The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-25

rev attend, your humble servant will
be worse ratified" than ever, in his
effort to make out consistency in our
pretentions and acts.
ERooP Y. N1LMAH.
How l Came to Vote the Repub-
ican Ticket.
On my first appearance in this
country 1, together with another
man happened to pass by voting
place. On my inquiry what are the
people doing there, he said they were
voting for the city mayor. He then
asked me il 1 was a republican or
democrat. Having been in this
country only month, I told him I
knew nothing about politics, and
asked him to explain things to me,
so that would know how to vote.
He then explained to me as we'll as
he could having been here only
year, about the two parties, how
they were running against each 9TH
er. The republican party he said is
the best; they want workingman to
have bigger wages. II now we have
two dollars day, if the democrats
came to power we would only get one
dollar day. I answered that 1 would
certainly be republican. I thought
to myself it must be a wrong thing,
to vote for party and help to hold
them into power, if they could not
regulate the country so that the
working class could get living in re-
turn for their labor.
But how is it now? Haven't I
voted the republican ticket for ten
years. carrying the foolish idea in
my head that they were the friends
of the workingman.
Haven't for ten years been read
ing the republican papers that have
said that the republican party is the
only salvation for the country, and
the workingman?
But now, you workingmen of the
country are we not disappointed?
How have the parties we have been
casting our votes for announcing
themselves as the friends of the
neutrality-suspicious. have they govern
ed the country?
Have they not brought the country
to bankruptcy, and the working class
to starvation, and the thousands of
workingmen and their families to
serfdom? Now they are trying to
join together to keep the new party
out, the only hope we have. Now
they are afraid they will lose their
power; because they cannot blindfold
us any longer.
Brother workingmen of America,
let us join hand in hand and give the
new party trial. I once attended
democratic meeting at the corners of
Dale and Minnehaha streets; 1 was
listening to Carl 1. Warren, now
alderman of the Eighth ward. He
said among other things that he was
a Kentuckian; he said, 81 am proud
OF my native state. Kentucky pro-
duces three things of superlative
quality: The fastest horses in the
world; the best whisky in the world;
and the finest women in the world.
Yes, said he, there is another thing,
good, solid democrats" He said
there was only one republican, in
Kentucky, and they keep him in a
cage. should like to see the time
when in the whole United States
there might be only one republican
and one democrat, SO that they could
put them each into cage and send
them out and execute them.
JOHN MOLIN.
1.-THE foregoing ingenious letter
has an interest that extends beyond |
the writer; it typities class; it shows
how thousands of our Scandinavian |
fellow citizens, newly come to cOun-
try of whose politics they knew little |
or nothing, were deceived and mis-
led into supporting a party that was
managed by bondholders and the |
great corporations to their own en-
richment and the undoing Of the |
people. The letter has a further
significance; it shows the fact that |
when years of residence have taught |
them the true inwardness of old-par-
ty management, they refuse to be led |
and, acting upon their own indepen-
dent judgment, denounce the repub-
lican and democratic organizations
as joint parties to a common and sor-
did purpose, and unite with the peo-
pies party in it's effort to wrest the
country from the grip Of the monopo-
list and money-changer and restore |
it to the peOple.-THE EDITOR.l
Compulsory Sunday Observance.
ST. PAUL, Oct. -, 1893.
Mr.. EDITOR:
DEAR SIR:-NO doubt that all YOUR