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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

Northern, which gridirons that part of the
state, among the farmers, and you may put
it down that John Lind will come out Of ,..e
majority, and Lommen not very far be-
hind.
1t would be refreshing innovation if the
Republicans could find a speaker to send
into Minnesota who had not previous to
the st. Louis convention declared for re-
monetfzation. There is Ben Butterworth,
a good fellow by. the way who is giving
them a lift in Ohio. Six months ago he
wrote letter, from which take the fol-
lowing extract:
us it not folly to suppose that the capt.
talists Of England-and they are the capt.
talists of the world-will be easily persuade
ed or agree to consent to bimetallism?
Why should they? How is 1t to their inter-
ests to do so? While we consent to make
it to their advantage to refuse, they have
doubled the value of their credits by de-
monetizing silver"
Now comes Tom Reed. of Maine to help
save state claimed for Mckinley by fifty
thousand. Yet this plan of claiming ev-
erything is nothing new. 1t was done
four years ago by the Republicans, when
Cleveland went in so easily.
The enthusiasm which has developed
since Mr.. Bryans trip through Minnesota
is carrying CONSERVATION in the ranks OF
the gold standardites. At this writing it
look though the union ticket would win
out in the North Star State.
H. l.. Chaffee.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
IT is IN THE AIR.

Bryan will he elected. It is in the
air. Those who circulate among the
people, who meet them on the street,
in the workshops. at their homes, feel
it. The consciousness of coming vic
tory has developed since Oct. Land al.
ready, standing on Nebo's Mountain,
the people look across into the prom
ised land.
Unlike the Moses of old, their
Moses will lead them over Jordan and
begin his great work as q law-giver at
the end of toilsome journey, beset
by many difficulties.
But one danger has menaced the is
sue from the start. Hanna expected
to buy McKinley's election as he
bought his nomination. This danger
the American people met and nobly
overcome.
AS has been we'll said by contem-
porary of The Dispatch, the man who
would sell his vote In contest like
this would sell his soul. More than
this, he would barter the liberty, aye,
the virtue Of his wife and children.
1t is struggle for national life. He
who, protesting Democratic principles,
falters is a craven; he who fails, a das-
tarc and traitor. One more supreme
effort and victory is won. plutocracy
overthrown, boodling made odious and
honesty cnthroned.--Chi Dis
Datch
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

SPAIN ana Prussia nave their savings
banks but the figures of the number of de-
positors and amount of deposits are not
given.
Now it must be borne in mind that all
these savings banks are backed by the diff
ferent governments, and there can be no
loss to the depositors. Then there is an
other very desirable feature, the depositor
can transfer his deposits, or any part
thereof to any other postofice in the king
dom without any fee or charge. Now con-
trast that system with the private savings
banks in the United States. January ],
1895, there were reported 1,O17 banks run
ming, with 4,s76010 depositors, and 1,S10397,.
023 deposits for that year. The question
arises, what security have these depositors
and how many millions of dollars have
been lost to the depositors by the closing up
Of these irresponsible institutions; were
the depositors secured as they are in those
postal savings banks the amount of depos-
it's would be doubled. AS millions are hid
away in secret places for the lack of con-
fidence in banks. 1t is surprising the
lack of general information of this subject
of postal savings banks. l have written a
good deal on this subject; the papers gen.
orally decline to publish, as 1 suppose they
are shy of provoking the hostility of the
banks, but surely the reform papers ought
to invite the attention of their readers to
this subject The banking system pursued
in this republic has been one Of uncertainty
and partially, and the most far reaching
means of oppression that any civilized
people have known and submitted to. The
Bankers Circular ought to be fixed on
every school house and church in the land.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
ADMIRAL McCLEARY STILL LYING.
He Gets on tie Same r.lsinc.tion Everywhere

He Gets on tie Same Falsincation Everywhere.
Editor Representative:
Congressman McCleary spoke here last
evening to a large audience of gold and sill
yer men, In the course of his remarks he
said: There is a certain gentleman in
this state who has a very rotund figure,
and smiling face. This gentleman is a
very eloquent speaker, and edits a paper
which has a large circulation. OF course
none of you know who he is. Naughter.)
This gentleman said in a speech some time
ago: Silver was used even in the time Of
Christ If this had been all he said it
would have been true but he could not help
saying, even at the ratio of 16 to L. I"
daugnter.)
Thinking perhaps he misquoted you, or
lied. or that this is really true. concluded
to write to you and ask you about it,
Mr. McCleary's entire argument was an
immense congregation of historical pre-
varications. He forgot that the Repub-
lican party was declared for free silver
under any circumstances, and If his con-
clusions were true his party is trying to
lead the United States to the bottomless
perdition by giving us international free
silver. He said we had tried free coinage
OF silver, and proved it failure That
silver. was not demonetized in 1873. and that
our leaders were demagogues. Hoping to
receive reply soon, 1 remain, very respect
fully yours, H. K Young
Appleton, MINI. Oct g.
eve are obliged to our correspondent
He will see in last weeks issue how we
refuted this egregious falsehood of Con-
gresham McCleary. The fact is that II
you took all the lies out of Mr. McCleary
there would be nothing left of him but
suit of clothes, sanctifed snif1e and a
lot of railroad passes.-Ed. Rep.)
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
CHANGED FRONT.
Sage Donnelly Now Eulogizes Can.
didate Bryan,

Sage Donnelly Now Eulogizes Can.
didate Bryan.
penny Press, Minneapolis, Mimi, Oct 49,
When 1gnatius Donnelly attended the
national Populist convention in ST. Louis.
he was at first opposed to the nomina ton
of William Jennings Bryan. The sage has
since changed his mind, and now verify
believes that THE Almighty God has
raised him :. up for this emergency" Mr.
Donnelly. in paying his glowing tribute to
the Peoples candidate, has this to say:
Mr.. Bryan Is an honest, enthusiastic
man. think the keynote to his character
Is found In that incident in the life of his
rather. The father of the young candidate
was once judge of an Illinois court. He
was afflicted with some physical trouble
He had a great and profound reverence for
the Deity, and a great and lasting conf
dence In the efficacy of prayer. 1t is re-
lated of Judge Bryan that he used to ad-
journ court prOmtly at noon, that he might
kneel down and offer up a prayer in which
he asked Almighty God to relieve him of
his bodily troubles He would adjorun court
and Immediately kneel right at his bench
and pray
THE young nominee Is an enthusiast and
philanthropist. I cannot but feel that If
electeQ ana not 1nterfered with by others
he will give the country a magnificent adj
ministration. l think he is man of really
very great power. He is natural States
man. That is, his mind dwells upon mat
tiers Of statecraft and government in pref
erence to other things and probably has
from his earlier days. Some are said to
be born poets, others are thought to be
born lawyers. This man Is a born states
man. He is product Of new, fresh,
breezy West-the outcome of an honest and
enthusiastic people. He is Lincoln born
when the raispitting era has passed.
European conditions could not have posi-
bly, produced such man. When you come
to measure him up against the great men Of
our past I think in many respects he is Of
as great altitude any of them. I have
had the pleasure of long personal CONVEX
sations with Mr.. Bryan and have looked
into the CLEAN of his eye when he talked
and believes he is an enthusiast who loves
justice and mankind, and I prophesy that
If ne is elected he will give the country the
greatest and purest era of reform it has
ever known. He is man Of great courage
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21


The act of the money lenders and bankers
procuring a Jewish rabbi to open the st.
Louis Republican) convention with prayer
Is an apt type Of how deep the piety and
respect Of the members for Christian
churches for their Saviour.
Now the indifference Of security to the
depositors Of the banks is in strange con-
trast with the known character of caution
and safety characteristic of the Yankees.
And the increase of silver in the trade dol
lar was a shrewd bid for the gullability of
the average voter. When the atrocious
crime of 1873 became espoused, the indigna-
ton of the citizens was deep and wide
spread. What nine-tenths of honest vot-
ers want and should demand Is restoration
of our financial system previous to that ne
farious act; that and government issue
Of paper money will fill the bill, is the firm
conviction of a greenbacker.
s.. Sinnett
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

vancement toward civilization to this PEG
pie. mat are not capable of any improve
ment. and have made none in over 400
years that we know of? Now II 1t has come
to this pass that the gold standard party
have to resort to such foul and rotten stuff
as this to support their cause, 1t is high
time that decent people would get out and
let the men or party die in the stencil of
their own foul fetor, and perish in their
own corruption. This man claimed that
with this foul stuff he was going to skin J.
NJ. Hawthorne alive, in ST. Paul. and hang
his hide on the fence to dry.
feel more sorry for the man who ut
tered this vile threat than I do for Haw-
thorne. for a crowd Of sensible people can
see at glance that a man that will use
such foul trash to deceive honest and in
telligent people had better go back to Mexi-
co. and hunt up this vile people and live
with them If they will consider him good
enough. He must be a good author II he
deals in such vile scum of the low things
of this world. his works in the form of
books would be fit for the low people of
Mexico. and he might possibly pass in their
society. Yours respectfully,
F. M. Prettyman.
Staples. Mimi, Oct. Is. 1895.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

and persistence, and if the leaders of his
party attempt to go back to the old swill
buckets Of ,rickery, there will be a tremen-
dous fight that will arrange politics on new
lines.
hope with all my heart and soul he will
be elected. I think that nothing but good
can come from it. 1 would like to see a
man in the White House bold and deter
mined enough to stand before all the evil
influences which now aff1ict the people. 1
have no unkind feelings toward Maj. Nc
Kinley, but 1t seems to me that everything
should be pushed aside to give this brilliant
apostle OF reform an opportunity to show
what he can do for US.
I think the Almighty raised this man for
this emergency
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
THE OUTLOOK.
VIM. ]. Brya|n's Election Certain

WIN. J. Bryan's Election Certain.
Special to the Representative.
Washington. D. c.. Oct. 19.-During the
last week a joint electoral ticket has been
arranged in West Virginia, by which the
Populists get the two electors-at-large and
the Democrats the four district electors
Thls arrangement makes West Virginia
certain, while before the Mckinley people
were claiming the state. So far, joint cleo
toral tickets have been made in % states,
IN nearly every one of which the Peoples
party has secured larger proportion of the
electoral vote than the strength Of the re-
spective parties would seem to justify.
The Republicans are greatly chagrined
over the arrangements recently made in In
diana and West Virginia. Through their
emissaries they did everything in their
power to prevent joint electoral tickets
from being made in these two states; and
now have these same emissaries at work
In these two states, as we'll as in nearly ev-
cry other state, trying to breed dissentions
and get as many Democrats and Populists
as possible to rebel against these joint cleo
toral tickets, under one pretext or another
In fact. joint electoral tickets have been
arranged in a sufficient number of states
to make the defeat of Mckinley and the
oOAN SeouudiO CtTtdln. marx hanna re-
alizes that his only hope now is to try to
prevent the people from supporting these
joint electoral tickets. The patriotism Of
the voters can be depended upon, however,
to defeat this last hope and scheme to fas-
ten the gold standard upon the nation.
HOW THE SITUATION STANDS.
The outlook has greatly improved during
the last ten days. The reaction has set in
all over the country against the Republican
Doodle campaign. The masses of the voters
have begun to realize that the monopolists
and trusts are putting up millions of dol
lars to try to buy the election in order that
these trusts and monopolists can fatten up
on the masses of the people for another
four years. Information received at head
quarters of the Peoples party and of the
Democratic party, so far, indicate that the
following states are almost absolutely safe
with the prospects Frightening each day:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
MORE HISTORY.
The Minnesota Delegation at St. Louis, tn
Initiative and Referendum and S. M. Owen.

The Minnesota Delegation at st. Louis, the
Initiative and Referendum and S. M. Owen.
Editor Representative:
What is the matter with s. NJ Owen? Is
he stin in the campaign? 1 haven't heard
of him for week. l read The Represent
ative through and failed to see his name.
And thinking possibly he had taken a
tumble and withdrawn from the race in
favor of J. Herbert Shaw, the Socialistic
candidate for congress, in the Fifth district,
thereby making amends to the people for
his actions in the ST. Louis convention.
When you wrote him up and exposed his
villainous schemes to overthrow the wishes
of his constituents by defeating the initia-
tive and referendum in the national plat
form. Why was it you didn't give wit
nesses right at home and put all his crook
ed push on record. I will just mention a
few facts and give some names that can be
referred to to prove these facts. When
this initiative and referendum plank was
presented for the consideration of the Min
nesota delegation by S. M. Owen he asked
them to instruct him to not favor it in
the platform, which brought a hot discus
sion, and he at once saw his mistake, and
tried to modify it by telling the members of
the delegation that he thought it best to
have it placed in resolution, advising
its adoption locally, but he yielded to the
strong opposition of the majority very re-
luctantly, as could be seen by his counten-
ance, and it was considerable nerve for
him to go into the committee and try to
defeat it there( as Mr.. Schilling and others
said he did When he presented this matter
to the Minnesota delegation Maj. Bowler
was in the chair Mr.. Lynch, of Minneapo-
lis; l.. NJ Ayers, Mr.. Dobbin, P. ]. Sober
ger, H. J. o. Reed. A. l.. Gardner, all Of
Minneapolis; Francis H. Clarke nominee
for congress, of St. Paul, myself and many
others Of the delegation. But give the
names of these because they are mostly
all in the district, and can be consulted by
the voters. 1 suppose Ayers and Dobbin
would refuse to testify, as they belong to
his push. l was always an Owen supporter
until he proved to my full satisfaction, at
St. Louis. that he was for Owen and no
one else, and was willing to sacrifice the
principles of the party and yourself after
a.. you had done for him. And think that
ii we want reform and find such as him in
our ranks RUNNING political machinery to
get into office, and sacrificing the main is
sue of the party we had better suffer defeat
than have reform cussed on account of his
selfishness.
If we ever succeed in obtaining reform we
will have to break up these machines, and
the sooner we get at 1t the sooner we will
get on our feet again. Yours truly,
Il. D. Foster.
st. Cloud. MINI.
I'VE do not desire to keep up the Owen
controversy, but we cannot deny a promi-
nent worker for the Peoples Party a hear
ing.-Ed. Rep.)
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
A DIFFERENCE IN PREACHERS

The participants being in the full en-
joyment Of good clothes, zinc-lined
skulls, and luxurious expectations, the
brutality and hoodlumism Of the Yale
insulters of Mr.. Bryan may be dis
missed with the contempt due most
insect annoyances, but the pitiless
hostility of many members of the
clergy for the cause Of the poor and
debt oppressed in the present political
struggle Is inexprcssibly she cking.
The spectacle Of anointed representa-
tives of the Master Of Mercy In one
breath extolling Morgan Hannaism
and the rich mans scheme OF monopo-
ly and usury, and in the next abusing
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
THE SENSATION OF THE HOUR.
A Glorious Victory by Mrs. Marion Tod,

n uAoFiouS SicVoFy ny MRS. MARION looo.
Mrs. Todd came to Bellaire and set the
woods afire.. In debate with two Michigan
lawyers, she turned the tables on
them, and blighted their expectations.
although it was a case Of two to one. She
planted her silver banner and converted
men by the dozen. The gold bugs became
alarmed ana the next night they determine
ed to dethrone her by pitting two OF their
best lawyers against her in debate. The
gold bug banker and Republicans bore all
of the expense, so certain were they that
Mrs. Todd would be defeated, but alas,
she utterly destroyed them. She carried
everything before her. Her logic, eo-
quence, magnetism, wit and wisdom were
a marvel. Our people are greatly tickled.
Give it to the world. H. p. Petit.
Bellare Mich,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21


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San f. Chronicle An epitome of information.
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A REVIEW OF THE STATE.

Jerry j., who contributes a letter to the
Journal under the heading North Star
Politics" is always interesting, and al
though he writes from the standpoint of Il
hopeful Republican, he has more regard for
facts than the average correspondent. For
instance, in his last letter he admits that
the fusion ticket is gaining ground in the
southern part of the state, but also claims
that they have lost ground in the northern
part. The writer is more familiar with the
situation in the Sixth and Seventh con-
gressional districts than in any of the 9TH
ers, and 1 know whereof 1 speak when
say that the silver sentiment is gaining
ground in both of these districts. This
claim not only holds good in the country
districts, but in the larger towns as well.
For instance, in the Sixth district at Du-
luth, have been told by Morris men that
Towne is holding his forces pretty we'll in
the Zenith City, but that he is losing
ground in st. Cloud, Little Falls and
Brainerd. At those places Morris men
tell me that perhaps Towne has gained a
little in their counties, but that Duluth
will fix 'em plenty" L base my OPTION Of
TONNES election largely upon the admis-
sions Of his enemies. Then, too, he is
making the strongest canvas and drawing
the largest crowds, and in my judgment
Mr.. Morris is devotiing too much of his
time in personal attack upon his antago-
mist, and not enough to the real issues If
I have any Republican friends who are
disposed to bank upon the election Of Page
Norris to the extent Of putting up any
money, my candid advice is for them to
invest it in hard coal. In the Seventh it is
only a question as to whether Lommen's
majority will be five thousand or seven
thousand. Every issue of bonds added
several thousand to the Peoples Party in
tie Seventh; then too, there is a large
sprinkling of silver Republicans in that dis
trict; then add to this the unpopularity of
Jim Hills and Russell Sages agent, who
heads the Republican ticket for governor.
Then take the feeling toward the Great