St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-15
INTERESTING MEETING OF THE AL
LANCE HELD YESTERDAY AT
MINNEAPOLIS.
A ROAST FOR WHEAT RINGS.
MRS. MARY f. LEASE SAYS THE
FARMERS ARE SALT OF THE
EARTH.
OLD OFFICER REELECTED.
Delegation From the knights of Ia
bor-HarmOniOus Cooperation
Is Pledged.

Representatives of the Minnesota
Farmers Alliance assembled at Har
mona hall yesterday morning at 1890
for the fourteenth annual convention
of the body. J. ]. Vermilyea, presid ent
Of the organization, called the meeting
to order and delivered a short adj
dress.
lie reminded his hearers that what
they had gained came from organiZa-
ton and that they must be prepared
| in the future to show a united front to
their enemies. With a concluding re-
mark that the expenses of each dele
( gate represented the price of 140 BUSH
els of oats, the president announced
that the first work would be the ap-
pOintment of a committee on Gre
dentials. He appointed eX-Congress-
man Haldor E. Boon, of Fergus Falls,
chairman, and T. ]. Meighen, of Fill
| more county, secretary, each county
selecting its chairman to represent it
on the committee. The committee re-
! tired to deliberate and members were
advised to come up and pay their dues.
While the committees were deliberat-
ing, Mr.. Donnelly was called uron, and
spoke at some length. His address
was not received with much erthusi-
asm. A delegate from Polk county
volunteered the statement that the con-
Vention was called not in the interest
of politics, but for the benefit of farm
erS.
A general discussion was then be-
gun as to the ACCESSIBILITY of forming
an independent wheat-buying alliance
Frank Hoskins, of Fergus Falls is a
leader in the movement, and he de-
nounced the Minneapolis wheat ring"
that compels the local buyer, wher-
ever he is, to pay price that gives
the dealer profit of four cents. He
called attention to the fact that soft
wheat is quoted at four cents higher
in Chicago than hard wheat at Du-
luth, with a value of eight cents more.
The warehouse commission was dealt
rich, brown roast
l.. G. Long, state lecturer. delivered
vigorous address, saying, among 9TH
er things:
candIdly and honestly believe that
IT is the best thing for the farmers that
the supreme court decided the Duluth
state elevator to be unconstitutional
You may shake your heads if YOU will
out wait TILL you hear the argument If
"Aii iieRd pcSH and
the elevator had been built the COVER
nor would appoint the men to run if
ana we would be foiled, because we
don't control the state government. We
are numerous and strong enough to get
together and build terminal elevator
OF our own, without any state aid, and
that is what we want to do
d. L. Ames, of Mortified, spoke along
the line of the question of haul and the
practice of railroads in charging more
Tor a short haul than for long haul.
Speaking of flax, he said that it was
nrst shipped to Minneapolis and then
pack through Mortified to Chicago. The
Minneapolis commission man is able to
get cheaper rate to Chicago than the
Mortified producer, who is fifty miles
nearer to the objective point, Chicago.
Being instructed to do so by the meet
ing, the president announced the follow
ing committees:
Resolutions-Dr. c. Johnson, chairman.
tlrst district; T. j. Meighen, Second district
L. G. Long, Third district; H V. Poore
Fourth district; S. w. Powell Fifth dis
uict; J. H. Howe, Sixth district; T. E. RYAN.
Seventh district.
Constitutional Committee-Ignatius Donnel-
~, chairman; G. r. Blair, Winona; Thomas
Hodgson, Stevens county
The credentials committee not being
ready to report and the time being past
noon, adjournment was taken until 1870.