The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-06
A BATCH OF LETTERS.
Showing How st. Paul Lost the
Annual Meeting of the State
Alliance.

Annual Meeting of the State
Alliance.
OnThursday Nov. l6, a week be-
fore the meeting of the executive
committee to determine where the
annual meeting OF the state alliance
should be held, the following letter
was sent to Mayor Wright Of St. Paul:
MAYOR F. P. WRIGHT,
St. Paul, MINI.
DEAR SIR:-The annual meeting
Of the State Farmers Alliance will
be held on the second Tuesday in
January. This meeting will be COM
posed Of about five hundred delegates
and each delegate will expend at
least ten dollars.
Last year l went to you in regard
to meeting and you thought you
could do nothing for us. Mayor
Eustis invited us to Minneapolis,
gave US free hall, etc., and the re-
suit was the meeting went there.
Being interested in St. Paul l hope
you will this year try to get the con-
vention to come here. Will you kind
ly let me hear from you at your
earliest convenience as our commit
tee will meet in St. Paul next We'd
nesday at Merchants Hotel, to take
action on location for meeting.
Yours truly,
r. EcKFoRD, Com.
The executive committee of the
state alliance met at the time and
place indicated in Mr.. Eckford's let
ter. There were communications
from St. Cloud and from the Board
of Trade of Minneapolis ten
dering the use of hall with suitable
committee rooms, heated and light
ed, free of expense to the alliance,
but nothing from Mayor Wright, and
the Minneapolis proposition was ac-
copied. On Saturday, Dec. 2, more
than a week after the meeting of the
committee was held, and after the
action of the committee had been
published in the daily papers, Mr..
Eckford received the following letter
from the Mayors office:
Dec. l, 1893.
IL. ECKFORD, Esq, City.
DEAR SIR:-I am directed to say
that your recent favor. in reference
to securing the annual meeting Of
the farmers alliance for St. Paul, is
at hand, after some delay. II you
will inform me the date of the meet
ing, SO that Market hall can be Sc
cured for it, and also what you sug-
gest to be done by this office in order
to secure the meeting for this city,
will try to see that our suggestions
are carried out. Very respectfully,
w. G. HANDY,
Mayors Sec'y.
To this transparent fiction Mr..
EckfOrd replied as follows:
ST. PAUL, Dec. 2, 1893.
MAYOR f. P. WRIGHT,
DEAR SiR:-I am in receipt of
yours Of Dec. 1st. in answer to my
letter of Nov. 10th last in regard to
getting the convention OF the state
alliance to come to St. Paul, and re-
questing an immediate answer as the
executive committee met at the
Merchants Hotel, Nov. 22d, to decide
on place Of meeting.
The Board of Trade of Minneapolis
kindly offered us the free use OF the
Lumber Exchange hall including
heat and light, and not hearing from
the Mayor Of St. Paul. the committee
accepted the invitation of Mime
apolis and resolved to meet in that
city. Yours truly, r. ECKFORD.
The statement of bank clearings
for last week shows decrease as
compared with the corresponding
week last year as follows:
Minneapolis. ....... 44.2 per cent.
OU. Raul. 50.Z
The citizens of Minneapolis are
alive to the interests of their city,
from the mayor down. The alliance
convention may not be much Of an
affair in the estimation Of Mayor
Wright, but the $1,000 they will
spend does cut a figure, this terribly
hard year, with the hotels and bust
ness houses Of St. Paul, and the lat
ter will not, perhaps, especially ad-
mire the way in which the mayor
locks after their interests.
OFFICIAL.
AUSTIN, Dec. 4, 1913.
A meeting of the Central Com.