The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-04
now speaking through Cleveland's admin
PRACTICAL AIMS

Let us be practical and willing to place
ourselves in touch and cooperation with
elements that can give strenth and sue
cess to our movement, preserving, AS we
shall, the vital principals in their essence,
on which the Peoples party was organized
Ii we can only accomplish this reform in
our life time-drive the Rothschilds and
national banks out of the government
business" restoring it with its full SOW
|erelgnity to the people to whom it belongs
and give them an American system of
finance that will save their liberties and
homes. we shall have done much for hui
manity. Just think little, my brother
Populists, who have stood the storms Of
ridicule and SANDER for principles sake
up to date, wouldn't the people cut a
sorry figure just now who swear they
won't bulge an inch on the ''transporta-
ton question, which is only second to
finance" with the government and rail-
roads owned and run by foreign influences
with Grover Cleveland or any other old
party tool as chief director and superin-
tendent of the American end of the BUSH
ness? The writer has concluded it would
be more practical to first get possession
OF and own the government" indepen-
dent OF Wall street and Europe, before
the transportation business, and would
offer the following substitute as a prelim-
mary step to the ownership of railroads:
Let's agree to demand an elective board by
the people Of interstate commerce COM
missioners, one member from each state,
and take the appointing of this board
from the president who always will select
politicians out Of job; also demanding in
this connection that congress foreclose the
the peoples mortgage on the Union Pa
CHIC and turn it over to such commission
for operation. This step will soon demon
strate If representatives of the people
have the business capacity to successfully
conduct the railroad business
THE LAND QUESTION.
On the land question patriots of all par
ties will join us in demanding the abso-
lutte destruction of alien land holding in
the United States and graduated land
tax In place of the single tax idea. Again,
my brethren, we must as party absorb
the free silver movement, or it will soon
absorb and annihilate thee Pople's party
We can get this element by the hundred
thousand enrolled under our banner be-
fore January LIST, with an agreement to
place our movement ON the money and
federal court issues
Let me call your attention to facts I
know, warranting what has gone before
in this article. We need five million more
voters than we polled last year to gain
power for the saving of our people, but
unless the conservative forces In the PeoA
pies party are strong enough to come to-
gether in coference, order a forward
movement, and shake off the propositions
of the elements composing the late Staten
Island conference all of whom would not
add 100000 voters to our column land lose
us million we now have) we might as
well shut up shop and keep out of the
fight. These people with their isms-now
reinforced with Coxeyism in Ohio-can-
not bring us success.
From the Rocky Mountain News of re-
cent date sent me by a friend see a bet4
ter omen coming from the free silver men,
In strong open letter from Attorney Gen
eral Standish of North Dakota, urging the
Populists to make it possible for the free
silver Democrats and Republicans to
come in with us, accept our party name
and organization, and go with us without
being forced by the radical shouters for
the Omaha platform, as its first plank on
money now reads with large additions
of proposed planks) to organize a separ-
people half way, headed by such men as
Jones, Stewart, Warner, Standish, Till
man and Bryan; otherwise there will be a
new silver party organized before Janu-
airy l that will ignore the Populists and
make their success impossible. General
Standish is really Populist, elected by a
combination in his state on our ticket
He is one of our strongest men in the
northwest and urges that as the issues are
now defined the thing for the Peoples
party to do is to call it's national conven-
tion this fall, boil down it's platform to the
only issues that will unite the Populists
and dissatifled elements in the old par
ties, nominate our candidates for presi-
dent and vice president and go to work,
organizing for victory. Otherwise it will
be the policy of the o-Republican
bourbons to hold off their national con-
ventions and platform declarations until
late next year, keeping the people divided
in, the meantime, so they will not have
time to organize thereafter into effective
opposition.
A GOOD SUGGESTION.
General Standishs suggestion is good
one, and heartily second the motion for
the Peoples national convention to be held
not later than January or February o..
Our cause is no doubt growing, but party
organization Is not at present. Better let
the truth be known to ourselves, which
cannot be concealed from the enemy
Our national and state committees GALL Of
them) ought to meet within the month Of
September, canvass the situation and pre-
pare for a new forward movement We
have yet no method of party club organ
ization" the people will accept Van der
VcOrt's legion, run over ''his personal sig
nature" with all it's attachments of mill
tary "flapdoodle," is failure, and the
people won't support it. Furthermore, let
the rank and file Of our people be at once
undeceived. Van der Wort has ever since
the Kansas City press meeting of the 22d
Of February last ignored our national
committee and has virtually set himself
up as the head of the party, issues fire.
quent bombastic addresses and is the head
and front of conspiracy formed at ST.
Louis and Kansas City to break down and
destroy the work of Chairman Tauben-
eek and the executive committee, and has
temporarily succeeded in inveigling a few
good Populist papers into warning our
people not to contribute anything to sup
port of our chairman or committee work
Party treason could not go further. Van
der Voort's military plan won't work. He
should be called in before the national
committee and asked to produce the re-
ports sustaining the extravagant claims
he makes on behalf of his military organ
iation.
CLUB ORGANIZATIONS.
1t is high time that our national COM
mittee proceed at once to place the party