The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12
A WARNING
BY BURKE, TO PRESS AND POLL
TICIANS.

Va AOoA ~ q 4uoAtCI VI d CcuJuIy Tie
writer has been correspondent of the
press and during that time has made re-
peated serious and specific charges, to
none of which has any truthful denial
been made or attempted, while in no
single instance has he been prosecuted
for his utterances- successfully.
1t is true that frequent threats Of ar
rest have been made and twice have the
criminal elements of the country caused
the writer's arrest for criminal libel, but
before they got through with the Job
they had to drop the same and cause the
actions to be dismissed because they
found we were disposed to and could
prove all our utterances and more too.
Time and again has violence or murder
been attempted to make us close our
mouth, but with futile results. More
than once were we criminally assaulted
in California and three in this state be-
cause of our utterances, but the agents
or associates of the criminal elements
Of this state did not succeed in the ac-
complishment of their desired end
With capital and capitalists as such
we have not necessarily any controversy
but with capital as it has been acquired
and with capitalists as they have used
the same to cheat, defraud. rob and
plumber the masses by every device
known to the annals of crime, we have
had and shall have somewhat to say
despite the fact that thugs in Office and
out, have assaulted us and though they
have been and are apparently endorsed
or wipked at by Knute Nelson and the
politicians of this state since despite the
fact that serious specific and as they
know true charges have been filed with
the governor, the said. Knute Nell
son and Dave Clough, will fully fail and
refuse to do this duty in accordance with
law and their oath Of Office.
Knute Nelson and Dave Clough know,
or should know, that the man does not
live who can truthfully or successfully
refute single statement we have ever
signed. BY perjury and falsehood they
may attempt it, but truthfully never
Since we have always borne in mind the
advice Of Davy Crockett, First be sure
you are right an6 then go ahead"
Knute Nelson has been extolled as an
astute politician, hence it is somewhat
remarkable that he should thus continue
to ignore the plain facts and the law I'M
less he is completely under the domina-
alton, control and advice of certain ele-
ments that have never eagerly sought for
or obtained that position they so richly
deserve, while in view of the fact that his
nomination may have been induced or
agreed upon by Jim Hill and other rail-
roads, one may naturally enquire what
are the motives actuating, and what the
influence prompting the action or mac
ton of said Nelson.
Jim Hill, with other of the railroad
and so-called financial elements of the
state, has for years had or attempted far
too much influence on the politics, the
legislature, the executive and the press,
and before we get done with this series
we shall demonstrate by his own letters
or his own witnesses how part, if not
all, of this has been accomplished.
The alleged Hill-Mendenhall-N Nelson
banquet may show how he sought to
control Republican politics and his hav-
ing Hoke Smith, Cleveland's secretary of
the interior, as guest, may or not be
evidence that he has set or is trying to
set his traps to catch the so-called dis
CfplCO VI JCllCl SOuldA Will
the wires set to surely catch the two old
parties, it is possible that like the
Anaconda" his sufficiency is never filled,
hence it may be he sought through John
l.. Macdonald to capture the Populists,
assuming that said Macdonald is, as
seems to be the case, acting as the repre-
sentative of Hill on his recent extraor-
binary philippe
Should it transpire that Jim Hill and
the railroad magnates are really trying
through Macdonald to capture the Pop
ulists we cannot refrain from smiling
and are forcibly reminded of the old
nursery rhyme:
Simple Simon went a fishing
For to catch whale,
When all the water he had got
Was in his mothers pail"
The apparent influence of Jim Hill
over the press and the unfairness of said
sheets is shown by the following Incl
dent
AS is we'll known on June 21st and
28th and July 9Th we PUBLISHED in the Rep
resentative certain articles on jim Hill
and the Manitoba, but the daily papers
did not see fit either to republish the
same or to make any extended comments
On July 10Th John L. Macdonald saw
fit to publish in the Representative an al
legged reply thereto and defence of Jim
Hill, and on Sunday, July 23d, the said
Macdonald article was republished in
two of the dailies, one of them repeating
the publication on Monday, July Oath,
hence the reader can form his own con-
clusion whether Macdonald was en-
ployed to write the article and whether
the daily papers were paid for inserting
the same, in view of the fact that they
have not and presumably will not pub
lish any article l have written or may
write on the subject.
1t is an impossibility for me to secure
hearing in the columns of certain of
the daily press, though they may be ready
to fill the same with abuse of me and
my utterances.
1 know whereof speak, because on or
about June LIST, 1898, l filed with Knute
Nelson a racy letter that is now an Of
fetal document and one that any paper
favor and by request l furnished the
Globe with copy of the same, they
agreeing to publish, but failing to do so
I wrote them letter to ascertain wheth-
er Knute Nelson or any one else had
used any corrupt influence to secure it's
suppression, receiving reply that no
one had corrupted the paper, etc., but
that they did not dare attack Nelson, or
words to that effect.
Some of the bank smashers, timber
land pirates, rapers of the school fund
and would-be murderers among the
criminal element, themselves, or by
their corrupt or foul allies of the