The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-17
POPS AT PEACE AGAIN
COMPLETE SURRENDER OF THE
MIDDLE-ROADERS
Committee Meeting and Force
Their Opponents Into Line-DOn-
nelly Admitted on His Promise to
Bring in the Erring Brethren.


Bring in the Erring Brethren.
After a day of hard-fought battles.
in Minneapolis. in which Meth
er side spared the other, and
which each declared at the outset
must ultimately end in the humiliation
of one or the other the hosts of the
Peoples party of Minnesota, the fu-
sionists and the mid-roaders have made
it all up and declare they love one an
other better than ever, if such thing
is possible
Early in the day it became evident
that the fusionists had the whip hand
and were determined to press their
advantage. The mid-roaders perceived
that they We're beaten, and gave in as
gracefully as they could. Their abdica-
ton Of the position taken by them
earlier in the month could not well be
much more complete, and the fusionists
are not unanimous in believing that
their action is sincere.
When the state central committee
met at the Windsor hotel yesterday
afternoon Ignatius Donnelly was pres
ent and asked to be admitted, present
ing proxy given him by P. G. Seeber-
ger, state committeeman from Mime
apoliS. AT first the committee refused
to allow Mr.. Donnelly to participate,
committee were entitled to hold proxies.
In this action their vote was so strong
that the backbone of Chairman Gibbs,
which has been considered weak point
IN their armor, was strengthened to a
degree that made the victory of the
fusionists certain.
Mr.. Donnelly, according to the re-
ports from those present, begged to be
reinstated in the good graces of the
hat ha f,,t,
he would be good. He told the COM
mlttee that Tuesday night he had la
bored long and hard with the faction
led by DR.. Chris Johnson and DR.. Fl. B.
Fay, and had besought them to quit
the hight and return to the ranks of
the party. For his part, he promised
that. personally and through the COL
u1nns OF his paper. he would support
the nominees of the party, regardless
or the question of fusion He would
also use his influence with Messrs.
Johnson and Fay and their followers.
and said he thought he could promise
TO prlng them back into harmonious
action with the main body of the party.
DonneIly Admitted.
Ihis eloquent plea frcm the sage and
the practical founder of their party was
too much for some Of the tender-heart-
eG fus1cnists and some of them relent-
ed They changed their votes and Mr.
DonneIly was admitted to the councl Is
or the party and restored to fellowship
with the elect.
when this matter had been settled
the work Of the committee was greatly
smplified, and matters ran very
smoothly for the balance of the meet
ing. NO one mentioned fusion. and
when June 10 next was set as the date
Erl h.
not voice was raised in protest To
the executive committee was left the
question of location, which they will
decide at later date.
The committee also considered the
question of the status of the party in
regard to it's right to a place upon the
ballot and decided that its title was
Gle ar and that no petition was neces-
sary. The work of naturalization was
also touched upon, and it was recon-
mended that the work of caring for un-
naturalized voters in the state should
be pushed.
During the afternoon a meeting of
mid-roaders was addresSed by National
Chairman Butler, in the parlors of the
Brunswick.
Mr.. Buffers remarks We're brief and
his advice was that a straight Peoples
party convention should be held, and
t1aigkt Populist principles enurciated.
At meeting of the Seventh district
congressional delegation at the Wind
sor it was decided to hold the Seventh
district congressional convention at
Crookston some time between June %
and July l. One delegate will be al
lowed for every 200 votes or major
fraction thereof cast at the last cleo
tion for w. j. Bryan.
Although the mid-rOaders have ap-
parently completely surrendered. there
are those among the fusonists who
are rot yet satisfied. They say they
distruSt Donnel,y and his promises
and they believe he is only scheming
to make trouble for the party at some
future time. and that it would have
been better to have cut loose from
them at the time they had the best of
the argument
Surrender Of Mid-Rcaders.
While the exposition meeting was in
progress last evening, however. the
faction headed by Messrs. Johnston
and Fay held a meeting at the office
of the latter and passed resolutions
which show that Donnelly knew what
he was talking about when he prom
fsed to swing them into line The reso-
lutionS passed by them are as COM
plete backdown as that made by Mr..
meeting of the state central committee
1t was decided that the olive branch
so charity extended should be crashed
while yet there was time, and the re-
suit is embodied in the following set
of resolutions:
Whereas, Many earnest Popuists had oh
served. with great regret, that the merging
OF the Peoples party with or into the Demo-
cratic party. had led to the decentralization
and almost destruction of Populism, in many
of the states reducing its vote in Ohio from
$500 to 5000, and in Iowa from % coo to
5000; and knowing that fusion would in
evitably produce like results in Minnesota;
And. whereas, An informal gathering of
patriotic Populists was held in the CITY of st
Paul, in January last which declared en-
phatically against FUSION and appointed
committee OF twenty-one members t. call
q state convention in case it was attemnted
to trade the party off to Democracy. and TO
call it at early date:
And, whereas, The state central committee
met today and by unanimous vote called tbe
state convention OF the Peoples Party for
June 10 next. basng the superintendent on
the vote of 1894 the last campaign when we
acted separate and apart from all other mar
ties:
And, whereas, The state central committee
has appointed a committee of three TO pre
pare an address to the public which will
we understand, insist upon separate and dis
tinct action On the part Of the Peoples
Party:
And whereas We learn that the state
central committee would have called the
state convention at an even earlier date
than the 18th of June except for the fact
that it would have occurred at a time
when the farmers were busy with their
seeding.
Therefore. Resolved That we congratu-
late those who participated in the January
conferences on the excellent results which
have followed their Efforts.
Resolved cfota