The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-05
A FALSE CHARGE,
The A. p. A. and the People's
Party.

HON. 1GNATIUs DONNELLY,
DEAR SIR:-Enclosed find a clipping
from the Boston Pilot. 1t claims the
PopuliSts have accepted an alliance
with the A. p. AS. There are num-
per OF people here who read the Pilot;
II you think the matter worthy of no.
tlce please explain in the REPREsEN-
TATIvE. Yours truly, w. DUANE.
Enterprise, MINI.
red to.
The late election in Alabama re-
suited in the choice of Colonel Oates,
Democratic candidate for governor,
by majority of $4,000 over Mr.. Reu.
ben E. Kolb. the standard bearer of
the Republican Populist com bination,
instead OF accepting the verdict OF
the polls gracefully Mr.. Kolb's follow.
ers have issued a proclamation calling
upon their partisans to assemble on
August %, and inaugurate an ndepen-
dent state government.
"Ihe alternative is presented"
says the proclamation, ''of submission
to wrong, insult, and robbery, or to as.
sert the sovereign power before which
thrones and SceptreS fall, and the out
RACES OF tyrants cease. That alterna-
tive must meet a response from man
hood or silent submission from those
unworthy of citizenship. A proud
and chivalrous people, worthy of free
dom, cannot shirk the responsibilities
the situation offers. A distinguished
patriot has asserted that the man
who will not fight for his liberty is un-
worthy of freedom We do not ad-
wise, fighting or lawlessness of any
kind, but the crisis has arisen which
ha1
assert itself to compel unworthy SER
wants OF its will to submit to its pow.
er and recognize its authority"
All OF which, it may be remarked, is
the veriest bosh and braggadocio.
Colonel Oates is not one of the
Heaven-bOrn statesmen who compel
the admiration of world, but rather
a narrow provincial politician. Never
theless, he has clear majority of the
popular vote, and Alabama is poor
state in which to try the experiment
of defying the will of a ma jority. The
Popullsts, moreover, in many quarters
have lost public respect by accepting
the alliance Of A. p. A. and other
cranks whose attraction is as fatal as
that Of the bait for the gudgeon or
the snake for the dull-brained toad.
Mr.. KOlb will get little sympathy in
ship of Alabama, either within or
without the borders of that common
wealth.
We would say in reply that we do
not believe the Populists have any
where entered into a combination
with the A. p. A. The Peoples party
is the party of liberality and fair play,
and has no sympathy with any move
ment to prescribe man for his BIRTH
place or his religious opnions:-the
former being a matter over which he
had no control; and the latter being
usually an inheritance from his par
ents. In fact, the A. p. A. was start
ed to head off the Peoples party. Its
founder is railroad attorney in Iowa.
and the whole object of the movement
is to divide the people into fanatical
factions, on the line of the old-world
bigotries and so prevent them from
acting together against the money
power. l attacked it boldly when it
was in the climax of its power and
challenged one of it's ablest advocates
to defend it. When l spoke at Popu-
the organization | was appladuded to
the echo. And in Colorado the A. P.
A. have been fighting the Peoples
party savagely.
| do not believe the Populists of
Alabama united with the A. p. A.
They had kind of fusion with the
Republicans. and the Republicans may
have brought a few A. p. AS along to
the combination in their breeches'
pockets. That's way they have. I
guess that was all there was of it.
No; no. The Peoples party has
nothing to do with religious ques-
tions. When it is settled whether we
are to have a free country. and own
our homes in that country, it will be
time enough to quarrel with our
neighbor as to what he thinks about
the next world. Let us devote our
selves, for the present, to this world.
1t is a big enough job to occupy US for
the next quarter of century. The
man who raises the question of reli-
gion at this time, to divide the people,
is their enemy, If Plutocracy is to
govern things we needn't trouble our
heads about hell. We will have it
right here:-a belly full Of it.
The Peoples party stands by the
stars and stripes and the public
schools and religious liberty, and is
ready to fight for all three of them.
whenever they are assailed. But just
now the big toe ofRothschlds is more
to be feared than two hundred Popes,
living or dead. l. ID.
OLD BLUE EARTH DECLARES.