The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-30
MINNEAPOLIS WILL SEND FIFTY
DELEGATES TO THE FARM
ERs' CONGRESS.
THEY LIVE IN THE CITY
IN LOVE FOR AGRICUL-
TURE.
JUST LOOK AT A GREAT LIST.
Men Who Control Elevators Will
Touch Elbows With the Hum
BILE Rural Farmer

1t is doubtful If there has ever been
gathered together in any national
farmers congress a more representa-
tive gathering of sons of the soil then
there is in that party which will meet
tomorrow in this city. From every
state in the Union will come the hardy,
Sun-burned grangers, not the unsc-
phisticated farmer who buys gold
bricks at every turn in life, or SUBJ
scribes habitually to fake lightning
rods, but the modern scientific agri-
culturist, who aims to secure from the
same soil his fathers titled twice the
nutriment for the support of the hu-
man family. Naturally the more re-
mote states will send comparatively
small delegations, numerically, but
those near by will be well represented,
and Minnesota herself has 1000 dele
gates, appointed by Gov. Clough, Of
whom over two score are from that
rich agricultural community, Minneap-
oils
Probably no greater tribute to
the governors rare selections could be
paid than that which his enemy, the
Minneapolis Journal, did last night,
unconsciously perhaps, by publishing
the list of the Minneapolis delegates.
1t starts out with that eminent agri-
culturist, F. H. Peavey, who can tell
exactly how many cars will be needed
to move the crop Of 1897, and how long
it will take. He may not, as visual
object lesson, know a silo from a
spring-tooth harrow, but when it comes
to the commercial end of farming, he
has it literally at his fingers tips, or,
Ctrinf1U Iii n no Zinc Of &c
typewriter's fingers.
G. L. Smith is the next on the list. G.
L. is one of those agricultural editors
who are proverbial for their familiarity
with the theory of farming, although
lilacs and buckwheat are all the same
to their optics
A. B. Robbins lives farther from the
and is believed to know standing
wheat from oats. He is an elevator
operator by profession.
A. B. Cults, is a railway passenger
agent, good fellow, personally, and
good judge of acreage, from a car
window. Mr. Cults says that if you
count the lateral frontage of a wheat
field and it runs 100000 stalks to every
five telegraph poles, and the grain is
we'll filled out, you can count on the
field yielding fifteen bushels to the
acre.
S. P. Jones really is a farmer That
is. he is a reporter on the Pioneer
Press, but he is accredited to Mime
apolls. Jones has a Renaissance of
once having lived on a farm near
Rochester He is not sure whether it
was dairy farm or a fruit orchard,
but he remembers that it was Gus
tomary to rise at a. M, in winter and
cut wood for the cows
A. w. Latham is hardly farmer
but is entitled to seat because he has
the appointment. Besides, he really is
horticulturist and knows the vege-
table from animal life, generally
speaking.
II. F. Brown, who also possesses a
pretty piece Of paper with the state
seal on, is farmer. He owns a farm
called Browndale. Every year he goes
out there to help the auctioneer sell
his fat cattle. The rest of the time
Mr. Brown spends keeping an eye on
the Republican political pot
When it was intimated that William Henry
Eustis might be appointed one of the dele
gates, tn suggestion was received with ridi-
cule It was not supposed that Gov. Clough
would be so magnanimous to one of his most
persistent opponents in the last state conven-
ton. But the governor has obliterated any
personal luminosity that the gallant Eustis
Mr.. Eustis deep interest in matters agri-
cultural. Why! Mr.. Eustis owns two build
lngs in Minneapolis and he called one the
Corn Exchange and the other the Flour Ex-
change. Is he not truly an agrculturist?
|. c. Seeley has been dealing in town and
city lots so long that he might not know a
corner forty if he met it on the open prairie,
but he has been a dligent reader of ads
pertaining to suburban acres, and will be an
active member of the coming congress.
w. c. Edgar. the proprietor of the North
western Miller, is another of the delegates
Mr. Edgar has a ticker in his Office and
knows just where wheat is every instant of
the day, but the Minneapolis club is the near
est he has been to a farm, except on the
railroad, and be usually travels in palatial
sieepers at that.
]. S. Mcdonald is threshing machine man
ufacturer, who will, no doubt, feel out of
place among so many representatives of the
purely productive vocations.
George B. Frankforter is not a sausage
maker, his name might seem to indicate.
but is a professor of chemistry at the state
university. He once had a fourteenth cousin
who lived farm, however.
Roman Alexander is contractor and
builder, and incidentally an alderman and a
Knight Templar. He was not indicted, how
ever.
Horace B. Hudson, another of the delegates.
ings writing booklets for the board of trade
called "Facts about Minneapolis" although
they are not always.
Frank Grygla another of these simon uure
Minneapolis agriculturists, is a Great North
ern colonization agent, while Rev George R.
Merrill is specialist in the garnering of that
WHICH SOOQ DOCK says has been
going on long time and is not quite through
yet.
E. L. Danforth. secretary of the CONNER
ciai club and the king-pin of summer
sort hotel. is another of the delegates.
Still another. is W. S. Pardee, who designed
a number of the picturesque caste,lated
school houses they have in the sister city,
and yet another is Robert G. Evans, the
silver-tongued spell binder from the Juliana
bottoms. s. H. Hall and S. G. Palmer sell
butter and eggs and things on commission
row, while G. NJ. Loring is telegraph COM
pany magnate.
The high standing of these men in agri-
cultural pursuits, as we'll as in the every
day life about them. speaks volumes for the
judicious care which Gov. CIough has ex-
ercised The mere mention of the names
should awaken throughout the entire North
west renewed interest in the congress in
whose deliberations they to battle for the
maintenance of Minnesota's glory, agricul-
tural and otherwise.
WILL BE HERE TODAY.