The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-06
pLuTocRAcY AND THE PEOPLE.

PLUTOCRACY AND THE PEOPLE.
It WIN Be Fiercs,y Contested Battle. and
will He to tho Knife. and tho knife to the
Hit
The republican wing of tho Wall
street party has been elected in New
York, Massachusetts,. Ohio, New Jersey
and elsewhere. The defeat of the DEM
ocratic wing of the party in those states
has no significance except that this
branch of the family was enjoying ma
tional patronage and it was right that
the republicans should be allowed some
slices of state pie to keep them loyal to
Wall street
The joke that there is any essential
difference between these factions is
now laughed at, even by the unlearned.
A wag said they told dim when he
got married that he and his wife were
one and he soon found out that his wife
was the one. The republican name of
the Wall street party is the lone" this
year.
There were two factions in church
in Gates county once. Their chief bus
mess was shouting. But the Epps fac
faction had the floor, and the Colyers
would not shout when the Epps were
shouting. though both had the same
kind of religion. At last a revivalist
struck the community who was able to
make Epps and Colyer hug 1t was the
signal for a general embrace of the two
factions and such shouting was never
heard since the crusades 1t was then
discovered that the only issue
between them grew out of jeal-
ousy as to which could shout the
loudest Ere long the Colver and Epps
factions will be heard shouting to-
gether from Maryland to Maine and
from Maine to Illinois. Their leaders.
as did Epps and Colyer. have lately
shouted together in Congress Sher-
man and Cleveland Rugged. Even
southern senator, whose name I blush
to call, pressed his confederate uniform
upon the bosom of Force Bill Lodge!
In loving embrace! In humble &C
acknowledgement that the only issue be-
tween them has been to see which
could shout the loudest for their COM
mon master, Wall street.
Gresham, the present republican
democratic secretary of state, is the
natural candidate of the combination
for next president. Like Cleveland.
he has a partisan utilization with both
parties when they subserve the pur-
poses of the common master Gresham
has been a cabinet officer in both par
ties. AS United States republican
judge he has sugar-coated his record by
several small anti-railroad decisions
These decisions will be soft corn to
feed fools with even on this side of the
Mason's and Dixon's line.
The 5malgamation of the repu blican
and democratic parties in New York,
New England, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
several other states is now practically
complete on national issues, as witness
their solid vote in congress upon the
financial question, which is now the
leading issue. They are equally united
against any serious tariff reform, as I
believe will be shortly demonstrated
The purchase and solicitation of negro
votes and the employment of negro and
other republican orators in Virginia
shows which way the wind is blowing
even as far south as that. 1t would
not surprise me if the Wall street
party elect Gresham or some other twin
party type, even if the south and west
effect combination. For, with the
federal patronage at their command,
large local manufacturing and railroad
interests in their aid they may be able to
steal the name of the democratic party
even in this state. If the Wall street
combination shall fv democratic
party" at it's masthead in the south
with Gresham as it's candidate and the
united support of the negroes and the
aristocratic influences, it will be curl
Gus to watch the spell of the party
name over weak and vicious minds even
though that name is used to overthrow
all that Jefferson ever taught or prac-
ticed. "The Pharisees sit in Moses
seat" They had monopoly of keep
ing the tombs of dead prophets though
they crucified the living.
l venture to make the prediction that
this new bastard com oination party, of
which Cleveland is the father and
Gresham is the wet nurse, will carry or
come dangerously near carrying every
southern state which has in it city of
near one hundred thousand in ha bitants.
That is. every state with city large
enough to enable Wall street to corrupt
the voters with a sho " of local political
influence, mixed with local business
connections. I believe they will sue
coed in stealing the name of the demo-
cratic party even in North Carolina
and every southern state. There are
thousands of fools who will follow this
name to perdition; follow it if it shall
be stolen by its enemies to complete
the ruin of the south; follow it if it
shall become the mystical Babylon of
all political corruption; follow it if its
grinning skeleton shall be ghastly
reminder of the life and truth that are
fled out of it.
If the south and west will make the
fight upon the financial issue and the
tariff they will carry nearly every
state beyond the Mississippi and every
southern state which has no large city
or very large manufacturing interests
IT the west insists on putting too
much in the platform, as it did in the
last populistic platform, and insists in
foisting on the south candidate with