The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-08
knows neither honesty nor decency.
1t insults its victim even while it
dispenses doodle to him.
VERY IMPORTANI-THE NA-
IIONAL REFORM PARTY


in National Convention, in Pittsburg.
Pa, on May %, 1896. II we are cor
rectly informed this movement repre-
Sents the Temperance element which
is not willing to be swallowed up by
Plutocracy. They will, on May 25. ap-
point committee to confer with the
Prohibitionists. who meet May q, in
the same city; and if they can over
throw the influence of the Money
power, in the latter convention, they
will all adjourn to St. Louis, and meet
there July 21st, one day before the
meeting of the Peoples Party and the
Free-Siiver party; and, if possible,
agree, through committees, in nomi-
mating the same candidates for presi-
dent and vice-president; and then
with plank in all three platforms,
for the Initiative and Referendum,
they will help us take possession Of
the government, and proceed in their
own way, to fight the Saloon power
while we are fighting the Money
power.
This is wise and shreWd pro-
gramme. There is a small element in
the East, Of wealthy men, who have
here tofore controlled the Prohibition.
lists and had hoped to do so again this
year. With this end in view they
called the convention to meet two or
three months before the time when
the Peoples Party convention would
probably be held, so as to prevent all
cooperation; and they made the place
OF meeting as far East as Pittsburg,
so as to come more directly under the
influence Of the gold-bug element
which controls that region. But Mr..
Edward Evans, of Tonawanda, Pa, and
others, did not propose to be swal-
lowed alive in that fashion; and SO
they started the National Reform
Party; and on May q. they will say to
the eastern wing of the party: "If
you mean business; if you propose to
obtain reforms, you must cooperate
with the Peoples Party, Free-Silver-
ties, etc, at St. Louis, July @. II you
don't;-if you intend to use our Tenn
perance principles merely as a string
to drag US into the service of the
Money-power, then we separate We
will take with US the great body of
the Prohibitionist to where some
thing can be effected for the cause we
hold dear; and you can 60 off with
your little squad of impracticables,
and help Wall street and Thread
needle street rivet the chains OF
slavery on the limbs of the American
people,"
That distinguished gentleman. ex-
Gov. St. john of Kansas, Mrs. Gouger,
of Indiana, Daniel Swoger, of Pitts
burg. Pa, M. Freeman Gray. of San
Francisco, CAL, J. c. Elliott, of Akron,
Ohio. and others spmpathize with
these views, and will probably be at
St. Louis, July 81, with thousands
more.
Each party will hold it's own con-
vention and adopt it's own platform,
but they will all be found voting to-
gether, on November 3, to drive the
enemies of mankind out of possession
Of power in this country for ever.
That done, and under the Initiative
and Referendum, the great debate
will 60 on, as to the best methods of
reform, and the majority of voters
will decide all mooted questions. A
united victory at the ballot box
means the opening of all gates and
door ways of Reform. Now the devil
has them all locked and bolted and
the people are powerless.
We want to see every man who is
dissatisfied with existing conditions
voting on election day side by side
with every other man who is dissatis-
fed with existing conditions. That
way victory is certain. The Plutoc-
racy will labor to split us up into
clans, fighting each other fercely,
while they continue the impartial rob-
berry of all factions.
"Unite or die' is the war cry. We
may not unite as to all details of prin-
ciple, but we will all come together in
the spirit of justice and righteous
ness, and strike together at the ballot
box.
The dawn of hope for mankind is
frightening over the heavens of the
whole world. A thousand genera
tions will bless the day when the sun
of Progress rose and drove away the
black clouds that now enshroud the
human family. I'D.
The following is the call for the con.
vention.
NATIONAL REFORM PARTY.
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES AND
CALL FOR NATIONAL CONVEN-
TON.
Report of committee on declaration of