The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-01
A FARMER MAD.
HE GOES FOR McCLEARY RED-HOT,
WANTS A SCANDINAVIAN REPRE-

HE GOES FOR McCLEARY RED-HOT,
SENTATIVE.
Editor Representative:
Dear Sir:-It may seem foolish for an
old block head of farmer. to say any,
thing in regard to the present situation Of
the farmer and the day laborer. The
yoke is pressing on us harder every day
At this railroad station, I was offered
the other day. all of cents a bushel for
oats, and for wheat, 90 or 43 cents, and
four pounds off with which to feed the
thieves. But we can expect no better
times when such a yellow bug as Nc
Cleary is voted into office to be our law
maker at Washington. Those in the sec
ond district. who voted for McCleary
may feel quite proud of him for the work
he has done, and the good times he has
brought to this district.
The majority of the people in this vi
cinity are 50 party blind that they go and
vote for such 2 law-maker McCleary
with his gold specks and stove-pipe hat
is like a well-trained monkey sitting on
a music box: whenever a gold bug passes
by he takes off his hat and holds it out
for them to throw in some of the yellow
stuff. McCleary, when at Jackson, de
clared that such q law as Demonetized
Silver in 1873 never was passed by Cong
ress, as he could not find it in the cong
ressional record. | would advise him on
account of his being "cross-eyed" to buy
d pair of glasses with which he might see
straight then he would probably not read
between the lines.
What a shame for this district to set
aside such man as Mr.. Long, who is a
man working for the interest of the work.
ing-class. and SEND in his place such a
gold bug as McCleary, who does nothing
but dance around the golden calf. The
gold bugs may talk till their hair rises
like bristles, we will never have pros
porous time in this country SO long as we
have a single gold standard. l hope at
the next national convention, all in favor
Of free coinage of silver will unite in
their work. I hope also that you.
Brother Donnelly, will be successful in
your struggle for the good Of the work.
ing class.
The Representative is the best paper
I read. ] have been trying to get sub
scrbers for it, but the difficulty is to find
one who has sand" enough to read and
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work for his own interest. The paper
read by the majority of the Norwegians
here, is that old Skin" from Chicago.
wish very much we could have in this
state a paper like The Representative,
printed in the Norwegian language 1t
would be a great help in gaining votes
for the Peoples Party. although we have
some good reform papers. we need more,
in the Norwegian; at the next state AL
lance meeting, it would be a good plan
to do something in regard to this.
The times are hard for US farmers, but
this next year is a fight for Liberty or
Death We must remember that John
Bull could not conquer America when
there were but thirteen states, now we
are fOrty-four, should we now ask Roth
schild and Wall Street what kind and how
much money we should be allowed to use.
A shame it is to have such a pussy gut
in the White House, as Cleveland and his
advisor John Sherman; and they having
such rulers of financial affairs as Roths-
child and Wall street.
A FARMER.
Des Moines, jackson County, Mimi.