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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-07-25
BRYAN NOMINATED.
III FIRST BALLOT DOES
TIE WOfK.
WATSON OF GEORGIA FOR
VICE PRESIDENT,
The Popuiist Convention Ad-
iourns Sine Die,

St. Louis, July %. :15.-The day
opens cloudy and cool which is taken
for a good omen by the delegates who
are arriving slowly. 1t is thought
that the business Of voting for Presi-
dent will be proceeded with at once.
1915 Judge VIM. L. Green Of Ne
braska places VIM. J. Bryan in nOmi-
nation for President. The nomina-
ton is greeted with widest eDthus-
iasm which could not be quelled for
half an hour General Weaver takes
the platform and seconds the nomin-
alton. Weaver makes a great and
eloquent speech, which is greeted
with wild applause
The delegates are all on their feet
and moving State banners to the Ne
braska delegation. GudiOns Of all
the states except Texas, Rhode Island
and North Dakoka go over t. Nebras-
ka delegation. The audience Missed
the three States. The picture OF Bry-
an is exhibited and the delegates are
carrying it about the hall.
A motion to make the nomination
unanimous was made. At this point
a telegram was received from Debbs
requesting that his name not be used
Roll call of States ordered to deter
mine exact vote. Carter Of California
seconds Bryan's nomination. EX-
Governor Hines Of Georgia follows
and seconds the nomination. Idaho
delegates second nomination. Tuber-
eek of Illinois second nomination on
behalf of the Illinois delegation. In
diana follows Iowa falls into line
and Jerry Simpson seconds the nOmi-
nation in a lively speech. Kentucky
follows.
- 20 MIS- Leese now has the plat.
form and is making a wonderful
speech. Her plea for unity is the
best yet made. She is appealing &c
the kickers from Texas. She says
that mothers lay away their pale face
dead and sit around ruined farms
and mortgaged homes while political
fanatics quarrel over party lines. She
would work for Bryan irrespective I
any convention. She was created
with great enthusiasm.
$40 Ignatius Donnelly. Populist
candidate for President, endorsing
Bryan for President.
100 Row between Nebraska and
Texas man is imminent and the police
crowding into the aisles to keep order
4:25 Livingston Of Missouri start
to nominate Donnelly for President
he then changed to Coxev, whereupol
the Missouri delegation rose and re
pudiated Coxeys nomination.
"Cyclone" Davis Of Texas PLACED
Norton of Illinois in nomination, bu
pledges Texas for Bryan on electio
day.
Bryan nominated on first ballot an
an official tally called for.
the result stands: Bryan 1,04
Norton 321.
At he announcement the delegate
rose to their feet a tremendous bur-
of appliance followed The banner
t all the States were carried over
the Nebraska delegation. Order wa
finally restored and the co nventio
adjourned sine die.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-07-25

The young ladies Of the Presbyterian
the new church before its completion
in aid Of the carpet fund. Remember
the date. Tuesday evening, Aug. 4th.
Bar silver, .68s.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-07-25
CLEVELAND NOT GROVER

But a Cleveland Hydraulic Ram Beer
pump. now in operation at the Wei
land Saloon. Call and see it.
w. Wnitrey. Prop.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-07-25

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was q Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she bad Children, she gave them Castoria.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
REMEMBER.

Push the circulation of THE REPRE-
SENTATIVE.
Next fall. during the month of
October especially, the Republicans
will cover every part OF the state with
stump speakers. who will food it ten
feet deep with les Think how they
made the people believe, in 1894, that
the election Of S. M. Owen, would ruin
the state, that he was as big an anar-
chist as Johann Most, that he would
burn the State Capitol and contiscate
all the money in the commonw wealth.
And they won. But If, next fall,
when they bring in their endless army
Of $10-a.day falsitiers. they meet peo-
pie who are all readers of THE REPRE-
SENTATIVE. and have been posted for
several months. they meet their cock
and-bull lies with dersive laughter:
and the end OF the robberies will be
reached.
Push The REPRESENTATIVE until
every house has copy.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
Il GREAT ERA.
WHERE WILL YOU STAND?


Just five years remain now Of the
nineteenth century. They are likely
to be crowded full Of dramatic events
that will live in history as long as the
story OF the human race continues to
be Old.-Cincinnatian, Cincinnati. O.
Well, friend, what are you going to
do during those live momentous year,?
Will your posterity be able to say, in
the great hereafter:-"Well, my dad
spurned the money OF the Plutocrac cts
and fought like fury for the People
Party?'
They have societies now that trace
back their ancestry to the revolution
airy war, and others to the colonial
wars, and others to the civil war; and
you may bet your head, "a good many
Of you haynt anything else left to
bet), that one hundred years from now
there will be societies made up of the
descendants Of those who had the
nerve, the sense and the patriotism to
stand up, in these days, for humanity
in the greatest crisis of the worlds
history.
Will your children's children be en-
rolled in such society? Or will your
degraded and enslaved posterity be
Offering your tombstone for sale, and
disposing Of your despised bones to be
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
IMPORTANT.

VI course we have no right to in ter.
fere with our Free Silver friends who
are not Populists, or dictate to them;
put we hope that steps will be taken.
before the call is issued for state
free-silver convention, to send dele
gates to st. Louis, to have it signed
by former Democrats as we'll as by
former Republicans, so as to divest it
Of all partisan bias. We should like
to see it movement of the achole pee-
Ipk.
The Populists will hold back their
state and congressional and county
conventions so as to meet their
friends half way.
We are going to carry THIS state neat fall,
and every congressional district, and nearly
oL the counties.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
And we will carry them OVER
wHELM1NGLY. Plutocracy is "fore-
doomed of God, of man accurst."
The Great Father In Heaven does not
intend that this noble nation,-his
especial child,-shall sink into
| slough of rottenness and wretched
| ness.
Get ready for the band wagon,
brethren; and move lively. There are
two band-wagons, but they will be
hitched together so as to constitute
but one vehicle; and overheard will
| float cold Glory" because We will so
act as to leave every star brighter and
every stripes radiant with hope for
the poor and oppressed of the whole
| world.
Let the money-changers crawl be-
hind their counters; and the people
the plain people as Mr.. Lincoln called
them,--will take possession of the
government.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
ANOTHER TRICK.
AN ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS INTELLI-
GENCE

AN ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS INTELLI-
GENCE.
We noted some time since q bare
faced attempt to amend the postal
laws, so as to prevent the circulation
Of Populist books, pamphlets, etc.. as
second class" matter. at one cent for
each four ounces. Plutocracy finds
that the possession OF the daily papers
is not enough, if the reformers can
cover the land with their literature.
Thought must be muzzled and the
light extinguished. The vast sale Of
Conspiracies, !" ''Ten Men of Money Is
land" ETC., shows the danger to the
conspirators against public liberty.
But they found that a distinct
avowal Of their purposes did not NEE t
with public approval, and so they arc
now attempting to sugar-coat the pill
by linking their scheme to PROPOSE
tion to reduce letter postage to one
cent half ounce, instead Of two
cents; and lot OF prominent mer-
chants are backing it up, because they
think they would save thousands Of
dollars annually on letter postage.
The scamps are at work on the Cham
bers of Commerce of our large cities:
and these will probably support it: as
they would support a resolution to
abolish the Declaration of Indepen.
dence and wipe out all free-speech
and free-thought; or to hang the Popu-
lists and make Rothschild king of the
United States.
We want our friends everywhere to
write their Members and Senators in
Congress and enclose this article and
ask them to stand BY the people.
The common man, farmer or
mechanic, writes but few letters In a
year, and saving of a cent letter
would amount to nothing to him; but
it concerns him greatly that the dis.
Semination of thought, under exist
ing laws, should not be stifled.
II the nation were rich and prosper
Gus. instead Of being poor and almost
bankrupt, we should advocate that all
postage on newspapers. books and
pamphlets should be reduced to half
the present rates, or abolished alto
gether. The people can we'll afford. in
good times, to pay for that which will
increase public enlightenment. Moth
ing is so expensive as ignorance.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04

Great agitation now in favor OF good
roads. Secret influence at the bot
tom Of 1.-THE firms engaged in maxi
ing bicycles. Good roads are good
thing, if they are not obtained by is
suing bonds or levying higher taxes on
the famers. With crops at present
prices it would be a cruelty to in.
crease the peoples burdens. One
good farmer, raising food supplies. is
worth more to the state than 30 chaps
whizzing through the country like
the devil on a streak of creased
lightning.
The cities propose to instruct and
pledge their candidates for the next
Legislature to pass laws to help the
sale of bicycles. Let the country
population look out! We all want
good roads-but these are hard times.
Why not let the cities build the good
roads, for the entertainment of their
people, until silver Is remonetized?
Then the farmers will take hold.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
A GOOD STORY.

The Money-power will do its best to
break US up at st, Louis. Concert of
action means victory;-division means
defeat. Millions will be spent to tear
us to pieces.
BE very particular in your selection
Of delegates. Pick out sensible men.
Don't send cranks. At the Cincinnati
Conference, in 1891, one poor fellow
went wild raving crazy.
We may expect that extremists of
every shade will force themselves to
the front, on the 22d of July, and bring
discredit on the party.
Col. Plummer, of Fargo, now Re-
publican, twenty years ago was
Green hacker. He tells of conven-
tion, of some kind, that was held in
Washington, at that time, Of which
he was chairman. 1t was, he says,
'Bedlam let loose" A dozen were
yelling at him at the same time. One
old maid, follower of Victoria Wood
hull, mounted bench, and waving
her bonnet, and in an X sharp voice,
pitched to it's highest key, she scream
ed at him:
"Do you mean to tell me, Mr.. Chair
man. that shall have nothing to say
as to who shall be the father of my
child?"
Poor Plummer was in despair.
Madam, "said he, II don't care who
Is to be the father of your child, pro.
vided you do not insist that it shall
be L."
This country cannot be governed by
other than sensible, reasonable men.
The Peoples Party is advocat ting
nothing that George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lin
coin would not have approved of.
There are enough great reforms pres
sing on the attention of the whole
world, without going into the corners
to pick up side-issues out of the waste
baskets Of time,
Keep your heads cool. Re true to
principles; but determined that all
men who hate Plutocracy shall vote
together at the ballot box; and that
the monstrous despoilers and blood
suckers of humanity shall be dragged
away from their bleeding prey.
What is the use Of picking flaws in
each other while the common enemy
is picking your pockets?
United we win-divided we fail.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
A BLUND Err.

We quoted an extract from a speech
of Eugene V. Debs, where he referred
to ''section hands," on railroads. re-
ceiving 624 cents a day. The intelli-
gent compositor turned the upside
down and made it 81 cents. We
marked the proof so as to re-
verse the 8 back to 6. But the
intelligent compositor insiste On let
ting the 6 stand on its head. And
some Of our readers must have said,
"well.-92 cts. a day are not so bad for
these wretched times"
We sincerely hope that if Perrine's
comet does run into the earth it
will hit q few hundred compositors a
chug that will knock them, in sitting
position, over onto the planet Mars.
We wouldn't want to hurt them
much, but simply knock their intel
lectual apparatus into their heads,
where it ought to belong.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04

4 4
John Sherman and Guy AMI .lalt
and Tams Bixoy aad b We Clou III and
Bill Washburn and Menage and the
fellows who u-c.l tue State LiDr Try as
II place Of designation, and the bar.
tender Attorney General OF Montana:
and the State Treasurer or South Da-
kota who vamnsed with $3.50, 700 of the
peoples m ncy: and the innumerable
array OF old-party officials who are
now doing time in the state prisons
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He
relegates his capacity Of thinking to
this delectable Assem- blage.
"Eefore l will be fooled SO again.
says Falls tan, II will take out nv
brains and butter them and give them
TO dog fer his breakfast"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
TO THREE MONTHS SUB
SCRIBERS.

A good many of our first clubs Of
trial subscriptions for three months,
expire next week. We hope the par
ties will all renew at our current,
regular rates. This will be the great
est year in American history. for it
will largey determine the future
status Of all the hundreds Of millions
that will hereafter dwell on the soil
of the United States. You want TO
hear our side OF the controversy, even
If you do not fully agree with us.
We hope those who were kind
enough to get up these clubs will see
the parties and get them to renew il
possible; and if not advise us who to
strike of.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
10000 SUBSCRIBERS.

It will be seen by an affidavit, given
above, that we have now reached
10000 BONA-FIDE,. SWORN CIRCU La
TON! Our new subscribers for the
month of February. exceeded, as we
prophecied, 1900. At this rate of
growth we will probably have $4,000
by the 1st Of April, and $4,000 before
the national convention is held on
July g. 1896.
Such q growth as we have already
attained would net have been possible
IL the public mind was not favora bly,
inclined toward Peoples Party prin.
eiples. 1t augurs we'll for victory in
November. ~.
We have heretofore made distinc-
ton between single subscribers and
clubs. making the former Is cents for
three months, but in quantities as low
as cents. We now propose, that for
the next 80 days. in lieu of all other
offers, we will furnish the paper to all
newcomers At 10 cents each, for three
months, with the implied obligation
that il they like it, ut the end OF that
time, they will subscribe for 1t at our
regular rates. This offer is made to
introduce The REPRESENTATIVE in
TO new localities. and among families
who lave never before had an oppor-
tunity to read it.
We would ask those friends who got
us up clubs at 10 cents each, to see
the parties and have them renew
their subscriptions at regular rates.
We are making a strong fight for
the people and deserve the support of
all honest men. .......
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
A HINT TO THE WISE.

We have received tho following
postal card from the postmaster OF
Viola in Olmsted county, MINI.
Dear Sir's
You are sending about 80 or 60
copies of you paper to this office if
they are not paid for Please Dis con-
tinue sending them as they are not
taken out Of the Office. Yours truly,
Viola, MIMI, Feb. %. PM.
Every paper sent to the Viola post
office is paid for; and il tho parties
themselves notify US, specifically,
through the postmaster, that they do
not want the paper we will discon-
tinue the same. But il the p0stmas-
ter disapproves Of the doctrines
taught in this paper, and withholds
them, he should RENE m Der that there
are number Of postmasters now in
the state-prisons Of the country for
violations Of the postal laws. The SER
wants OF the people must not set up
to be their masters.
We want to hear from our friends
at Viola. Has this gentleman been
refusing to deliver papers addressed
to subscribers? / he has we will
make it warm for him. Have these
so or 60 subscribers 'refused" the pa
pers; or has the postmaster simply
concluded that the diet therein con-
tanned would not be healthy for them?
Give US the facts.
Its singular that the men who are so
solicitous that THElREPREsENTATI
shall not have the use Of the mails,
after paying good money for the same,
are such poor spoilers. Do ignorance
and party loyalty trot in double-har-
ness, like a pair OF long cared jack
asses?
Don't try to stop the light-you may
get your fingers burned. If we make
any arguments that are not true our
columns are open to you to show US
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
keep alive the bowling dervishes OF
the weekly press. The goldsmiths of
Ephesus assailed Paul because the


the weekly press. The goldsmiths of
Ephesus assailed Paul because the
Introduction OF the new (Christian)
religion would interfere with 1.-THE
craft whereby we live," the making
of golden images OF that humbug god
dess, Diana. And SO the weekly old
party press defends the existing con-
ditions because the day Of the peoples
calamity is the opportunity for their
prosperity. Good times means no
more mortgage foreclosures.
Think how many broken hearts,
scattered families, ruined homes, and
children sent down into the everlast-
ing pit Of death and shame, are repre-.
scnted by that 33,54S foreclosures OF
farms that were not redeemed!
Think how many poor workingmen
were rendered homeless, they and
their families.
To thole the winters sleety dribble.
And cranreuch cold"
by the sale Of those 57,117 town lots
that were sold under mortgages and
not redeemed
And think of the cunning of the
master-knayes, who, for twenty-five
years, have kept the Legislature from
requiring the Commissioners of
Statistics, while collecting the data
as to grapes, apples, potatoes and hop
vines, to gather and present single
fact as to the condition Of the people
who paid the taxes that kept the
whole machine running!
And then ask yourself if it is pos
sible that all this could 60 on without
the political leaders, of both the old
parties. being aware of this transfer
nation of state, and being pa,ticeps
crininis, in the whole dreadful work.
Here is new state, with the most
fertile soil in the world, and the most
invigorating climate; aud nearly the
whole land given away, as free gift.
to those who would come and live on
it; and so occupied by the most ener-
getic and Industrious people on earth;
and in half the life. time of man, ac-
cOrding to the Bible, ("three score
and ten years''), the mortgages on the
lands of the state amount, according
to the United States census of 1890, to
nearly t,uo hundred million dollars!v And
33.54S farms, out Of fetal of about
100000 farmers, are grabbed away
from the owners and handed over to
idle money-lenders.
1t is enough to sound a trumpet
blast to waken the dead
But that is not the worst Of it. The
deadly york is still going on and is to 90 on
indefinitely!
Think Of that! The old parties do not
propose single remedy! Not one! Nay;
they are conspiring to utterly destroy
silver and burn up the greenbacks,
and give the banks complete control
Of the whole country. And they are
to do this BY THE VOTES OF THE
PLUNDERED PEOPLE THEMSELVES.
Great heavens! 1t is Incompetent
sible. We believe it to be impossible.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
WOW! OUCH! WIFE W!

The total number Of business fail
urcs reported throughout the United
States this week is ISL, an exception
ally large number, the gain as COM
pared with last week being 49, Most
Of the increase is explained by returns
from the Central Western sta tes and
Pacific Coast, There are IS more
business failures this week than In
the second week of February 1896; SO
more than the cores bonding week Of
"a, and 176 more than in the second
week Of February, 1893, while as COM
pared with the second week Of Febru-
airy, 1892, this weeks increase is l21.
And still the good times are just
ahead-right around the corner;-and
there will be general revival if-if-
if-etc-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
MORTALS AND MUSKRATS.

Our correspondents should write
plainly. Use typewriter where it
is possible. One Of our friends wrote
a letter for the Forum in which he
spoke Of ''mOrtals." A council of
printers was held over it and the con-
clusion was that the word was ''neusk-
rats''and "nuskrats' they made it. 1t
had no connection with the rest of
the sentence but that was not neces-
sarY. The "muskrats" had simply
broken loose and crawled in where
they did not belong.
Some one said:--''the man who
thinks clearly writes clearly" Re.
member that, friends.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
NEW SUBSCRIBERS TAKE NOTICE.

This paper will be received by many
who did not themselves subscribe for 1t.
and they may fear bill will be sent.
Look at the number on the label. If
there is none then 1t is merely a sample
copy. If the number on the label is IL
more than the current issue of the paper.
then some person has paid for the paper
advance, and the party receiving 1t will
be charged nothing for that time. If at
the end Of three months they do not want
the paper, send us notice and 1t will be
stopped at once. If we do not receive
such notice we will conclude you want to
subscribe, and will continue to send the
paper until we hear from you.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
REMOVED.

Our gallant friend, the heroic Col. S.
F. Norton, who has been in the Re-
form work since 1878, has removed his
paper, The Monthly Sentinel, from
Chicago to Joliet, ILL.,. and will be
hereafter associated with James H.
Ferris. of the Joliet Daily News. This
makes very strong team. The new
paper will have 10000 circulation to
start with. May it prosper and grow
till it covers the United States.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
GOV. DEBS.

Special to the Dispa tch.
La Porte, Ind, Feb. 19.-Informa-
tion which is considered authentic
has been received here that Eugene
V. Debs, the labor chieftain, will ac-
cept the POpulist nomination for gov
ernor Of Indiana.
We are glad to hear Of it. Eugene
V. Debs is one Of natures noblemen:
"a kind-heated. gentle, generous
spirit. II the Peoples Party of In
diana nominate him for governor we
believe they win carry the state. The
experiment is worth trying.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04

ground up into manure for some
Plutocrat's cabbage bed?
Where stand you, bruther.- the
heroes or the TRUCKERS TO money? Be
q man! Think OF those ragged old fel.
lows who tracked the snow Of Valley
Forge with their bleeding feet! Do
you think they could be transformed
into tools Of Plutocracy? No; they
would first go out and hang themselves
OR rather the Plutocrats.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
HOW WE PROSPER.

1.-THE good times" caused by the
single gold standard, have at last
reached the great Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, the line which connects
Chicago with Washington, D. c., via
Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Vir-
ginia; and it is bankrupt and in the
hands of receivers.
The whole country is going to "the
demnitOn bow-wOws."