The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
SIMPLIFY THE ORGANIZATIONS.

There is one thing the next State
convention should look to, and that
is that there should be only ono COM
mlttee to handle the campaign funds
Of the Peoples Party.
The Peoples Party Leagues are we'll
enough In their way. as local clubs,
but when it comes to empowering
them to collect funds all over the
state and disburse them, they invade
the province Of the State Central
Committee, produce confusion Of
counsels and require the support OF
two sets Of officials where one would
do.
During the last year a good deal OF
money has been contributed by PeO-
Plies Party men to Mr.. L. NJ. Aver, OF
Minneapolis, Secretary of the State
League. We have not as yet seen any
report Of what became Of this money.
The probabilities are that the must OF
1t went into Mr.. Ayers pocket to pay
his SALARY. Mr.. Aver is q pleasant
gentleman. but the great end and aim
Of the PsOple's Party Of Minnesota Is
not to pay his board bills.
THE ocean into tempest tossed
TO Wafta leather ana to d own = n.y.
We do not approve OF threshfng
machine which takes the whole, or the
greater part of the crop, to run it.
Mr.. T. J. Meighen, chairman OF the
State Central Committee, has done a
great deal Of hard word and asked no
compensation for 1t; but the funds
that should have gone to the commit
tee have gone to Mr.. Aver and his side
show. II this Ia to be continued In
the future the campaign will he Grip
pied Tor lack Of money, and Mr.. Aver
will come out as fat as gopher In the
spring.
Our funds will he necessarily small.
for our people are poor and the times
dreadfully hard. We should try to
find some publlc-spirited citizen, for
chairman OF the State Committee,
who is we'll enough off to work with
out compe nsation, as Mr.. Meighen has
done, so that every cent will go into
the campaign, to hire halls, pay ex-
penses Of speakers and furnish litera-
ture.
There must be, no divided authority
no double. headed monstroslty. NOV
ing in two ways at once. II their
means are small we will furnish the
committee Office room. at 642 Boston
Block. 1--WE have three rooms), free of
charge. We made the same offer to
Mr.. Aver and he declined to accept it,
and the Populists have been paying
office-rent ever since--and what have
they got for itp That foolish and
abusive fellow. Aver. told the public.
just before the St. Louis convention,
that every man who was not in favor
of turning over the Peoples Party to
the Democrats had been bought up by
Mckinley; while he himself had
scarcely got the Democratic egg-shell
picked of his half-hatched back.
We call upon Mr.. Aver to make q
full report, at once. through THE REP.
REsENTATIvE, Of all moneys re-
ceived and disbursed by him; drawing
q clear distinction between the funds
sent him for specific purposes, as for
purchase Of boz ks or newspapers for
the senders, and the remainder left;
and tell US how that remainder was
expended:-how much went for Office.
rent, clerk.hire, and his own salary;
50 that the Populists may know, be-
fore the State convention meets, what
they have received of benefits for the
moneys they contributed. Let all the
facts be known that the state conven-
tion may act advisedly.