The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26

them, that is a different issue. .
It seems to me there are two clements
which are wrong: ~ The middle-of-
the-roader who is going to say lust
what we should or should not do, two
or four years from now, and (2l the
party and are determined 1T shalls not
live because they have decreed that 1T
was dead" =
Mr.. Meighen writes us another letter
in which he suggests that the state cen
trail committee should authorixe and
recommend that thesReoS1Ss 'Pary ed
itOrs should attend a conference. The
trouble is, that, under such a resolution.
Dobbyn and Owen, and the Rev. Mr..
Starkey no one OF whom Is strictly the
editor of a Peoples Party, paper. would
attend, and do their utmost to kill the
party. Let the state central committee
rather name list Of delegates, good
and true Peoples Party men. and as
many of them attend as possible Let
those who will be able to go send their
names to Mr.. Gibbs in advance.
The life of the Peoples Party is it's
newspapers. When the Reform Press
Association suggests a coming together
Of Populists, from all parts of the coun-
try, to confer as to the best way to
perpetuate and advance the parts who
is there that can object with, anyr show
of reason? Even a fool can perceive
that there is widespread and deter
mined purpose to kill the partyt No
one but an enemy will argue that the
party has not the right of self-preserva-
ton, when the cleaning knives of a
flashing around it's heart.
Remember that the advocates of the
perpetuity of the Peoples Party do not
declare that it shall or shall not CO.
operate with those who fully or par
TALLY agree with it, in 1900, for the
overthrow of the money-power. 1t
leaves all that to the membership in
state and national conventions assem-
bled, with all the enlightenment which
time and events can give.
1t would be an excess of folly to do
clare now what we will do, or not do,
three years from now But if we are
to have cooperation, (not fusion) in
1900, it will be a thousand times more
effective if our side is represented by a
fyr1 r~h1 1n6
widely disseminated political party,
armed cap-a-pie, rather than by dis
heartened, scattered fragments of a
slaughtered organization.
Of course, if the Democrats think
they can win in 1900, without us, they
will kick us out of doors. And if they
feel that we are necessary to them it
will be their object, as politicians, to
obtain our votes in exchange for the
smallest possible modicum of cat-meat
and contempt. ..~
Nothing is ever granted in this world
to weakness and servility. We must de-
mand with the bare sword. We speak
not now of the mere spoil of politics,
but of the great issues of state Graf: !;
OF the sense of right; of the salvation
and up-building of liberty and good gov
eminent. .fncrf.a se4o-+e h.--.
Stand firm, brethren. Disregard the
shallow-pated Dobbynses and Owenses.
Their eyes are under their coat tails.
You will have to stand them upside
down to enable them to see thu future.
You formed the Peoples Party in
1892. Is there not as much necessity
for it now as there was then? If you
have converted the Democracy how
long will they stay converted if YOU
give up the ghost? Your very death
will be confession of error, and tie
forward movement of the world will be
arrested for many years to come.