The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-08
"A Word of Advice.

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A Word of Advice.
Wherever possible we hope the
Populists will nominate their leading
and most active and earnest men.
Don't pick up nobodies because they
have no enemies. The man who has not
boldly advocated your principles in the
past will not boldly advocate them in
the future. Having found that he has
won by dodging behind stumps, he will
continue to dodge in the hope of fur
ther successes. Put your champions
at the front, and the more they are
blackguarded by your enemies, the
more you can trust them. ''Woe unto
yc when all men speak we'll of you"
In the next place, other things be-
ing equal, give the preference to men
who can talk in public. We do not
mean to say that the man who cannot
talk is the inferior If the men that
can. He may be vastly the superior
But we are minority. We must be-
come majority. We must get con-
verts; and to get them we must have
missionaries, to r~-..ch to the heath
en-. Doubtless there were many men,
during the first century, that were as
good Christians as the Apostle Paul;
and yet it is doubtful if the new faith
could have triumphed but for the elo-
quence Of that great Populst. 1t is
hardly fair to give the honors and the
offices to one man and the labors of
the campaign to AM her.
In the next place let every Peoples
party candidtte, for every office, post
himself on the great question of the
day, equip himself with authorities
and statistics; and then challenge the old
| party candidate, echo Is running against
him, to public discussions, all Orer has dis
trict.
All the people want is education to
vote the Populist ticket. We have
everything to gain by agitation; and
everything to lose by torpor and mac
tion. If the other fellow will not ac-
cept your challenge hold meetings at
the same time and place, and renew
your challenge for a.. joint meeting
every time. Rub itin. Make it plain
that the enemy does not dare to face the
facts! Follow him UP and-run him out
| of the campaign. No violence, no
rudeness; but persistent. gentlemanly
insistance that the people shall hear
| both sides.
If candidate is no speaker let him
select a good talker and pay his expen-
ses, and keep him going, for month
or two. night and day.
At every meeting have loads of
documents, newspapers, etc, and dis
tribute them broadcast.
Remember, however, that no agency
will be so effective, for tue success of
every Populist candidate, as the wide
diffusion of the REPRESENTATIVE
| We know the meanness of mankind so
we'll that we can see the lips of candi-
dates curl, while they say, "Ha. he
| wants some money out of u.s." Thou
fool! This campaign is life and death,
| political, for the men nominated; but
| it is mere incident in the career of
this great paper. 1t will not harm us
a sixpence if every Peoples party can
didate is beaten out of sight in No
vember next. A great reform paper
is a necessity.
| But when the cunning lawyers, who
| advocate the two old parties, come
| around and lie about you, and your
party principles it will make all the
| difference in the world to you whether
their falsehOods fall into the minds of
men who are uninformed politically:
or into the minds of men who have
been instructed, for months, as to the
truth; by a great journal; ,chich ariU
continue to come IN their houses up to the
rery day they rote!
There's the rub. There is no sub
stitute for brains. There was too
much old party trickery and dickering
and wire-pulling in our last state con-
vention; and if an attempt is made to
carry the coming election by any such
imitation of old-partg methods the re-
suit will be most disas trous to the
men engaged in it. IL any man thinks
he can make a still-lsHnt for himself,
and let the party slide; that he can win
by button-holing and ear-lugging: and
little, nasty, personal trades with the
my,-slice his head off and bury
him forever. Let US have bold, open,
manly campaign, Yon the highest
plane of education; and to do that
every man that can talk must be on
the stump, for two months at least;
and books and newspapers must be dis
tributed broadcast; and the REPRE-
SENTATIVE must be placed in every
family that can read English.
| Make that kind of red-hot, intel
lectual, honest campaign and you will
win. Make any ots.er kind and you
are lost. /. D.
A Question Asked and Answered.
PILLAGER. Mimi, July %, '94.
| HON. IGNATIUS DosNELLY,