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

IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DIsINTE-
GRATING.
DR.. Christian Johnson, in the last
Wilmar Tribune says:
We expect that inside OF two years
the whole Republican party will be
re0fganiZcd and converted from gold
Lu.s party to Il bimetallist party.
Those hircling cuckooS who have run
the party Tor some years past, and sold
cut The party to Wall street, will be
sat down upon, and another Class Of
men will take the lead.
This may seem incredible to many
OF our readers, but it is the way
Things are moving now. Last sum
mcr we all thought that the spirit Of
Popu!isW had taken possession OF the
Democratic party. But there is an
irrecOncllable antagoniSm between
IOpulism and Democracy, especially
South, but also North, and events Of
late only serve TO confirm it. On the
other hand there is Il real af-
tinity between the masses Of the Re
publican party and the PopulistS. For
tic great mass OF PopuliSts, North
and West, have been republicans, and,
in TACT, are today Republicans, while
the hcpubilcan party was carried
away from them over into Grover
Cleyeland's goldbug camp.
The old Republican war horses I'M
Gerstand now tin at unless the party
can &c brought back TO its old moor
lngS, where / can procure the support
Of PopuliSts and free silver Republi-
cans, and men BE- placed in control of
the party in whom the maSse; have
confidence, the doom Of the party is
sealed.
these Vaccinations Of the worthy Doc
tor.
The old-fashioned, honest Republic
cans. who still worship Abraham Lin.
coin and Charles Sumner and Horace
Greeley, are very FESTIVE under the
domination of the m0ney-changers;
we perceive evidences of this in every
direction. Even when we poke fun at
them, in the House, they hay'nt a
| Wod TO say. They sing small" and are
unhappy; and in private they do a
great deal Of profound swearing;-
curses not loud but deep" and they
give their leaders Zip service; which
the poor heart would fam deny but
dare not"
But we must dissent from the Doc
We don't want to see the People S
Party merged into the Democratic
party; and yet we must do the DemoC-
racy Of the West and South the credit
Of saying that nothing more he role
than their action in the Chicago con-
that party since the days of Andre W
Jackson. They broke with all their
great leaders; and more than all, AMI
harder to do, they broke with the
purse bearers Of Wall Street and Lon
don. They spat in the face even of
August Belmont, the New York mil
lionaire representative Of the Roths-
childs, and went forth with Bryan in
to the desert, to live on locusts, grass
hoppers , and wild honey. We know
not whether this tremendous spirit of
self-sacritice will endure to the end OF
the 1900 campaign; or whether they
will return to wallow In the m I'd is
of Plutocracy. But we should at leas
give them cred t, and great credit, for
what they did in the campaign Of
1895.
And for the ver-Republicans too
We have the kindest sentiments.
Such men as John Lind, and Charles
a. Towne, and Frank A. Day and j.
VI. Hawthorne and Senator Howard
and Senator Morgan, and a thousand
others we might name, deserve to be
held in undylng and honorable re-
mem berance.
We do solemnly believe that by the
midsummer of 1898 one-third Of the
Republicans Of Minnesota, who voted
for Me kinley last fall, will be with US:
many Of the great leaders.
But while these mutations and
changes are going on let the Peoples
Party stand solidlY ether:-not in
a hostile spirit to others, but for self
protection and the enduring benefit
Of all the people Of all parties. We
do not say that it should Cooperate
with others when the time of battle
comes; or that it should not co-oper-
ate. Let us leave all those mat; e rs
to the arbitration Of time-the great
teac! er. But for ourselves let us draw
closer together, until shoulder
touches shoulder, and when we strike
let the swords flash in concert, like
those of a Roman legion of the DAYS of
Cesar.