The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-08

national convention. Prohibition viii,
be the leading issue in New Hampshire
this year. Just how it will affect tia
Peoples Party cannot be known
The sub-treasury plank is reported to
have been a drawback to our party in
| Mississippi. Politically, Mississippi ia
hard state and her laws are so shaped
| in the interest of the Misunderstanding
| Democracy that it is hard to overcome
them.
In South Dakota, the Pettigrew men in
| the Republican party are feeling sore
over their defeat and the failure of the
party to enact any favorable railroad
legislation, makes the success of the
Populists this year not only possible, but
probable.
The situation in Georgia is not so en-
couraging as it might be. Reports in
dictate many deluded voters who yet be-
lieve free coinage of silver and other re-
forms can be secured through the Demo-
cratic party and the delegation from
Georgia will probably stand by anything
the party does at Chicago. About our
only hope in that state is, that the fight
between the Democratic factions will
grow so fierce as to result in two delega-
tons being sent to Chicago.
People in Connecticut are much discon-
tented. There is growing belief there,
as elsewhere, that there is no difference
between the old parties. They do not
care SC much for free coinage as for more
money. Our people there are not in ia
vor of an early convention. Workers
are scattering literature; not trying to
convert those in the party, but those who
are out.
The action of the Republican majority
in the present congress in refusing to
pass the free coinage substitute, submit
ted by the senate, is disgusting the free
silver voters throughout the country.
Senator Elkins of Virginia has given 1t
out cold and fiat that the states west of
the Mississippi must choose between Re-
publicanism and POpulism. He says:
win or lose, tic Republican party must
stand for sound financial legislation.
A monthly statement of the public debt
issued by the treasury department at
Washington, April 1, showed the net in
crease for March to be $5,274,7S0.
The Oregon state convention met on
March 26. A telegram from Gen. Weaver
dated March q, says: The Oregon dele
gates are instructed to do all in their
power to secure union with silver forces
on a common ticket. The National Com
mittee fully Endorsed. Jno. c. Young,
State Chairman. Martin Quin and Van
derburg, nominees for Congress, Will be
elected" Gen. Weaver will remain in the
Northwest until April Is.
The Executive Committee of the Nine
teenth Congressional District Of Illinois
met at Marshall March 81 A. ]. Maxwell
and H. NJ. Brooks were elected delegates
to the National Convention.
A number of Populist papers have stat
ed that the Silver Convention to be held
at St. Louis, July 22nd, would have twen-
ty-six hundred delegates, while the Peo-
pies Party Convention would only have
thirteen hundred delegates, and that
there was a movement on foot to cOnsol-
idate the two conventions SO that the
Silver party would have two votes where
the Peoples party would have only one.
There is not word OF truth in these
statements. The Peoples Party National
Convention will be composed OF about
thirteen hundred and ninety delegates,
and the Silver Convention of about thir-
teen hundred and ten delegates. No ono
has ever as much as suggested that the
two conventions would combine in one.
to make platform, or nominate candi-
dates.