The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-05
CONGRESSMAN BOEN.
He Issues an Address to the Publ


ITO the People: Election is over and
lost. The people lost. But since 1. as far
as / acertain, received at Least
1900 votes more this time than at the last
election, l regard it as an approval of my
work in congress. When on the 21st Of
April 1 returned from the president, where
/ had been to ask him not to support the
Great Northern Company in its fight
against it's employees during the strike
Fred A. Johnson, reporter for the ST. Paul
Dispatch, said to me: If you go against
Jim Hill in this strike he will defeat you
surer than hell 1t so turned out Foss
Solem, Stordock, Ninje. Haugan, Hilleboe
Kron, all We'd with each other in their en-
deavor to defeat the Peoples candidate.
mo lie too low, SANDER too mean in
the crusade against the Peoples party.
Not to forget the bank and railway presi-
dents Journal here in Fergus Falls. / Of
Tended the national banks by my bill to
abolish them; and the railway companies
by introducing the first definite bill for q
national railway system. 1t is natural that
the Journal had to punish one who dared
oppose its owners. The moned men in gen.
era did not like that | voted for the free
coinage of silver and against the repeal of
the Sherman law; nor did they like that
proposed that the government should issue
81 600, 900 full legal tender treasury notes,
and put them in circulation by building rail-
ways, erecting needed public buildings and
improving rivers and harbors. Neither did
L
tariff. The mean and desperate assault
made on me was and is proof that l have
done my full duty to the people. Had in
congress served the money power | would
have escaped attacks from the direction
whence they came.
But Foss Solem, Stordock, Vinje & Ce.
could not defeat the Populist candidate,
earnestly as they endeavored to do it. They
are too well known, each to his own COM
munity, to be able to do that Other means
must be employed Saloon keepers, law
yers machine agents, toughs of all kinds
took hand against US But they could not
stampede the Populist voter. The money
power then turned to the Democrats, and it
slid.
I'm several places the Democrats en- mas
voted the Republican ticket, and no Popu-
list will in the F'ifty-fourth congress dis
turb the exquisite harmony in our states
delegation there. All considered, my oppo-
nent's plurality is misery small. With the
help he had he ought to have won, most
Republicans did, with plurality of at least
10,0OO instead of a few hundred. To plu-
tocracy's hounds who, during the whole
| summer. have been on the scent after the
Peoples party, / say: Claw against claw
| shall eagles tear Lies and ISLANDERS which
and ammunition will in the long run not
avail.
| LAS truly as that truth crushed to earth
| will rise again, surely will the People
|
entrusted to me the important commission
1 now hold, and who SO faithfully stood by
me during the last campaign, 1 hereby ten
der my sincere heartfelt thanks.
| I'm all positions since 1 as boy of II
years commenced as baargut Zone who car
| ries implements and tools for repair and
| repaired from and between blacksmith shop
| and aborers on the road work. on public
| road work in Norway, till today. l have
done my full duty, and shall continue to
| do it.
Il am used to defeat and disappointment,
| as we'll as to victory and success. But
| therefore no retreat. I sow. 1t all grows.
Prospect for crop excellent. A day In July.
| A big black cloud. A hail storm. Total
| loss I do not lose hope or courage, but
plow and seed again. Perhaps better luck,
perhaps not We lost but are not defeat
ed. not discouraged We spit on our hands
and take a new hold. This is struggle for
liberty, not so much for ourselves as for
our children and their descendants; strug-
| gle for existence.
..The PEOPLES pary principles are eternal
| truths. and for them will we struggle
| struggle for family and home for liberty
and equality, for justice and truth. For
| that will we struggle.
"HALDOR e. BOEN."
| cThe above is a literal translation from
tho NoruoQian)