St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-18
The Campaign Reviewed.

To the Members of the Peoples Party
of Minnesota: The undersigned, your
state executive committee, respectfully
reports that 1t has this day closed up
the business of the campaign of 1892.
and commenced the campaign Of 1894.
The accounts of the secretary and treas
urer have been carefully examined by a
subcommittee, and found to be correct.
The total receipts aggregated about
S., 600, and this large amount was near
ly all contributed by the voters III small
sums, much of it in dimes and nlckels.
4. 1t was faithfully disbursed by the sec
retary and assistant secretary, a large
part of the money going to pay for hun
dreds of thousands of "BrOadSideS, ;"
which were sent to every part of the
state, and the rest OF the funds were
used for printing bills, paying for halls,
reimburSing speakers for personal eX-
penSeS, and the thousand and one other
expenditures incident to campaign.
We are glad to state that we are In ar
rears less than two hundred dollars,
while we have four or five hundred dol
lars due us with which to pay it, and
we earnestly request those in arrears to
pay up. A complete report is in the
hands of the secretary. and open at any
time to the inspection OF any member
of the party. 1t is needless to say that
we have no secrets, and that not one
dollar was paid for any illegal or i'm
proper purpose.
We find much in the outcome Of the
national campaign to encourage us. 1t
is only four months since our party was
organized at Onpila, but III that short
period of time we have secured an or
ganization in every state in the Union,
and on election day we carried the
electoral vote of seven states, to wit. :
Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada,
North Dakota, Wyoming and Idaho
for our candidates, Weaver and Field
Our vote
Decided the Contest
in Illinois and Indiana; we doubled the
Independent vote in Massachusetts; we
have elected sixteen members of con-
gress (more than doubling our vote in
the present house,, and we shall have
six senators in the United States senate
after March 4, 1898, thus holding the
balance of power in that great body.
We are securely established as one of
the great rational parties of this cOun-
try, and we have come to stay. The his
tory of the politics of this country. or of
the world, will be searched in win for a
parallel for this tremendous growth.
We are infinitely stronger today than
the Republican party was with Ere
mont as its candidate in 1856;
and we are confident that history
will repeat itself, not only in our victory
in 1894, but in the disintegration of the
Republican party, precisely as the Wing
party dissolved after the defeat of Gen.
Scott. The Republican party has car
ried this year only about twice as many
states as this newborn giant of reform,
and many of these have been won by
majoritieS of a few hundred. There is
every reason to believe that the time
has come for the politics of the country
to rearrange itself OIL new lines.
The Democratic party has trlumphed
In the nation, because Of the universal
discomfort with existing conditions.
The people were led to believe that the
deep-seated diseases of the body-politic
could be cured by the difference be.
tween the Mills bill and the Mckinley
bill. 1t was like treating man in the
last stages of consumption with camO-
mile tea. If fine DEMOCRATS apply their
medicine it will he found that the dis
tresses Of the people do not diminish.
II they do not administer 1t the patient
will kick them ont of. doors, They are
betwesH tue devil and the deep seq. In
1894 the slok map vii, be r{ssedSy to Tsss9Qrrt
to more drastic remedies than a tiodi1