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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
THE GREAT CRYPTOGRAM.

Some three years ago gentleman
called at our home to interview US up
on the literary work we are engaged
in, and which divides our allegiance
with the Peoples Party. His report
did not appear, and we had almost
forgotten his visit, until the other
day, we received copy Of the Sunday
edition of the kansas City, (Mo.)
World.' containing the article which
appears elsewhere in this issue.
We will, we trust, be pardoned for
publishing anything SO personal to
ourself; but Mr.. Mosier. the city edi-
tor of that great paper, was kind
enough to send us the matrix OF the
article, so that we have but to fill it
With type metal to use it, illustra-
tions and all. It seems to US that our
large family of readers will be in
terested to know what we are doing
when not writing editorials for THE
REPRESENTATIVE and that they will
discount the compliments and elicit
only the facts.
The truth is that a Peoples Party
advocate has to stand always on the
defensive, for he has the whole fnan-
cial and social world ready to belittle
and degrade him; and the press of the
United States has diligently created
the impression that the Bacon cipher
in the Shakespear Plays was the work
of lunatic or an imposter: and hun
dreds Of thousands who have de-
nounced ''The Great Cryptogram"
have never read or even seen the
book, The article which we copy will
demonstrate to every thinking man
and woman that the cipher, incred-
IDLE as it may seem, actually exists.
Our friends and readers will, we are
sure, be pleased to know that we have
practically brought the elaborati on Of
the cipher to perfection; and are now
able to work out long, continuous
and intensely interesting narrative,
inside the text Of the plays. as mathe-
NAUTICAL and as accurate as the multi
plication table. We hope to publish
our new book within a few months.
We could get it out in few weeks
but for the demands of public affairs
upon our time.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
A CYCLONE COMING.

Mr.. Geo. E. Demaree has been talk
ing TO the working people Of this city
from dry goods box for about three
weeks, and selling reform books.
Great crowds gather, filing the street
and sidewalk at every meeting, and
the way the people drink in his elo-
quent and cutting arraignment Of the
present social system and buy his
books show that they are anxious to
learn the gospel Of the New Clviiza-
tlon. All it needs to change tn syS.
tenn is to get the peoples ears to cx-
plain the better one. Half a dozen
men like Demaree would pardlyzc the
efforts Of the political SINNERS to con-
troll the city. ALL day long little
knots OF men on The streets are dis
politics and the awful condi
tlon OF the country,and the voters are
not tearing their clothes off yelling
for Mckinley or anybody like they did
last year. OF course the otlice-seeker
is for 1.-The old party" but nine men
out of possible ten express the be-
lief that there is no difference be-
tween the old parties. really be-
lieve political cyclone is gathe ring
TO strike the nation in November
Appeal to Reason.
One has only to travel through the
country to realize the depth and
breadth of the discomfort with exist
ing conditions. We have never seen
anything like it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
THE VILLAINY OF IT.
FIFTY MILLION SILVER DOLLARS IN
THE UNITED STATES TREASURY.
The CHICAGO TimeS-Herald SAWS:

FIFTY MILLION SILVER DOLLARS IN
THE UNITED STATES TREASURY.
The Chicago Times-Herald says:
While advocates of free and un-
limited coinage Of silver are clamOr-
ing that the country "has done moth
ing for silver" the government, in adj
ditiOn to the enormous loss it has SuS-
tanned in the difference between coin
age value and commercial value Of
the millions of silver dollars it has
coined, is now engaged in building
steel chests to hoard the silver dollars
which the people find too incon-
venient to use.
At the New York subtreasury a
steel reservoir is about completed
lars. 1t Is twelve feet square and the
in the present subtreaSury vaults So
100000 silver dollars.
The coin is too heavy to be accept
able, and. although shipped free to
anybody who wants them. the calls
are few for the ponderous disks.
Study this carefully This knave
claims that the United States gov
eminent has ''sustained an enormous
loss' by buying 4123 grains Of stand
ard silver bullion at "a cents and coin
ing it into a dollars worth 100 cents!
1t didn't lose cent: it made As cents
on every dollar.
And why did not the United States
government pay out those silver dol
lars in Settlem ent of greenbacks, as
the statutes of the United States sag they
should, land as France does), instead
of boarding them in costly vaults?
Nobody wants Them says this
scamp. Why THE REPRESENTATIVE
will take the whole $50, GOO, 900. and say,
as the girl did, when her beau asked
her to dance:-"I will and thank you
kindly too, John"
The people don't want silver dol
lars! Oh Lord!
The whole thing is another trick of
the bankers to discredit silver and
drive it out Of use.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
HOW DO YOU LIKE 1T, DEMO
Gratis.

Here is the money plank of the
Democrats of Minnesota;
We are unqualifiedlY in favor of the
present gold standard of value. We
favor the use of both gold and silver
as money and believe that our govern
ment should coin and keep in circula-
tion as part OF the circulating me-
dunn as large an amount of silver as
can be employed without destroying
or threatening to destroy the existing
parity Of value between the unit in
gold and the unit in silver. We are
opposed to a descent to monome tai
ism and particularly to silver mono
metallism, with it's deprecated and
depreciating standard of value. We
are firmly convinced that the free
and unlimited coinage of silver by
our government at the ratio Of 16 to
WITHOUT cooperation on the part
Of the other great commercial ma
tions Of the world-wC lid reduce this
country to condition of silver mono
metallism, entailing upon US tinan-
ciaI panic and commercial and indus
trial disaster. We are utterly and ir-
revocably opposed TO the adoption of
any such policy.
II that thing was put to vote in
this state this fall it would not get
one vote in ten; and the men who
adopted it know it.
The convention was packed by the
federal office holders; and it is charged
that hundreds of delegates who were
for free-silver before dinner were for
the gold standard after dinner!
The same tactics will probably be
played in the Democratic National
convention, with the same result.
1t is an age of rotteness,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

and 1.2s5, 800 money-lenlers!! And
the 2l4, 500 borrowers are all rich men
and the 1,2S5, 500 lenders are all poor
men: and the 214.5oO rich borrowers
have to support the 1.2s5. 900 poor
bankers! Oh Lordy! Lordy!
Let US have a new census and see
where those 1855 500 money-lenders
are. We knew this was an afflicted
country but we did not think it was
as bad as that.
Will some one kindly remove the
top OF the skull of the editor of the
Clear Lake Times, and swab out the
diminutive cavity, and fill it with oat-
meal mush or saw-dust? 1t might
improve the quality of his valua BILE
paper. 1t could not make it any
worse.
And these be the public guides put
forth by the Republican party to lead
the people to prosperity A basis of
lies below and a superstructure OF
ignorance and idiocy on top.
But what must be the mental
status of those who read such a paper
and believe in it?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
DEBTORS AND CREDITORS.

Mr.. A. F. S. r., of Becker, MIMI,
sends US the following clipping from
the "plate-matter" Of the Clear Lake
Times, and asks for comments there
on:
The Teachers Cooperative Build
ing and Loan association of New York
city, has 615 members. or this num-
Der IS are borrowers Of funds-that is,
debtors to the others. If this ratio is
maintained in the 500 building and
loan associations in this country, hav-
ing 100000 shareholders, there are
about 100000 debtors to 1856, 900
creditors, or more than seven credi-
tors to one debtor.
Free coinage at sixteen to one
would undoubtedly help the debtors
1t would enable them to settle their
obligations to their fellow members
at SO cents on the dollar. But are the
l. 100000 creditors all bloated bond
holders whom 1T would not wrong to
legislate out of their property in this
way? And are the 100000 borrowers
all poor and depressed by heavy mort
cages at usuriOus interest? Not
much! The debtors are usually worth
more than the creditors Will the
seven creditors, out Of sympathy for
the one poor debtor, this year vote to
cancel one-half of his debt? Not if
they know on which side their bread
is buttered.
The whole free coinage superstition
is delusion. There are far more
creditors than debtors, and strange as
it may appear, the creditors are COM
paratively poor.
This Is pure sLIsh.
'The borrowers are richer than the
lenders! /
Oh Lord! The poor cuss whose
mortgage has been foreclosed, and
who, with his family. ragged and
wretched, is moving out. and taking
the public road or the poor house for
home, is richer than the banker who
owns the farm and takes the crops.
And there are seven lenders Of
money for each debtor! Lordy!
Lordy! Does the chap who borrows
borrow from seven men at once?
There are 100000 people in Mime
sofa. According to this paper of these
there are 214,500 money-borrowers,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
THE DESPERATE.

The other day man went into a
bank in New York and handed the
president letter demanding $4,000.
The banker rose up to defend himself,
and the other party shot him through
the stomach, and then shot himself
in the same place. Both were taken
to the same ospital; the assailant is
dead and the banker believed to be
mortally wounded. Clark, the assas-
sin.made this statement to the police,
on his death bed:
[ came from the west, where nv
family is respectable. 1 am married
and have a boy baby. 1 won't tell
anything about myself. l did not
mean to shoot that man. acos out of
cork and ,Ua1,ted money. lost nay place
a. ,ceek ago and needed money to keep my
'eoJe and child from STARRING. My name
is not Clark and l won't tell what it
is. Find it out il you can. I won't
tell.
There is the whole story. If the
Money-power had not demonetized sill
yer and paralyzed all industry, Clark
might yet be alive, an industrious
honest man, living respected, with his
wife and baby, and President Wykotf
might still be enjoying good health.
Oh the pity of it! That human greed
should turn honest husbands into
murderers.
The human being properly treated
is the noblest and gentlest animal in
the world; but starve and Cypress him
and the devils in Sheol are not more
desperate nor dynamite more danger
Gus.
2 What will four years more of these
conditions develOpe?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
A LIAR SQUELCHED.

!! Mr.. J. II. Cooley, Of Alexandria, an
earnest Populist and good friend Of
THE REPRESENTATIVE, wrote US a
letter saying that one Charles Tyrrell
or Terrell of that place had stated to
him that the edi tor of this paper
owed an honest debt to his father and
had refused for years to pay it, etc.
We published the statement and
thereupon Charles Terrell or Tyrrell,
the only man Of that name In that
neighborhood, wrote us letter deny
ing that he had ever made any such
statement to Mr.. Cooley. And now
comes Mr.. Cooley with an affidavit.
sworn to before w. F. Sundblad, No
tary Public, Alexandria, stating that
he, Tyrrell, did make such state
ment, exactly as he gave it.
We believe Mr.. Cooley; and we be-
lieve that Terrell is a convicted liar
and slanderer; who, out of political
animosity, tried to blacken our char
acter, by inventing a wholesale false
hood without any foundation what
ever in fact. Let him stand branded
forever before all good men of all
parties, in life and after death, as one
who had, without the slightest provo
cation, DETAINED his fellow man who
had never injured him.
We thank Mr.. Cooley for bringing
the matter to our atten ton, and thus
enabling us to clear ourself of one OF
the innumerable SANDERS which
travel around, like lice. through the
community; and which would never
have been uttered against US IL we
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

Tom Kurtz, Of Moorhead, was red
hot gold-bug delegate to the recent
Democratic State Convention. He
was formerly connected with a Bank
at Moorhead, which ignominiously
busted" and left the suckers" in for
it. Tom is therefore an authority on
'sound" money. There was good
deal Of '"sound' and not much money
in Moorhead when his bank went up
the tlume. An attempt was made to
prosecute Tom and send him to pris-
on, and County Attorney Douglas con-
Quoted both sides of the case, and the
prosecution failed, and Tom went to
the Democratic state convention in
stead Of the state penitentiary.
Toms partner, Bruins, built the Grand
Pacific Hotel at Moorhead, and Bruins
is now picking tarantulas out Of
bananas for Yerxa Brothers of this
city, and wondering where his
"sound" money went to. This is a
funny world, and Minnesota is the
funniest corner of it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
STEARNS COUNTY.

RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE POPU-
LIST COUNTY CONVENTION.
Res olved, That the convention in
struct its delegates to the District
convention to use their best en-
beavers to secure the election of dele
gates to the National convention who
are favorable to the nomination of
that great American commoner Igna.
titus Donnelly, as the Peoples Party
candidate for President Of the United
States.
Resolved. That this convention en-
dorse the principles laid down in the
Omaha platform, and that we instruct
our delegates to the District Congress
sional convention to stand by every
plank laid down in the said platform
and to adopt the Initiative and
Referendum and direct legislation by
the people
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
Il BIG GATHERING CERTAIN,

Mr.. Donnelly will deliver the 4th of
July address at Forestville, MINI.
There is to be grand turn out, with
base ball game, horse and foot races,
big basket picnic and a good time
generally. Mr.. Donnelly will be the
guest Of Thomas J. Meighen Esq, He
had dozen invitations for the 4th
but he gave them all up out Of re-
spect to Mr.. Meighen-"the noblest
Roman of them ALL" Mr.. D., will be
glad to greet all his Fillmore County
friends at Foresville on the 4th, to re-
new the memories of 1776.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
condition of the miner was little, if

condition Of the miner was little, if
any better.
Aud we call ourselves q civilized ma
tio.l.-Schillings' Advance.
And yet the men who own the
mines form com bines to raise til
price Of coal to the western consumer,
while the poor wretehes who do tho
work are brought to the verge, OF
starvation. And there is a tariff to
protect the labor employed in the coal
mines, but it simply protects the CAPT.
tai Invested in them!
This is sadly misgoverned country.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
WONDERFUL CONVERSION.

HENRY GEORGE ABANDONs FREE
TRADE AND DEMOCRACY AND GOES
OVER TO HIGH TARIFF AND THE
GOLD.BUGs.
1t is melancholy thing to see an
intellectual and in some respects able
man without the pole-star of a con-
tinuous purpose, Henry George the
apostle of Free-trade and Single-tax,
who two years ago took the stump for
Grover Cleveland and demanded the
abolition Of all tariff laws, has made
a tremendous "flop" and alighted in
the camp Of the moneyed aristocracy
and high tariff. 1t is p:tiful. His
single-tax idea was based on a broad
philan thropy, to secure homes to the
poor; but his means were to put all
the taxes on the land occupied by the
homes of the poor! But in his sum-
mersault he has shed his famous the.
ory and will be hereafter simply the
AFFECT tool and servant of the money
power. We read.
st. Louis, June 15-Henry George
has Mckinley button. He says that
the only thing that keeps him from
wearing it in his coat is a terrible
dread that his old free trade asso-
ciates will kidnap him. Mr.. George is
preparing to make great political
flop, and he announces that he will
SUPP ort Mckinley in case Cleveland is
renominated. ''This is the first Re-
publican convention in which I ha We
felt at home," he said. Times are
changing, and so are mems opinions.
1t is likely | will pin on the badge of
protection before two more days Shall
pass" and Mr.. George went into the
innermost recesses OF the kingmaker,
(Hanna.)
We are reminded of Winters lines
on Daniel Webster, when the great
New Highlander sold out to the Slave
power:
$50 fallen. So lost The light Withdrawn
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
For evermOre.
Revile him not,-the Tempter hath
snare for all;
And plying tears, not scOrn and wrath
Beft his fall!
Then pay the reverence Of old days
To mis- dead fame;
Walk backward. with averted gaze,
And hide the shame.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

Ohio. for boss; millionaire St. Paul
banker to draw the platform; the
banks of New York flooding the lead
ers with kilograms in favor of gold:
Chauncey Depew, the millionaire
president of a New York railroad
company, a conspicuous figure and
every usarer in the United States
supporting the ticket.
Are you going to vote for it? That's
the cues ton.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
A PRETTY MESS,

A Jewish rabbi to open the conyen-
tion; millionaire attorney for the
Union Pacific Railroad to act as per-
manent chairman; a millionaire rep
entative of the Coal Trust and the
Standard Oil Company, Hanna Of
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

ply all taxes out OF them. Then the
man who is too poor to travel would
pay no taxes; while those who are
rich enough to travel would pay the
same rates they do now: but the
money would go to the enrichment of
the whole people not of few sharp
eTSn
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
SPECIAL NOTICE.

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Company. IGNATIUS DONNELLY,
President.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

The Schultz Publishing Company
will send to any Of our readers mem
tioning the name Of this paper copy
of "The Condition Of the Anne rican
Farmer" on receipt Of a two-cent
stamp to pay for postage. etc. The
"American Farmer is book written
by Hon. H. E. Taubeneck, Chairman
of the Peoples Party National Com
mittee. 1t Is a splendid work.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

At the Ice Cream Social which the
Norwegian Y. NJ. G. A., will hold in
Riverside Park. Friday evening, AS
sistant County Attorney Peterson, is
scheduled tt a make speech. "Grieg
Male Choir" will sing on the So me oc-
caSiOn.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

There was only one oversight.
Rothschild should have appeared on
the platform, at St. Louis, and ex-
tended his hooked claws over the con-
gregation and said:-"Bless you, my
children; and may the God Of Abra-
ham, Isaac and Jacob bless your
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

mo mans man." who 'wore no
mans collar" appeared at the recent
Democratic state convention with the
collar of the Great Western railroad
company around his neck. -
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

Chattanooga, Tenn, June 1.-THE
Tennessee bankers, in convention TO-
day, adopted resolution presented by
John w. Faxon, OF this city, to the
effec: that the standard Of value in
the. United States must be the dollar
containing $3.50 grains of gold, and
that any attempt by legislation, or
otherwise, to lower the standard will
be detrimental to the future welfare
OF all classes of citizens. except silver
mine owners, and disastrous to the
entire business interests Of this coun-
try.
Everywhere the bankers are coming
to the front and taking charge of the
government Of the country.
They are afraid free silver would in
jure 1.-THE business interests Of the
country" Where are those interes is
now? Flattened out; driven to the
verge Of bankruptcy by the refusal of
the bankers to give them credit.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

Funny, isn't it, that whenever a
man runs for governor on the Demo
cratic ticket he either steps into a
railroad office or keeps one? Judge
Wilson, when beaten, went into the
Omaha attorneyship with $4,000 a
year; and Dan Lawer when beaten
took the Great Western attorneyship
with $1,000 year; and General Beck
er, when beaten; held on to the rail-
road commissionership, with $1,000
year. Queer, isn't it. Perhaps blind
man could see through it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

At St. Paul Mr.. j.. c. Hanley will re-
ceive subscriptions and advertisements
for THE REPRESENTATIVE, at his Of
flee, 249 East Eighth street.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

Mr.. H. V. Poore, Of Bird Island,
Mimi. writes us letter in which he
says that he sold LOGS eggs, of the
Plymouth Rock variety, at $l.00 per
setting of rs by advertising in THE
REPRESENTATIVE. His offer still
continues to hold good, and he can fill
all orders promptly now The Ply
mouth Rocks are the best all round
breed of chickens in the world
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
TO SUBSCRIBERS OF THE REP.
RESENTATIVE.

Mr.. j. P. White, of St. Paul, has
been appointed by Mr.. Donnely to
solicit new subscriptions and re :eiye
payment for old ones. All readers Of
THE REPRESENTATIVES, who are in ar
rears are most urgently requested to
come prepared to settle for their sub
scriptions, at the congressional con-
vention of the Fourth district at
LindStrOm, on June Goth.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
MAKES SOUTH DAKOTA SURE.

Senator Pettigrew, of S. Oak, walk
ed out with the silver men. This
was more than was expected Of him.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24

In writing to advertisers in this
paper our patrons Will confer q favor
by saying that they saw the adver-
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