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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
Bank Notes Or GreenbackS?
Which?

Jefferson once said that banks of is
sue are more dangerous than standing
armies. The World-Herald believes
that the right to issue money is an at
tribute of sovereignty, and that it is
wrong in principle as we'll as dangerous
in policy to delegate the right to pri-
vate individuals. Farmers may with
as much safety be authorized to issue
notes against their capital stock.
Neither class should be given this
valuable privilege. The East will pos
sibly applaud the presidents advocacy
of Republican fnanciering, but the
West and South should resent the at
tempt to fasten Wall street system
upon the country.-Omaha World
Herald.
That is just where the line of clev-
age will come. The present Congress
will probably pass Carlisle's project to
withdraw the greenbacks and flood
the country with bank notes, every
dollar of which will pay interest to in
dividuals. The Democrats will hope
that that this will create fictitiou
good times, and the banks will unite
with them in the work, regardless OF
its effects upon the prospects of the
Republican party. The Democrats
may revive their party by business
revival, but the financial issue will be
the great one:-silver and greenbacks.
against gold and bank notes.
But the Money-power realizes that
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
The Future of Democracy.

"My belief is" said Congressman
Moore. of Kansas, "tllat Republican
success in our state will not be long
lived affair Their triumph this year
was Of course due to the fact that the
Democrats and Populists would not
combine against the common enemy:
| predict that in the future they VIII
do so. They have learned useful
lesson by which they will profit here
after. There has been really but
small Republican gains. The Demo
Gratis were Indifferent and stayed away
from the polls"
Over a million and half Democrats
stayed away from the polls in the last
election. This represented disgust.
Some of these may go back to the old
party, but much larger number will
enter the Populist ranks. Their stay
ing at home simply showed that they
were on the way there, but had not the
courage to advance without halting.
The wealthier city Democrats will
join the Republicans, and then the
battle will come between Plutocracy
on one side and the People on the
other. l. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
1T is COMING.
They Will Unite Against the
People.

'"The Times will heartily join the
Press (Rep.) in demanding that neith-
er of the leading parties shall trade
with the Populists in either senate or
house, or in any state or district con-
test. We sincerely rejoiced, at the
election of the Republican tickets in
the western states which had been
controlled by the POpulists and as
earnestly deplored the success of the
Populists in the South by the aid of
Republican votes. We believe that
the two great parties Of the country
should unite in the senate and in
every field of conflict where it shall be
necessity to prevent the success of
Populist candidates for any office.
If, when the next senate shall meet,
the distinctive Democrats shall have
plurality over the distictive Repub-
licans, Democratic senator should
be elected president pro tenn of the
body by the united vote of both the
old parties, and vice versa, and the
other offices should be divided be-
tween them, and in the legislature OF
North Carolina the Democrats and
Republicans should unite and elect a
straightforward Democrat to the
United States senate if it can pos
sibly be accomplished. We believe
that the defeat of the Populists under
any and all circumstances is the first
duty of both Republicans and Demo
crats.-Philadelphia Times (Dem.)
This is all we'll enough for Philadel'
phia; but as soon as that union is ac
cOmplshed the Democracy disappear:
as a national party; and the Republi
can party will be unable to hold it:
followers If the Methodists an(
Catholics were to unite together, fo-
purposes of spoil, the charm would b'
broken which holds men to those
creeds, and they would scatter to thu
four winds. And the tie which bind
men to their parties is very much
too much-like the tie which binds
them to their religions:-it is a mix
ture of reason, faith, training ant
prejudice. But you cannot melt two
idols into one and hold the alteration
of the followers of both. There ar
millions of Republicans who believe il
their party because it represent
antagonism to Democracy; and cic
rerso; let them fall into each others
arms and the end has come.
Go on, gentlemen. Nothing bette
could happen for the country than t
see the two old monstrosities married
We will 'shiveree" them, as the boy
say. l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
DOnnelly'S Oversight.

Lake Benton News: Ignatius Don
nelly has resigned the presidency Of
the State Farmers Alliance and says
he will hereafter devote his time to
literature. Farmer Donnelly has been
endeavoring for many years to farm
the people in the hope of raising po-
litical cropin the shape of fat politi-
cal office for himself. But somehow
his system of farming did not enable
him to reap the harvest he longed for.
He now gives up with despairing cry
that somehow God seems to decree
that he shall never reach the goal Of
his ambition-a fat office. There has
been one great fault with Farmer
Donnelly's methods of political farm
ing. He has continually underestim-
ated the intelligence of the common
people.
Great Heavens! To think of any
one Understanding the intelligence of
the fellow that wrote that article. or
the people who support that paper! 1t
can't be done. The imagination re-
fuses to sink to a point low enough
to get below that FOOLS bathos.
If the "goal of our mbition" was a
''fat office" would we have left the
party that had the fat offices tC
bestow, and gone out with minority,
into the wilderness, to live on locusts
and wild honey?
Oh, thou wild ass of the desert! Thy
drawings are an insult to thy Maker
The Bible tells us that once God "re.
pented him that he had made man
and the result was the Deluge. Every
family around Lake Benton should
have life-boat and lot of life-pre-
servers, for there is no telling what
will happen next.
And this fool thinks because we de-
clined to run again for president OF
the Alliance, that we are dead. Dead
There is more life in us today, than in
two hundred idiots, like the Lake
Benton editor. who are so anxious t(
bury us.
"Dead!" We will bet a six pence
that if the scamp had gone through
one-half the labor we endured in the
recent campaign, speech-making, cor
responding and writing for the paper
his delighted neighbors would have
had the pleasure of burying him
Dead" Oh thou fool! I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
Via the Alimentary Canal.

"For twenty odd years. said a
friend who still votes the old party
ticket, 81 have said every year at
Christmas time, i hope | will have a
little more money to spend next
Christmas and every Christmas finds
me just little harder up and with
Jess and less money to spend"
Ha. hal!
You don't say sol
Well, well, well, but we are sorry to
hear it.
Say, friend, just keep right on call
ing everybody cranks, anarchists and
fools who claim contraction of the
greenback currency, silver demonetiz-
alton and bond issues, are wrong.
Stick to your party few Christ
masses longer and by and by you will
be in big luck if you have money
enough at that season Of the year to
buy postal cards upon which to extend
the usual compliments of the season.
Denver Road.
Man, it is claimed by the philOsoph
ers, developed out of animal ancestors
who had very little brains and plenty
of appetite.
And hence we have great hopes that
the bellies of the fools will yet open
their eyes. The pneumogastric nerve
reaches from the stomach to the
brain, and branches reach out to the
eye-lids; and by 1896 the bowling idiot,
of the two old parties will have the
strings pulled until their eyes open
with snap. We can see the startled
look, with which they will advance to
the ballot box to vote the People $
ticket, tightening the belt over their
empty stomachs as they go forward.
So mote it to be. 1. -.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
PROSECUTING THE TRUSTS.
The City of New York.

The encouragement of Texas de-
clares his purpose to pursue the Stand
ara Oil magnates with reQuisitions in
TO every state of the union if neces-
Sary. Sooner or later" he declares,
They shall be brought to trial and the
law will be enforced" A little talk of
that Kind about trust magnates would
be very refreshing coming from the
attOrney-general of the United States.
Chicago Times.
Gov. Hogg, of Texas, is a trump.
His state represents primitive condi-
tions. There is no more resemblance
between the moral and mental status
of New York and Texas, than there is
between New York and Patagonia.
New York city ought to be towed
across the Atlantic and attached to
John Bulls land. 1t is not American.
Its mayor, Fernando Wood, proposed,
when the civil war broke out, that
the city should separate itself from
the United States. The people of the
West would be worth thousands of
millions of dollars more to day if the
virtuOus Fernando had accomplished
his purpose, and all intercourse had
ceased between New York and the
rest Of the nation.
1t has not patriotism enough to
keep yellow dog alive over night. 1t
never espoused the cause of national
| life until the southern leaders. in 1861,
declared for direct trade between
Liverpool and Charleston, S. c.: and
he hof
would make the grass grow in the
streets of New York" Then New
York got her 'dander" up; she
| ''humped'' herself: she stopped carica-
| turing Mr.. Lincoln in her newspapers
as gorilla: and hired all the men she
could get, native and foreign, to go out
and shoot down the Confederates.
| Tomorrow if she could make money
by it, she would scuttle the United
States and sink them in the ocean.
There never was great city yet
that was fit to maintain Republican
government. Christ preached his
benign philantlrophy undisturbed and
worshipped by tramping thousands,
until he reached erusalem-and the
rich men Of the great city cruciiied
him. New York would murder him
tomorrow, if he returned to the
earth: and it's newspapers would prove
conclusiyely that he was seditious
anarchist and deserved hundred
deaths.
New \ 1Ork is cancer on the body
polite, whose dreadful roots reach out
to every part Of the nation, breeding
rottenness and death wherever they
penetrate. Is there no surgical opera
tiOn that will remove the cancer?
|
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
WOman's Ingratitude.

'sThe shirtmakers 10 New York have
been cut 10 per cent since the Repub-
lican victory. Signs Of returning
prosperity
Well. the shirtmakers can console
themselves with the reflection that
they didn't help to pass the evil laws
which brought about these conditions.
If they had had the right to vote they
would probably have acted as the
women in Colorado did-turned their
backs on their friends and supported
their enemies.
1t is amusing to see how the Woman
Suffrage question has dropped out OF
sight. Even Mrs. Lease, who made
such a fight for it at our national con-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
A Trick of the Enemy.

Many postmasters have notified US
that certain papers were refused.
Then we get letters from the same
people that they dc don't receive their
paper. Postmasters should be elected
by the people. Every appointive office
is menace to iberty.-Coming Ma
tiOn.
We have had a similar experience.
We get cards from the postmasters
to stop certain. papers. We do so.
And then two or three weeks after
wards come scolding letters asking
why the subscribers don't get their
papers. l. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
Resolution and Hot Weather.

DR.. Lombross, the well-known ply
Sician, agrees with the contention Of
other European medical men, made
public few months ago, that all an
archsts and communists are dement,
ed. He finds that propensity to
revolution is merely demonstration
of insanity and should be treated in
the same way as other forms of
lunacy. He thinks the advocates of
destruction of governments and the
distribution of property, if placed un-
der restraint some where and proper
lY treated, would in the course Of time
become as lucid and sensible as other
people. After certain Investigations,
DIR. Lombross discovers that revOlu-
tiOnS occur chiefly in warm countries,
and during summer. The heat stirS
up the blood and eXcites the brain.
The thermometer is really the thing
to be looked to for explanation of
many social phenomena; and he
thinks it true, as the ancient sagcS
thought, that the dog star sets men
mad as we'll as dogs. 10 illustrate his
ly 200 popular outbreaks in Europe
covering France, Italy and Greece,
there were 30 in June and II in No
vember, and the summer averaged
three times as much as the colder sea
sons.-EXchange.
One cannot conceive of the Declara.
tion Of Independence being signed or
the 4th day of January, instead of the
4th day of July. Observe how the
wild excitements of last summer sub
sided as the weather grew cooler
Where are the Coxeyites now? The!
were the creatures of the suns rays
subject to "the skyey Influences
The refOrmers would have carried
Minnesota long ago if the election
had been held in the beginning o
September or October instead of tht
beginning of November In Novem
Der. the voter forgets his principle
and begins to think of the wood-pil
and an overcoat; and the party tina
can furnish these carries the floatin,
vote. About the first Of January
man in this country has no faith il
anything, human or divine. He woult
greet the Angel Gabriel with grin
and button up his pockets. We are a.
waiting to be thawed out. We ar
sun-worshippers, without knowing il
n
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
A TRAITOR EXPOSED.
The Assailants of the Representa-.
tive
We have received the following let

We have received the following let
ter:
MILAN, Minn., Dec. 3, '94.
HON. IGNATIUs DONNELLY:
DEAR SIR:-I have read few copies
OF the REPRESENTATIVE" 1t is a
good paper and like it.
In September issue of the REP
REENTATIYE" [ saw an article en-
titled, "The Difference Between an
Honest Man and a Scamp" In the
same article you warned the Populist
friends to be on the lookout for Mr..
Hoidale, who was the editor of the
Western Guard" Madison. 1t went
just as you prophesied,- he became a
traitor to his party. Shortly before
the election he sold the paper to Mr..
Hammar, Superintendent of schools
in that county, who after he got con-
troll of it, stated that 1.-THE paper will
continue to be q paper of political re-
form, but through a different party
(the Republican,. One of the county
papers remarked: "Mr Hoidale took
our advice-voted the Republican
ticket" But we don't feel so very
sorry after all, as we don't need any
half and half men in our midst, but
AAOu WIN dI Z 1OuCSU duu VI lC duu Cdu
not be bribed.
A new Populist paper has been
started in Montevideo, "The Chip
pewa County Review" edited by A. j.
Roberts.
Just as we thought. We sized Hoi-
dale up long ago as an unmitigated
scamp. He was with us but not of us.
He was constantly lying back in am
bush, with a club, waiting for us to
trip, or to appear to trip, that he
might sally out and pound us over the
head. No honest man would have
done that:-fOr we were doing more
for the party than any other ten men
in it; and not only getting no pay fol-
it but investing very large sums o1
money in the work, sinking it. We
put our energy: our industry, Oul
| ability, our means, our very life into
this labor of love. If we had ever
made mistakes an honest man woul(
have remembered these things an(
have overlooked them.
There are one or two other men il
this state, who are treading in Hoi
dale's footsteps and they will end lik'
him. We are merciful and slow tt
strike-but there is point where pa
thence mergeS into wrath. |. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
ST PAUL PAPER FAILS.
The News. Record" Goes Under
For the Second Time.

st. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 1.-THE News
Record. the only United Press paper
in this city, after struggling for two
months against an adverse fate, failed
tomake its appearance last night. 1t
found the service of the United Press
SO wretched and inadequate thai com
petition with the Associated Press pa
Der was impossible. This is the sec
ond time the News-RecOrd has Sus-
pended within few months.
This is the paper that was to SUP
plant the REPRESENTATIVE. Requl-
escat in peace. So mote it ever be-
ED, RER
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19

possible doubt as to the crime or the
criminals; all they are entitled to is
fair presentation of the facts, and
swift and condign punishment. For
any lawyer to hypnotic the jury and
overwhelm them with his superior
mentality, and turn the guilty loose,
for money, is almost as great crime
as the murder itself. Soft Sentimen-
tality is about as vicious as the rotten
decentralization of the age. There
must be fibre in the souls and hearts
of men if this country is to be saved
from universal, spongy, bloody decom-
position and decay. /. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19

it cannot starye the victim much
longer. He will break bose and run
muck" Hence they are willing to
give the people more money, provided
it comes through them and enriches
them.
So better times may grow out of the
necessities of Plutocracy and the
dread of armed revolution. Some one
called Turkey, Ia despotism temper
ed by assassination. This country
may be termed an Oligarchy tempered
by Revolution. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
POpulistS Carry Birmingham.

Birmingham, Ala, Dec. THE city
elections here today resulted in the
defeat of the regular Democratic
ticket, supported by independent
Democrats and Republicans.
That means the Peoples Party for
the opposition to the old-line Demo
Gratis in Alabama is the Peoples
Party. But the lying news-gatherers
instinctively mis-represent. If the
election had gone the other way we
would have had great headlines,
"TnE PoPULIsTs REPUDIATED IN
ALABAMA" etc.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19

So that it seems that in 1894 we
have attained 294, ,756 more votes than
Fremont had in 1856. We believe the
parallel will be maintained and in 1896
we will elect our president. The Re-
publican party in tour years between
1856 and 1860 gained but 525,26S votes
and yet they elected their presidents:
while the Peoples Party in t,co years
from 1892 to 1894, gained 5sO,576 votes;
and this upon the imperfect figures
gathered by the New York World. We
are of the opinion that fuller returns
will increase the Populist vote.
The parallel is certainly an encour-
aging one for the Peoples Party. We
have already reached to within 23o,352
votes of the total vote by which Mr..
Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
But even these figures do not do JUS
tice to tke Peoples Party. While we
have grouped together all the political
movements referred to, from 1878 to
1888, as "anti- -plutocrati c. it must be
RENE mbered that they were far from
being identical with the Peoples Par
ty. The Greenback party had but one
issue-the use of national paper mon
ey; and the Labor party simply repre-
sented the discomfort of some of the
working people, of certain cities. The
Peoples Party was not born until
1892, and, four months afterit put its
ticket in the field, it polled 1865: ~
votes; and in two years it comes with
| in 230,3352 votes Of the. number which
! elected Mr.. Lincoln in 1860.
| Surely we can see victory close al
hand. l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
Remember.

To take postal card and send to
Mr.. Robert Eckford, 3O6 Boston Block,
Minneapolis, the names Of such per-
sons, either Populist or otherwise, who
would be likely to subscribe for the
REPRESENTATIVE, and we will send
them sample copies, free Of charge,
and be obliged to you beside. That 70
the way to push the Peoples Party.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19

ventions, said the other day, that the
women were not advanced far enough
to exercise the right of suffrage wise
ly. In Colorado they joined with the
thugs, pimps and gamblers to de-
feat the Peoples Party, which alone
had advocated their right to vote.
AS the great poet said, Slightly
altered):
How sharper than a serpent's thanks it is
TO have toothless child"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
Observation-Disclosures
THE TWO PARTIES.
Their Comparative Growth.

These figures are interesting. They
show the growth of the anti-slavery
party in the United States, as re-
vealed by the votes given for their
candidates for the Presidency.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
A NeceSSitY,

H. L. Hutchinson, of COyington, Ia,
writes us:
"THE REPRESENTATIVE is an ex-
cellent paper. 1t has become neces-
sity to me-"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19

So it appears that in twelve years
the anti-slavery sentiment increased
from 1863 votes to l56, 49, and it took
sixteen years to rise to 1,34l ,264 and
twenty years to carry the country,
with 1,s66,352 votes.
Here are the votes showing the
growth Of the anti-nlutOcraticn ma rtV:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19

on Is the Number
OV of this issue of
THE REPRESENTATIVE
If the number on the yell
low label is less than this
mum ber it shows that your
subscription is in arrears
and should be paid up in
order to avoid its discOn-
inuance.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-15

Bell Telephone Wins victory-Amsn1'
ments TO the Caucus Reform Aot.

Bell Telephone Wins . victory-Amsn6
ments To the Caucus Reform Aot.
BOSTON, June 15-The senate refused to
admit tho house bill to amend the law
for the appointment OF license commis-
sioners so that it will shut out only those
holding municipal" not "pu bile" Office.
The senate passed to a third reading the
bill granting the Bell Telephone company
authority to increase its capital stock
from $50. O00, 900 to $50, 600, 00o Aa amend
ment for the sale OF the stock at auction
was rejected. % to- z. and an amendments
Co refer the question to the people was
likewise defeated.
The senate agreed to the house amend
ments TO the caucus reform act, includ-
ing one to allow independent voters to at
tend caucuses. The vote on this amend
ment was 81 TO z, on strict party lines.
The Norwegian liquor bill WAS passed
10 third reading.
BY vote of 100 to As the house rejected
Massachusetts,
The bill providing for the appointment
of boards of license com missioners was
amended by providing that no "mu-
nicipal," instead of public" official shall
be appointed upon any such ission.
On the report OF the attorney general In
response to an order relative to proceed
ings against the American Sugar Re-
flung company, the committee on judici-
airy reported bill which provides that
every corporation which shall omit to Ale
an annual statement as required by the
statutes. shall forfeit not less than s. nor
more than $40 for each and every day for
Is days after April l. and not less tha n S95
and not more than 5000 for each and
every day thereafter while said omission
continues. The bill provides further that
the forfeit shall be recovered by in
formation brought in the supreme ju-
dicial court in the name OF the attorney
general at the relation of the commits
sioner OF corporations, and upon such in
formation the court may issue an injunc-
tion restraining the further prosecution
of the business OF the corporation named
therein until the sums so forfeited are
paid. Under a suspension of the rules
the bill was passed to be engrossed.