The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-29
TENDER FUsIONISTs AN
OLIVE BRANCH.
BUT THERE'S A STRING ON IT.
WILL FIGHT FOR HARMONY
IF NECESSARY.
COMMITTEE OF Fl IN SESSION.
Decides to Join Forces With the
State Central Committee, "sub-
ject to Certain Conditions"

| William Jennings Bryan's recent Wis
1t, and especially the few minutes of it
which he spent closeted with the good
natured bridegroom to be, Ignatius
Donnelly, were not entirely fruitless,
for they proved factor in the meeting
| of the committee Of twenty-one, which
met yesterday at the Clarendon hotel
to decree along what lines the Peoples
party should this year fight in the
! state campaign.
| Mr.. Bryan is a fusionist. Mr. DON
| nelly is or was a middle of the roader
| Nearly all those present at the recent
convention were of the same sort.
| But the decision of yesterdays meet
ing, while it was for independent DO
ht1cal action a term that bellies fu-
sion principles, was really non-commit-
| tai when 1T got down to matters of de-
tall, and the committee will go ahead
on the basis of getting all it can, flying
the true flag of the Omaha platform
that ensign of orthodox Populism-alI
the time, and making such dickers as
1t may with parties which may be
ready to make sacrifices and accept
tributes, a practical and moral fusion.
|
In technical expression.
The committee will meet again in
Minneapolis, Feb. 16 which is the same
date that the Populist state central
committee meets in the same city.
Inc committee, which met yeSter-
day, consists of but tWenty-one, three
from each congressional district, but
this lucky multiplication of three and
seven did not by any means cover the
N hnr. of Do N1%to
were around the Clarendon yesterday.
Maj. j. NJ. Bowler was there to see
that the fusion element could not get
the worst of it, on the outside anyway,
ana the major was ably seconded in his
efforts to keep the orthodox Pops in a
docile state by H. A. Swain, of North
field, who is equally enthusiastic over
the possible prospects of victory for
fusion ticket in 1898. twain comes
fl om a hotbed of apparent Republican
dlssenSion, down in that section of the
state where Jim Diment's soreness
seems to have cankered the whole soul
of Republicanism and promised a cheap
victory to the Veriest show of OPPOSE
ton, if it can be united
But the Philistines who beset the
! true and staunch opponents of the
| Omaha creed only accomplished par
! t1al victory, if, indeed, they may claim
! it as a victory.
When the meeting opened there was
an hour of informal discussion as to the
organization. Many wanted P H.
Rahilly, of Lake City, for chairman,
but finally DR.. Christian Johnson, of
Willmar was chosen. DIR. H. B.
Fay, of Minneapolis, was secretary
There was no little speculation as to
the political status of the party, in view
of the fusion of 1896, but the consensus
of opinion was that if the Democratic
party got out of that deal with any
status, the peoples party had as much,
and accordingly would get along all
right.
The original resolutions presented
which aroused Donnellian opposition,
yielded to the state central committee
the detail work of the coming campaign,
but after a deal of patching, the reso-
lutions finally adopted provided that,
whereas the last state convention of
the Pops had elected the state central
committee as an executive committee
to have charge of affairs until the next
state convention, it be resolved that the
committee of tWenty-One, in the interest
of harmony, which it desired above
all things, do all it could to help the
| state central committee.
A resolution by NJ. J. Costello, adopt
ed, promised that the present committee
would relinquish all its claims in favor
Of the state central committee, on two
! conditions: First, that the state central
committee take steps to thoroughly Or
ganiZe the party in the state, and sec
ond, that it call the state convention
at the earliest date practicable.
Even these qualifications, however
| did not sufficiently reassure Ingatius
ard Mr.. Donnelly secured the passage
of still another resolution, which it was
recited, that the Committee could not
satisfy its tWenty-one consciences I'M
less the state central committee would
take steps at once to call a convention
and organize the party. If it failed in
this the committee of twenty-one must
follow the dictate of the recent con-
| vention by calling a convention Of it's
own.
Yesterdays conference yielded a lit
tie, and the hope is that the next meet
ing will result III a complete unification
of the two factions on some basis which
can be made mutually satisfactory The
Omaha platform will be adhered to, say
yesterdays conferrees, but there is felt
no obligation to cling to any heresies
which may have crept into the ST.
Louis platform of 1896.
The text of the resolutions as adopted by
the committee yesterday, is follows:
Whereas, the Peoples party at its last
state convention appointed state commit ee
composed of loyal Populists, with power to
perform all acts needfui to preserve our
party organization until the next state con-
vention shall convene,
Resolved, That we are most firmly i'm
pressed with the necessity of peace and
concord in the Peoples party and viii do all
in our power to establish cordial relations
between it's members and to the faithful car
rying out Of this purpose we pledge our best
endeavors, hoping for the earnest co-opera-
ton of everyone who desires the restoration
in America of government by and for the
people.
Resolved, That while ready to do our ut
most for peace and harmony we cannot abdi-
cate the function imposed upon us by the
convention held in st. Paul Jan. T. 1895 and
will stand ready if necessary, to perform
the duties assigned u.s. and
Resolved, That the secretary be instructed
to communicate with the state central com
mittee declaring that this committee will
meet Feb. 49, at Minneapolis, with view to
a full and fair conference on whatever diff
fculties or disagreements may exist as to
the policy of the party in this state, and
Resolved, That the only conditions which
this committee attaches to relinquishing it's
function are that the state committee shall
at once take steps, satisfactory to this COM
mittee, for the complete organization of the
party, and further that 1t shall call a state
convention at the earliest practicable da.e
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