The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
THE FUTURE.
WHAT WE CAN COUNT ON-THE
CAMPAIGN OF 1896.

lOuS OUT OF the last issue OF DOnQS IL IS
In his power to control the next Dem
ocratic national convention by sheer
use of money. We only hope he will
succeed. Silver could not receive a
more fatal blow than to have the old,
busted, ruined and demoralized Dem
ocratic party espouse it's cause.-Den-
We must expsA that the Gold-bugs
will win in both the old party conven-
tions next year. Money is what counts
with those scamps.
The whole East, New England, New
York, ETC., are rotten to the core, and
manhood is almost a lost quantity.
They have reached the condition of
mental serfdom to which the West
and South are rapidly gravitating;
and from which they can only be
saved, By this generation, through the
Peoples Party. Bribery will be used
on gigantic scale, in both national
conventions; and many of the dele
gates will be mere adventures, who
will attend with the hope of being
bought, either with money, or the
promise of an office. Plutocracy will
win. Nay more, the same men will
control both parties, and will be ready
to unite them in one solid phalanx to
fight the Populists. See Gov. Foraker
(Rep.) tremendous praise of Olney,
(dem.) for his course in Chicago year
ago; see Chauncey Depew's declara-
tion, as a Republican. that Grover
Cleveland, the Democrat, is the great
est president since George Washing
toni!
They are preparing to get into bed
together, and they are hanging the
old bedstead with Democratic and Re-
publican drapery. that it may be gay
and festive for the nuptials
What then? The Republican party,
having clear and positive expecta-
tion Of capturing the spoils, will hang
together on any kind of platform.
The rats never leave a full granary.
But the Democracy is ruined-noth-
ing but miracle could put life again
into the rotten and scattered bones;
and having no hope of spoils, and dis
gusted with it's leaders and itself, it is
in that frame of hopelessness Of mind
which oftentimes is the precursor of
honesty.
The Democracy will split in two
one-half Of it will 90 over to the Re-
publicans, and the other half will seek
the camp of the Populists, and after
the next campaign the Democratic
party will cease to exist as q national
organization.
We cannot expect the free silver
Democrats to meekly enter our tents
to do the chores of the women. But
if our scouts tell us that vast horde
of warriors is approaching, carrying
the white flag of peace, blazoned with
mottos of liberty, and equality, an
abundant supply of currency, free sill
yer and opposition to the domination
of corporations, we will send forth an
embassy to confer with them; and see
if we can not, without any sacrifice of
pride or principle, on either side,
march and strike together, in defense
of human rights and the life of the
Republic.
Our first duty is to humanity; our
second is to our party. We must have
victory before we can have reform;
and we must have numbers before we
can achieve victory. We must aci, IN
1896, If possible. Another four years of
plutocratic power may leave us all
prostrate, chained hand and foot, and
incapable of self-defence. The battle OF
mankind must be fought i,e 1896.
We are glad to see that our friends
everywhere are becoming active and
Jealous. This is shown by the multi
tude of cases where old subscribers
send us in little clubs of two, three,
five or ten new subscribers-in many
cases paying for them out Of their own
pockets, for three months.
Let every man feel that the fate of
the world rests on his own shoulders,
and constitute himself a committee of
one to make converts. II each of the
$1,000 voters, who stood by the People s
Party last fall, would make one con-
vert, we would have 174,OC0 votes out
of 300, 900; and there is scarcely one of
the 1000 who could not secure tuo
converts if he set himself diligently at
the work.
That is the pathway to victory-edu-
cate-educate.
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