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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
LYNCH DENOUNCED.
The Populists Of Ramsey County Brand the
REASONABLE Attempt Made by the OWENS
Nominee for Secretary of the State
Executive Committee to Destroy
the Peoples Party.
Editor REPRESENTATIVE:

Editor Representative:
A spirited meeting was held last
Thursday evening, Dec. 10Th, at 249
East Eighth street, at which il repre-
sentative gathering OF prominent peO-
Piles party men was present. The fol-
lowing resolutions were passed. con-
corning the action taken Ivy Mr.. e. Il.
Lynch, as appears in an interview in
the Penny Press OF a recent date. Mr..
Lynch was the target for full round
OF indignant protest by those present,
who repudiated his action and de-
n0unced him in the most unqualified
terms. and called for his resignation
. lseesetary Ut the Peoples Party
6ytte Central Committee; as his action
eontained In the Penny Press inter-
view, branded him traitor and I'M
worthy Of the confidence and esteem
Party. The following are the resOlu-
lions:
Whereas, 1t appears through the
daily press and other sources OF public
information that there is at present
in progress a movement designed to
effect the disintegratiOn and ruin Of
the Peoples Party in this state. And
Whereas, it also appears that the re-
SpOnsibility for that movement rests
with cabal Of selfish and treacherous
politicians, whose headquarters are
at Minneapolis and whose activity
has been inspired to all appearances
principally by their hatred of our dis
tinguiShed representative and leader,
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly. And
Whereas, In the fulfllment of their
purpose the plan has been publicly
avowed Of merging the existence Of
the Peoples Party in mongrel or
ganization. to tie designated the PeO-
pies Democratic party.
Resolved, that, in response to the
insidious and traitorous effort to
wreck the fortunes Of the Peoples
Party, that we hereby reiterate our
unqualified faith in and admiration for
and love Of our renowned fellow citi-
zen, Hon. 1gnatius Donnelly,-that
grand qualities OF soul and intellect
have been SO generously lavished on
the cause Of the common people. And
Resolved, That we hereby express
our.unyielding hostility to any move
ment directed against the integrity OF
our party, or which looks to it's perma-
nent Modification either with repub-
licanism or democracy, under whate yer
name or whatever pretext, and that
we expressly condemn the movement
in favor Of the so-called Peoples DEM
ocratic party, and denounce its au-
thors and abettOrs as unworthy the
confidence or consideration of all hon
orable members Of the Peoples Party.
And
Resolved, That, either with the CO.
operation or with the secret or the
awowed opposition of this Minneapo-
H.
tain, under the flag OF the Peoples
Party, our battle for the rights Of the
American people as against the cor
rupt aggressions of organized capital.
Resolved that same be published in
The REPRESENTATIVE.
St. Paul, Dec. 10th.
JOHN c. HANLEY,
Chairman.
M. J. COSTELLO, Secretary.
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Editor Representative:
l received a letter. of which the fol-
lowing is correct copy, viz:
Lincoln, Neb.. Nov, 1895:
II am in receipt of your favor and
appreciate your words OF encourage
ment and expressions of good will. I
also beg to thank you for the interest
you have taken in the campaign and
for the aid you have given. The con-
seriousness of duty done must sustain
US until we see the triumph Of our
cause. have no doubt of ultimate
victory. Yours truly,
w. J. BRYAN"
With Justice, country, humanity and
God to aid US, and such a leader as
William j. Bryan, who is mental cow
ard enough to forsake our cause or be-
come discouraged. Fight on.
ALLEN G.. SEXTON.
Annandale, MINI.
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MUST GIVE US PROSPERITY.

Or the People Will Hold Them Responsible.
Editor Representative:
If what the Republicans tell us now,
is true, we must be very near heaven.
In the Grover Sherman's" times, we
have not lived in paradise exactly, for at
times we have heard mutterings, that re-
minds us of the seas of fire and brim-
stone
The arguments of the Republicans for
a single gold standard, may have been
right or wrong, and indeed it must be
one or the other; but, to be on favorable
terms with commercial tyrants, trusts
and combines, was, as we say, an object
to that party; and made it winner in
the race for the control of our govern
ment, for the four years from March
next.
The Republican speakers and candi-
dates promised the people prosperity, if
they would vote the Republican ticket,
now that the party is voted into power,
the people expect the Republican admin
istration to fulfil it's promise, according
to agreement; and now the Oldest are less
positive than the youngest, how to do it.
These gentlemen will find that their
duty to the people is not fulfilled by con-
demning the Peoples Party principles of
rice COlud6C VI SlltCl duU SO1u d. IuC
ratio of 10 to - We expect to see the
Republican administration pass through
very opposite extremes of experience be-
fore it is tempered to trustworthiness; to
inaugurate new financial policy. Just
what that policy will be, as to our cur
rency, they want us to find out, rather
than they tell us, for they will be apt
to slip it through, as they did with silver
in 1873
The masses of laborers and producers
are for government currency without in
tervention of banks. The issuing OF
bonds for any purpose whatever will not
be tolerated, for the people will have no
more bonds to pay interest on to bank
ers and foreign syndicates.
I have noticed that some of the leaders
in the reform movement are out, to let
the Republicans make whatever laws
they please, without opposition! l, for
one, am opposed to this. If the Republi-
cans then should pass any measure not
in line with the interest of laborers and
producers without remonstrance, it would
be useless for us to complain after it
was past. The place to fight bad meas
ure is, where it is proposed, in this case
it would be on the floor of congress. If
we do not meet them there, they will tell
us not to grumble for poverty and bad
laws, that make others rich.
The ark of reform, SO long moored on
the coast of Southern and Western states.
has lifted anchor and spread it's sails, and
passed out of the harbOr in order to visit
other parts and places and enlighten and
bless the people with a searching insight
in the condition OF our cOuntry's affairs.
Respectfully, H. L. Sand.
Stockholm, MINI.
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vANsTRuKYS SUPPLY HOUSE, lNMEAP

eternally damned in this world and the
next with few like Owen, Dobbyn, Will
liams & Co., of your state thrown in.
l am with you to the last ditch pro-
vided you do not ask me to vote or work
with Democrat. l am willing to spend
time and money for Populist candidate,
but will be ID if I will do either if
hitched with Democrat or Republican.
IT Watson and you are nominated in 1900
l will spend three months time election
eering, provided that l am in health.
Trusting that you will pardon the fault
finding of an old friend, though young
in years and hoping that you will be our
candidate for vice president and win in
1900. remain as ever, your friend,
Charles L. Grltting.
Jacksonville, Fla, Dec. 2, 1896.
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G. S. Kuhn, of Miesville, Mimi, sends
one dollar and writes: "Send THE
REPREsENTATIvE along another year,
as | should feel lonesome to miss it a
single week."
Ed Albright. of Minneapolis. writes:
I'VE anxicusly await the weekly visits
of your live champion of human liber-
ty, and always look for chance to
speak good word for your paper. We
are pleased to know that many copies
OF it are read in this city, although
Populism, which it advocates, is sup
posed to be an affi ction peculiar to
ia the man with hayseed in his
whiskers. We could not keep house
without it,"
o. Allin, of Dexter, Maine, renews
and writes: II have been reading your
paper and watching your course. You
have made and are making a gallant
fight, dear brother. Let US not be dis
couraged. We are few in this mon
OpOly riden state. but we feel equal to
the occasion. This fight is going
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call it victory. Mighty reforms must
be brought about or our freedom is
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vail"
VIM. Smith, Of Dundee, Mimi, re-
news and writes: Il can not help
commenting you upon the able way
and the honorable ability with which
you defended the farmers grain field
and stock yard through the past po-
litical warfare. II the farmers them
selves had worked half as hard as you
did, their interests would be reprent-
ed in far different manner In the
next four years. For my part hope
to live to see every principle of the
Populist platform carried out in full,
and this glorious nation redeemed
from Mammon. Long may you live,
Ignatius Donnelly; and am sure God
generous Deeds"
J. G. Mehelitch, Of St. Cloud, Mimi,
renews for another year and writes:
Il like your paper as much as the best
dinner and can not be without it for
any money. wish you great success
and hope you will not get discouraged
at our last defeat. but keep up the
fight. We will win next time, for peO-
pie will see into it better when times
get harder; when the farmer will have
to sell at 80 cents on the dollar, instead
of half price as now; when the laborer
will work for less than dollar day
and pay double for his clothes and
manufactured stuff; when the mer-
chant will have to be satisfied with
penny sales, where he got dimes before
and nickles now; when the manufac-
turers will have their warehouses load
ed with manufactured goods and no
sale for it, because the farmer is not
getting sufficient for his products to
pay the cost of production. And this
could all have been settled in 1896.
Thank the Lord we have hope and
confidence" left"
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POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Sheriff Phillips Appointments.

SHeTTH ITIIIIPS hPPOIHtHeHCSs
Editor Representative.
The following appointments were to-
day announced by Sheriff elect Phillips:
E. B. Clement, first deputy; ]. O. Davis,
bookkeeper; E. r. Lynch, John Duffield
Barnard ClOutier, Enos Wheeler, P. J.
Gallagher, Caspar Schulenberg, Henry A.
Finlayson, William H. H. Stalbird.-Pen-
ny Press, Dec. 5th 1896.
On dit E. r. Lynch is to be legal ad-
wiser to the sheriff, salary 81 200 per an
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AN EARNEST FRIEND.
He Wants the Traitors Weeded Out.

He Wants the Traitors Weeded Out.
Editor Representative.
AN EARNEST FRIEND.
You will enclosed please find $1.0O for
renewal of my subscription to the Rep
resentative, the best reform paper in the
world. In your last issue l read, with
moist eyes and a throbbing heart, the
manner in which our would-be leaders
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No. ISL. Beacon Alarm clock, with il,umi-
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ALETTER FROM BRYAN.

New York, Nov. %.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
HIS VIGIL CEASED
WHEN FRIEND HAD FAT CE-
MENT SIDEWALK JOB ON
HAND.
CITY CERBERUs M'cARDY
PERMITS THE CITY TO BE MULCTED
TO THE TUNE OF
$4,000.
TWAS NOT A corpERs SALARY,
But 1t Was as Expensive to the City
as Hundreds of Them
Could Be.

One by one the incidents are coming to
Comptroller McCardy's poetic effusion in his
acceptance speech, where he referred to the
pleasure that is stirred In the home going
heart by the watch dog 8 welcome bark. The
watch. dog in poetry, however. is not the
watch dog of facts, always, and the watch
dog of the cartoons Is frequently anything
but an all-detecting parsonage when the bung
instead of the spigot is the place of draft
on the public treasury.
With view to revealing some Of the ec-
centricities of the eity's financial administra-
ton during the four years that it has been
so indissolubly linked with Sergeant Joseph
j. McCardy of the Tenth Kentucky volun-
teer cavalry, the G Lob e, has taken the trou-
BILE to look up the court records in the suit
of Peter Stuart and others against the city
of st. Paul and the St Paul Stone COM
pany.
BY way of Introduction, it may be stated
that Mr.. Stuart is Minneapolitan, and that
he has received $1,000 from the city of St.
Paul which he never would have received
from it in any right and justice but for the
singular action of the present city comptroll-
er, whether this action be called eccentricity,
irregularity, impudehce. sharp practice, or
anything else.
Mr.. Stuart happened tofbe the possessor Of
certain patents covering roek-faced con-
crete sidewalk.
The city of st. Paul, through the board Of
park commissioners, was in need. of just such
a walk, for the pleasure of the sight-seers in
the beauty spot known as Central park.
1t crd3red 1t of the St Paul Stcne compa-
n.y. which was a low bidder. The leading
spirit in the ST. Paul Stone company was
Theodore L.. Morgan.
Theo., L. Morgan was a friend of Joseph
J. McCardy. He ought to be yet. For some
reason the watch dogs welcome bark was not
heard when Morgan. with an infringed pat
ent and an inferior article of paving came in
and extracted from the city treasury on the
4th ofNovember, 1892, the sum of s2726.75.
There were no political conventions then,
and perhaps, too, the city comptroller had
not then developed his present fuency of
third reader declamations from domestic
poetry.
Mr.. Stuart said that Mr.. Morgan had in
gringed upon his patents. He did more. Mr..
McCardy was asked, between the 1st and the
4th of November, 1892, If the city had paid
Morgan for the work. Mr.. McCardy said that
it had not, and was promptly Informed that
a suit was to be brought by Mr.. Stuart, and
that before paying the money to Morgan, it
would be advisable to take steps to protect
the city against this suit in which it would
be joined as defendant
Mr.. MeCardy- twirled one end of his mus
tache in his thumb and forefnger, the left
ones, if memory serves Alright, and, with that
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
CRIPPLE CREEK WIPED
OUT.
SAVED ONLY THEIR LIVES.
But FEW OF THE VICTIMS ABLE
TO SAVE THEIR POSSES
SIONS.
BUILDINGS FINALLY BLOWN UP.
Dynamite and Giant Powder We're
the Weapons Used to Fight
Down the Flames.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Co.. April 25.-one milI.
damage done by fire this afternoon in the
heart of Cripple Creek. Some estimates are
as high as two million. The amount of in1
surance, as near as can be arrived at Will
not exceed $3.50. GOO. rs
When the FIRE broke out in Carey's second4
hand store, the danger Of big confagratioR
was not perceived, but in short time the
fire had spread 10 the adjoining buildings and
brisk wind sprang up. The occupants be-
gan to move out, but waited TOO long and
were unable to save their goods. Some bare-
ly escaped with their lives. Several women
were dangerously burned. The heat became
so intense that buildings on the north side
of Meyers street took fire. Every wagon in
town was pressed into service and goods
were hauled away. Not a tenth part of the
goods were saved.
By the time the postofice had caught. id
became evident that the only way to stop the
progress of the fire was to blow up the build
ings with giant powder and dynamite. This
was done under the supervision of the fire.
men, and number of buildings had to be.
sacrificed before the fire had reached them.i
"A III OiIiou udu d leB DlOWn OH While he was,
placing big charge of that explosive under;
the Sisters hospital.
The fire started about i o'clock and by q
o'clock it had demolished the blocks between
Third i1d Fifth streets, on Meyers, between
Third and Fifth streets on Bennett street,
stopping just near the New Midland depot
and warehouse, between Third and Fifth, on
Carr. With the exception of few buildings
on the Third street side, nearly all the build
ings between Third and Fifth, on Eaton, were,
destroyed. Many people lost everything
they had. The people not affected have Of
fered shelter to the homeless, of which there,
are several hundred. The First National
bank was doing business in another part of
town while its building was burning. The
burned district is to be rebuilt at once
with brick and stone buildings.
The Episcopal and Congregational churches
were destroyed. The city jail, in which were
confined about twenty prisoners, had only the.
iron cages left The prisoners were released
The Sisters hospital was blown up after the
patients had been removed to the Pixies Peak
closed, which prevented lawlessness re-
port was started that thieves were busy and
hundred deputies were at once sworn in and
the militia was called out but no depreda-
uons were committed. Hundreds of people
were made homeless, but they were all givens
shelter.