The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-19
WHEAT FORTY NINE CENTS IN
MINNEAPOLIS.

WHEAT FOR7Y-NINE CENTS IN
MINNEAPOLIS.
Gold-buggery is doing its perfect
work. On the 18th OF August. No.
wheat was worth 40 cents in the Min
neapolis market!
This means about 80 cents in west
ern MINES ota and s5 cents in the Da-
kotas. And the land covered with
mortgages!
God help the people!
Stand together, friends. for free
silver and high prices.
THE FEELING IN THE SOUTH
GREAT DIsSATi sFACT.ON EXISTING.
We have received the following pri-
vate letter from the South. AS it was
not intended for publication we re-
serve the writer's name. We publish
it that our readers may know some
thing of the feelings Of their brother
Populists of the South.
HosCHToN, Ga. July %, 1896
| have read your paper for a good
while, and think you to be one
amongst the best reformers in Amer
lea. On account of the action Of our
convention at St. Louis last week We
are torn all to pieces down here.
We look upon Tom Watson as being
one amongst the truest reform lead
ers there is in America, but the way
we have been bulldozed and abused by
the Georgia Democrats, we can't af-
ford to vote for Mr.. Bryan, even with
our glorious Tom on the ticket with
him, and haven't heard reformer
say yet that he would do it.
The Atlanta Journal is stating that
part Of our national committee are
Democrats, and they say that Mr..
Bryan will not accept with Mr.. Wat
son as vice, and they will take Mr.
Watson off and keep Sewall on.
want you to advocate getting up
men from the different states, straight
middle of the road Populists," too;
not such men as j.. B. Weaver, OF
Iowa, and William NJ. Stewart, who
are just nothing but Democrats, to
meet and put out straight ticket,
and by doing this, are pretty sure that
we can carry Georgia in the middle Of
UH0 FOdu dO Tue OCUOUcT anu NOHeul-
Der elections.
Idon't believe that the sentiment
of one voter out of d hundred from
Georgia was expressed at st. Louis in
nominating Bryan.
The reason we can't support Bryan
is that we know Democrat down
here better than you all do up there,
and we know they will do nothing for
the relief of our people, and nothing
they promise; their platforms have
been made Of promises for silver, but
they vote against it every chance they
get, almost.
They chopped the heads off the
Green back party in 1878, swallowed up
the Alliance in 1892, and new they
have had the audacity to lead the
Peoples Party to the slaughter pen,
and if we only submit we are gone for
20 years more. May the nation awake
to such scheme of robbery on the
part of the Democrats, and vote them
down in November, to where they
never rise to run over another POpu-
list convention.
With Bryan and Scwall as the ticket
the people down here never expect to
stand such Democratic forgery.
Look this subject sQuarely in the
face, and write me your views at
once. Yours in the middle of the
road"
We can understand and sympathise
with the feelings Of our correspond
ent We foresaw just what the in
dorsement of Mr.. Bryan would lead to;
but he had so captivated and captur-
ed the whole country by his extraor-
binary speech before the Chicago con-
vention that it was impossible to re-
sist the tendency which had set in to-
wards him like a great flood. His
youth, his force, his high character,
his genius, his eloquence, the univer-
sal poverty and almost despair Of the
people, all plead for him trumpet
tongued." Every one felt that the
vote in opposition to plutocracy ought
not to be divided, and they thought
the only way to unite it was to put
Mr. Bryan at the head of our ticket.
Some of us hold, on the contrary, that
we could more readily form union by
the sPopulist party and Democratic
party each preserving its own auton-
Omy, with separate state ticket, and
dividing its electoral ticket between
them. We argued that such a divis-
ion would be necessary, even if we
nominated Bryan: but that it would
be easier to hold our own men to-
gether, under our own banner, than it
would be under two banners, with our
troops inextricably mixed. But the
we'll meaning enthusiasts, supple
mented by the difficulties, carried the
day, and now we must make the best
of it.
Let us bury all our grievances and
discontents and do our best to elect
Bryan and Watson. 1t is of course
possible that the Democrats may sell
out the cause of free silver in the
next congress; but it is certain that
the triumph of Mckinley means that
the gold standard will be fastened on
us for four years more, and possibly
forever. The Democracy have left
the plutocracy; they have burned their
ships, and we do not think it possible
for them ever to turn back. The line
of cleavage in our future politics will
be necessarily sectional: it will be the
South and the new West against the
Northeastern capitalistic section.
You might Just as we'll attempt to
stop the revolution of the earth on it's
axis as to arrest the force now in OBJ
GRAFTON in the politics of this country.