St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-27

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}. B. HoMPE, Chr. H. BUTTON,
FRANK HosKINS. Sec. G. o. GREELEY.
NELS ANDERSON, FRANK ROBBINS,
County Committee.
Official Account.
In the Alliance Advocate of Sept. %
appeared the following account of the
Hennlng conventions:
Pursuant to call the Alliance county
convention was held in Hennlng Tues
day last. j. 3. Hompe presided and q.
o. Greeley, of Scambler, acted as secre-
tary. The following ticket was nomi-
mated.
Here follow 1.-THE county nomina-
tionS.
After the Democrats and Prohibition
lists withdrew. the Alliance men in con-
ventiOn met and indorSed Henry Feig
for congress.
A resolution was adopted authorizing
the county committee to fill any vacan-
ces.
The old county committee was re-
elected to serve for the ensuing two
years.
A resolution adopting the Alliance
county platform and demanding state
warehouses at Duluth and privilege of
locating elevators Oh all right-of-wayS
by any party.
This man Hoskins publishes the Ad-
vocate, is secretary of the county COM
mittee, and the above brief account
may, therefore, be regarded as official.
In every point it corroborateS the story
given above by delegate.
After seeing Mr.. Feig, Senator Hompe
seems to have forgotten his pledge to
the Demooratic-A Alliance members of
the convention, for, after the county
ticket had been made, he suggested that
Feig be indorsed. But here is the story
of that convention. as told by one of
those who participated i'll it:
''1n regard to the kind of an Alliance
nomination Feig received at Henning." :"
said this gentleman, II Will state that
! the call was for county convention
There was considerable dissatisfaction
among the Democrats of Otter Tail over
| the Perham convention, but this was
only over the county ticket and went no
| further. The HOmpe-Brandborg wing
| of the Alliance called Il convention for
| the purpose of nominating a county
ticket, and in the call they invited all
who were dissatisfied with the action of
the office seekers who had controlled the
conventions of both the Democratic and
Peoples parties.
Under that call and with a distinct
understanding that there was to be no
resolution of any kind indorSing any,
body for any office outside the county
| ticket, L went into the convention.
| About 4 O'Clock in the afternoon Mr.
| Brandborg came to me and said that
| some of the delegates were talking
| about lndorSing Feig. | told him that
| would not agree to any such thing, and
| reminded HIM of the agreement that
| there was to be no resolution indorSing
any one for office outside of the county
| ticket. l then told him | would hold him
| and Hompe to their agreement. A short
| time before the convention had COM
pleted the county ticket Mr. Hompe,
who was chairman, resigned the chair
to MIR. Greeley. and addressed the
convention i'll behalf of Feig. He gave
| the same reasons for indorsing Feig as
Brandborg-thati it was
| anything TO Beat Esoen.
Il objected, and then Senator Hompe
| suggested that the convention could ad-
| JOurn, and those who favored Feig
could do as they pleased afterwards.
1.-The convention adjourned. and the
| Democrats and ProhibtioniSts left the
hall. Hompe, Brandborg and a few
more remained and indorSed Feig.
| There is no doubt in my mind that it
was done to help out HoSkiDs finan-
cially, for | know neither Hompe nor
| Brandborg had any idea of indorSing
| Feig when they came in the morning.
| but Feig was at fleming that morning
before the convention, met and was
clOseted with HoskinS, and when the
| train came in HoSkinS and Feig went
| over and met Brandborg and Hompe,
and L am pretty certain it was there
that the agreement was made, but it is
an empty honor as far as Otter Tail
county is concerned, for he cannot
carry it, Notwithstanding all the noise
he is making"
The above fair and impartial history
of the Henning convention shows the
following facts:
FirSt-That it was called as a county
| convention to nominate candidates Tor
Otter Tail county.
Second-That it had no power to
nominate a candidate for congress at
any time.
Ihird-That the convention legally
ended when the adjournment was taken
after the county ticket had been filled.
No county auditor can find any war
rant in the law for placing Feig'S name
OH the ticket as an Alliance candidate.
No half-dozen men in one county can
get together and nominate a candidate
| for CONGRESS who must be voted for in
|
| facts where do MeSSrS. Hompe and
Hoskins stand? After waiting until the
last moment they offered for filing
certificates like the following in every
county of the district:
That False Certificate.
| To Auditor of --- county.
Sir: The undersigned hereby certify, pur-
suant to law, that a duly organized conven.
ton of delegates of and representing the AL
| E0nnp M
held in the village of Henning, in said state
on the 9th day of September. 1892 for the
purpose OF nominating candidate for con
gress for the Seventh district Minnesota
That said convention was duly ORGANIZED
assembly of delegates representing a polite
al party, which at the last general election
held i'll said district and state and now holds
and represents more than per cent of the
said election; that the undersigned. John B
Hompe was made the presiding officer and
Frank Hoskins the secretary of said conven
ton; that by the action of said convention
Henry Feig, residing at or near Atwater
Kandyohi county, was duly nominated fol
i the office OF member of congress, Seventh
district as representing the Alliance party OF
said county and district.
[Signedl JOHN B. HOMIE,
Presiding Officer.
FRANK HosKMs, Secretary.
| Dated Oct. 26. 1892.
State Of Minnesota County of Otter Tail
ss-coHH ID. houipe anu rfaHk HOSklIls
each by me first duly sworn, doth, each fol
himself. depose and say that he has read the
foregoing certificate and knows the content:
thereof, and that the facts therein stated are
true. JOHN B. HoNPE.
FRANK HosKINs.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
Goth day Of October 1892.
W. b. MILLET. Notary Public.
Otter Tail County, MINI.
The voters of the Seventh edistrict
have duty to perform in the coming
election, and it Is to
Rebuke the Doodlers by votip~ so,idl,
] against Henry Feig. q 'oiAui'