The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-17
GLORIOUS NEWS.
VICTORY CERTAIN.
THE PEOPLES PARTY WILL
CARRY THE STATE.
PROBABLY ELECT SEVEN
CONGRESSMEN.
Cake Off Your Goats, and Work
Like Beavers

We are not Dragging but speak
words of sober seriousness. when we
assure our readers that M. O,cen's
election is certaidyl We base this con-
clusion on a multitude Of facts, on our
own observations, and, more than ali,
upon the unwilling admissions Of our
adverSarieS.
Mr.. Owen will carry Hennepin coun-
ty, st. Louis county, Dakota county,
Kandiyohi county. and even Winona
county, while the whole southwest
and northwest portions of the state
will be practically solid for him, and
for all the rest of our ticket. Even
such counties as Wabasha and Wash
ington are almost certain. From all
parts of the state the same news
reaches us. With the exception of
Goodhue and Chisago there is not a
county in the state that may not give
our ticket its vote: and even the car
rying Of those strong Swedish 'coun-
ties is not impossible since ten oh of the
eleren Scandinavian papers an the st0te,-
scih 10000 circulution,-hdrec come out for
the Peoples Pa1fy' We have fighting
chance to carry Ramsey county. A
gentleman a republican, employed
where 600 railroad men are at work, in
81 nj told n of 1,of
the men were not saying much out
loud, for fear Of losing their jobs, but,
from scraps of conversation he had
overheard among them, he was posi-
tive the lrhole 600 ,could rote the POpulist
ticket! Even Lc Sueur county, which
used to give ! 600 democratic majority,
has, under the splendid leadership of
T. c. Gibbs, become debateable
ground; and Scott county, which used
to be "the darkest Africa of reform,
has got an independent ticket in the
field, making fierce fight with a
strong probability of victory. The
truth is the bottom is out of the two
old parties, and the contents Of their
kettles are running headlong into the
Populist vat.
Two weeks only arc lcft Let there
be a general charge all along the line,
and triumph is ours. Let every man
who can talk in public start out and
speak in every school house in his
county. And let those who cannot
talk in public fill their pockets with
copies of the REPRESENTATIVE, and
buttonholc every friend and neighbor
and never let go of him until he prom
ises to vote the Peoples party ticket!
But the election of our state ticket
is but part of the glorious results be-
fore us. There is a brilliant pros pect
Of sending SIREN Popuhst congressman
from minnesota. Boen, of course, has
walk over; Kittle Halvorson will as
tonish the politicians as much as he
did in 1890; DR.. Clarke will carry Hen
nepin county, and will do honor to it
when elected; Francis II. Clarke will
be borne, on the shoulders of the
aroused workingmen, to Washington;
Major Bowler is leading united and
steadily increasing host against dis
tracted and divided opponents; L. c..
Long, has a brilliant show for victory:
and in the First District T. j. Meighen
will receive besides the Populist sup
port, the almost solid vote of the
Democrats and be elected. Think of
it! So strong is Mr.. Meighen that he
came within three votes of obtaining
the endorsement of the Democratic
congressional convention, and he was
not present, and his own county was
represented. If it had been he would
have been endorsed But the Demo
Gratis are going to vote for him any
how,-Moonan Or no Moonan. On the
travelling all over the Second district,
collecting for a machine house; he
was Republican,; but be told us that
he scarcely met a farmer who was not
Populist, and most of them red-hot
for the cause.
The Legislature will certainly be
anti-Republican; and Washburn will
be retired to private life; and he will
have ample opportunity to make his
peace with God, before ne dies, for the
incalculable evil he has done his
country, by demoralizing, degrading
and corrupting his fellow men,
through the horrible example of his
public career. The evil he has done
will live after him, to curse this COM
monwealth for hundred years to
come. He has made conscience a
mockery and the ballot box jest.
He has ridden, for years, on the tidal
wave of rotten and fictitious pros
perity, rolling over the ruins of the