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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
BRAVE WORDS FROM A TRUE MAN
SENATOR PROBSTFIELD RE-
JOICES IN DEFEAT
Neither Bryan Nor Lind Could Have Done ANY,
thing Without Proper Backing.

We have received the following
private letter from one of our best
men in the Red River Valley-a SEN
sible man with big heart-not the
kind to be carried off, his feet by
the concentrated bowling of lot of
little whippersnappers;--but one
lineally descended from the brave
Teutonic heroes who overcame the
Roman legions in the long ago.
Although private letter we take
the liberty of publishing it..
In the reconstruction of our party,
in preparati ton for 1898. such men as
Probsttield must be pushed to the
front, wherever they can be found.
Men who will not obtrude themselves
into our councils simply to betray us,
are the kind wanted. With such men
we can yet pluck victory out of de-
feat.
Moorhead. Mimi, Nov. II.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly:
l received Tue REPRESENTATIVE
today.
feel that by your election to the
HDnse we have the best champion to
raise his voice in protest against any
possible attempt to pass any more leg
islation injurious to the people. 1t
may not be considered by you, kind
OF me to say 50. but I wish you were
the only one saved from the general
wreck that overlook the Peoples
cause in the late election. You would
then be a voice in the wilderness. The
battle is not lost. 1t was Bull
rum" but 1.-THE war is not over" and
the drilling has commenced for the
next battle. Without Congress to
support him, am glad of Bryan's de-
feat. Without a Legislature and an
attorney general l rejoice in Lind's de-
feat. 1t would be political death to
Bryan and Lind to have been elected
without support to carry out the
measures that they stood for. The ig-
norant vOter-he is host-would say:
I'VE elected Bryan and Lind, what did
they dO?" You guess the rest.
am, under the circumstances, glad
that went under in the general
wreck-when so,many just as able and
earnest, and s3me more so proba bly,,
also went under. lam in good COM
pany.
Yours very truly.
r. M PROBSTFIELD
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
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! THEsRIEH CAN STEAL.

We are glad to read the following, in
reference to case which has attracted
a great deal Of attention throughout
the civilized world:
London, Nov. 10. se6.-Henry La
bouchere in Truth today devotes a
page and a half to the Castles case.
during which he says;
II learn that few magistrates ia
vOred a heavier sentence, and a few
were for releasing the prisoner. Had
she been released on the ground Of
mental infirmity, she would not have
been the gamer, for she would have
been sent to criminal lunatic aSy-
lum, according to the law since 1883.
The sentence seems to me ! ght, con-
sidering the circumstances. do not
believe in kleptomania, for it only
seems to attack the rich, and ii it
really exists. l am sure that the pun
ishment Of every person stealing
while suffering therefrOm would have
had a very deterrent effect upon its
spreading. The Castle case is re-
markable for the many objects found
in the Castle trunks stolen"
Continuing, Mr.. Labouchere ex-
presses surprise at the fact that Mr.
Castle did not notice the collection Of
goods in their rooms at the Hotel
Cecil, and adds:
1.-THE child seems generally to have
accompanied the mother, when, urged
by her peculiar disease to 20 to a shop
in order to pilfer. This child saw
nothing"
Mr.. Labouchere, after a sarcastic
reference to the defense and acquittal
of another wealthy women for steal
ing hotel candle-sticks, observes:
Con the morning Of Mrs. Castles
sentence, seamstress and COVER
ness were sentenced at the same ses-
sion to nine and six months hard la
Dor for stealing a fur necklace and
neither had ever been previously con-
victed. No medical experts testified
that they we're kleptOmaniacs: no
eminent doctor suggested that they
would suffer in health by cOnfineme q t.;
no one pitied them and no one signed
a petition to the home secretary to
shorten their sentences. What mat
tered it how poor, fainting, friend
less governess or half starved seam
stress suffers? Give them hard labor
and plenty of it. What IL their health
is Injured? Let them die. Let Mrs.
Castle out OF prison, Sir Matthew
White Ridley, she has moved in the
best circles. and she has had no need
to steal: but, do not reduce the SEN
fences of the seamstress and goYer-
ness by single day. The best circles
do not know them. They are poor and
helpless, which, 10 the opinion of all
self.respecting persons. is in itself a
crime" "@e
These Castles are from San Fran
cisco; they are rich people, with rich
connections. The woman, il she was
poor, would be called thief,-being
rich, she 10 = lkleptomaniac.-and not
responsible. and SO when she stole
all she could lay her hands on. includ-
Ing even the furniture Of the hotel,
aud had at piled up in her room,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
mo CAUSE FOR DESPAIR.
McKINLEYS ELECTION A VERY
CLOSE ONE.
A Change of $4,000 Votes Would
Have Changed the Result.

1t seems by the record Of the cleo
toral votes, that 80 of McKinley's
votes, every one of them necessary to
his success. were carried through by
very small majOrities. In Kentucky
the Republicans claim 444 majority
for the 13 electoral votes OF that
state; In North Dakota, they claim
500 majority for the 3 electoral votes;
in Wyoming 200 for the electoral
votes; in Delaware $500 for the cleo
toral votes of that state; in Oregon
5000 for electoral votes; in California
5000 for the electoral votes; in West
Virginia l 200 for = electoral votes,
and in Indiana 1900 for the Is cleo
toral votes. 1t thus appears that the
go electoral votes cast in these states
for Mr.. Mckinley we're obtained by
less than 100000 majority; and conse-
Quently that change of $4,000 votes
would have given them to Bryan; and
these 60 electoral votes added to the
1877, which he received. would have
raised his total to 227, or three more
than enough to elect him president.
There is no doubt that IL the Peo-
ple's Party could have anticipated
such result they could easily have
secured the $4,000 extra votes re-
CURED. The distribution of addition
al literature would probably have &C
complished IL. It seems hard when
the Free SILVER element had increased
its votes from little over a million
in 1892 to $500, 900 in 1896 to be defeat
ed for the lack of paltry $4,000
votes. 4.4,
1t shows us plainly that the Free
Silver element ought not to be dis
couraged. They certainly will make
more than $4,000 converts in the
states referred to in the next four
years. Besides that, the Republican
party will be upon trial, and if it
does not produce prosperity for the
whole country, there will be millions
of votes added to the Free Silver cause
in 1900.
We will begin the new century by
| breaking the back of the money pow
er and saving mankind and civilian
| ton. So stand firm, friends, and act
wisely, and all will be we'll.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
a NATURAL ENQUIRY.

There are big lot Of fellows in
Minnesota. this week. who are stick
ing their heads up out of the snow
drifts and anxiously .enquiring whe n
the prosperity is to begin. Tue wood
pile is growing smaller and the
patches are growing bigger. Bring on
your prosperity, gentlemen. Even that
STOOD Of silver" we were threatened
with. during the campaign, would be
better than foot deep Of snow and a
stiff wind blowing. But that is moth
ing to what Is coming. When it gets
to 40 degrees below. zero it will be a
good time to read of the horrors that
would be inflicted on Minnesota il
John Lind should be elecyed.I,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
WHAT WE'RE THEY?

We note in the St. Paul Dispatch a
communication, dated Nov. 9, from
Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine coun-
ty. which says .-....ss.-
For the office Of Register of Deeds,
Martin E. Tew, the editor of the Re-
form Advocate, a Populist paper, pub
liShed at Clarkfeld, was the fusion
candidate, and Ed Evanson. farmer
near Canby, was the Republican nomi-
nee. Mr.. Tew put up an especially
vigorous campaign; and was as vgor-
ously combatted by the Republican
forces, with the result that exposures
were made whereby Mr.. Tew was
largely deserted even by members of
his own party, making his defeat
dOubly decisive. - $40 - ec~'a@s ~''-
What were those Exposures" Let
us have them. We. possess lively in
terest in Mr.. Tew..,~ He is the gentle
man who went down to ST. Louis, a
week before the Peoples Party con-
vention assembled, and telegraphed
all over the country that the ,Populists
were about to nominate Congressman
Towne, of Minnesota. (who was free
silver convert of few days standing),
for president of the United States, so
as to head off any possible tendency
there might be to Minnesota and our
humble self. We were not a candi-
date, but we saw through and appre-
ciated all such tricks. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that Mr. Towne never
authorized any such skeesicky bust.
ness.
And now we want toknoW what 9th.
er games the worthy Tew has been en-
gagged in; not that we have any malice
against Tew; but we feel like an en-
tomologist who has discovered new
species OF bug and is intensely inter-
ested in it's antics. Mature has made
strange fellows In her time" and it has
been our lot to encounter some of the
strangest Of them. We sometimes
think that the best way to retain our
friends is to jump on and kick them:
for almost as certain as we do a man
a kindness he knifes us within six
months. We supported Owen for three
campaigns and he did his best to hu-
initiate and destroy us; we secured
the place Of Secretary of the League
for Aver. and he went for us with a
club; we helped Stacy and Williams,
and Eckford, and dozen more, and
there were no depths of meanness
to which they would not descend to
iDjure US; and. we pulled and praised
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.

From our correspondence we infer
that there will be a general revival
this winter of the Farmers Alliances
all over the state. They are the
arents Of the great agitation which
came SO near being success full this year.
The long winter nights are coming,
and there is no better Instrumental
ity for the education OF the people
than the Farmers Alliances. Let us
hear from you, friends. From the
trickSters and knaveS we turn back to
the honest farmers.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18

and was detected, English society Is
agitRted to it's depths to save her.
Even the Rothschilds rushed forward
to go on her bond for $3.50, 900, and the
American Minister, Bayard, has been
dancing around like hen with its
head of; and the attaches of lega-
tions have been making the trans
Atlantic cable hot with their dis
patches, backward and forward. And
so the woman goes scott free amid the
neutrality-suspicious. of mankind.
We" have become such Mammon
worshippers that we are ready to
defy thief If she is only rich, while
honest poverty can starve amid uni
versal contempt.
The pretense that this woman did
not know what she was doing is nom
sense. 1t must have required a great
deal of skill and cunning and caution
to get this accumulated plumber out
Of the stores and to her own room.
But We don't wonder that Roths-
childs and his breed sympathize with
Mrs. Castle. She was simply posses
sed Of the same inordinate and ire
mendous greed for the property of
others, which has given the whole
Money-lending class their promin-
ence; and il she happened to step
across the line Of law, and so become
a vulgar criminal, the mantle Of
charity and pity must be thrown
over her.
We have no doubt that, if her hus-
band retains his wealth, she will re-
turn to the United Stated and to San
Francisco honored by her associates
and sypathized with because she was
n n
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
THE HARD TIMES.

One of the signs Of the distressing
condition of affairs is found in the
twelve hundred applicants for the
score or so of offices in connection with
the coming session OF the Legislature.
Even ourself, whois likely to have no
power in the selection of those officers,
is besieged by a big lot of candidates.
Poor fellowsl We wish we could give
them all good places with good salar-
les. But the majority have voted for
hard times and we can do nothing.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18

Martin e. Tew and he rushed to St.
Louis to head on the possibility Of our
receiving any empty compliments,
much less substantial honors.
But now they all repose peacefully,
side by side, in the political bone-yard.
and pretty collection they are, smil-
ing and looking innocent and sweet
and harmless. Their shrouds have
no pockets or the whole gang would be
In an uproar in ten minutes.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
COTTON BROKERS FAIL.
THE FIRM OF CLAPP & co. MAKES An
ASSIGNMENT.

THE FIRM OF CLAPP & co. MAKES AN
ASSIGNMENT. -~t
New York, Nov. 1.-Clapp & Co.,
doing a brokerage business in the
Mills building. have assigned to the
cashier Of the firm, w. T. Davis. The
firm has done large business in
stocks, bonds, grain, cotton and other
commodities, and has offices in many
Of the important cities Of the coun-
try. The failure is not regarded as
serious in Wall street.
OF course not. How could it be
when McKinley's election has restored
''confidence" and universal prosper
ity?
Evidently these fellows who are 60
ing into bankruptcy, or committing
suicide, do not read the Republican
daily papers.
There was man he had q cow
He had no hay to give her;
SO he put some ShavingS in her box,
And said:-"AOnsider, cow consider"
In other words he invoked ''confi-
dence" on the part Of the cow;-and
she would be very unreasonable COW
if she did not chew the shavings con-
tentedly. To do otherwise would be
proof Of "anarchistic" tendencies, and
she should be called "Altgeld" or
"DebS"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
MILLIONS FACE STARVATION

INDIA BREAD RIOTS REPORTED IN
SEVERAL DISTRICTS.
London, Nov. ia special dispatch
from Bombay says that in eleven dis
tricts Of Deccan and Concan, million
and quarter Of people are believed
to be on the verge of starvation. The
dispatch adds that riots have occurred
at Shahabad and KaZOd.
Don't throw away your wheat for a
song.
But is it not pity that the Mime
sofa farmer cannot get fair price for
his wheat unless millions are starving
elsewhere? ~
And is what We are getting now a
fair price? 8
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
BANKER KILLS HIMSELF.

Austin, Tex, Nov. 11.-Frank
Der of the banking firm of Raymond &
Co., committed suicide here today by
taking morphine.
Dependency over financial losses is
supposed to have led to the act. He
was we'll known In financial circles in
New York.
Poor fellow! Why did he not take
Twin-city daily, and so find out that
Mckinley was elected and that good
times had returned on all four feet?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18

there is no harm tn different organi-
cations, that think alike on some ques-
tions and do not. on others, co-operat-
ing at The ballot-box. But it seems
to us that the forcing of them into
one combination is dangerous. What
you gain on one side you are very apt
to lose on the other. -.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18

We must not forget that our old
friend, Bill Washburn. is another vic
tim of the recent cyclone. He set out
to bury Dave Clough and now Clough
sits on his grave stone grinning.
Bill is the last of the tribe of Wash
burns. 1.-THE last rose of summer left
blooming alone"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18

There must be no disintegration. of
the free coinage forces. The $500, 900
who have voted together this year,
can be easily augmented by , million
votes before the next contest, which
will be on Congress 'two'ye&rs hence
Penny Press.
Still harping on. my daughter!"
Has the Peoples Party Disappeared?
Is the state ownership of railroads
whistlcd down the sWlnd?, j. Are the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18

Here's consolation. No party, in the
last twenty years, has succeeded it.
self. It is tue Democratic turn in
1900. Penny Press. -
Hold on. brnalther! What is to be-
come Of the Peoties's Party? Was it
swallowed up by the Democracy when
they endorsed Owen for Congress?
The Democrats IL Minnesota are good
fellows-but the1 Pops have some
rights. We are not all dead yet.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
Il MISTAKE.

We did Mr. Owen an injustice when
we said that he ran 5000 votes behind
Hon. John Lind, in Hennepin county.
Our figures were wrong. He ran 60 0
votes behind him.
We do not want to rob any man of
his hOnOrS. s,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
CHEER Up.

It is but little time until 1898, and
then we will have another crack at
the gold-bugs. The post-election pros
perity, which we are now enjoying so
uproariously, will give us three-fourths
OF the lower House of Congress in just
two years!
"Up guards and at 'em,"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
SPECIAL NOTICE.

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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18

Employees Of the street railway in
Plymouth, England, work eight hours
day. The city owns the line and the
fare Is two cents.
Compare that with the fares on
street railways and the hours of work
in the Twin cities, and then thank
God that you live in free and progress
Sive America,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
FUSION.

Now let the Populist party get to-
gether and. stay together. No; more
fusions go.-Denver Road
We agree With our friend In his
general opposition to fusion. especial
II when 1t takes the shape Of merger
Af two, parties into one. Mssthink
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18

Please notice the Northwestern
Guitar and Mandolin Cos advertise
ment in this issue. Write to or call
on them mentioning The REPREsEN-
TATIVE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18

Our old friend, L. S. Orwell, of Vel
low Medicine county, has been elected
commissioner for the Third district.
A good and true man.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18

In writing to advertisers in this
paper our patrons will confer a favor
by saying that they saw the adveF.
tisement i'm the Representative.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18

bowels taken out of Populism. and the
cavity filed with soft soap?
For If Trevillian die.
Full forty thousand Cornishmen
will know the reason Why"
Don't be Ia too great a hurry to d.
vide the clothes Of the corpse. He
may need them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
AND WASHBURN TOO.

up guards and at EN-"
The record-union., 1896-04-21
ESTATES IN PROBATE.
Reports and Petitions Filed in the
Superior Court.

A. c. Sweetser, guardian of the estate
of S. A. Newkirk, an insane person, has
filed an account of his administration.
The sum of 81 ,015 was disbursed, as per
vouchers, and nothing now remains in
the guardians hands belonging to the
estate.
Harriet NJ. Figg, former administra-
trix Of the estate of Edward P. Figg, de-
ceased, has, by her attorney, A. M.
Johnson, filed her account up to the
time of her resignation on February
IL, 1896 She had received on ac-
count of the estate total of S22,00O Oh,
and disbursed $203 SO. leaving a
balance due the estate of LOGO 66.
This sum has been turned over to her
successor, Frank II. Mccormick.
d. E. Alexander and Isaac Joseph,
attorneys for Wesley j. Lovett, have
given notice to the executors of the es-
tate of William Joseph, deceased, that
an appeal has been taken to the Su
preme Court against the order dismiss
ing his petition for the revocation of
the probate of deceased's will.
Wilbur S. George, by his attorney, H.
M. LaRue, Jr., has petitioned the Su-
perior Court for the probate of the will
of Margaret S. Flynn, deceased, and for
letters of administration Hereunder.
The estate consists of 267 acres of
swamp land valued at $4,000, city prop
erty worth $1,000, and personal effects
worth 500; total, S9,10O
George w. Locke, S. Lavenson and
G. l.. Smith, appraisers of the estate of
George r. Locke, minor have filed
their inventory thereof, which places
the value of the estate at S366.
Fernando l.. Stewart of Jackson, Am
ador County, has, by her attorney, G.
HI. Oatman, petitioned the Superior
Court for letters of administration
on the estate of her mother Mary Jo-
sephine Loveridge, deceased. The
value of the estate is estimated at about
$500. Set for hearing May 1st
The record-union., 1896-04-21

The Santa Cruz Penny Press" saws
that there is not paper published in
San Francisco that does not print COL
umns OF hopeless rot" Passing the
CANT and odd, since we cannot con-
ceive OF hopeful rot" our contempo-
rary is very nearly right; only it should
have said most daily papers," rather
than all papers in the metropolis. We
understand the Press to refer to the
great amount Of trash and flash matter
put in clearly with no other purpose
than to fill up. The sole idea animating
our San Francisco contemporaries evi..
IDENTIFY is to print a great number of
pages, huge sheets, regardless of quail
ity, so long as quantity is secured. AS
the Press" well puts it, "the gauge of
merit is the tape measure" Journal
ism by the square foot is the most ap-
parent purpose in that quarter of the
State We are quite agreed with the
Press" that the public is heartily tired
of the twenty-five to forty-page news
paper. We believe that the hour of the
mammoth sheets is about to strike.
Assuredly the hours are not many be-
tween this hour and that when the pub
lie taste and the public disgust. the
good sense OF publishers and the econo-
The record-union., 1896-04-21
THE YOLO DOODLE.
John P. Harmens on Trial for Grand
Larceny.

All day yesterday was consumed In
Judge Hinkson's court in securing
jury to try Carl Harms Tor John +.
Harmens, as he calls HIMSELF on
charge Of grand larceny.
The defendant is the man who got
away with the greater portion of the
$4,000 that Browning and Brady stole
from Wells, Fargo Co. when they held
UP the Eastern express train at Sheep
Camp a year ago last October and
buried In the brush west Of Washing
tos.
The specific sum which he is ac-
cused of having retained, knowing it
to have been stolen money, is the S1O,-
600 that he brought into this city after
secreting the rest of the Doodle in
new spot, and the testimony offered
will be the same given on his examina-
ton in Judge Johnson's court not long
ago. There is no question, really, as to
the looting Of the train and the secret
ing of the money by the bandits, but
the defense deny the ability Of the pros
ecution to show that the money used by