The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-07-15
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Peoples Party News Bureau.
Headquarters National Ex. Com.

Peoples Party News Bureau.
Headquarters National Ex. Com.
St Louis, July 10.
There has been much said lately about
union Of reform forces on honest lines,
the consumation Of which is earnestly de-
sired by all good citizens. One OF the first
steps leading to such a union would be the
restoration of perfect harmony in the Peo-
pies party ranks. The tendency in that
direction at the present time Is very en-
couraging. Extreme partisanshap should
give way to patriotism. Peace should take
the place Of prejudice and universal love
supplant passion In the hearts OF men.
Then we shall have better government.
II not the millennium.
James g. Clark. the celebrated Peoples
party poet. is the author Of q new, song
entitled The Peoples Battle Hymn" pub
ltshed In sheet form by the Oliver Ditson
Company. Gen. Weaver says: TT is the
song we have been waiting for. It is an
Had of ITSELF
Reports from Illinois indicate an In
creasing free silver sentiment among the
farmers and a material increase Of the
Peoples party vote at the coming election.
All advices from Oregon agree that the
silver republicans are f1ocking to the Peo-
pies party standard. The sentiment for
senator Teller appears to be quite strong
In that state.
Parties desiring accommodations during
the convention can make arrangemente
oy addressing 7. s. Pugh. Room 356 Lin
dell Hotel, ST. Louis. Mo. This service
costs you nothing except If you wish a
reply In communicating, enclose stamp.
He has made arrangements with q num-
Der Of hotels and private houses whereby.
lower rate has been secured than others
could get and those who desire to take ad-
vantage Of this service should address at
once with full particulars as to when they
expect to arrive, etc.
The Peoples Party State Committee of
North Carolina. met. July 3rd, at Raleigh.
and authorized call for the state nomi-
mating convention to be held at that place
on August IS. The majority Of the North
Carolina delegates are said to favor Tel
Ter for the presidency.
The Republican Bimetallic League, Of
Omaha has repudiated the Republican Ma
tional- platform and endorsed the stand
taken by Senator Teller in boiling the
party.
Capt C. A. Powers, OF Indiana. desires
to give notice that he will be at the Lin
dell hotel q few days in advance Of the
National Convention with supply Of lit
erature and campaign badges, and asks
our people to patronize him rather than
the street -fakirs, as he proposes to donate
a
National Committee.
Mr.. Vim. p. st. John, president OF the
Mercantile National Bank OF New York,
was recently requested by the directors
to resign, because Of his outspoken advo-
cacy Of the free coinage Of silver and gov
eminent paper money. which he promptly
did.
Republicans in Kansas and other west
ern states are boiling so rapidly that the
Populist newspapers cannot find space to
publish their names.
Jas. Edwards Leslie, Pennsylvania
committeeman, wires headquarters that
the Populists Of Pennsylvania are unit
for Sibley, and asks: why confine en-
dorsement to Teller, alone?''
The Sacramento Bee, a leading republic
can paper of the Pacific coast for forty
years, has renowned allegiance to Nc
Kinleyism and the gold standard and come
out on the side Of the people.
DR.. VIM. Bently, of Bismarck, North
Dakota, president OF the United States
Board Of Pension Surgeons, has with
drawn from the republican party and
Joined the Populists. He is being strongly
urged to become candidate for governor
in his state.
F. M. Pulliam has been endorsed by the
POpulists of Logan county, Oklahoma, as
a candidate for congress. The resolutions
passed by the county convention were
adopted upon motion Of Leo Vincent, who
had himself formerly been considered a
prominent candidate Beside Pulliam, Ed.
M. Clark Of Perry, and w. A. Ruggles Of
Tecumseh, ]. S. Allen of Cleveland coun-
ty, and DR.. ]. r.. Furiong Of Oklahoma
City, have been added to the list of con-
gressional aspirants.
The Populists Of the Twelfth Texas Con-
gressional District have nominated Taylor
McRae for congress. The resolutions of
their convention. besides endorsing the
initiative and referendum and the Okla
homa platform, declares for reduction Of
officials salaries restriction Of convict
labor, for protection by tariff of raw ma
terial as Long as the same is given the
manufactured article, and in favor Of TAX
ing active steps to bring the Cuban war to
close.
Judge w. r. Biddle, of Fort Scott, who
fifteen years, refuses to swallow the gold
platform adopted at ST. Louis
Judge Scott Of Omaha, at the last cleo
ton received the largest vote cast for any
candidate on the successful republican
ticket. This year he says: Human lib
erty will soon be suplanted by the tyrnny
of the money power If the people surrend-
err to that power their constitutional right
to the free use Of the constitutional coin
double standard, gold and silver" He
bolts the national ticket.
j. r. Thomas, Of Mt. Leonard, has been
of the Seventh Missouri congressional dis
trict.
Judge Weeks, Of Jasper county, Mo-,
who for some months has been spoken Of
as the probable nominee for State Audi
tor on the republican ticket, has bolted
the national ticket of his old party.
A. L. Maxwell. state chairman Of the
Peoples party Of Illinois, has issued an
address commencing the patriotism of
Senator Teller in boiling the republican
party and advising the Populists Of the
state to support the Coloradoan for nom
nation in the national convention.
Judge J. v. Beekman. who for many
years has been one of the most prominent
republicans of the Third and Seventh con-
gressional districts in Kansas, has left the
party. Beside presiding on the bench in
Kansas, Judge Beekman has been promi-
nent candidate for congressional honors
at the hands Of the republican party. 4
Charles E.. Hunter, founder Of the first
republican paper In Garfield county Ok,
has resigned his position as a member
OF the republican county central commit
tee and has cut adrift from the party for
all time.
Populists of Upton and Kokomo. Ind.
will come to the national convention in a
special train.
L. c. Bateman. Populist nominee for
governor in Maine writes that the old
greenbackers in his state are returning to
the Peoples party in companies, regiments
and batallions. And the greenbackers car
ried Maine In 1876.
All railroads in South Dakota have
granted rate Of one fare for the round
trip upon occasion OF the Peoples party
state convention to be held at Huron.
]. B Cook Republican treasurer OF
Stafford county. Kan, who says that he
has voted every Republican presidential
ticket since Lincoln was first candidate.