The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-17
reform party. Of this kind alone can save
our nation from failure and disgrace.
Yours truly,
+ r. COREY
THE OMAHA PLATFORM

- O~s>'~s
1T HAS NO MILLIoNAIREsL1r WANTS
NONE.
To the Representative:
Could the principles of the Omaha
platform be submitted to the intelligent,
reading portion of our people, have not
| doubt as to the result. MY only fear is
that they cannot be reached in time to
| bring about the reform we seek. The
Peoples Party has no retinue of million
| aires, bankers and corporation million
aires at its back, as the other old parties
have; and Mr.. Editor, hope it never
will have them. We have no use for this
class of people. We want no million
aires, no paupers, no mansions, no how
| els, in this country. We want comfort
contentment, education and refinement
to supplant the squalor, wretchedness
ignorance and misery that now domi-
nate the land; and let the principles
enunciated in the Omaha platform be-
come crystallized into the law and this
| Transformation would follow as naturally
as night succeeds day.
There are some things that do not re-
Quire demonstration to render lucid their
truthfulness. They are self-evident
| coxiomatic, or so near this that the aver
| age mind accepts them as truth; and
among these is the platform of principles
| adopted by our party. No unbiased mind
| can read that declaration of principles
and not reach this conclusion; and my
| fears are seen in possible failure to
reach the class of people that need the
help. The leaders of the old parties, the
| politicians, those who are looking for a
petty office, to the senatorial aspirant
are there today solely and only for this
petty office. These we have to fight
Hence our only hope of success lies in
| enabling the laboring element, the farm
| ers, mechanics, etc., to see as we do and
| the work is done.
The chronic Offce-seeker Of both the
old parties, having no other interest
than speedy self-aggrandizement, assume
| the role Of patriots, and are ready on all
occasions to denounce as soreheads, rene
gades and skalawags all who do not
stand ready to dance to their fiddling
Hence all that have left the two old rot
ten parties are called "soreheads," those
who could not obtain office with them;
SO they are now trying to ruin what they
| could not rule. Such arguments as these
constitute their stock in trade; and, as
beAre said, they are ready on all occa-
sions to open their fiddle-faddle bat
teries. They are honest in fighting for
party whose pathway for the last twen-
ty-f1ve years has been strewn with the
victims of honest toll and endeavor
Pardon me, Mr.. Editor, for saying to
my Populist brethren, that l have been
deeply interested in the political battles
Of my country ever since Fremont ran
for the presidency; and without egot:sln,
/ believe I have done as much as the
average man, and l have never asked,
sought nor worked for an office at the
hands of any political organization. So
the charge of "sorehead' cannot find
Judgement here l cast my last Repuo-
| lican vote for Horace Greeley, in 1872;
and since then have been a Greenback-
er and Populist; and with the Popu-
LINDEN REP
lists l expect to live and die. God
knows I have no other or higher ambi-
ton than once more to see my country
(the grandest on which the sun in heaven
sheds his beneficent rays) take her place
IS Of yore, the proud champion of the
peoples rights; and for all the toll and
sacrifice I may endure no matter how
arduous or laborious, the proud satisfac-
ton of seeing such an achievement will
be reward enough for me.
E. W. B. HARVEY