The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-20

nominate himself for fourth term.
What will the Populists do? .
We. will tell you when the so-called
corpse begging to stir: A. E. BALL |
BROTHER TONG ON. THE WARPATHi
BROTHER LONG ON THE wAR-PATH-
HE GOES FOR SOME MALIGNANT
MICROBES WITH A FENCE RAIL;
AND SWASHES THEM so FLAT
THAT THEY ARE INVISIBLE UNDER
A MICROSCOPE.
Editor Representative: ss.
There is lie going the rounds of the
Republican papers in this congressional
district in relation. to myself which
grows more huge as it travels.
The lie was Matched in the vacuum
where nature expected brains to be of a
political coyote and accidental state SEN
ator editor of the Rock County Herald.
Some time ago sold my equity in
piece of land in an adjoining town and
took stock of merchandise in part pay
ment, with which my son went into bust
ness, with merchant, in Magnolia. This
fact inspired the Rock county Office seek
Ell to go for me in paper, by saying that
l had turned plutocrat, after denounc-
ing the merchant for four years for polit-
ical effect; that l had now forgotten the
dear farmer" etc., etc.
But the Lake Benton News improves
on H. Us eruption and calls me the
oftimes Pop Candidate, and says have
denounced everybody as dishonest ex-
cept the farmers; that was demagogue
then or am preying on the farmers now.
| do not know the thing who runs the
News, but who ever he may be, he is an
Annias of the first calibre. For an
original, artistic liar have some respect,
because admire genius; but this thing
has neither genius nor honesty
He simply lies because it is natural for
him, and hasn't sense enough to know
that decent men of his own party who
have heard me speak, will give the lie
to this what is it,
l never called any class of people dis
honest but alwayssbegan my speeches by
giving credit to every one for honesty
in their political opinions. Not one of
these lying hyprocrites dare meet me in
debate on the issues, as set forth in the
Omaha platform; even their candidate
for congress backed out after the first
meeting
! None of them ever addressed them
selves logically to the questions at is
sue, but connect lies outlof ETAOINN
sue, but concoct lies out Of whole cloth
and hope thereby to prejudice the minds
of the people against their political op--
ponents.
AS for being an oftimes candidate, l
was never a candidate in the sense Nc
Cleary was, for he stumped the district
before he was nominated, while l, as
every one knows, protested against re-
ceivtng the nomination.
Will this thing give some reason why
I have not as much right to accept the
Cleary has to accept that of the Repub-
licans? Perhaps he will say my Ian
guage is not sufficiently refined. Well,
they said the same thing of the great
Wendell Phillips. I am no dude, that
is true. My father was raftsman on
the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers
my grandfather built fiat boats on the
Allegheny and Susquehanna, and If my
grandfather was monkey, then as
Victor Hugo, think 1t was, told the
dude, my pedigree begins where yours
ends.
VIII some good Populist of Lincoln
county tell us how this thing-ama-jig got
hold of the News? Is it true, as rumor-
ed, that he played traitor and made be-
lieve to run Populist paper, and when
he got control, Judas-like, sold out for
thirty pieces of silver? When the Her.
aid man was asked why he went for Long
the way he did, he replied that he
thought perhaps it might be his last
chance.
Don't worry gentlemen I shall try to
accommodate you for 1 hope to live to
help pile the last clod on the political
grave and write the obituary of all such
spawn of plutocracy as are now running
these vile sheets without brains or con-
science who if they are remembered by
posterity at ,allg it will be to receive their
curse for helping to bring ruin upon this
once fair republic.
When I contemplate the fawning syc-
ophantry and cunning subterfuges of
those hirelings of monopoly sometimes
wonder if the great Darwin, with all his
learning and knowledge of humanity,
was not mistaken when he searched for
the missing link; whether the chain is
not complete, the only thing lacking be-
ing the caudal appendage which is of no
Importance only in fly time.
L. c.. LONG