The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-11-07

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An examination of this table will
SHOW that what Becker lost was large
ly gained by Nelson. In r .msev
county. for instance, Becker lost 1929
votes, and Nelson gained SIPS votes!
"A difference of 1879 votes! Many Of
these men were honest in believing
that the election Of Owen would be
Injurious to the business interests of
the state; others were coerced by their
employers.
According to the Journal table in
the A counties where Thomas Wilson
polled 1854 votes Becker received but
| 3S,73l votes: while Merriam's vote of
1890, OF So,111, was increased by Nelson
to 9S,745. In other words Nelson's
election is not Republican but
Democratic triumph. II the pluto
cratic Democrats had stood by Gener-
al Becker Mr.. S. NJ Owen would have
carried the state. Their victory has
been achieved at the cost of the life
or their party; for the men who have
gone over to Nelson, or Owen, can
never be coaxed back into the fold
again. The Democratic party is now
the third party in the state and it will
never rise again to be the second.
A new alignment of parties is in
| evitable. The Democrats who we're
fooled into standing by Becker will
gradually get it through their heads
that they were ''played for suckcrs;"
that they were left to hold an empty
sack while their rich brethren desert
ed to the enemy, walked off with
share Of plunder. The Democrats and
the POpulistS are both in the soup to-
gether-the Democrats are however,
lower down in the pot and nearer the
| fire;-and before 1896 they will be
forced to join hands tohelp each other
| out.
1t is coming, just as we have fore
told for years. There can be but two
great parties in this country:-the
party of the people and the party of
! the aristocrats and corporations.
There is great commotiOn now and
searching out the standards they want
to fight under. Before 1896 the two
armies will stand face to face battle
array.
The Republicans have swept every
thing, but their victory will turn TO
dead leaves and ashes. They cannot
gre the people prosperity. They are
chained to the money power, and that
will continue to demand policies de-
structive to the people. The nation
will ask for bread and Plutocracy will
give it stone. The poverty, the
starvation, the discomfort, the turbu-
lence will increase. The fool multi
tude," which has now rushed for re-
lief to the Republican party, falsely
charging the Democracy with the
hard times, will turn against them
as they did in 1892. For, like a demon
hidden under the earth, to work ruin
to all the land above him, the de-
none etiZation of silver and the con-
traction of the currency will continue
their baleful work, dragging human
ity down to greater depths of wretch
edness, until the end comes, at the
ballot box Or the cartridge box.
Take courage, friends. Do not lose
heart or hope. The men who cried
"crucify him. cruelty him. were in
the majority. We're they right?
Come victory; come defeat; come
! life: come death: let us stand firmly
by the right as God gives us to see the
right.
Philip of Macedon. boisterOus with
wine, unjustly condemned one his sub
jects.
81 appeal" cried the man.
"You appeal! said Philip, ito whom
do you appeal? There is no power in
Macedon higher than the king"
81 appeal" retorted the prisoner,
"from Philip drunk to Philip sober.'
We appeal from the American peo-
pie, blind drunk with party bigotry
bloated with the lies of a dishonest
press, inflamed by brass-bands and
stump.oratory, corrupted by money,
aud deluded by hollow promises; to
the same American people, when it
shall sit sober in its sorrows, and
realizes that it has been the plaything
and tool of tricksters and knavcs. to
its own undoing.
Stand firm, bretheren!
Begin TOMORROW the campaign Of 1896.
If we drop by the way let the good
work go on. What nobler object
could actuate us than the salvation Of
mankind? If we do not save them
| who will? And what is nobler or more
beautiful than our country? 1t must
not perish. Let every man resolve to
do his whole duty, unawed by clamor-
Gus majorities-unbought by the
bloc d-money of triumphant Plutoc-
racy. |. ID.
Having reduced the farmers Of west
| ern Kansas to beggary-sO poor they
cannot buy seed wheat-the bankers