The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-02-14
OREGON STIRRED UP.

OREGON STIRRED UP.
SHE WILL ENTER THE FRONT RANK
IN THE POPULlsT ARMY.
In the Coming Election the Peoples Party
VIII Beat the Old Parties Out o Sight.
The Business Depression-A Good Word
For Pennoyer.
It is just barely possible that you may
imagine the state of Oregon bringing up
the rear in the grand and determined
march of reform. If so. then you are
much mistaken. Though notably in
some things Oregon has been slow to
act, this faraway state is now waking
up to lively recognition of the causes
of the recent wonderful slump" from
the real prosperity which we enjoyed
even so late as 1890 to the terribly try
ing times of the present. when all bust
ness is nearly at standstill; when our
beautiful farms are being taken charge
of by their new owners (through the as
sistance of the sheriff.; when in our once
thriving cities and towns real destitu-
ton and suffering exist, and honest men
and pure women are actually being
forced to lead dishonest and impure
iro0 rdo f0 ~, <o;v cl
want to tell you, Mr.. Editor, that
although the lesson is a severe one it is
being thoroughly learned, and every day
adds its list to the number of students
who can repeat it "by heart" word for
word. It is telling, too, and the result
| will hereafter be seen in the ballot boxes
| The next election will, / honestly be-
lieve, land us high and dry upon the
Populist rock of reform. The last few
months have added number of the best
known men of the state to our ranks,
and am told that the work of organ
ization is going on SO thoroughly that 3
number of counties are given over to the
Populists. So strong is that indefati-
gable young giant of party becoming
that number of voting precincts will
not cast single vote but for the party's
candidates.
One prominent speaker says that from
reliable information he knows over a
dozen counties that today will cast more
Populist votes than for all other parties
together. Exactly why Republicans and
Democrats will nominate men las sup
pose they will if they can get any one to
accept the empty honors) to run" for
Office on their tickets in such counties
do not know, for there is no more chance
of their being elected than there is for a
national banker to get to heaven, and
we who believe the Bible know nothing
more impossible.
Quite recently few plug hated fel-
of Commerce, met to draw up a set of
resolutions denouncing the governor as a
falsifer and bad man generally, be-
cause of that famous Christmas letter he
sent to the great dictator, to the effect
that business in Oregon was in a chaotic
state; that thousands of our people had
lost their homes and were out of employ
geratlon, did not even state the case as
seriously as he might honestly have DONE
| Every word he said was true enough,
and nine-tenths of the people know it
and said so, and these creatures would
better have left the matter where it was,
as knot of business men were recently
| heard to say, ''The governor told the
truth, and if the members of the cham
Der of commerce don't keep still worse
report than the governors may come
| OUT
Well. after much wrangling this choice
body evolved set of resolutions prov
ing G0 that business was in avery -four
ishing and prosperous state" etc. They
knew this was false from beginning to
end, but they 'sent 'em out" and must
have sent copies to Washington, for that
| ignoble misrepresentation from Oregon,
Senator Dolph, was soon heard to say in
the senate that the people of Oregon
were indignant at the false statements
of the governor, or words to that effect:
The people! God forbid!
Apropos of the above, Mr.. Editor, let
LILO ocy low WOAuS dOOuG OOtOIuOT
Pennoyer of Oregon. He is peculiar
man, I'll admit. He has one fault. He
does not like to see people humbugged
and is liable to "speak right out in meet
i'm if he sees any robbing being done, no
matter if the president of the United
| States is present. And it SO happened
that recently when a gigantic steal was
on hand, when millions of Woodworking
men and women were being robbed Of
their silver dollars by lot Of glib
tongued thieves, this governor saw
among these thieves great overgrown
glutton who seemed to be urging the
other robbers on to more than even they
desired to do, and when he saw that
nearly all the residents of his state were
there and were listening to pleasant sto-
ries while the robbers were emptying
their pockets he could not refrain from
calling out to the great overgrown glut-
ton, chief of the robbers, and asking him
in the name of God to desist, as his peo-
pie were now in very serious state
financially, and this robbery would leave
thousands of them homeless.
In his Christmas letter to the great