The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-18
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
OUR POS77YON.-BIG HEARTS,
CLEAR BRAINS. AND PER
,SISTENT PRINCIPLES.
We have received the following let
ter, which explains itself:

We have received the following let
ter, which explains itself:
CHICAGO. ILL.,. Nov. 30, '95.
HON. IGNATIUs DONNELLY:
DEAR SIR:-Sometime since / sent
you a copy Of The Nations Money,
and hope you have read some of it's
parts-especially that chapter Ito the
friends OF silver free coinage" Ii you
have not | wish you would, for | be-
lieve, and in fact. know, you are max
ing very great mistake in following
Stewards lead Stewart is every
thing that we ought to de-
spise as Populists pretense of
coming into our party is rank hypOc-
risy. He is hand in glove" with the
men who compose the New York COM
bine. the men are making the panics
and hard times, and / would thank
you considerably, to show where Stew
art ever exposed these men in his
speeches or writings, or exposed even
their manner of working. know you
cannot find it anywhere. Then why
doy u 90 to such a leader?
Stewart has agreed to run the Popu-
list party into ''cul de sac," and he
is putting forth every effort to carry
out his end Of the bargain, and | am
awful sorry to see our good men fall
into his basket.
Stewards game is to get our party
committed solely, or nearly so, to the
free coinage of silver. A fter the party
has done that, Carlisle will come out
and grant the request, and ask the
party to dissolve, as that is all they
asked for. At the same time Con-
gress will start new currency schemes,
w will no
street, and our medium Of exchange
will still continue to curse us, as it
has in the past.
What we want and what we must
have is medium Of exchange based
upon just and equitable principles.
not to be expanded or contracted al
the within or caprice Of our bribe-tak-
ing congressman, but kept uniform
and stable. That is the mission Of
our party. and that is why it is so ter
ribly hated; and less than this mis-
sion will be a terrible failure. We
must take the National Treasury out
of the hands of Wall street and put it
In the hands of the people. This is a
thousand times more important than
dozen silver coinage bills.
Let me hear from you
Yours fraternally,
GEO. c. HACKsTAFF.
We cannot understand how Mr..
Hackstaff could fall into such a mis-
apprehension Of our position. He
should wake up and 60 to sleep right.
When did we ever follow Mr.. Stew
arts lead? He wanted to throw over
board all the Populist principles and
make fight for free silver alone. We
resisted this cnergetically. He desired
to create a new party;-we said,-"No:
stick to the Peoples Party" We
have not even favored the proposition
that the Populists and the Free-Sil-
verits should all get into one organic
alton and one convention. But the
recent elections prove plainly that the
Populists cannot win alone in 1896;
while the interests of mankind require
that we must win, or see the nation 20
to destruction. Under these circum-
stances we take the position that if
Senator Stewart and his friends agree
with us on one plank of our platform,
land that most important one,) and
are not avowedly hostile to our other
planks, then we should try to all vote
together, not as one party, but for the
same candidates for president and rice
president: and thus unite the whole Re-
form sentiment of the United States
in one thunderbolt, to smite the
enemies of mankind dead.
II this is not wise then it would be
wise to fiddle away while Rome burns;
and 60 through the forms of a per-
functory campaign to predestined
defeat.
Now if Plutocracy had paid us $780,
600 to sell out the cause of Reform
this is the course we should adopt
we should, q lG Fish, smite every one
who disagreed with US, in the slight
est particular, over the head, and
create one universal hubbub and dis
cord and division, while the money
changers rivited the chains on the
human race.
Neither do we believe Mr.. Hacks taft
is right in his abuse of Senator Stew.
art. We are not his champion. We
do not know that he needs one. He
represents the state of Nevada, which
has been ruined and almost depopu-
lated by the decentralization of silver
it is, therefore, the most natural
thing in the world that he should
take up the cudgels for free-silver
He did not start into this fight as q
Populist. He doubtless regarded us
as a pack of lunatics. But he is, we
think, outgrowing his prejudices
But whether he is or not he is 6
Thousand miles nearer to us than the
tools of Rothschild. who have brought
this country to gold basis. and are pro
ducing immeasurabl BILE poverty and suf
fering. and innumerable failures, sui
cides and crimes II Mr.. Hackstaf
thinks that it is the duty of Populis is
to Jump on those who are their natural
allies, for the benefit Of those who are
their undying enemies, then he had
better go back. we say it in al
kindness, to the CreatOr,and have his
genealogical apparatus reconstruc
ted.
The true solution Of this problem Is
to ask ourselves, - What ,couI our enc
mics like as to do?
Clearly they would be glad to see al
those whose sympathies are with Re
form. and against the ungodly
plunderers of the earth. torn into l
hundred tiercely battling factions
Then is ii not ,cise for as to .ois the Othel