +. E.
Lommen, one of the brightest and ableSt |
OF the Alliance senators Ill the last legiS-
Iature. He at first opposed Donnelly on
tile interest bill, believing that it would
be damage rather than benefit to the
borrowing classes if it should be passed
with the final clause. so dear to the
Donaellian heart, attached. For this
opposition the Sage swOre vengeance on
the Polk county senator, and last week
he got q large measure OF II.
As has been we'll known for some
time, Senator Lommen has cherished a
desire to 60 TO congress from the Sew
enth district. In fact. lie has kept his
eye OIL all the happenings in the Sew
enth district with the idea of securing
the Alliance or Peoples party nomna-
ION. He early saw that the Peoples
Darty, and, although a warm friend of
Owen, Hompe, ProbStfield and the other
men, he refused to hang
back, and promptly climbed on board
the Peoples party band wagon. He at
tended the st. Louis conference, went
into the Southern or recent Alliance,
and fondly imagined that he had;headed
the willy old Cryptogram off very nicely.
But Senator L0mmen, although
strongly intrenched, went down before
the Sage as easily as mis- erStwhile friend
and ally, Senator Hompe.
In Polk. as we'll as Otter Tail, Don
nelly had his man picked out for con-
gressional honors, and all the influence
of the Great West was used to advance
his interests. This man is none other
than Andrew STEVENSON, brother of
Hon. Halvor Stevenson, and a Don
nelly man from the ground up. He
believes in the sub-treasilry, the land
loan and all other schemes advocated
by the Sage; and Mr.. Stevenson last
week secured the Polk county delega-
ton to the Seventh district congress
sional convention.
And this is the way in which the Sage
squared accounts with Senator Lom-
men.
In the Second district he is now at
work fixing up things SO that Gen. J.
Ii. Baker will not be the nominee for
congress. The Donnelly candidate is a