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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
HE CONQUERED THE REBEL
LION

r. I. Holcomb, who was commission
ed by Gen. c. c. Andrews, of St. An
thony Park, to visit Arkansas, a short
time ago, for the purpose of securing
some reliable data concerning an in
cident of the war. has returned to the
city. In April, "a, Gen. Andrews had
a brush with some 600 Confederate
soldiers while he had barely sixth of
that number. Mr. HolcomD will write
the true story of the fight. which will
include number of interviews with
Confederates who participated in it,
Minneapolis Tribune.
1t was really Christopher Columbus
Andrew, and not Gen. Grant, who
suppressed the Rebellion. He did it
with 100 men: and he has now COM
missoned parry to tell all about it.
This reminds US of Mr.. Michael Null
doon's account OF the battle of Water
loo. And Them said he, "Willing-
ton, on fiery white charger, rode
down the line, and cried out in a loud
voice:-'Is Mr.. Michael Muldoon in
the ranks?' l stepped forward and
touched me hat and said: He is
your honor. Then, said Wellington,
let the battle procced!"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
NOW Is THE TIME.

The great poet says:
we must take the current when 1t serves
Or lose our ventures"
The Populist cause is booming.
You Sc e the signs Of it every day. No,o
is the time to push things.
In every township in Minnesota, and
all through the West and South, there
are leading men who greatly help to
form the opinions Of their fellow citi-
zens. These are the men who during
the last four or five years have been
making the multitude flop about
from one OF the old parties
to the other, because they knew
of no other way to express
their infinite disgust with both. They
have not felt that they can go with
the Populists. because their heads
have been filled with falsehoods by
the hireling daily press.
II there are 1900 voters in a county
there are 800 OF these who are natural
leaders. # you want to carry the ma {.
tion in 1896 you must supply these
leaders with the necessary Informal
tion. You can do this at a cost Of
eight cents and fraction for each
leader, for three months:-or $25 for
the 800.
There is no county in Minnesota
that cannot raise $25 for such work.
See how we raised S., 600 in the 1892
campaign,-nearly $1,000 of this COL
lected by US at public meetings, in
~ fr1h of
and quarters. Think of it:-that
5000 would have furnished free copy
of this paper if it had been in exist
ence,) fer the last thr. e months of the cam
paign, to 62,5OO roters!! And we believe
it would have given us 125, 900 votes
for the truth is mighty and must pre-
vail, if the people only get chance to
hear it. Now they sit in darkness.
One year 1882 they say, THE times
are bad. Drat the Republican party"
| And the Democrats sweep the coun.
try by overwhelming majorities.
Another year QS94) they say,-"drat
the Democrats, they are worse than
the Republicans. In 1896 the Re-
publicans will have had an emporium
ity, during seven months Of legisla-
tion, to help the suffering people, and
they will not; for they too are the
slaves of the Money-power Where
will the choppers" go then? Will they
rush back to the Democrats? They
will unless you can give them the in
formation that will educate them as
to the real causes Of present condi-
tiOns.
Will you do it? Is the country worth
saving?
We are willing to work for nothing
and find ourselves. Will you do your
part?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
BOOMING.
SPLENDID! SPLENDID!

LENOlO. SILEN OlD!
II this keeps on The REPRESENTA-
TIVE will become, as friend. l.. Nc
Edwards, of Ocosta, Washington, said
the other day, "the greatest paper on
earth" Last week Hon. William
Meighen and his nephew, Thomas J..
Meighen, started the ball with six
hundred subscribers for Fillmore
county, Mimi; and now we print in
another column communicat ton
from Populist committee in St.
Paul. who propose to hold a meeting
and raise funds to subscribe for fve thoats-
and copies, to be given aaoay in that city,
from noU until nert election! A similar
movement, we hearts, being started in
Minneapolis. And now comes from
Germantown, in far away Ohio, an Or
der, with the cash, for one hundred sub
scribers. And an old friend, John c.
Hanley, of St. Paul, sends us nine new
names with the promise of one hun
dred before Jony 10, 1896; and Edwin d.
Cox. Of Marquette, Mich, sends US
seven names in addition to the large
list he had previously forwarded, and
he promises still larger club; and our
Grand Army friend, G. H. Hopkins, of
Fairfax, Mimi, sends US club of nine
with promise Of more; and then John
Gallagher, Of Danvers, Mimi, sends
us club Of seven; and F. D. Glover,
of Campbell, MINI, sends us the
names OF twenty new subscribers.
We have smaller clubs, since our last
issue, from S. b. Dexter, Detroit,
Mimi: Otto J. Knips, Adrian. MINI,
(seven) VIM. NJ. Smith, Madison Lake,
Mimi; w. W. Reynolds, Duelm. Mimi:
Sofus Jensen, Astoria, Oregon: G.. A.
Dahlman, Mimi; A. w. Saunderson,
Usage, Mimi; and A. P. Onsdorff, of
Henning, MINI.
We had intended to give a portrait
gallery of the "Benefactors of the
Peoples Party" but if this thing
keeps on it will take up the whole pa
per. Nevertheless we shall present
from time to time the pictures of
some of the most Jealous friends of
the cause. We begin this week with
Hon. VIM. Meighen. We want our
readers to become familiar with the
faces of those who are working hard
est to make Minnesota a Populist
state. We shall give portrait or two
every week.
We shall improve The REPREsEN-
TATIvE just as fast as our receipts
will justify. We shall not rest con-
tent until we have big list in every
county Of every state in the Union.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
THE SAME THING.

The persistency of Harry Hayward's
friends in their efforts to do some
thing to release him is almost unpre-
cedented 10 criminal annals. especial
ly in view of the enormity of his Of
Tense and his own attitude. There
seems to be little of the morbid senti-
ment which sometimes attaches it,
self to murderer, but simply logged.
indefatigable persistence. On the
whole it is probably fortunate that
the period during which they will be
able TO make these attempts is likely
to be shOrt.-PiOneer Press.
There is nothing surprising about
this. It is the same thing that pro-
duces such wonderful unanimity on
the party Of the daily press of the
United States, on the gold-stan dard
question:-Moaey! ~
II Harry Hayward had been poor
man he would have been chung six
months ago. 1t is now a question
whether he will not escape yet. II he
does not it will be the first occasion
that cash has grappled with public
opinion and did not get away with it.
When the trap falls the country
will draw long breath of relief and
eXclaim:-'Thank God there is one
Plutocrat less:-a Plutocrat who was
not satisfied to take 100 per cent from
his victim, but took her life and all
her property. What a splendid Red
River banker the cuss would have
made, with Blixt as cashier! Imagine
him after poor devil, with the Their
mometer 80 degrees below zero and
the wind blowing fifty miles an hour,
foreclosing on yoke of half-starved
oxen and flock of chickens. Oh! the
eminently respectable capitalist! And
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27

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thousand times better than them
selves. by the throat.
But the people submit to all this pa
tiently; and il any man fights it they
turn in to attack and destroy him.
One stands amazed to think that
these submissives creature claim to be
Americans, inheritors of the revolu-
ton Of 1776, and heirs of the martyrs
of Valley Forge.
But the Peoples Party is growing.
and the day is not far distant when
the people will rise up and right these
wrongs and stop these robberies. and
ride the whole gang, with Chandler at
their head, out of Minnesota on rails.
God speed the day when no man
shall have anything but what he
earns; and what he earns all the pow
ers of earth and hell shall not de-
prive him of.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
4 COWARDLY GAME.

Senator Nelson was interviewed re-
Gently by a correspondent Of the St.
Paul Globe and we have this:
Asked as to whe Their he thought the
financial question would elicit any de-
cided discussion, he replied: Now,
see here, | don't want to be quoted as
expressing any opinion for publica-
tion, but l would guess that, in view
If the approaching presidential cleo
ton, neither of the old parties will
want to take that question up very
actively"
Now with all respect to the Sena tor
we must say that any such programme
would be cowdrdly in the last degree.
Here is the whole try in the
agonies of bankruptcy. or approaching
that condition; the prices of products
fallen to almost nothing; the people
,ook to the government for relief:
they have right to look there; they
have no other place to look for it,;
Congress will be in sessi on until next
July; (this is the long SESSION., and yet
Senator Nelson tells us. land he is we'll
posted), that during all those seven
months OF legislation, Congress uiW not
take that subject up gerry actiUely"
And why? Because it might affect the
presidential election'
That is to say,-rather than endan-
ger the chances Of the party, the peo-
pie can continue to suffer and the
whole business OF the country remain
paralyzed. THIS may be politics,
but tits not estate sma nship."
And both the old parties are to agree
on this as they agree upon everything
else
God help the. unfortunate people!
They turn their backs on the Popu-
lists; and those they keep in power re-
fuse to d. the first thing to help them
tin view of the Presidential cleo
tionv'
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27

Out OF thousands Of good honest
men now and then we strike scamp.
He takes our paper for year or two
and then, writes us that,-"he don't
like 1T; he don't approve of it's prin-
ciples; he never read it, land there
fore he knows what its principles are);
that he returned it two or three
times . year or six months ago and
ordered iUstopped, ETC.. etc."
Now this Is too thin. Whenever a
paper IS ordered stopped, land but few
are We stop it at once.
A young man once called upon
Cornelius Vanderbilt in New York
and asked him for pass to Erie. 'On
what ground do you ask it," asked
Vanderbilt. because l don't want
to pay my fare" replied the youth.
Vanderbilt got up and shook hands
with him. "Young man, said he,
''you are the first man / ever met
that gave the real reason for
asking for railroad pass;-you shall
have it,"
Now ii man is ''hard up and can't
spare the dollar or the quarter dollar
to keep his subscription alive let him
write US and frankly say so. We are
not going to jump on him and bite
his head off, We have been lizard up"
ourself before now. Let him get up a
club for the paper, and we will give
him copy free; or if this is not pos.
sible and he sees no hope OF ever pay
ing for it we will take him off our list
and say unto him:-"Go, my son, and
sin no more"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
THE MIL VA UKEE RAILW AY co.
A REMINISCENCE-A TALE OF HONOR
ABLE GENTLEMAN.

A REMINISCENCE-AT TALE OF HONOR
ABLE GENTLEMAN.
Whenever you can avoid giving any
trade or business to the Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railway Company Ly all
means do so. This is the nefarious
gang of robbers who used to make the
farmers along their H. & D. line,
when they were selling grain for the
Minneapolis market, pay the freight on
1t to ChicagoW
A greater villainy never was prac-
ticed on humanity.
. The people of Hastings invested
SIS, 600, in cool cash, in the construc-
tion of the first section of twenty
miles of the H. & D. road, from Hast
ings to Pennington; and the Milwau-
kee Company got possession; of that
property, and the whole charter and
land-grant, through the treachery of
VIM. G.. LIE Due. who turned it over to
them, under the promise of the presi-
dency OF the road, and was then
fooled, as he deserved to be. But the
rich Milwaukee Company,-whose
whole career was swindle.-fOr the
purpose of cheating the people of
Hastings out of their $4,000, issued
$3,00U,000 Of stock, which cost them
only the cost Of printing; and instead
of giving the Hastings subscri bers
$4,000 of this costless aper, they made
their $3,OO0.000 preferred stock, so as to
cut out forever the men whose money
had built the road to Pennington! A
meaner, nastier. dirtier, more picayun-
ish little trick never was perpetrated
by a gang of confidence men and
thin ble-riggers. Such fellows would
steal the acorns from blind hog.
And Hastings has got nothing for
its $75.000--but LIE Due! Him they
can coddle and dandle and hug to
their bosoms, as substitute for their
blasted hopes and ruined prospects.
And theazthe Milwaukee, So 900 900
of;preferred stock, which cost nothing
to the holders, was clapped upon the
backs of the whole people, from Has t.
ings to the stat tie line. and every one of
them, (farmers, mechanics, merchants
and all,) has ever since been paying
interest on the fraud, in the shape of
increased freights and fares,-which
mean increased prices of all they buy
and decreased prices of all they SELL
restrictions on travel and intercourse,
until they are tied to the places where
they live, like the old serfs, that were
sold with the land, and could not
leave it. And all this was done not
by great, brave intellectual men,
heroic men, of ancient lineage, but by
lot of little nobodies, upstarts,
sneak.thieves, swindlers and trick
sters, whose proper place was in the
penitentiary; but who own the daily
papers, and both the old parties and
have hundreds of Thousand of men, a
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27

We are getting great many orders
for sets of Chambers Encyclopedias.
Some take the $3.50 sets, some the
So. IS and more the $500 sets. All are
pleased with them. The 1915 set is
bound in cloth; the S. set is in more
expensive binding and of heavier pa
per. In any shape it is marvel of
marvels how thirty volumes, with ten
times the reading matter Of an ordi-
nary novel in each, can be furnished
for $3.50 or less than seren cents uoluo,e!
A set of this valuable work is good
gift to make as a Christmas present.
1t is a library in itself and a large
part Of liberal educa ton.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
SPECIAL NOTICE.
A TWENTY THOUSAND EDITION

A TWENTY THOUSAND EDITION.
Our paper has had such an over
whelming rush of advertising patron
age this week, that we have to issue
an eight page instead Of sic page edi-
tion. We hope to be able to keep it
up hereafter just as far and as
fast as we feel the ground
safe under our feet. We have NO Ma
tional Bank behind us. We intend
next week to send out an edition Of
TWENTY THOUSAND COPIES. They
will be largely distributed in this and
adjoining states. Advertisers will
take notice and act promptly. 1t is a
golden chance. Our reader are all
men of subs tance who buy goods. Our
new subscribers during November are
over two thousand.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
DON'T FORGET.

Don't forget that Mrs. Lease is CON-
ing. Why not arrange for a lecture
by her in your eighborhood? 1t will
be a treat. See her letter elsewhere.
St. Paul. Duluth, Litchtield, Willmar,
Faribault, Northfield. Lake City,
Winona, ETC., should arrange for meet
ings. She will draw an immense
crowd, and il you charge 10 cents ad-
mission you will cover the expenses.
Get hump on you. Don'tNall go to
sleep together.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
AN EX-SENATOR

AND LEADING REPUBLICAN OE RED
WOOD COUNTY INDICTED FOUR
TIMEs-ONCE FOR GRAND LARCENY.
Redwood Falls. Mimi, Nov. 1910.
b. Turrell. cashier of the defunct Citi.
zens' Bank OF this place, came before
Judge Weber this morning to answer
to four indictments brought by the
grand jury, three for receiving depos-
us after the bank was insolvent, and
one for grand larceny in the first de.
gree, for taking money, amounting to
Ga, 500 from the bank.
This shows us the folly Of a people
pinnfng their faith to men simply be-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27

Now that the celebrated orator, Mrs.
Mary E. Lease, of Kansas,-the mos t
eloquent woman in the world,-is COM
ing to our annual meeting Of the
State Alliance, let all hands make
their arrangements to be present. If
you can raise the money bring the
good wife along. Such treat will
keep her temper sweet for year; and
for three months you will think you
are on q bridal tour.
Treat the old lady we'll If you expect
happiness in this world or heaven in
the next.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27

cause Ehey appear to have made
money as bankers. This is the man
who defeated that able and hon orable
Popnlist. A. D. Stewart, for the House,
in 1892, and represented the money
grabbers and not the people, in that
body.
Again we say-don't put the rats in
charge of the granary. If you do you
will have fat "a Is and empty bins.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27

We have received copy of the great
81 page edition Of "The Fergus Falls
Weekly Journal" 1t is credit to the
city and would be to any city. What a
pity the editors principles are not
equal to his energy:-but poison in a
silver chalice is no better than poison
in tin cup
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27

A friend writes and asks whether it
is safe to send silver or bank notes in
letters to THE REPRESENTATIVE. 1t
was not while Eckford was to the fore,
but since he has retired to private
life, with -Stoughton), out of hundreds
mail not a penny has been lost. The
postal service is almost perfect. Eek
ford was not.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
TAKE NOTICE.

To the Representatives:
The Winona County Alliance will
meet at Warren town hall, the first
Saturday in ember, and if the day
is stormy will be postponed one week.
By ORDER OF COMMITTEES.
Clyde, Mimi. Nov. %, '95.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27

II you get sample COPY Of this pa.
per it is an invitation to
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-03-07
"A Horse Tread Power.

can grind feed either fine or coarse
consequently as we'll prepared for feed
ing as if ground by regular miller
/ save the time going to mill as vel
as something on toll, as quite often the
grinding is done when the weather is
unfavorable for working out Of doors
f farmer or dairymau keeps and feeds
as he should ten head of stock, he car
afford to have MILL With this mum
Der, and even q greater number, a good
sweep mill, costing but a trife as com
pared with other outfits, may ba used
If circumstances will permit the pun
chase and management Of mill havina
a greater capacity, then this kind should
be used. Ny mill grinds from s to Is
bushels Of shelled corn, oats, wheat rye
or any shelled grain, separated or mix
ed, according to fineness and condition,
in one hour, In my businessI use two
horse tread power and consider it the
cheapest, safest and most satisfactory
where this amount of power is sufficient
to run the mill in use satisfactorily.
can grind corn and cob at the same
time, but my mill is rather small and
the power hardly sufficient where the
corn is large and hard. Sometimes Sc.
lect small ears and grind without she'll
ing. l grind and use corn. oats, rye
wheat. believe it is economy and G
satisfaction to own and use farm
mill, depending, Of course, upon the
amount Of feed to be prepared, upon the
capacity of the mill, etc. use feed
mill, run by two horse tread power
which also runs my separator, q churl,
and butter worker. l expect to run {,
corn shelter and feed cutter by it soon
H. T. B. in Rural New Yorker.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-03-07
Cattle Market Last Year.

Receipts Of cattle st the Chicago I'm
ion stockyards last year were about
1850 less than in 1898. This loss
was entirely in Texans, which fell 1856
900 behind. Other classes showed ar
increase The general average weigh
Of cattle was 1857 pounds, which VS.
80 pounds heavier than in 1898. OWN
60 a reweighing Of canning stock bS
spectators, this weight is little lowe
than the actual. Beef steers average
highest in September and lowest il
March. The general average for thu
class was s4.20 against 81. 45 in 1852
The top price Of the year was SIS. 90 To-
a bunch OF Aberdeen Angus steers ca
tie averaging less than 1850 poun6
sold within 10 to 20 cents of the to-
prices the year round. This clearly il.
dicates tho class Of cattle most in re
guest-tie handy" steer. Weexportce
251 900 head, which is 80 per cent Nor.
than in 1893, but few thousand sho.
Of the 1882 trade Exporters have h.
rather hard row to hoe at times. Til
smaller operators have been almost driv
Cyl out, tho big packers now handlin
nearly all of this trade. The dsmorali
cation Of British markets compelled ex
porters to cast about for new foreigi
markets, and experimental shipments II
Paris proved aAsuccess and established
a trade which during the past fou
months has averaged from 900 to So
cattle per week. Prices in Paris rang
from sil 0toa l4. SO per hundred dress
Cd weight Breeders Gazette.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-03-07

At Y. NJ. C. A. hall Yeataso Okano
japanese, told the following story to
large aud enoe:
"Onco upon time there lived in
little hamlet in Japan a young couple
They had one child-a beautiful little
girl whom both loved very dearly. It
came to pass while the child was still a
baby girl that the father was obliged to
take long journey to the far distant
city. 1t was too far for him to take his
wife and child, so he left them at home
and travelled alone.
In that great city he saw many new
things which, having lived in the peace
full little hamlet up among the noun
tains all his life, he had never seen be-
fore. He desired to take home to his
wife some Of these new things which
seemed to him SO wonderful. And the
most wonderful gift no could take, it
seemed to him, was mirror. He wish
ed to take home to his wife the pleasure
and surprise he had experienced when
one home to his wife.
When he arrived home he gave the
present to his wife, and for the first
time she looked into mirror What
do you see?' her husband asked. She
replied: I declare! see very pretty
woman. She wears her hair just as do
mine, and she smiles and moves her
lips as if she were talking to me. Her
husband told her that the mirror was a
present for her, and he hoped she would
use it every day. But the wife thought
it far too beautiful and rare and costly
gift to use every day, so she put it
carefully away and never spoke about it
to the little daughter, who grew more
beautiful and more like her mother ev-
cry day.
BY and by great misfortune fell
upon that little household. The wife
and mother fell sick, and 1t was soon
evident that she must die. As she lay
upon her deathbed she called her little
daughter to her and told her that she
was going TO lose her mother forever.
She could point to no future life after
death in which they should be reunited,
but in the love and simplicity Of her
heart she did the best she could. She
told her little daughter about the won
derful mirror. After I am dead, she
said, take down that box and look into
the mirror that it contains There you
will see my face. And I want you to
look into the mirror every day, that you
may never forget your mother, and that
you may grow like me more and more
every day.
So the mother died. The little girl
did as she had been told, and in the
wonderful mirror she thought she saw
her mothers face, young and beautiful
NOT as she had seen her, pale and i'll
as she lay dying. but fair and fresh as
che had looked before the fatal illness.
And the little girl looked into the mir
ror every day and thought Of her moth
er and her many lovely ways, and so il
came about that she grew to be more
aud more like her mother as the years
went by. "-R colchester Post Express.