The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03

papers. Mr.. Hanna is planning to
correspond with every editor of
country weekly that he thinks he can
make business arrangement with.
The editor is to agree to run so much
goldbug stuff in his paper each week
in return for consideration Of some
nature. that Mr.. Hanna will try to
make agreeable to him. Let the peo-
pie be on the lookout and watch for
each one Of these country Weeklles
that flop to Hanna's position.
The enemies Of the people and good
government know that they cannot
destroy this government and enslave
the people except by keeping the true
them. Hence these two schemes.
THE CAT IN THE MEAL TUB.
A number OF good people who have
been shocked at the gigantic steal in
the Pacific railroad were delighted
when Huntington's funding bill failed
to pass the House. 1t now develops,
crowd were hedging to make new
deal to further rob the people and the
government. 1t had been generally
unders TODD that Huntington Nould
command majority Of the hOusl and
pass his funding bill, but that he
would have rocky road to travel be-
fore passing the thieving, villainous
measure through the Senate. 1t now
seems clear that it was part of
HuntingtOn's scheme to have the
House defeat the bill in order to
prevent the Peoples party senators
from making fight when the meas
ure came up in that body. to have the
governments mortgage foreclosed and
the government to take charge of the
roads and run them in the interest OF
the people. 1t seems that Huntington
and the reorganization committee OF
the Pacific railroads had reached an
understanding, if not deal, with
Cleveland, to the effect that if the
House would vote down the funding
bill and thus take the matter out Of
Congress, that Cleveland would at once
proceed to foreclose and sell these
roads at price to suit Huntington
and his cOnfederateS; and if we are to
credit the statement which purports
to come from the attorney general, it
seems that Cleveland has already
| agreed to sell these roads at about tty
millions of dollars less than they are
worth. Thus the government is to be
robbed of this much money for for the
benefit of certain railroad syndicates,
and alse to prevent the people from
demanding that the government take
charge Of these roads and operate
them at cost in the interests OF tlAa
people, to the end that a fair test of
government ownership and operation
of a great trunk line may be made.
Senator Allen has offered in the Sen.
ate resolution, the purpose OF which
is to prohibit the President from thus
sacrificing the governments property,
and besides robbing the people of a
fair test of public control and opera
| tion.
Thus the defeat of the funding bill
in the House was distinct victory fol
Huntington and his pals, for it seems
to have been part of deal and un-
| derstanding between him and Cleve
| land. This is the cat in the meal tut
WHO WILL CONTROL THE SENATE?
When Mr.. Hanna came to Washing
ton last Decem Der and held his fam
Gus conference, it became generally
known that the result was deter
mination on the part of the national
Republican committee, backed by all
the mOnOpolies, combines, trusts and
gold Syndicates Of two continents, tC
manipulate the legislatures of enough
states to capture majority OF the
United Statec Senate. AT that thai
time they felt satisfied that if they
could debauch and capture the legisla
islature of North Carolina, and thu:
succeed in electing Pritchard. thai
they would have enough votes to tie
the United States Senate, and that
then the vice-pres dent, who would be
a Republican, would cast the deciding
vote. Hence the desperate struggle
made by Hanna and his agents to con
troll the North Carolina legislature
which resulted in the election of thei
man. But no sooner had they wOI