St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-15
Erwin, Baker and Hixson Com
tribute Juicy Inter-
views.
The Alliance Will Eoldly Push
Along It's Line Of
Battle.
Committees Named and Two
Electors at Large Are
Named.

The treatment accorded the Alliance
committee by the Peoples party has
only nerved the former to renewed ex-
ertions. 1t has no bitter feeling against
the rank and file of the convention. be-
ing certain that when they fully COM
prehend the designs of Fish. Donnelly
and Rahilly they will desert them i'm
short order. w. w. Erwin last evening
talked freely regarding the late conven-
tlon. In response to question he said;
II feel panied beyond description at
the condition of affairs. in view of what
has been done and what has not been
done by the Peoples party convention.
A more honest and whole-hearted set Of
men never were assembled in America
than the personnel of tina. convention
never was there better meaning and
more earnest convention. Nor was
there ever noble band of honest pa
triots led more aStray or more COM
pletely blinded as to the true issues
Of the hour. nor has patriotic
force ever beensso thrown away
The ranks of the Peoples party mean
just what they meant in the great Alli-
ance battle of this state in 1890. / wish
| could feel that the leaders of that
party were as disinterested as the few
who tried to lead that splendid resistant
army of men
Opposed to Plutocracy
on that occasion. | may be mistaken,
but feel now, in view of the action of
the Peoples convention just adjourned,
that behind the leaders is secret con-
clave of the politicians, monopolists
and railway kings who make up the
terrible combine which now rules
the markets and the politics of
this state with an iron hand.
The real issues which are national are
not spoken of in the platform, as / un-
derstand 1t.
"What is the great issue IN this cam
paign? No living honest man can
deny" said Mr.. Erwin, ''that tariff re-
form is the vital issue in national ecOno-
my. The silver question is even sec
ondary to this CRYING wrong and injus-
tice of high tariff. Here we are penned
up like cattle to buy of protected man.
ufactnrers at their own price. This.
outrage was accomplished by the fraud
of claiming such tariff was designed
for the protection of labor. while in
the East and the West the blOated cap
italists who are
"PrOtected'' by High Tariff
deny to the laborer his pittance Of
wages from the doubled profits of.
watered capital. The protests of the
robbed laborerS is now met by the guns
of the militia and the Pinkertons in the
interest Of public order. What a sight
for the shades of Washington and jeff
ersOn. Ii the dead weap or swear !
think we ought to hear them nOw But
as men live in their poSterity. where is
the leader who kept such profound
silence when the Peoples party passed.
with cheers. their platform-silent on
the cause of this national disgrace?
Such Leader was crying against the
very genius of the republic against per.
sonal liberty and in favor of govern
mental monopoly. Why, if monopoly
is hateful to free men. who can dare
but the fool TO make it fixed and cohsti-
tutlOnal in the government. If it gals
enterprise, why should it be enthrOned
as the grinding and law-made tyrant of
the natlon?'
''TO own all the railways will cost the
government over ten billions of dollars,
five times as great sum as the old war
debt of the nation. To pay interest of
such bonds would necessitate double
and Quadruple the charges of transport
tation. An army of
Political Railway Presidents
and managers. This might suit Mr..
Donnelly or Mr.. Fish, but it does not
nor will it ever suit or please the men
whose fathers fought with Washington
to build up government with the least
power delegated consistent with ma
tional safety, and to leave with the SOW
ereign citizen the fields of enterprise
forever. The same is true of the pa
ternal character of the subtreasury
scheme A III thar nj nf hot
tie of 1890 in this state was the high
warning to political parties that the
people in sober thought would not suf-
fer such parties to become the tools of
monopoly-exceptt that by little COM
mlttee of the legislature we drew out i'm
proof the figures of the vast wheat COM
bine.
A Great Conspiracy.
"a conspiracy against the very homes
OF all OF our citizens, as well as against
the prosperity of our towns. manufact-
ures and exchanges. Here is matter
close to the life of every man in this
state. And now instead of marshaline
every man in the state to political battle
on that vital question the leaders of the
Peoples party turn deaf ear to the
entreatleS of such old fighters as
Baker, Hompe, Hall. Sprague, Warren.
Hixnn Canning and all of the old Scared
veterans OF the long battle already
waged for free homes and free markets
unless these men will Stultify their
lives and the traditions of their
i'll all attempt to realize the
Picture of ssCesar's Column,,
and Bellamy's Looking Backward"
All that we asked of Donnelly and his
lottery, who the gallant yeomen were
following blindly, was to make the
state platform of that quality that we
could lndOrse it.
That was all we asked. except i'm self.
'especG Tor the great reform party OF
o90 we asked conference on the candi.
iafes who should carry out the destruc-
ion of the wheat ring when we had by
'ur joint ballots doomed its death.
why, when we pleaded we were told
% go to the visitors benches and sill
town. The convention never paid the
east attention to our claims. Now, was
his in the
Interest of Reform
o drive us from their camp if they
meant reform? The wheat ring could
Tot retire or force back the men who
we're asking for only place to fight fol
nome and liberty; but it has remained
% this convention 10 retire US from
heir battle line, to tell us we do not
iced you. nor your counsel, nor YOUR
'ote. Well they have put in their plat
Orm just what
The Wheat Ring Wanted.
They ask that the railroads be compelled