The Minnesota [Farmers'] Alliance and the Knights of Labor hold a conference to organize the Farm and Labor Party, nominating Ignatius Donnelly as their gubernatorial candidate. Donnelly, however, withdrew from the race, and the nascent party collapsed. From the ashes of their false start, the members and organizations associated with the Farm and Labor Party created the Nonpartisan League and the Minnesota Federation of Labor, the direct ancestors of the Farmer–Labor Party, organizing the new party thirty years later, on August 24 and 25, 1918, and nominating David Evans as their gubernatorial candidate.