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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
THAT COMMITTEE.
Too Many Lawyers on It.-WhO
Packed 1t?

Now we do not say there have not
been, and may not be again, patriotic
and honest lawers. There was Lin
coin and Tom Jefferson for example
And we have some in this state, like
Judge Willis and Judge McGindley,
and Pierce Butler and Daniel Buck
and Dick Walsh and Francis E. Clark
and Captain SmallWood, and Tom
O'Brien and number of 9TH
ers we could name. Put we do say
that much of the disagreement
which aflicts the nation has been due
to the fact that the lawyers have been
running things for nearly century.
Their intellects have been magnified
and their consciences minimzed
D'Toqueville, the great French philos-
pher, visited this country fifty years
ago, and recorded in his great book,
democracy in America" his convic-
ton that the lawyers governed the
nation, and his prophecy that they
would destroy it. That prophecy is
now being fulfilled.
1t was the proud boast of the PeO-
pies Party during the first year of it's
existence that it had no lawyers in it.
But now the aurora of victory bright
ems the populistic sky, and the lawyers
are rushing into our ranks by the
wholesale. You couldn't keep them
out with a club.
The chairman of our state central
committee, John L. Macdonald, is a
lawyer, although poor one. Then
his associate from st. Paul, Mr.. H. G.
Peterson is another lawyer. Then
Mr.. j. n. True of Itasca county is al
soa lawyer-but he is good fellow
and an honest man. Among those
who voted for SWANS resolution was
one Martin O'Brien, of Crookston,
member of the committee. We had
never heard of him until he was ap-
pointed, although pretty familiar with
the Populists of Polk county. And so
we wrote letter to friend in that
section and asked who Mr.. O'Brien
was, and what was his occupation.
The answer we received was that he
was a lawyer! There was prefix to
to the word lawyer which we do not
quote as we might have a libel suit for
damages on our hands if we did. But
it seems he has only been a Populist
for less than three months! He was
formerly Democrat; and forced him
self into the position of committee
man, and then voted to turn the party
over to Republicans, Democrats and
millionaires. He is pretty creature
to make war on the REPRESENTA-
TIVE. He should have waited
until his feathers were-dry and he had
picked the fragraments of Democratic
egg-Shell off his back.
Four lawyers out of twenty-one on
that committee! Pretty we'll for one
year of progress! We are getting
along nobly. Next year they will have
a majority; and the year after-well
there won't be any Peoples Party aft
er that!
Things have gone all wrong. But
don't let us get discouraged, or go
back on the party. The party is all
right and its principles are all right
and our ticket is all right. We must
not desert our granary on account of
the rats. Let us clean out the vermin
and go ahead to victory. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
(St. Paul Globe, Sept. 49,
A POPCLIST TRUCE.

DonnelIy and Owen Meet and Agree to
Pull Together.
The Donnelly- Owen newspaper war has
come to end The two great chieftains
met yesterday divided the offices they have
not won, kissed each other in the presence
of Judge Macdonald and Robert Eckford,
and decided to tell the people that they
have always loved each other and that the
wicked newspapers have been at the bot
tom of the whole matter. The terms Of
this treaty are somewhat as follows:
1. Owen to be elected governor.
2. Donnely is to have clear field for
United States senator.
3. Judge Macdonald is to be retained
as chairman, and in addition receive a GER
tifcate of character from the sage.
4. The Representative is to be the only
organ of the party.
This treaty being signed, sealed and de-
livered. there is but one thing more to do
small matter, by the way-it is to get
votes enough to carry the state.
Ignatius Donnelly when seen at the Mic
olet House last evening, and asked as to
the result of the conference, said:
Yes, 1 met Mr.. Owen today In fact
met him for three hours, and we went over
a great many things together. 1 had not
met him since the convention, and we
talked over carefully everything that had
happened since that time. Mr.. Owen stated
that he knew very little about Macdonald's
scheme for a daily paper to kill the Repre-
sentative anu MS pIotnef, II. II. o"eH'
was drawn into the matter innocently.
Neither gentlemen had any idea that the
paper was intended to injure our paper,
so that the matter was all cleared up.
After that we talked over everything and
cleared up all the MISUNDERSTANDING,
shook hands and resolved to go in and
work together tremendously until we have
done the old parties up
How about Judge Macdonald"
question that was asked Mr. Donnelly then.
'Oh [ think that will let up him
now. He is not worth bothering about. The
Representative this week contains some
shots at him which We're written early, but
after this l thinks will let him alone.
Mr.. Owen told me that Macdonald would
have a branch of he state headquarters
in this city to be presided by some
Minneapolis man. My sympathies are all
with Paul Fontaine in his trouble with the
state committee, but we are going to
work for the interests of the party
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19

influence, devotes lengthy article to
the Peoples party and it's work, in its
July issue. We clip the following ex-
tract:
POPULISM AND THE TARIFF.
The Peoples party adopted no tariff
plank whatsoever in it's Omaha plat
form. 1t believed that there were 9TH
er questions more fundamental than
the tariff, and that the publication of
politics and the adjustment of some
other issues would make it more pos
sible to deal with the tariff question
of the nation at large. It's criticism
of the tariff struggle between the two
great parties was embodied in the fol-
lowing language:
"We have witnessed for more than a
quarter of century the struggles of
the two great political parties for
power and plumber, while grievOus
wrongs have been Inflicted upon the
people. We charge that the control
ling interests dominating both these
parties have permitted the existing
dreadful conditions to develOpe with
out serious effort to prevent or re-
strain them. Neither do they now
promise any substantial reform. They
have agreed together to ignore in the
coming campaign every issue but one;
they propose to drown the outcries Of
plundered people with the uproar Of
sham battle over the tariff, SO that
capitalists, corporations, national
banks, rings, trusts, watered stocks,
demonstration of silver and the op-
pressiOnS of the usurers may all be lost
sight Of"
This denunciation of the two par
ties seemed to the country at the time
of its PRONUNCIATION quite too dismal
and overdrawn: but in view of what
has actually happened, and of the ex-
listing state of pending tariff legisla-
tion, there are many citizens who vote
with one or the other of the old par
ties who feel inclined to sympathize
somewhat with the view that the
two years ago. 1t has no doubt been
somewhat of a sham battle, this fight
over the tariff. The ruling party in
the senate has made no disintereSted
attempt to serve the interests of the
whole country, but has INDUCED in an
unseemingly scramble for the prOtec-
tlon OF this locality or interest or
trust or combination, and for the cor
responding punishment of some other
locality or interest or combination
The outcome is much what the Popu-
list had predicted, and appears to be
viewed by them with more equanim-
ity and less concern than by anybody
else. Here again, it seems to us, the
POpulistS have scored something, al
though in less definite way. Their
prediction was that this Democratic
victory-won on a pretense of settling
the tariff question and on a claim
that their settlement of that question
would bring about the most far-reach-
ing and benefcient results-would
prove disappointment. Further
more, the Populist declaration that the
solution of these questions would re-
quire craftsmanship more free from
improper influence, has seemed to be
shamefully verified by the circum-
stances under which the tariff meas
ure has been handled in the senate.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
A STUPID Fellow.

Hills Crescent: Some time ago the
Minneapolis Tribune was asked to
give five rea sons why it is Republic
can. The third reason given was:
Third, because it is the party of hon
est money.
To this Donnelly replies through
the REPRESENTATIVE:
eyes, honest money which obliges
the borrower to pay twice as much as
he received; which closes the minis
and the mines: shuts up the factories,
ruins the farmer and enriches plutoc-
racy"
A little further down the column
Donnelly attempts to give, as he says,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
(St. Paul Globe, Sept. 49,
DOWNING IGNATIUS.
The Peoples Party Doing Its Utmost to
Floor Him.

ElOOr HIM.
1t looks as if the Peoples party leaders
spent most of their time trying to devise
some new scheme for bothering and tortur-
ing 1gnatius Donnelly, they seeming to
care more about downing Donnelly than
they do about the success of their ticket
Yesterday they heaped still further indig-
mites upon him. and it remains to be seen
what he will do now. The executive COM
mittee of the Populist state central COM
mittee held a meeting during the forenoon
and did just what Donnelly has been pre-
dieting they would do. They decided to
remove the state headquarters to St. Paul,
and thus get them quite ways from the
Representative, the official paper of the
party. Judge Macdonald, chairman of the
committee, wanted this done, and all he
had to do was give the word, and it was
done. This means that if the local Popu-
lists want the present quarters for con-
gresSional and city campaign Headquarters
they can have them, but otherwise the
doors will be boarded up although the
Macdonald men say that they will ruin
sort of a side issue in this city to satisfy
the Donnelly men.
Not only were the headquarters removed,
but Paul Fontaine the secretary, was fired
bodily, on the ground that he was not COM
petent to do the work. Exhibitor Slough
ton, of the Representative, was elected sec
rotary in his place. Further insult was Of
fered Fontaine by the fact that he was not
even asked to attend the meeting of the
executive committee and the records were
kept by one of the country members. Even
S. M. Owen, it is said, Joined in the popular
cry that Fontaine unable to do his
work properly. If this charge is true, but
everything indicates that it is not, Fon-
tame should certainly be removed, for
there has been practically no work to do
up to date, and if Fontaine couldn't do this
much he couldn't last through the cam
paign. However, Mr.. Fontaine is one of
the hardest workers in the Peoples party
in the city. and he has an ability ahead of
the average Populst. He is very popular
locally, and 1T Is probable that the action
of the executive committee did not help
along the effort to restore harmony among
the ratified Populists of this state.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
A Challenge for Joint Debates.
To the Republican Congressional Commi


tee of the Second District of Minnesota:
The Peoples party congressional commit
tee hereby requests you to arrange for
joint meetings Of your candidate, J. T.
McCleary, and our candidate, l.. c. Long,
at Adrian and Mankato, and such other
places as we may agree upon in this dis
trict, for joint debate upon the questions
involved in the two platforms.
A Republican leader of Cottonwood coun-
ty, r. H. Jefferson. Of Window, met l.. c..
Long Sept. l, 1894, in ljoint debate on the
financial question. the meeting lasting three
hours We claim that Mr.. jefferson got
short of proofs and resorted to asking ques-
tons, which Mr. Kong had not time enough
to answer. 40 1y
We are willing TO keep up the arguments
so as to enlighten the people upon the ques-
tons of the day. h.
. Newspaper articles and campaign docu-
ments, from your side, are eX parte and
Misrepresentation. 1t seems that your
side depend on ignorance to elect your men,
We wish to show the truth, and let you
disprove it if you can. e.'-
Do you dare let your man meet our man
in joint debate? If so, let us know. We
are ready with six of our men to meet six
of your men,, every day from now to cleo
tion Let us have a campaign of the Lin
coin and Douglass kind, when the Repub-
lican party was a peoples party, and the
Democratic party was a slavery party
Let us put brains against brains, and be
above the tactics of your party. for the
past three campaigns in Minnesota, when
dollars of the monoposts have been fur
nished purposely to elect legislators and
their attorneys in the United States senate,
and also to get their aids in the house
For the Peoples party committee of the
Second district.
A. D. FERRIS, Chairman.
To c. l.. Benedict Chairman of the Re-
publican committee, Second district.
PipeStone, Sept. II, 1894.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
PEOPLES PARTY SPEECHES.


Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, who will
succeed Butler in the senate, is so phenom-
enally ugly that his face is actually at
tractive. He is a man of large stature,
standing six feet or more, with great
shoulders, a large head, and a thick, red
neck. His features are coarse and irregu-
lar, his mouth large, his teeth are repu-
sive, and he has only one eye, having lost
the other when a lad. Ten years ago he
had never seen a railroad, or a bank or
a hotel, and it not until the Farmers
Alliance developed his somewhat extraor-
binary abilities that he was ever IL miles
from home.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
N the other by the leading Democrat

ic paper.
Wouldn't it be lovely! And yet such
skallewags as HOidale think we did
wrong to fight the whole caboodle.
We ought TO have acknowledgements n
out of the way-and let this iniQuity
take possession of our party. If the
devil does not get such fellows it will
be because Bob Ingersoll is right, and
there is no devil. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
WANTED.

A partner wanted in Populist
Newspaper, at Neosho, Mo. Must be
a practical printer with small capital.
For full information, correspond with
Il. p. O'Niel, Neosha, Mo.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19

The mouthpece of plutocracy, the Chi
cago Inter Ocean, in an editorial said
Until the war the American people owed
almost nothing abroad
Today the people paying foreigners
on bonds, stocks and mortgages an interest
on about SIS, 200 O00, 600, and the sum is in
creasing every hour. Will the Inter Ocean
explain how the American people have lost
title to one-third of all the wealth of the
United States? The foreigners could have
paid for it only in three ways--in gold, in
silver or in merchandise. This country
does not use foreign money. Turning to
the treasury department statements, it is
found that they have not paid for in either
of these commodities, as the following to-
tails will prove: This country has sent out
from 1860 to 1892:
Gold in excess of imports. .... $543O79, 1917
Silver in excess of imports 500. 435 1854 11S
Merchandise in excess of exports 5l444O ISL
IOeoi 81, 4Jo 0Uo, iob
How long will the American people De
blind to the robbery system now prevalent?
Coming Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19

E. V. Debs: Il am a Populst, and 1 am
in favor of wiping both old parties out of
existence. I have been a Democrat all my
life and am ashamed to admit it. / want
every one of you to go to the polls and
vote the POpuliSt ticket"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
Take Notice

Mr.. Donnelly will speak at the Popu-
list convention, to be held, at Becker,
Sherburne county, on Saturday, Sept.
29th
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
GOSSIP OF THE DAILY PAPERS.

Trying to Stir Up n Row i'm Our Ranks
They Cannot Succeed.
We know our readers will be glad to
learn what the daily papers are saying
about the differences in our ranks, and we
therefore quote the following extracts.
Their statements must be accepted with
grain of SALT We propose to have har-
mony in our ranks:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
(St. Paul Globe, Sept. 49,

Ignatius Donnelly, in speaking of his row
with Macdonald, said yesterday:
Il am really sorry that this trouble has
come up, and hope the work will go along
uninterrupted. 1t is likely, l say, that
Macdonald has been bought up by the
Republicans However, ] intend to do all
] can to help the party and the cause.
Hereafter I shall endeavor to avoid all dis
cusson of the subject"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19

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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19

Sir Thomas Moore: II must say as I
hope for mercy 1 can have no other notion
of all the governments that l see or
know, than that they are conspiracy of
the rich, who on pretense of managing the
public, only pursue their private ends and
devise all the ways and means they can
find out, first, thatrtheyB may, without dam
ger, preserve all that they have so lilac
CURED and then that they may engage the
poor to toll and labor s6or them at as low
rates possible.li sandd Cypress them as
much they pledse.'Ho
The Cincinnati dEnquirer asks.
"What shall be done with the ex-presi-
dents9" The eN-presidents are very
little trouble. It isGnWhat to do with
the presidents that's troubling the
people at this ti1ne. Love sb oro Ry.)
F. and L. Journal. ii :,
There is more t,Catarrh in this Sec
tion of the country than all the other
diseases put together, and until the.
last. few years it was supposed to be in
durable. For great many years doc
tors pronounced it local disease and
prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment pronounced it incurable. Sci
ence has proven catarrh to be consti-
tutiOnal disease and therefore REQUIRES
constitutional treasment. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheny & Co., Toledo, Ohio. is the only
constitutional cure on the market. Ii
is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to teaSpoonful. Itacts direct
~ on the blood and mucuous surfaces
Of the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure,
Send for circulars and testimonials
Address, -
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O.
az Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19
GETTING THEIR EYES OPEN.
THE pOPULIsTs PROPHETS.
They Steal Our Income Tax and
Admit We We're Right About
the Tariff.

The Review of Reviews, popular
magazine of extensive circulation and
influence, devotes lengthy article to
the Peoples party and it's work, in is
July issue. We clip the following ex-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-19

n. u. Il ETNflIN, NTfdITIIIdTI.
To G. L. Benedict, Chairman of the Re-
publican committee, Second district.
Pipestone, Sept. II, 1894.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-19
New York Produce Market.


NEW YORK; Jan. Is. - FLoUR-Dull,
weak.
WHEAT-DuIl, frmer; No. red, store
and elevator, 67AaGG}Ec.; afoat, 67AN6Sc, ;
I. o. b., 6IAe67Slc.; ungraded red, 6la
Csc. No. l northern, ilHa7l&c.; options
moderately active. firm; No. 2 red jan
6SHc.; May, 7ONc, June, 7lc.; July, 72C. ;
August, 72%o.; December 76Ic.
CoRN-Quiet, firmer; No. 2, 42Aa42bc. ;
elevator, 43llas3Ac.: ungraded mixed,
4l&a4tc.; steamer mixed, 4l%-42c: low
mixed, 4l&a42c No. white. l2Ha425lc. /;
options were fairly active, closing firm;
January, 42c.; February, 42Yc.; March,
43SIc; May, 4iSc.
OATs-Quiet. frmer; options, frmer,
quiet; closed, January, S3c.; February,
$3.50; March, 341sc, May, S4ssc: No. =
white February. 364c.; spot prices,
No. 9, 33Hc; No. 2 white, 35haSj9lc. ;
No. g Chicago, 34c.; ; No. 3, 32Lc.; No. 3
white, 3316c. mixed western, 34a35c. I;
white do, 35a4Or white state, 35aiOc.
BEEF-Firm, dull; family. sllai3; extra
mess IS. 00aS 80.
BEEF HAMs-Quiet; SIG 50alT.0O.
T1ERCED BEEF-lnRctive; city extra
India mess, $l9a90.
CUT MEATS Firm, quiet, picked bellies,
nc; picked shoulders OKc.; picked hams,
9Ha0Hc.
MIDDLEs-Nominal.
LARD-Quiet, steady; western steam,
$3.50 asked; city. S1JS option sales, none;
refined. quiet; continent, $S65: South
America, s0.l5: compound, 6J6a65sc.
PoRK-Quiet. steady; mess, Sl4 5Oa15
BUTTER-Moderate demand, steady, state
dairy l6a23c: do. creamery, 18a22c; western
dairy, l3kal7c.; do. creamery, lSa25Kc; fac.
tory, 13al51Gc; elgins, 25a25xc; imitation
creamery, l5alSc; rolls, l2al6c.
CHEEsE--Firm, fair demand; large state,
0allsIc.; fancy, llsEall&c.; do. small,
l2&c.; part skins, .4al0c.s full skins, saSc
EGas-Very heavy receipts. quiet,
weaker; ice house, per case. Sla2.0O; west
ern fresh, l4al4kc.. fall packed PER case,
$3.50: southern, l3Hal4Mc.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-19
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Stocks and Bonds

New YORK, Jan. lS.--The announce
ment that Secretary Carlisle would offer
$50, 600, 900 Of per cent. bonds strength
ened the stock market at the opening Of
business. London bought nearly l2,000
shares Of stock and some of the more
timld of the shorts rushed to coyer. The
local and foreign buying resulted in an ad.
vance Of a to Is in which Rock Island,
st. Paul, Sugar, Burlington, Louisville and
Nashville, Manhattan, New England,
Union Pacific and Western Union were
most conspicuous. When the Lond on
orders Were filled the market began to
sag and after period of extreme dull
ness the bears renewed their attacks.
They sold the Srangers, general electric
and Chicago gas, their sales during the af-
ternoon being estimated ut between Ii, QUO
and 60 600 shares. These offerings, as well
as the confidence displayed by the sell
ers, discouraged tho early buyers and null
lifted the good effects Of the proposed bond
issue rs far as today's market is concerned.
The decline from the top Of the day was
equal to 4 to Us per cent. Chicago gas
dropped 2}s; western union, 2&; Rock Is.
land, 2; general electric, .; sugar. ~:
Burlington, lgs: whiskey, n; Louisville
and Nashville, "a; and the other active
stocks II TO |. The market closed weak
hut 3S to u above the lowest Of the day.
Total sales l6i. SOS shares
The foil. wing complete table showing the
days fluctuations in active stocks is supplied
and revised daily by LaBar & Fuller, stock
brokers' l9l Wyoming ayenue
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-19
GENERAL NEWS
Of INDUSTRIES
Statistics Of Anthracite Coal Production itt
Two OeCeUbeT, Compared.
COMPLETE figures LAST YEAR.

The Excess Over the Preceding
Twelve.Month Is Mare Than One
Million Tons-Arguments Pro and
Con as to the Present Status Of the
Trade-The Asa Packer Estate Said
Not to Have Voting Control Of the
Lehgh Valley ProperIy--Miscela-
neous Notes.