The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-03
POPULIST ITEMS.

The Populist officials of Spokane
county have found that the Republi-
can Auditor is $3.50 short, and the
county clerks books also reveal crook
edness. The Monopoly telegraph
companies do not herald this news.
The corporations and trusts are
whipping out the individual business
men all over the country-and yet the
little. fellows continue to vote for cut
throat competition and monopoly.
Hon. Thomas Watson was nomin-
ated for Congress in the Tenth dis
trlct OF Georgia on the goth ult.
lie mas been elected before and will
DE again. The chief trouble he finds
is in being counted out.
The aim of Populists should be to
get control of the legislative and Judi
clal functions-with these the re-
forms called for in the Omaha plat
form are Obtainable
Chunks Of "pros perity" are still fall
ing. This week the great National
Bank OF Kansas City failed as did also
the big Stevenson dry goods house of
Topeka.
What wonderful restoration of
prosperity by electing the Republi-
cans to power again. The Walter A.
Wood Harvester Works have failed
and thousands more Of dupeS turned
out of work. What shall the harvest
be II this continues?
The great strength of the PEOPLES
Party is not in it's national commit
tee, but in the great army of workers
in each state who are const family forg-
ing away from the base of supplies
and wholly independent of it; and yet
common purpose is the animating
motive In each state-and that is the
welfare of the whole people.
The South Dakota Groton Leader
says, that the income tax receipts are
reported to be beyond expectations.
This was a Popuiist measure. One
day when the Democrats could not
get quorum, that4ive Populist, LATE
Pence Of Colorado, went around the
house and secured pledges enough to
carry the bill through the house, and
the POpulists then answered to their
names to make quorum. The quick
wit OF Pence gave the country about
500, O00, 900 revenue from the class best
able to pay it.
Hon. Tom Watson says: 'The peo-
pie are hurt by the gold standard in
this way: A man comes to give gold
for Treas urY notes. The law says you
can make him take silver. Cleveland
says he can have gold. The govern
ment says to the fellow who gets gold,
"As soon as can print bond / will
swap that bond for that gold" New
York bankers get big piles of green
backs, carry them to the Treasury,
and get gold for them. The govern
ment wants the gold back, issues
nOn-taxable bond, which is a mort
gage on your property, the banker
gets the bond and the government
gets the gold back. AS a result the
national debt has increased $162,-
100000.
There seems to be nothing quite so
sure in the next political future as
the adoption, by the next national
Democratic convention, of free-sil-
yer platform. The Republicans will
be forced to take the Union Pacific
before they are driven from office and
they will forthwith become advocate
of governmental ownership of rail-
ways. The postal savings banks, a
postal telegraph, and state or nation
al ownership of the telephones, will
quickly follow. All these concessions
to the people will tend to perpetuate
the confidence of the people in the
old party. This seems to be the trend
of the Republican party, at least the
ranks and file of it, at the present
time.-Progressiv Age.