The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-04
4 POINT.

Our paper is now going to great
many Republican farmers, who, when
they read it, will hold it out at arms
length with the tongs, while the old
lady burns sulphur to fumigate the
room. We must be very careful the re-
fore, what we say, or they will both
execute a war dance on 1.-THE leading
Reform paper in the Northwest" and
we will not be there to defend it.
And so very gently, very modestly, and
with a pallati ng smile, and our hat
off, we will ask question or two Of
the said farmer and his dame.
Did you ever know a national bank
er who was not Republican, or who
did not vote the Republican ticket
whenever the success of that party de-
manded ito
Did you ever know railroad pres-
dent who was not Republican, or
who did not sustain them in great
emergency?
Did you ever know 40 per cent
usurer who was not Republican, or
who did not vote the Republican
ticket in an emergency?
Did you ever know man who was
in an Elevator Ring, to steal the
profits of the farmers wheat, who was
Republican; or who If he was a
Democrat did not vote the Republi-
can ticket in a. pinch.
Did you ever know member of any
thieving Trust or Combine or Monop.
oily of any kind who was not Repub-
lican, or.an ally Of the Republicans.
Think of those 10000 Democrats.
under the lead Of fine business men
last year voting the Republican ticket,
cutting down their own vote one-half
and giving the Republicans $4,000
plurality in this state. What did it
mean9
Horace Greeley said, in the bitter
old days, when the two hostile par
ties. now locked in loving embrace,
used to try to cut each others throats:
CT will not say that every Democrat
is a horse-thief; but will say that
every horse-thief is Democrat"
And SO l might paraphrase Horace,
and declare, that while every Republi-
can is not banker, usurer, a mon
opolist land-grabber, and devourer of
the peoples substance, yet every man
who belongs to any of these classes is
necessarily supporter Of the Repub-
lican party, even though he may have
started in life a Democrat.
Understand us clearly, brethern:-
there are in the Republican party to-
day as good. honest, patriotic, noble
hearted men as ever breathed the
breath Of life. Why do they stick to
it. Why does Mrs. Hayward hang
around the galleries OF the Hennepin
county Jail to talk to that miserable,
God-forsaken, cruel. shallow, brutal
her always the bright faced. handsome
child who crowded in her lap or tod
died after her in his knickerbockers
and hence she clings to him when all
the world hates and denounces him.
And so. to a large class of honest,
worthy Republicans, their party is the
same old party Of the past:-it is the
party of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses
Grant, of Chase and Sumner and
Greeley and Stevens; it is the party of
the marching and charging armies,
with ''old glory" floating above them,
encircled by halos of immortal VIC
tory. In twenty five years Harry
Hayward grew from an innocent, nest
ling prattling babe, at the breast. to
one of the most terrible monsters ever
known among men. And in the same
way the party which enthusiasts
started and statesmen developed, and
gallant men made triumphant. on
hundred battle fields. has been seized
upon by all the forces Of organized
capital, and they are now intent on
doing, with the grand old organiza-
ton, bloodier and a more dreadful
work than that which Hayward sent
out Blixt to accomplish. For Hayward
sought but the destruction Of one
poor girl; but Plutocracy, il it wins,
will reduce millions to state worse
than death. Men. women and chill
dren Of this and all other future gen
erations are to be brought down to
the peasant and serf-like conditions
OF the old world, now and forever.
We are we'll aware that the rank
and file of the Republican party do
not intend to help in such work;
that they are incredulous that such a
work is intended by any one; but let
them think, study, observe, reason;
let them get all the facts and form
their own conclusions. 1t is kind Of
shameful, mental abasement and
degradation not to use the reasoning
faculties which God has given you;
but turn over your whole intellectual
apparatus to the hypnotism Of some
little, Insignificant, conscienceless,