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

by 10000 majority, and eight Demo-
Populist congressman were elected.
| Louisiana, Georgia, and the two Car
ol1nas are the only states not having the
Australian ballot law.
w. B. Hobbs, of Upton county, Indi-
ana, is the first county chairman to issue
| call to reOrganiZe for the campaign
of 49,
| Georgia has elected two Populist con-
gressmen-one being T. w. West, the
law partner of Tom Watson.
Full returns give the fusion ticket in
Kansas $4,000 majority
The farmers of Saxony have adopted
a mutual banking system which enables
them to obtain money during harvest
season at a low rate of interest. 1t has
/ proven success.
The Herald, at Liberty, Mo-, has re-
sumed publication, with Bevan and
Phelps as publishers, and H. L. Bevan
editor.
The Waite middle-of-the-road ticket
ranked fourth in the Colorado election
Brick" PomerOy's great project
the tunneling of the Rocky Mountains
has revived since his death, and the
company is being reorganized. Work
will resume at once. Thus do things
which seem impracticable, become, in
time, necessary to the public good.
| Iowa has elected % Populist represent
atives.
1t has been proven that Gen. Palmer
cast his vote for Mckinley; not single
vote for the Palmer-Buckner ticket was
cast in his precinct
An injunction, returnable in three
days, issued hve months ago by Judge
| Phillips, on demand of Armour Bros,
against the Midland Mechanic" of
Kansas City, is yet in force; the editors
counsel having been unable to get a
| hearing. Thus do injunction aid CD
| the laborer. -.
Hon. Joseph c. siAssy has been de-
feated for congress byaa3OO votes.
Senator Pettigrew 's.Nictory in South
| Dakota is complete vindication of his
past conduct.
Some enthusiastic admirers of Mai.
Mckinley have sent him 100 pound
sack of beet sugar, inscribed: '"The Nc
Kinley tariff fostered this industry
and in SO doing they have furnished a
very striking example of ignorance and
misplaced confidence. The truth is
that the Mckinley bill repealed the tax
on beet sugar and substituted direct
bounty. Thus failing to protect and
offering sort of favoritism that is un-
wise and unjust.
That municipal ownership of lighting
and water plants is rapidly coming to
the front all over the country Is evident
to the most casual observer. Where
once such a state of affairs is established
we hear no more of the exohbitant rates
and bad service. The mayor of Des
Moines, Iowa, recently recommended
that the city should take steps to own
it's lighting plant. Every step in this
direction leads to the ownership by the
federal government of national mOnOpo-
lies s,..,s
Appropo of the recent Non Confo, mist,
it seems that the Hanna element offered
Mrs. c. Vincent, who held the paper
after the ousting of c.. x. Matthews,
handsome bonus if she would permit
them to publish the paper, using N. A.
Dunning as editor, until after the elec-
ton, when it was to be returned to her.
Prof. Vincent was absent making cam
paign speeches, but his brave wife refus-
ed all offers from theshoodlers, and held
the paper in line for Rrgan and Watson.
Matthews has confessed that he accepted
large sums of money from Republicans
for the course he took.
is enormous. This is the first cam
paign in which documents were carried
on franks. Forty million of these doc
uments were carried on congressional
franks alone. The cost to the govern
ment in postage for the entire campaign
is 81, ,4OO, 900. The Australian ballot
system calls for greater number Of Of
ficials than heretofore at the booths.
The cost in the recent election averaged
about 81 per vote. In New York it is
$134. Thus the cost to the entire
country would be about $4,000, 900; ad-
ding to this the postal expense we have
in two items alone SIG, 100000. If all
illegal use of money to influence votes,
injury to business, and loss of time wera
estimated in dollars it could safely be
put at 100000, 600.
Tim Hosmer, of Popular Bluffs, Mo-.
has issued call for convention to be
held in St. Louis Feb. %, 1897, to organ
ize a new party.
J. S. Coxey, of Commonweal fame, has
issued a call for a conference at the
Lindell Hotel st. Louis, Mo-, JAM IL,
1897, to organize a new party. 1t Is
understood that a similar call will be
given out, in the near future, by lead
ing Populists of Cook county, ILL.,,
Coxeys platform calls for the demone-
tization of both gold and silver, govern
ment ownership of railways, water
ways, highways, telegraphs and tele-
phone lines, market houses, street car
lines, waterworks, electric and gas
plants, women suffrage, government con-
troll of the liquor traffic, election of
president by direct vote, and the initia-
tive and referendum. A. r.