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Article: RETRO; FARM AND LABOR PARTY; Donnelly helped get DFL off to a hopeful, if unsteady, start.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 22, 2005
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Byline: Dick Parker; Staff Writer
It was 117 years ago, on Aug. 22, 1888, when the Minnesota Alliance, a farmers' group, met with the Knights of Labor to organize the Farm and Labor Party. The new party nominated Ignatius Donnelly - a former Republican congressman and lieutenant governor, one of the leading advocates of the theory that Francis Bacon was the author of William Shakespeare's plays, and an authority on the lost continent of Atlantis - as its candidate for governor. Donnelly, a lawyer, had arrived in Minnesota in 1856 and co-founded the town of Nininger on the Mississippi River near Hastings. It was promoted as a future Chicago but dried up in the ...