The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-04-25
IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Representative Moves to Min
neapOlis.-Great Increase
in Size,
Circulation Over 5,OOO.-A Bright
Future.

Circulation Over 5,OOO.-A Bright
Future.
This concludes volume one of the
REPRESENTATIVE. Next week we
will open our second volume. Our
readers will hardly know their old
friend in it's new dress. Instead of
having six columns to the page, as
now, we shall have seven; and each
column will be about one-tifth longer
than the present size. We shall also
give up the use of BREWER type and
hereafter use minion. a smaller size.
We shall have nearly twice as much
space as we have heretofore had:-
this will enable us to publish twice
as much editorial matter, correspon-
dence, news, ETC.; and to insert many
lengthy and valuable articles which
heretofore we have had to forego.
We will make another great
change:
The REPRESENTATIVE will here
after be published in Minneapolis.
We have many excellent and hon
ored friends in St. Paul, and we are
sorry to leave them, but some of the
business men of this city do not
seem to have, in our judgment the
''snap," 'push," energy and enter
prize of the Minneapolis leaders. In
the same spirit in which the Mill
City offered us, year after year, free
halls for our state conventions, while
the Mayor of the Capitol city, would
not even answer our letters, until
after Minneapolis had opened her
hOspitable doors to us: so while we
have been wrangling with the St. Paul
advertisers. Leading citizens, for
little one inch 'ads.," the prominent
men of Minneapolis made us writ
ten proposition, that if we would re-
move to their great city and make
that the headquarters of our paper,
and of the Alliance Business Agency,
and the Alliance Fire Insurance Co.;
and the scene of our great state con-,
ventions, they would guarantee u
an amount of advertising that would
place the success of our paper beyond
all controversy. This pledge the diff
ferent merchants signed, stipulating
the amount of advertising which
each one would give us, for a year.
We feel very grateful to these kind
and generous gentlemen; and to the
cid friends who initiated the move
nent; and we are glad to find that
any one thinks highly enough Of US
to make such an effort to secure us.
Our next UNDERGRADUATES one of
the second volume,-will be printed
and published in Minneapolis, May
ID. 1t will be a mammoth edition.
And it will contain the call for the
State Convention of the Peoples Par
ty, which will be held in Mime
apOlis, to nominate state ticket;
and also the call for a great Grain
Gro,oers Convention, to be held in the
same place, to take steps to organize
the farmers of the whole Northwest,
in an effort to get the full value Of
their productions. These two con-
ventions will last for three or four
days, and will bring not less than
$4,000, possibly $40, 200, into the cof-
fers of the city of Minneapolis; so
that the course of the leading citi-
zens of that town in making it the
headquarters of the Alliance, and
probably of the Peoples Party also,
represents a wise, business foresight.
We presented all these considera-
tions to the Commercial Club Of ST.
Paul; for we did not like to move; we
remembered that "three removals
are equal to one fire." but leading
members of the club, while promis-
ing largely, and meaning we'll, could
only give us one dollar month, for
inch ads; while others would give
us one column advertisement for
one issue, and then stop it! Every
one understands that the success of