The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-02

| suppose that any Of the Infatuated parties
| to the shindy are any wiser In this partTcu-.
| lara4han weaare. Suffice it to say that
Mr.. Owen is ponderously indignant about
! somethingss4Mr. Donnelly is loading and
| firing the Representative at will Prof Dob
| byn is STEPPED in profound and GREATNESS
| calm. and One Starkey is in a condition
| described by baseball writer's as up in the
] air.. . SIS "a 49,
| We would say to our brother of the
Dispatch not to be too merry over the
battle. 1t Is not going to hurt the Peo-
pies Party particle. 1t will clear the
atmosphere, and suppress lot of NAL
| contents, Who never really belonged to
| the organization.
| Mr.. Owen did his best to prevent the
! establishment of the Peoples party; and
set up a rival institution called '.Tno
Alliance Party" with Gen. Jim Baker
| for governor; and ran it to the end OF
its rope; that is. until he could go nc
further without exposing it's utter pauc-
ity of numbers: and then he rushed to
| the front. bundled into the band wagon,
and took hold OF the lines, and has ever
since been trying to ditch the wagon
Only three years ago he wanted tn
! strike out the free silver plank and sub
| stitute the political power of corporate
| monopoly must be suppressed"!.! Last
! year he tried to eliminate the initiative
| and referendum; and this year he is la
boring to kill the party and turn the
| membership over to the Democratic
! party.
AS for poor Dobbyn he don't amount
! to anything anyhow, except the glory
| of his ThOr-like beard on the body of a
troll. Owen hides himself behind Dob
| byn's wniskers and utters the most
oracular thunderings, which end in
Sound and fury signifying nothing
| DObbyn should use fine tooth conn
and clear him out of his beard
These profound philosophers have a
notion that the best way to build up a
! political party is to deprive it of its
name" and ''prejudices" princi-
ples-and hand over the rest, residue
and remainder of it's assets to some 9th
er political party. They propose to print
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advantages of suicide. as promoter oil
| longevity
Why God made such dlstraught and
inconsequential intelects is something
that transcends human comprehension
We desire no controversy with them
but when the question at issue is
Shall the Peoples Party live or die
we cannot remain silent without treach
cry to the principles we have fought fol
during the past twenty-five years.
When the Dispatch says that "the
anti-Donnellyites seem to have the bet
ter Of it in the point of numbers i
shows very plainly which side Plutoc
racy desires to win. If Owen i:
pies Party and the money power car
sleep in peace forever. A bundle of rag
and pfatitudes. tied to the coat-tails 0
4 democracy. while it may be grotesau'
and amusing, can produce no practica
effect on the politics of the state.
We try to keep our temper; but whel
we think. how we went with thirty 9th
ers, to Cincinnati, in 1891, to attend ;
convention, called to decide whethe
we should have a Peoples Party Or not
and there found communication froI
that nonentity. Darlington Phelps, an
others of Owens followers, (Owen re
.fusing to attend) protesting against per
hitting our delegation to be seated; an
when we remember how we stoo
around discredited by these scamps, VIII
would not attend themselves, our bloc
boils. And now when we find the sam
man. who tried to prevent the PEOPLE
? Party from being organized declaring
!; in every public utterance, that the part
> must give up it's name and die; nothing
: but respect for our early moral train
! ing, prevents us from mounting tn
house top and indulging in promiscuou
: and piodigious profanity.
; But the "bete noir" of the People
, Party has reached the end of his in
+ fuence Never again can he obstruct ii
advance or msrepresent its principle
+ It has risen above his power. 1t wi
o. 20 forward true to the great popula
impulse which first gave it being, an
bless the people for centuries to come.