The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29

nope apparently, that some one would
ooJect, but, as no one did, he put it to
vote and it was unanimouly adoDted.
"hen the newspaper scheme came up
ana the projectors were heard l rose
ana stated that the REPRESENTATIVE
Publishing Company had been con-
tempiatlng for some time past the es-
tabllshment Of daily newspaper. as
we announced in our last issue: and
that we could do it without much ad-
oltlonal expense. l said had not the
slightest objection to Mr.. Westerfeld
and the other Capitalists" Gnclul-
ing Macdonald,) starting the paper or
starting a dozen papers; but / did not
thlnk 1T right to use the state ma
chlnery OF political party had done
SO much to create, for the purpose Of
building up paper which would, and
was intended to, supplant and DESTROY
the REPRESENTATIVES, if that
machinery was to be used for the
benefit OF any paper it should be used
to help the publication which. fol-
more than a year, at heavy loss
TO some of us. had held up the banner
OF the party when the clouds were the
blackeSt. A member then offered
resolution that the REPRESENTATIVE
should be endorsed; whereupon Tom
Lucas, man who is fire. brand. halt
knave and half lunatic, and a perpet
ual injury and menace to the People'i
party, rose and aSsailed this paper
savagely. because Mr.. Williams, the
editor, had expressed an opinion that
party politics should not be obtruded
into municipal affairs: an opinion any
man might honestly entertain. and
that has been expressed by thousands
of the best minds of our country. II
it was mistake it bound nobody but
Mr. Williams. | speak the final con.
clusions of this paper, inasmuch as !
am the President of the State Farm
erS' Alliance which established it. and
have ten times as much money in il
as any one else. But Lucas insisted
that the REPREsENTATIvE must
get down and crawl on it's stomach at
his dirty feet, and humbly apologize
to his Bedlamite majesty, or it could
not be endorsed by the state commit.
tee of the Peoples party of Mime.
sofa !. God help us if Tom Lucas
owns the Populists of Minnesota.
We gravely doubt his honesty. If
he had been paid by the Republicans
to go into our state convention, Of
July 10th, to raise discord and break
us up, he could not have acted differ
emily from what he did. Look at
that Peoples party Chicago conven-
tlon, week ago, which broke up in
row caused by the tools of the Money
Power.
The committee on resolutions, made
up of many of the best men in the
convention, and large part of them
farmers, agreed unanimously upon the
excellent platform finally adopted.
They decided, very wisely, that plat
form should consist of principles, not
specific measures; that the sub treas
ury plan was a specific measure,
method, a remedy, not principle;
and that it had better be deferred un-
when it could be considered. Not a
farmer in the convention, and tho
sub-treasury is a scheme to lend mon.
ey on farmers productions, objected
to this. They knew how the enemy
had ridiculed us for years about the
nation lending money on rotten pota-
toes and spoiled cabbages, Ga gross mis-,
presentations of course): and they
did not want to load the ticket
down with any such unneceS.
sary burdens. But as soon as
the platform was reported this
wild man of Borneo, got out of
his tree, dropped his cocoanut, rushed
for the platform: and, although he is
not farmer, nor anything else, but
perennial jaw smith, and does not
know squash from pumpkin, he
made savage attack on the platform
in the name of the farmers, because
the sub-treasury plan had been omit.
ted! Thus trying to stir up the farm.
erS to row and fight Ia the Chica.
go convention. But when he found
that not single man in the conven.
tion seconded him he skunk back ia
his seat. Now either he was paid to
do all thiS-or he is fool-and sup.
erserviceable and extravagant fool at
that.
On the afternoon Of the day of the
convention, as there was no opposi.
tion to S. NJ. Owen for governor, some
one moved that he he nOminated nv
acclamation. But the wild man Of
Borneo was fighting Owen then, (he is
his champion now,) and was on his feet
at once, and howlcd that they wanted
a platform adopted first, and that
every man nominated for any Office by
the convention, should specifically
pledge himself to sustain every plank
of it. The idea was that Owen was
not Populist and must be tied hand
and foot. He carried his point. His
object was also to prevent a scene OF
great enthusiasm, which might have
helped the ticket. This is proved by
the fact that the next day, when Owen
was nominated. Lucas was present,
but he nercr asked Otce,t q single question
about indoTsing the platform. Nor did he
ever question any other ca1ldidate us to tie
PLATFORM He simply crawled irto his
own mouth and was silent for the
space of five minutes: and astonished
Nature took her fingers out of her ears
and sighed a sigh Of profound relief.
And this is the blatherskite, who