The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-16
AS he ended with an exhortation to vote
for Bryan the crowd gave him three
cheers.
TE- POPULIST HEADQUARTERS
The Good Work Senator Butler is
Doing

| Special to The Representative.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 5.-The
national convention of the boiling Dem
ocrats held at Indianapolis this week,
has excited less interest and comment
! among the political managers than was
expected. It seems to be settled by
| common understanding that the purpose
of the gold Democratic convention was
to help the election of Mckinley They
even admit that they will go so far as
to vote for Mckinley rather than for the
man they will nominate at Indianapolis,
if thereby they can better insure Nc
Kinley's election. This was so we'll I'M
derStOOd, and not even denied by any,
that there was very little to surmise as
to whether the Indianapolis convention
would put up a ticket or would not, it
being understood that they would do
whatever in their judgment would best
advance the cause of Mckinley, and the
gold standard. 1t must be remembered,
however, that many of the leading spir
it's in that convention have been in the
past part Of the dominant influence in
the councils of the Democratic party.
A CHANGE IN THEIR PURPOSE.
It is evident to the careful observer of
political "straws," that the gold bugs
have decided that they are already whip
ped on the financial question, unless
something can be done to switch the is
sue to the tariff, or unless the friends
of silver can be divided.
Therefore, Mckinley is making a des-
perate effort to revive the tariff corpse,
not because he is not gold
bug, but because he thinks
protection more popular with the
people than gold. But while Nc
Kinley is attempting to talk tariff, the
fact is that not one request in thous-
and at the various political headquarters
asks for tariff literature. Everybody
wants literature on the financial ques-
ton, and nothing else.
THE WAGE GARNER AGAINST THE
FARMER.
The Republicans are also making des-
perate efforts to divide the silver forces
by attempting to array the wage Garner
against the farmer. Their gold Demo-
cratic farmers are making frantic efforts
to assist Hanna and Mckinley in this
line. This is the last hope of the gold
men in the fight, and the outlook is that
it is hopeless hope. The burden of
Bourke Cockrans speech in New York
was trying to array the wage Garner
against the farmer. Up to now the gold
men have always denied that free silver
would help the farmers, but they are
driven to such desperation that they now
admit that free silver will help the
farmer, and tell the wage Garner that it
will bleed him for the farmers benefit.
RAILROADS SUPPORTING THE GOLD
STANDARD.
The railroad corporations seem to
termined to force every friend of silver
to favor and fight for the government
ownership of the railroads, no matter
what his opinion on this question may
have been in the past. These corpora
lions are putting into the hands of every
one of their employees small circular,
the same fallacious argu-
ments as were put forward in Bourke
Cochran's speech. They tell-their en-
ployes who work for wages and salaries
that if they vote for free silver it will
mean a reduction in their wages: that
free silver will help the farmer, but that
it will hurt them. In fact, the railroad
are today the most power |
full agents Of the gold trust. If the wage
Garner and farmer can be divided in this
fight the gold men will, il they stand to-
gether free silver and Americanism
win.
A REPLY TO THE RAILROAD GOLD |
CIRCULAR.
At Peoples Party headquarters here.
a small folder entitled why railroad
employees and other wage earners want