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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16
Lexington, Nebr.

Let the Rank and File Speak.
Ed. Representative:
l wish through your columns to give
those, who pose as innocent
Peoples Party men, few questions to
answer. Is not the existence of the
Peoples Party the only standing men,
ace to the debt creating power? Does
not the perpetuity of debt making
business imperatively demand its de-
struction? AS free silver will not ma
terially injure the business, would it
not be a straight business proposition
to induce it (the Peoples Party) to
drop the name, and unite with silver
ties? Would it not be for the debt Gre
ating powers interests to spend large
sums,to save from destruction the bust
ness with which they are enabled to
skin the people at discretion?
At the ST. Louis convention the COM
mittee on resolutions of which S. M.
Owens was a member. added to the
platform the referendum plank which
was reported to and adopted by the
convention The attitude of some Of
the members of that convention causes
the question to arise something like
this: Was that plank added as a guild
ing star of the Peoples Party, or was
it added to guide the stars of the other
fellows? The fact is. that convention
builded better than it new The mo-
ment that plank was adopted, 1t prac-
tically made the platform, or declara-
tion of principles, the organic law of the
party changeless except through the
referendum. So now, my innocents,
stand by your gun, the referendum.
Ask the ranks and file to tell you by
their votes whether they are ready
to die, that democracy and the debt
creating power may live? If you will
not refer your propositions, whatever
they may be, to the referendum to
SETTLE you convict yourselves Of be-
ing pie hunting Judases, and that the
addition to the Peoples Party platform
of the initiative and referendum was
to catch the vote of confiding and I'M
suspecting people. E. l. White.
Chehali, MINI.
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posed to all plans of corporations,
combination or fusion with any other
political party, as past experience has
proven that it cannot be done without
sacrifice of principles.
4th-That we extend our sympathy
to that noble band of reformers who
so nearly rescued the states of Texas,
alabama and Georgia from the miss
rule Of the Democratic party and whose
hopes of final success were so widely
broken by the action of the Peoples
Party National Convention at St. Louis.
After the adoption of the resolutions,
the club adjourned, to meet again the
following evening (Tuesday), in the
"Norden Hail." LOG Central avenue,
where arrangements had been made for
a public meeting. After some intro
ductory remarks by President H. J. o.
Reed and Mr.. H. S. Seed, the Hon. 1g-
natious Donnelly was given the floor
and made the principal address of the
evening. The hall was filled and the
speaker was frequently and enthusi-
astically applauded.
A short business session Of the club
took place after Mr.. Donnelly had
closed. Ten new applications for mem
bership were received, and many more
are expected as a result Of this very
enthusiastic and successful meeting. II
was evidently "middle-of-the-road'
gathering very largely at least.
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c. H. B.

Not Only Desirable But a Necessity.
Editor The Representative:
Dear Sir In response to your call
for expressions of opOniOn in regard to
the proposed national conference, July
4th, in Nashville, Tenn, l wish to say
that a national gathering of leading
Peoples Party men and earnest wor-
kers for the cause of true reform is in
der the present circumstances a ne
cessity. Too many scheming politi-
clans and officeseeking individuals
have joined the Peoples Party, espe-
cially during the last two or three
years, and there is good cause and
ample reason why it should be deemed
populists to get together, review the
situation and agree upon some good
plan for concerted action, in order to
save the party from destruction. The
worst enemies Of our party are those
who pretend to be members of it, but
nevertheless are ready to kill it off at
any time if they can thereby further
their own selfish schemes or satisfy
their own ambition. They, of course,
are very strongly opposed to this or
any such conference or meeting, be it
national or otherwise, unless they
could control it. Then it would be
different, surely! Yours very truly,
Johannes Hansen.
Minnea pOliS Mimi
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16
Manfu1ly Acknowledged His Erro

ManfuI1H Acknowledged His Error.
Hon Ignatius Donnelly:
My friend:
I have long felt I owed you an apol-
ogy for my criticizing your Middle of
the road course" just before our last
national convention You were right
and I was wrong.
l did not then know what you did,
that there was a deep laid plan of the
Bryan Democrats and their allies to
destroy the Peoples party, and in my
anxiety to GUST the corrupt G. o. P. did
not then see the danger Of indorsing
Bryan: But now see it was great fol-
ly; and came near destroying the Peo-
Piles party. l am now when occasion
offers, trying to make up for my err
ror last year. Observe my letter pub
lished in the Evening Press Friday, on
Marion Butler and the Press editorial
thereon. 1t calls them so effectually
that in the same paper the Press replies
by rather a weak excuse, and pretends
to be friendly to the Peoples party
Allow me to thank you for the grand
work you did in the last legislature,
and if we do not reap much good there
from 1t is because the corporate rob-
bers united with the G. O. P. and thus
prevented the great good to the people
which your proposed laws were inten-
ded to bring I believe your labors for
the people last winter at St. Paul are
by all observing men conceded to be
some of your very best work for the
good of the people during your whole
pubic life.
Please now to the extent of your abil
ity warn our friends that the success
of our principles at the polls appears
so plain that the great robbers trusts
and corporate combines now see it, and
they are certain to pour out money like
water TO GET CONTROL OF THE
GREAT REFORM MOVEMENT so as
to control the government after the
successful election of the reform party,
and l now believe they are SO using
money to corrupt our leaders and
through the leading newspapers to
again deceive and blind the people. Give
the people your warning voice of this
impending danger as you can do bet
ter than any other man in America. |
know how you feel and as l and all
right-minded men advanced in years
must feel viz: That your supreme wish
before you die is to do some good for
your fellow men, making you deserv-
ing to be gratefully remembered when
you pass from your labors here. l
know you have done much for man
kind. l feel that have done very little
but hope to do a little yet before l go
hence. Your Friend,
LEWIS BROWNELL.
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we want to or not. For myself If
wanted to be a democrat would Join
them. Why l have non but the best
feelings for the silver democrats,
don't think that their platform begins
with the Omaha platform In the num-
Der of good planks that it contains.
But the initiator and referendum con-
slider the best plank that was ever put
into platform. By all means, If
possible, keep the party in the middle
of the road. / for one will never vote
with the Democrats again, unless the
ticket is so arrenged that the populist
vote can be counted in the returns.
see by the returns this spring that all
that voted the silver ticket were coun-
ted as Democrats. And object to
being counted in that way If the man
ager of the Peoples Party cannot put a
ticket in the field in a presidential cleo
ton so that its members can tell how
many votes are cast for the party, then
l should think they might as we'll dis
band. L. A. Hatch.
Princeton, MINI.
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EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.

M. C. Rankin, treasurer Of the Ma
tional Committee of the Peoples Party,
of Terre Haute, Ind, renews and writes:
Il enclose you 81 subscription for your
paper. 1t is one of the old fashioned
Greenbacks-one of the kind that paid
us boys in the sixties, and made it pos
sible by furnishing supplies which it e
abled the government to buy-tO whip
our southern brothers back into the
Union In fact it is the best money we
ever had, and the fight Of the future
must be centered on the government is
suing and controlling the paper money
and make it full legal tender for all
debts. Stop bonds and bank currency
that with the free coinage of gold and
silver at Is to / would make the conn
try prosper again"
S. r. Duren, of Wobufn, Mass, re-
news and writes: Must say 1 think
it is the grandest idea yet, that of con-
verting some one sovereign state into a
cooperative commonwealth. l see only
one hindrance to success, its inability
to create it's own money. Suppose there
would be Restraining order" put on it
should they undertake to do SO. Why
could not the government furnish a
state share of treasury notes based
on the fixed wealth at one per cent as
we'll as on government misfortune Of
bonded Indebtedness? Guess you better
put away your dynamite for we'll
smoke them out yet. In regard to the
the human race l believe we all feel at
times as you do or did in last week S
issue, and wonder why God made more
men than he had souls to give them. II
they only had four legs instead of two
we would wipe them out of existence as
quick as we would a grizzly-the land
pirates"
James Shannon, of Clearwater, Mimi,
sends 81 and says: ~ see my sub
scription has expired SO WILL renew.
cannot get along without your valuable
paper
H. J. Williams, of Golden Gate, Cal
sends SOC and adds: ''The Representa-
tive is good paper l like it and its
principles and it's brilliant editor. Will
try to introduce it where CO."
Matt Tollefson, of Jackson, Mimi, en-
closed 81 for renewal and writes:
Money is scarce, but a dollar must be
spared for The Representative. It is
big enough for me- In fact it is the
biggest paper in the state. 1 fully ap-
prove the stand you took in the last
legislature. If we ever get a majority
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16
The Hennepin County Peoples Party
Club Opposes Fusion.

The Hennepin County Peoples Party
club held it's regular monthly meeting
Monday evening, June Z at 642 Boston
block twenty-five new members were
admitted, and II applications for mem
bership were received and referred to
the membership committee. AS there
is NO ADMISSION FEE to pay, and
NO DUES imposed upon the members,
it was decided to have a finance COM
mittee appointed for the purpose of get
ting a little fund, through VOLUN-
TARY contributions, with which to
cover necessary expenses, such as hall
rent for public meetings, stationery,
printing, etc.
A set of resolutions was offered and
thoroughly discussed, and finally adopt
ed unanimously, as follows: Resolved,
LIST, That the holding Of a conference
of true and consistent Peoples Party
men is virtually necessary, and we most
heartily favor the Nashville convention
in so far as 1t is to be an informal con-
ference of true and loyal Peoples Party
men to devise ways and means to res
cue the party, and with it the principles
it advocates, from destruction at the
hands of it's enemies within it's ranks.
2nd-That we are in favor of and
commend independence of views and
action of individual members of any
and all organizations, political or other
wise, but advocacy Of 1.-THE amalgama-
ton of our party with any other party
that owes it's existencegto our enemies
by any of the officiab members of the
party, we denounce as most fragrant
breach of trust, and any one guilty Of
such an act oughtao he removed from
his position at olEe. lei
3rd-That we are emphatically oD-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16

Editor Representative:
In reply to question which, as I un-
derstand it, means: Shall we live,
or shall we die? I think there is no
pursue.
The Peoples party must exist as a
distinct organization or not exist at
all,-the great principles it teaches
must be kept before the people.
Are we contending for the free coin
age of silver alone? No, this is but
one, and not by any means the most i'm
portant of our principles. We want the
Omaha platform complete, with the
initiation and the referendum added and
that without the protecting mantle of
constitutional safeguards" thrown
over it too.
You are right, go ahead. Nail our
co'ors to the mast and keep the star
board to the wind-The Dispatch is
far from correct in its statement that
'the Donnellyites are in the minority"
Donnelly has the earnest support of
every true Populist throughout the ma
ton, and is known and honored where
the "Owenses, the Dobbynses." and
Zone Starkey" have never been heard
Of
Yes, we must hold conference, and
call a convention and let it be known
that we are still on earth, for it would
never be known by reading the Free Sill
yer papers, as seen in the reports of
recent elections, where it was claimed
that the "Dems carried everything"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16
Read! Read! Read!
Are You Looking for a Book
on the Questions
of the Day2

Bond and Industrial Slavery. By e. A.
TWitchell ........... Observation-Disclosures.
American Peoples Money. By Igna-
thus Donnelly ;;.....;,....:::
NJ Teller & Jas. II.
Beneath the Dome. By Arnold Clark.
Brice's Financial Catechism. By Brice.
Bondholders and Breadwinners By S.
Coins Handbook. BY w. II. Harvey.
Coins Financial School. BY w. IL. Har-
CONS School ciiii Up to Date. By W. ii.
Chapters on Silver. BY w. III: H i:.y,:;.
Cold Facts. By Casca st. John Cole......
Concentration of Wealth, The. By Edw.
Condition of the American Farmer, The
BY H. E. Taubeneck NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Direct Legislation. BY J. w. Sullivan.
The Gigantic Conspiracy. By J. w.
Hell Up to Date. BY Art. Young.........
Imperialism, Its Rise and Progress. By
An Indiana Man. BY Leroy Armstrong.
Little Statesman. By Armstrong ........
A New Monetary System. BY H. L.
our Money Wars. BY Sam Le ititt..::.
One Way to the Cooperative Common
wealth. BY w. H. Mueller NJ. De-.
Platforms of All Parties. BY -......
Referendum Principle; BY y F. J: EDDY.
L
Railways of Europe and America. By
Mrs. Marion TODD Observation-Disclosures.
Shylock's Daughter. BY Bates ...........
Seven Financial Conspiracies. By 8. e.
The Science Of Legal Robbery. BY
Percy Kinnaird ........... ..............
A Tale of Two Nations. BY w. H.
Ten Men of Money Island BY S. F.
A H Tramp ami in Society. Robt. II. Cow:
dray ............. .......... ............
Uncle Sam 6 Wealth and Money. BY G.
H. Murray .........: -......:.;;;;......
Whittier Are We Drifting? Ey Wiley.
Wealth Against Commonw BY
II. d. Lloyd ................. ........... III
Golden Bottle. By Ignatius Donnelly =.
Government Ownership of Railroads.
BY H. L. Loucks ..........:. ......
Bimetallism. BY Wharton BARKER.
Bimetalism and Monometallism. BY
Archbishop Walsh ........ ............
Bmetallism. By Paul Vandervoort:.
The Bankers Dream. By Thos. II.
Proctor. ............ .......... ..........
Warner Money Chart. by Hon. Marvin
warren ................ ....:... -.
The People VS.. the Gold Bugs, by Hon.
A. d. Warner .......... .......... ......
Sixteen to One, by Richard Lowry 49,.
The Effects of he Gold Standard. by w.
4 LABoR ExcHANGE LITERATURE
Organizers Guide Observation-Disclosures.
Labor Exchange Solutions ..............
Progressive Hand Book .................
Trials and Triumphs of Labor. .........
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16
DON'T PAY
A GENEROUS OFFER.
You Can Improve the Breed OF
Your Fowls and Help The

Mr.. Hamlin V. Poore, of Bird Island,
Mimi, makes the following liberal
proposition. which every Populist
farmer in the country should take adj
vantage Of and thereby help THR
REPRESENTATIVES,:
Mr.. Poore will supply for 81, 26 eggs
OF the following varieties: Barred
Plymouth Rocks. White Wyandottes,
and Single
Comb Brown Leghorn. For every set
ting ordered through The REPRE-
SENTATIVE, Mr.. Poore will ship to the
one sending the order, 26 eggs, secure
ly and carefully packed delivering the
same at the express Office at Bird Is
land, AND EIGHTY CENTS OF EVERY
DOLLAR WILL BE DONATED TO THE
REPRESENTATIVE
Rene N Der that while obtaining the
eggs Of splendid fowls, AT LESS THAN
THE USUAL PRICE. you are helping
The REPRESENTATIVE and the cause
Of reform. ---.,a,s..-
Now is the. time to order. Send la
your orders at once to THE REPRE-,
SENTATIVE, 842 Boston Block, Minnea
apolis, MINI. !;
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Linnell. MINI


NO Merging for Hubbard County.
The Representative:
Enclosed find postal money order for
$500 to be applied on subscription of
E. J. Moore.
Now, Mr.. Editor, stand by the Poop
les Party through good as we'll as
through evil report, and the rank and
file of the party in Hubbard county
are with you. They want no merging
into the democratic party or republican
party. They believe if there ever was
cause for its formation that cause has
been intensified by the acts of the
Cleveland administration; and the
Mckinley administration promises to
Guido its predecessor in laying burdens
upon the great body of American
people. To the Peoples Party alone
can we look for aid Make the initi-
alive and referendum prominent
planks in its platform and we will
sweep the country in 1907 H. F. w.
Park Rapids, MINI. --. e
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Our Position Endorsed,

Editor Representative:
l have been reading your grand pa
per for the past 3 months, and l want
to simply acknowledge in this few lines
my sincere approval of all the noble
sentiments, il behalf Of our poor i'm
poverished countrymen, that you have
hitherto published SO fearlesly and for
the exposure of the pie eaters in the
Peoples Party, who would by their
tricks annihilate the only me-
dunn, by which, if ever, We as a
people can hope to escape the financial
serfdom, that has been brought about
you and spare you to your
loyal cOuntrymen many long years.
Enclosed find Stamps for renewal, also
exhibit CT amounts of exports Of gold,
silver and merchandise, showing a ba-
lance due United States of $2,27S, 1O9,-
CPS. l copied carefully this from an Off
cal document, issued by the Treasury
Dept at Washington, for the month of
March 1897. Be kind enough to pub
lish it prominently and and ask the
gold standard cusses to answer.
Yours fraternally Chas. H. Brook.
Mystic, Conn.
The following is the exhibit referred
to above:
Excess of exports of Mdse from
1860 to 1896 inc lib, ST.
Excess of exports of gold from
1860 to 1896 inc $1,113,137,5 ST.
Excess of exports of silver from
1860 to 1896 inc. S1,113,137 ,571
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16

cate pretend to say that if this nation
coined two hundred millions in gold
pr anrum that the money trusts could
not handle it? If not how is a paltry
bit of silver to do it?
Senator Stewart and the rest of the
Benedict Arnold crowd accuse IE.Wat-
son of being an ally Of Mark Hanna.
All that true patriots need to do is to
prove them the lie by showing who
supported the platform in the last cleo
ton, with the Rotschilds trade mark
on it (redeemable in coin).
l enclose remittance for the Repre-
sentative - L.Chang's letter alone was
worth the years subscription.
Newton Richards.
Reno, New.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16

Col. Duncan FavOrs the Conference.
Permit me. through you, to thank
president Long of your Farmers Ali
ance for his admirable letter. The
conference at Nashville will no doubt
be largely attended, in spite Of the ire
mendous efforts of those who desire to
destroy the Peoples Party. Much good
will be effected, and the masses will
move on, and permit selfconstituted
leaders to perfect their alliance with
the Democratic machine. | know the
views OF the real silver Republicans;
and they agree with you = that each
organization should keep up it's machi-
merry and do all possible to gain
strength for the contest, when patriot
ism will induce us to unite in a COM
mon cause. Blanton Duncan.
Redondo, Cal.
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It's Isrin<,iY,.ea Must Not BE Entrusted
10 Doubtful Parties.
Editor Representative:
Shall the Peoples Party perish? NO.
It's great principles affecting the inter
ests of every laboring man Of the re-
public should not be entrusted to any
one of the old doubtful parties; success
to the Peoples Party means success to
it's principles We believe it will live
to fulfil its mission, the emancipation
of labor II. A. Sand.
COkatO MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16
A SNAP!
so Pounds of Binder Irvine for
Mentioning the Representative.

The H. r. Eagle & Co., Of Chicago,
well known to our readers, and whose
advertisement you find in another col
u,nn, offers to give away, free of charge,
SO pounds of Binder Irvine to everyone
who writes them, stating you saw this
announcement in the Representative.
Write everybody.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16

II. E. Morrill,, of Ocosta, Wash,
writes: Keep in the middle-of
road, and kick out the traitors"
]. H. Tompkins, of Hector, Mimi,
writes mo, the Peoples Party shall
not perish. Stand by the Omaha con-
vention of 1892, and give us the Peoples
Party straight"
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Let Some Labor Exchange Advocate

Let Some Labor Exchange Advocate
Answer.
Ed. Representative:
| have read a little here and there
of the Labor Exchange, but cannot I'M
derstand how it will work on a large
scale, suppose a farmer has several cars
of wheat, hogs and fat cattle to sell
and owes a mortgage in the East when
they will not receive labor checks, how
will he pay it? An answer through the
Representative would perhaps be read
with interest by others as well as my
self.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16
Doesn't Like the Party With the
ROthschild Trade Mark.

HOtnScn1lu lfaOe MARK.
Editor Representative:
It would make an ass laugh to see
Senator Stewart and the senate syndi-
cate (including Willie Bryan whom l
hate to go back on as l am from Suck
erdom); pretending they are trying to
break the money trust of the world by
the coming of more metal, when the
trust could control it, if the production
was five times what it is Do these
patriots think as they say, that free
coinage Of silver will double the money
of the world or that to double it will
do this nation any good as long as it
is all in the hands of Rotschild? Will
Senator Stewart and the senate syndi-
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Editor Representative:

Enclosed please find one dollar.
postal money order, to apply on my
subscription, which see is in arrears.
Direct as before to l. NJ. Mann, Mof1at.
Mimi. Can't get along without the
paper. Long may it live, and the
Peoples Party too. Wish l had money
or talent to help them along, but have
neither j. w. Mann.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16

And even Mr.. Bryan in his reply to
question as to whether the Gold Demo-
Gratis and Silver Democrats would not
unite, claims that there are six and one
half millions of regular" Democrats
showing that he believes the Democrat
party has swallowed the Populist's
boots and breeches. But the Pops are
neither dead nor sleeping, and 1 for
one am strongly of the opinion that if
the regular Democrats and the "bolt-
the regular" Democrats and the bolt
ers" would soon reunite.
JAS. E. MURPHY.
Austin, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16
OUR FORUM
A MIGHTY n UPRISING

The People Rebuke the owen Gang In
Thunder TOnes-MCre Letters Than
We Can Publish in This Issue
Two Pages of Them on Hand
Keen 1t UI-Th1s Is the Way to Use
the "keferendum."
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16

of such men in the state and nation it
will be the best protection this country
ever had. God bless you and every
good man we have"