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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
A UNITED STATES JUDGE FOR
:. SALE-PRICE 5000. 900.

The. celebrated Hon. John Bipelow
has written life of Samuel J. Tnden,
the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency in 1876, who is believed to
have been cheated out of the election;
and Miss Kate Field writes from
Washington to the Chicago Times
Herald, review of the book, in which
she says;
"Mr. Ngelow says, in substance,
that Tilden had at one time
told him that some one had
informed him (Tilden) that one of
the judges OF the Supreme Court OF
the United States and q member of
the electoral commission was for sale.
and that 1t was said that one Of the
judges wished 30 be retired from the
could be bought"
1t is peculiar that Miss Field, al
though a Republican, makes no effort
to deny or disprove this statement,
but lets it go as recognized fact.
To avoid civil war it was agreed that
the question Of who was elected presi-
dent should be left to commission Of
members of the Supreme Court, and
they decided precisely according to their
po'7y Civilizations. There were scores of
questions raised as to the electoral
votes OF Louisiana, South Carolina
and Oregon, and every ono Of these
questions had to be decided in favor
of Hayes, the Republican candidate,
or he could not win; and they were SO
decided by the Republican majority Of
the com mission. Now it seems to US
that if all these judges could thus be
controlled, at every point. by party ties
one OF them might have wanted to
make pile out Of the controversy.
And all of this shows how horrible
is our present condition, when the ul-
innate power of this great republic
rests in the hands of five out Of nine
promoted politicians, called Supreme
Court Judges.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
A BIG THYME ORDER.
A NOBLE-HEARTED GENTLEMAl

A NOBLE-HEARTED GENTLEMAN.
Everybody knows Thos. J. Meighen,
of Fillmore county,-"Tommy," as his
friends familiarly call him-one of the
best and truest men in the state.
Last year he took several car loads of
state prison Irvine, at the time THE
REPRESENTATIVE came to the rescue
of that institution, with one-half Of
it's make of the year before on it's
hands unsold. We feared that Mr..
Meighen might this year cling to the
State Board, (for he comes of a persis-
tent STOCK but he sends us to the fol-
lowing telegram:
HON. IGNATIUs DoNNELLY:
Ship me at Whalen, Mimi, one
thousand pounds of MANILA Irvine and
one thousand pounds of standard, and
like amounts to Lanesboro, Mimi.
THOMAS J. MEIGHEN.
This with subsequent order
makes an order of 5000 pounds,
worth over $500; and the meaning Of
it is that Mr.. Neighen feels just as we
do about the attempt of that dirty
gang of politicians, called the State
Prison Board, to boycott the organ of
the Farmers Alliance without which
there would have been no Irvine plant
in Saltwater. We will show them
that there is God in Israel before
we get through with chem.
Thanks, Mr.. Meighen. We wish we
had hundred thousand of you in
Minnesota, in addition to the vast
force Of good men we already possess.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
TOO TRUE, TOO TRUE!

The editor OF the St. Paul Globe
reading the Minneapolis Times!
"In paying his respects to the editor
of the Globe. /. Donnelly shows that
the charge OF senility was brought by
the Globe little too early"
BE gad!" says the Hamorrhoid,
that's too true. 1t is royal sport to
hunt the tiger. but no fun at all if the
tiger hunts you. When the jackass
kicks the dead lion he should have a
doctors certifcate-(not female doc
tor's)-that the,beast is dead;-other-
wise the jackass may get his hide torn.
1t is never we'll to measure an adver-
sary's capacity by the degree Of your
own conceit and arrogance. LET
sleeping dogs lie."
81 have made fool of myself"
Exit Piles shifting.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
WHAT THEY HOPE FOR,

We have been making Populist
speeches lately at Kenyon, Hanska,
Madelia and other points. Every
where the crops are looking magnifi-
cent, and everywhere the Republican
politicians told us. with happiness
dancing in their eyes, that big crop
meant the death of the Peoples
Party.
What is this hope based upon?
They regard the farmers as unmfti-
gated fools, who will only think when
driven to the verge Of starvation; and
who as long as they have anything to
cat will stand any amount of robbery
This theory rates them on the level
with the brute beasts who have neith-
er forethought nor sense, and whose
intellects move responsive to their
animal wants and nothing else. The
horse and the ass do not rebel, how
ever onerous the tasks put upon them
by their masters, but if the manger is
not kept supplied, they will kick down
the stall. And so the Republican
scamps chuckle and rub their hands
with glee, as they look upon the fence
high masses of vegetation, and say to
one another:-"Glory be to God, the
frrmers will have enough to eat; and
they will go to sleep; and we can hold
on to our jobs and the robberies will
continued"
Now we do not believe these sland-
ers. They may be true of the Old
party farmers, who will never think
until the voice of the sheriff is heard
foreclosing the mortgage on the home
stead. But the intelligent man, who
has once had his eyes opened, will
never close them again as long as any
wong.i is done him. In fact the more
substance God gives him the greater
is his duty to his family and his pcs
terity to protect it and defend it from
the thieves.
The growth of the Peoples Party is
simply one of the evidences of the
growth Of public intelligence. 1t
found the people squabbling over the
tariff and slavery; it taught them that
the tariff was simply question of
schedules-of details-and that in this
country we could haue neither abso-
lutte free trade nor prohibitory tariff;
it taught them also that the slavery
question was forever settled, and that
the black man had been accorded all
the rights given by law to the white
man, and could ask for no more. And
from these shallow disputations the
Peoples Party turned attent ion to the
great, interior, fundamental ques-
tions OF finance and transportation, on
which the prosperity Of each and all
depended; and so efficiently. has its
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03


a relapse, not this year alone, but next
year. Our movement is strong enough
to get the issue before the people at
the ballot box, and if the good times
DO not stay with us we shall win. In
short, we silver people are guessing
tnat the revival. to some extent arti-
flclal. will not last. Our opponents
think it will. am inclined to think
they are right and we are wrong, but
time alone will tell"
This tells the truth of the pretended
revival of prices, which has already col.
lapsed. Itwas largely artificial, bank
made, newspaper fo1nented 1t is an
attempt to remove the effects of the
decentralization of silver and the con.
traction of the currency by buncomb
and chatter. 1t is wind versus great
economic law. That's all there is of it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03

work been done that today the coun-
try is silent as to tariff and slavery,
while from ocean to ocean it is fiercely
discussing the money question.
These shallow. old-party politicians
are all wrong when they think good
crops will end the Peoples Party. Its
principles have got possession Of the
public mind and conscience and have
come to stay. Moreover good crops do
not mean good prices; and the farmer
who gets 80 bushels of wheat to the
acre, and has to sell it for 40 cents a
bushel, will be more wrathful than if
he had raised only eight bushels and
sold it for 80 cents bushel. He will
feel that Providence did its part and
that he is suffering, in the midst of
abundance, from mans knayery.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
A SIG NLFICENT CONFESSION.

Here is conversation with lead
ing Populist, given by the washing
ton correspondent OF Chicago gold
bug paper;-it probably never co.
CURED, but it is valuable as showAet
how the single-standard fellows have
been trying to produce good times by
conserted bowling:
"Just as soon as conditions became
better. through natural causes the
bankers and big business and moneyed
men jumped in and said to themselves:
Now let us boom this thing. A great
com mercial revival will kill free silver
among the masses Accordingly they
began to push and boom and hustle,
and they have stimulated the revival
beyond its natural level. I do not say
it will break down, but if it does break
down we shall sweep the country next
year. Those who believe good times
will beat the silver movement must
remember they have to run the risk Of
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
PINE ROBBERIES.

It makes our 'soul larf," as
Artemus Ward would say.
We tried to stop the pine-land rob-
berries. The state went Republican,
(the thieves were all Republicans), by
10000 plurality; we were defeated for
the Senate by the Chicago and Mil
waukee r. R. Co.; and the Legislature
refused to to continue the investiga-
tions; and the thieves chuckled and
roared over the abortion Of self-gov-
ernment, and said,-"On with the
dance"
But 10! Nemesis has broken loose
in another quarter! The United
States is after lot of the pillars of
the Republican party and upholders
of morality and religion in this goodly
city, some Of whom have just with
drawn their advertisements in The
REPREsEN TATIvE, because we stuck
to our principles. And even brother
Pillsbury, the Job Trotter Of the State
University, whose tears lay the dust
at every commencement, the ''geod
man" who is always being accused of
some horrible crime; even he, the
sanity John, is mixed up in it!
The social structure ,of this noble
state seems to have been founded on a
manure heap. We think we will re-
move our newspaper to some country
town. We look at Minneapolis and
ST. Paul and we remember the fate
that overlook Sodom and Gomorrah.
But we are not so much afraid of fire
from heaven as we are of a fall of
stolen saw-dust, falling like the ashes
of Vesuvius on Pompeii, and burying
saints and sinners hundred feet
deep.
The state needs regeneration. The
flight of Menage was not enough.
The Lord has sent the Peoples Par
ty to prevent catastrophe.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
CHUCkLING.

With a certain majority of not less
Sthan from 100 20 $50 in the next Con-
gress against free coinage, and with
MI. Cleveland in the White House, will
iome one please arise and say why the
Silver issue should disturb the public
mind at the present moment?-Globe.
Well; nobody expects any reform
from the present Congress; or from
Vany future Congress unless the Peo-
pies Party wins. Slavery considered
itself firmly entrenched in 1858 and in
1854 it was not. And slavery was i'm
bedded in the national cons titution;
but the national constitution names
gold and silves as the legal-tender
metals.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
THE NEW LINE.
THE GEOGRAPHICAL NATURE OF THE
CONFLICT.

THE GEOGRAPHICAL NATURE OF THE
CONFLICT.
Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, at
the Memphis Free SILVER conference,
said:
''There is going to be new Mason
and Dixon's line drawn next year. It
will start In the mouth Of the Chesa.
peake and run to Chicago by way Of
kCincinnati. Every Republican and
ko-called Democrat northeast of that
\ne is going to vote for gold bug, and
tery Republican and Populist south
it is going to vote for somebody who
Is an honest friend Of the people, let
him be from whatever party he may"
(Applause.)
We all deprecate geographical poll
tics, and yet men naturally divide ac-
cording to their personal or sectional
interests. The money-lending section
can not look upon the financial issues
IS the money! borrowing sections do.
That is inevitable.
Before this fight is over the nation
Wfllsfence In its northeastern quarter,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
OUR OLIGARC-HY.

In referring to the late supreme
court decision which knocked out the
income tax, the Chicago Record says:
Another experience SO disastrous
to the governments revenue plans as
that of the income tax law was might
lead to an arrangement for submit
ting revenue laws to the supreme
court before the adjournment Of con-
gress."
What is the use of going all through
such a troublesome ceremony? Why
not let Congress adjourn sine die and
have tho Supreme Court make all the
laws? 1t comes to that in the end.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
THE SIZE OF 1T,
WHAT THE SILVER ISSUE AMOUNTS tt

WHAT THE SILVER ISSUE AMOUNTS TO.
Free silver is a very little fly speck
on the great globe of reform that
WHITES the Peoples Party, so dom
make the mistake Of mistakipg the
fly speck for the globe.-Voice Of La
Dor (San FHancisco.)
Precisely: But great battles begin
very often on the skirmish line.w Sill
yer is hill seized by the enemy and
we must dislodge them. But the
fight will spread gradually until both
arms are involved. The issue is
shall the world be ruled in the inter
est Of manhood or property? Shall
the spirit of 1776 die out in America
or shall it spread over all the world
The contest is as big as the planet
and as broad as the ages.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
HIGH PRAISE.

Without disparaging any other Pop
ulist paper, we state the truth when
we say that The REPRESENTATIVE,
publishe at Minneapolis, is the bes t
Populist paper that we have seen. 1t
is an eight page, seven-column paper,
price 81 per year. 1t is edited by Ig-
natius Donnelly.-Helena News.
Many thanks. We shall labor to de-
serve all the kind words of praise we
are receiving.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03

WE DISCOUNT THE MARKET
OUR THYME ORDERS In
MENSE.

The orders for our cheap Irvine are
pouring in upon us from all quarters.
Hon. P. H. Rahilly, the leading, oper-
alive farmer Of southeastern Mime
sofa, sends in an order for 1000
pounds, to use on his crop in Wabasha
county.
Mr. Michael Johston, of Rosemeunt,
orders for himself and neighbors near
ly 1900 pounds, and more subscribed
for but not paid in yet.
Our prices are 0aUdyN belo,c the state
prison tacine prices, or the prices of any 9th
er parties.
The curse of our Populist movement:
has been that the poverty and neces-
stiles of our newspapers have been so
great that they have been compelled
to sell their journals or their prin-
ciples to Plutocracy. And when they
would not do this they have been boy.
cotted to force them into bankruptcy.
The members of the Peoples Party
have got the machinery and the power
in their own hands to protect them
selves and make their papers indepen-
dent. The more we think it over the
more clearly it appears to US that, as
the merchants cut us dead, we should
unite in great cooperative supply
house ITO furnish every member with
goods at wholesale prices, and stop
the profits of the shallow fools who
are living off US and at the same time
trying to destroy us.
Send us in your orders for Irvine at
once. We hope to be able to supply
you up to harvest. Eagle & Co., Of
Chicago write us, under date OF June
2Sth.
"We have just bought Is car loads
more of Irvine, that is 8, 600 bales of all
new Irvine, aud we will try to stay
with you to the end of the fight. Can
you sell that much?
With the price you have now we be-
lieve you can undersell any one in the
country, SO it seems to us that it mere.
~ rests with the farmers whether
they would pay some else more, or buy
me,c tscine for less than they could get 1t for
elsetphere."
But Eagle & Co.. have put prices so
low, and their margin is so small, that
they cannot give time; but to get the
reduced rates it will pay farmers to
borrow money and pay cash. And
they will have the satisfaction be-
sides of knowing that they have in
terfered with the game of the Re-
publican state Administered ion to
stamp out of existence the organ of
the Pepulists Of the Northwest.
Call meetings Of your Alliances dnd see IT
s,ou cannot combine and order carloads.
This aeiU saue freights.
Down with the Ring that has boy
cetted the party and the paper that
made state manufacture of Irvine pos
sible; and at the same time sends one
Of their number on pleasure jaunt.
with his family, to France, at the ex-
pense Of the taxpayers!
What is to prevent the Alliance or
ganizing Irvine factory Of their own
this fall and thus be able to supply all
the Irvine used in the state hereafter?
There are capitalists who will be glad
to 90 into it with us If we will only
agree to all stand together.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
HARD TIMES.

This is a trying time for working
people, because so many of them are
out of employment owing to the dull
times. Not less than 5000 men are
out of employment in Montana, or
only getting odd jobs that merely help
to keep them living. And yet we are
well off in Montana compared to the
people Of other states. Times are not
getting better; they won't get better
till silver is remonetiZed.-Hele
News.
And this is in Montana, with all it's
mines, with lodes of gold and silver
waiting to be discovered in the noun
tainS
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03

family out for trip, and spends all
kinds af money, as he has done in
former times. Some of the roads
have about given up all idea Of hav-
ing ATTY business Of this kind during
the summer, ana are depending al
most entirely on their chances OF To-
cal business and the excursions for
their passenger receipts.
That is pretty good answer to the
Infinite flies. of the daily press. II you
want another go look at the empty
hotels. II you want another try to
make collections of money due you.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
THE WESTERN STANDARD.

We have received No. Of vol / of
The Western Standard: 1t is an able,
handsome, six column eight page pa
per, printed in St. Paul and Mime
apohs. 1t does not claim to belong to
any political party, but is an advocate
of free silver at the ratio of sixteen to
one. We welcome it into the arena
and wish it all success.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
THAT'S IT.

The greatest question before the
American people today is whether the
rights of men or the rights of money
shall be paramount in this country
Topeka Advocate.
That's it. Never lose sight Of it.
Broaden your platform-don't narrow
1t.
Plant one foot on oppressed Europe
and one on oppressed America, and
stir UP the whole world with the Cos.
pei Of reform.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
THE GOOD TIMES
OF COURSE THEY HAVE COME.

Chicago. June 27.-Some of the
Western passenger men are beginning
to feel anxious ever the outlook for
summer tourist business. 1t is said
that not in many years has the out
look for this class of business been so
poor as at the present time. There
has been almost no business Of this
kind as yet, and there seems to be but
faint prospect that there will be
any, as compared with the volume of
traffic done in former years. There is
plenty Of the regular excursion bust
ness, but not Of the tourist business,
where the well-to-do citizen takes his
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03

Mr.. j. P. Meyer, of Lake Crystal,
writes us kind letter and winds up
with this sentiment, to which we all
say amen:
II hope that we may poll big
enough vote next fall to sweep the
state and capture every office in it,"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03

On the 9th of June we received 81
from Rose Creek, Mimi, but no name.
Will the party please send name?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03

Men think differently, but when
asked their opinion of Uncle Sans
Monogram Whiskey, they are oil OF
one mind. Its excellent! Good"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03

as the Jews quarter was fenced in in
the cities Of the middle ages, and hoist
the yellow flag of pestilence On the top
Of the fence.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-07-20

returned to New York. In the even
ing he went to Mrs. Percy's She greet.
ed BIN with an exclamation:
"Where have you been all this timet
In hiding? In every manner | nave
tried to get news of your where
abouts. And not only l, but Lena, and
Herbert Latimer himself. l think the
latter wants TO thank you, honestly,
for bringing him TO his senses. He has
already thanked me. Never was
conspiracy crowned with more admir-
able success. They are turtle doves
now-turtle doves! Herbert will re-
main to the end, l believe, model
mate; and as for Lena, she is supreme
ly, completely blissful. You have done
good work, my dear fellow"
She paused, and then something
caused her TO regard him more atten-
lively.
Turn your face to the light" she
said. brusquely. on his guard, he did
so. Thereupon Mrs. Percy gave a
low expostulatory cry.
'Reginald-that is not why you have
been in hidig, is it-nOt truly this,
boy?'
AT the tone Of deep interested SYM
pathy, Reginald covered his face with
his hands. After an interval he raised
his head
yes" he said slowly. II am afraid
1t is so. l care for her. She Is another
mans wife, and IL has an ugly sound
But the feeling | have for her could
not stain a flower. | thought il was
only friendly interest at first, because
-lYs a.
1t was playing with fire. have been
suspecting my real feeling some time.
| knew II when Herbert came back,
and by the look In. his eyes ! REALIZED
how much he cared for her, and that
they would be reconclled" He got
up. well, shall have TO live II
down, as did the er."-Emily
Barton In New York Weekly.