The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
Letter From the Peoples Party
Candidate for Governor.
Industrial Sledge-Hammer)

\ Letter From the Peoples Party
Candidate for Governor.
Industrial Sledge-Hammsr)
The latest news from the Maine election
held last Monday, indicates that the Dem
ccratic party is about annihilated in that
state. The Republican governor is elect
ed by over $4,000 majority, the largest ma
Jority ever given the Republicans in that
state. Tom Reed is elected by something
near 5000, while in 1892 he received only
LOO majority. The other Republican can
didates for congress were elected by ma
jorities ranging from 5000 to 10000 The
following letter just received from L. c.
Bateman, Popuist candidate for governor
gives all the news we have received as to
the Populist vote:
My Dear Mr. Taubeneck:
I'VE have had our election, and 1 have
made enormous gains. Two years ago
had 5000 VOTES; now l have not less than
12,000. The Republicans made most des-
perate fight against us in their history
The Democrats practically joined with
Them The old party papers refuse to
give our vote, but it is safe to set it at the
above figures"
The above shows that the Populists have
increased their vote 400 per cent in the last
two years.
In Oregon we increased our vote over 1892
131 per cent. If the other states do as
well as Maine and Oregon the total Popu-
list vote for 1894 will be over 5000 600, and
will ensure them the balance of power in
the Fifty-fourth congress.
In their new campaign book the Repub-
licans have attacked Mr.. Morton, secre-
tary of agriculture, for violating the civil
service law. They claim that he has
numbers of his cousins and kinsfolk in the
department contrary to law They also
claim that the large amount of the appro-
priation for the agricultural department.
which Mr.. Morton has not used, and
claims saving under this administration,
results from the fact that he has abso-
lutely abolished some of the main features
of the department, thereby materially i'm
pairing its usefulness.
During the last session the Populist mem
bers of congress introduced several bills
providing for increase in our circulating
medium each one of which, if enacted into
law, would do away the necessity for any
of the others. The Democratic politicians
of the South have presumed upon the gnor-
ance of the people, and have summed up
all these bills, and claim that the Populists
have introduced bills that would require the
people to be taxed $4,000 COO, when the truth
of the matter is that not a single one of
the PopUist bills provide for one dollar of
taxation, but provide that the currency
shall be increased by an issue of green
backs, thereby relieving the people of taxa
ton instead of taxing them. Since the
Democrats have started out Oh this line
we have concluded to look into some of
the bills introduced by them. We have not
gone very far with the investigation, but
have gotten far enough to find some very
rich things. We find that during the late
session there were over 5000 bills intro
duced, the most of which We're by Demo-
Gratis. If all the bills introduced by Demo-
ca frr. ,iati ba
out, and added up, the total would not stop
at billions, but would go up into the tri-
lions and quadrillions.
| We find that the 5th day of May, 1892
| l.. +. Livingston, that great alliance Demo-
| crat of Georgia, introduced a bill providing
an increase of $40 per capita in our cir
| culation annually, which would make an
| increase of s., 500, 100000 the first year and
! If the bill should remain in force 10 years.
| it would increase the volume of money
! to more than SIS 000,0 600, Coo
| When we add on the amounts called for
| III hundreds and thousands of other bills
/ introduced by Democrats. find that the
| Populists not in it at all.
Some months ago the Democratic politi-
| clans conceived the idea of organizing an
| annex to their congressional committee:
| composed of prominent negro Democrats.
| This negro annex was to whoop up the
! negroes all over the country and get them
| into the Democratic party. The first step
| of this negro annex was to violate the
civil service law by demanding the sinews
| Of war from ali the negro employees in the
! government departments. This soon brought
| them to grief, and now some of them are
! threatening to quit the Democratic party
| unless Mr.. Cleveland throws down the
! fence and let's the negro politicians to the
| pie counter in droves. One of these negro
| politicians, a Mr.. Atwood, is out in a letter
| in which he asks the question: "What are
we here for if we are not to get the office ~
| Very encouraging news reaches hadquar-
! ters from Indiana and Illinois. The Popu-
| lists in these two states have candidates in
| every congressional district, with bright
prospects Of election il quite a number of
| them.