The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13
GROVER AND BRICE
Have Assumed Personal Charge Of
the Goldhug Democracy.
RULE OR RUIN THEIR MOTTO.

RULE Oh RUIN THEIR MOTTO.
Symposium Of Populist News-The Tidal Wave
Of Reform Rising Oregon Ablaze
With Activity.
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Peoples Party News Bureau,
Headquarters National Elk. Committee,
st. Louis, Mo-, May IA.
The campaign in Oregon is at fever
heat. The Republicans are divided on the
money question. The Democrats are hope
lessly in the minority and the silver wing
OF that party will vote with the Populsts.
The Populists are better organized than
ever before with an aggressive and wide
awake man for chairman of the state COM
mittee. The campaign will be fought out on
the money question; the lines are sharply
drawn between the gold standard on one
side, and the silver forces on the other. At
a recent conference held at Denver the
Populists of Colorado raised sufficient funds
to send Mr.. Sovereign of the Knights of
Labor, and Mortimer Whitehead, ex-lec-
turer OF the National Grange, to Oregon.
The national committee sent Gen. Weaver,
Hon. J. H. Davis and Col. j. H., Mcdowell,
and the Populists of Indiana are making
arrangements to send Mr.. Burkhart Of that
state to oregon. The quiet work that has
been done by Gen. Weaver, the state COM
mittee in Oregon and the national commit
tee for the last six weeks, has paved the
way for victory in Oregon in June. The
silver Democrats and to large measure the
silver Republicans, will vote our ticket
Ex-Governor Pennoyer is a candidate for
mayor of Portland. He has been Endorsed
by the Tax Payers League of that city,
which includes nearly all the wholesale
and retail mere hants. The Republicans in
that county have two sets of candidates in
the field. One goldbug under the leader
ship OF Dolph, and the other for silver under
the leadership of Mitchell. In no state is
the prospect for victory so bright for the
Peoples Party as in Oregon today.
Mr.. Parsons, member of the national
committee, writes from the eastern part of
oregon thus: "The campaign now has pro-
crossed so far that we can begin to reckon
where I'VE are at" In this county we will
elect our joint senator, three representa-
tlves and our full county ticket. Two years
ago we polled 1924 votes. The Republi-
cans $50, and the Democrats 800. We are
making steady inroads upon the enemy and
according to the precincts polled we have
gained sufficient to give us clear plurality
In every county in eastern Oregon a like
condition exists, and believe we will carry
nine out of twelve counties in the eactern
section Of the state. In western Oregon our
affairs look very promising and we will
make great gains these. Portland has been
our chief stumbling block in the past, Civ
ing 5000 Republican majority This year
all IS changed there The Republicans are
divided into two nearly equal factions
Mitchell and anti-Mitchell, with hostile city
and county tickets ip the field This in.
sures the election of Ex-Governor Pennoyer
as mayor of Portland. His election will
almost certainly carry with it the election
OF Populist city and county tickets and
means the control Of the next legislature
and Populist United States senator
The Post, the leading Democratic organ
of Washington, says: 1.-The gold men are
working under the personal inspiration and
direction OF the president, who considers
the emergency serious, and an earnest at
tempt has already begun to capture the del
egations from the big states. Senator
Brice has taken charge of this canvass and
his victory in Ohio last fall when he
snatched the convention away from the ST.
yer men causes great confidence to be placed
upon the results of his work this year. He
is organizing bureau at the capital and is
going to follow the same tactics that proved
successful in Ohio when he wrote over 49,
600 letters in two months to Democrats of
influence in the state" Mr. Brice is going
to look after Indiana as well as Ohio. Ex-
Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, has opened
headquarters in Illinois for the gold inter-
ests and is prosecuting their fight with the
aid Of 1ar0n 0vnond:&,,ro, of
with good prospect of success James J.
Hill, magnate of he Great Northern rail-
road, is doing similar work in Minnesota
and the Dakotas In the last week a change
has come over the spirit of the dreams of
silver men in the Democratic party and it
now appears that despite their early VIC
tories they are doomed to defeat in the ma
tional convention. And that means bolt,
bolt that will be supported by the major
ity of the voters Of the party.
General Weaver says: "In Oregon the
Populists have opened the door to all
who agree with them on the financial
question; not the silver question merely;
that is only one prong. 1t is free silver,
the abolition of national banks, the max
ing of all money legal tender, and last,
no more bonds without end They vote
in Oregon June 1. Listen the next
morning from there
ExGov. Pennoyer is certain of election
as mayor of Portland, Ore, and is being
talked of as a candidate for United States
senator.
The Populist convention of Gregg
county, Texas, Endorsed Kearby and Ash
by for governor and lieutenant governor
and Perdue over Wood for congress.
The political situation in Kansas is
very gratifying to Populists. The chair
man of the Republican state committee
publicly announces that the party will
lose from 10000 to $4,000 Republican
votes if the present state officers are re-
nominated.
The recent Populist state convention
of Alabama adopted the following:
Whereas, The business failures for
the first quarter of 1896 have so far sur
passed all past records, and believing
this to be due to our financial system;
Therefore,, Be it Resolved, That our
delegates to the national convention ara
hereby instructed to use all honorable
and legitimate means to unite all the
financial reformers in one solid phalanx
against policy that has brought want
and misery to our happy and prosperous
country"
w. j. Bryan, ex-congressman from Ne
braska, openly declares that he will bolt
the nominee of the Democratic party for
president if he is gold standard man.
The New Orleans Daily Item declares
the election of the Populfst state ticket
in Louisiana and openly asserts that
blood will be spilled in the state if the