The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-20
THE BATTLE IN OHIO.
Reasons Why Populists Remain Pop
ulists.

ulists.
Editor Chicago Express: It is time
something was appearing in the tcl-
! umrs Of our natl iolal papers bearing
upon the Ohio campaign from which
Pcpr!ists can CLEAN a reasonable COM
prehension of matters as they exist in
fact
I was not in this state until after the
| ConvcsltiCns had all been held. Like
the great mass of our people abroad !
| was inclined to prejudice against The
| wisdom of Mr.. Coxey heading a separ-
ate ticket in the state campaign. The
use Of checks given by Hanna's agents
to affect desire for the Populists hav-
ing a separate ticket up, was all IA
| miliar to me, yet I could not reconcile
such an act with the we'll known Ill
plomacy of Mark Hanna and his agents,
where lone Pop had caught them nap
| ping. Nor does the sequel so prove it.
Now let those Populists who are par
aiding Coxey as a Hanna ally take note
of the following observations before
displaying any more feeling in the
matter.
To begin with, an opportunity was
given the Democratic convention by
recognized officers in the Peoples par
ty to effect a union of forces in this
state. But when the question was an
| nounced in convention the Democrats
refused all overtures, and told the Pops
they were not needed.
Let me ask any Populist in any of
the fusion states if he is supporting
fusion ticket when every candi-
date is a Republican or a Democrat =?
And had the Democrats turned you
down cold as they did the Populists in
Ohio wouldn't you be apt to have a
ticket in the field at any odds?
What next? We are told that Cox
ey's candidacy is in the interest Of
Mark Hanna. Let us see for a moment
who is Mark Hanna's candidate for
SONClu uOl, buOuuC1l VI Sld dpllIdu. DuSu-
nell is an ally of Foraker, both motor
iously pitted against Hanna and Me-
Kinley. Who is Chapman, the man
fusionists in other states say Ohio
Populists should support? He is presi-
dent of the Coal Operators Association
of which Mark Hanna is very great
factor. He is member of the same
banking corporation as Hanna and all
his business connections. He is also
allied with Hanna and Cal Brice's iron
and railroad interests, as big a labor
crusher as Hanna or Brice dare be,
and quite as much the embodiment of
all that Populism opposes as Hanna at
his best.
Yet because Populists in Ohio will
not meekly retire from the field they
are branded by western Populists (so-
called) as being directly employed by
Hanna to stay in the lace
Why were those checks given to
Hugo Preor and Rev. Taylor? Because
Major Dick knew when he gave them
they would be displayed in convention,
and prove the most potent disturbing
element with which to stampede the
Populists from supporting their own
candidate over to the support of Chap
man, the very man Hanna's money haC
placed in nomination for the purpose
of humiIiating his political rivals in the
persons of Bushnell and Foraker.
Cyclone Davis, who is rated with
the fusionists, writes to Gen. Coxey,
that when the Democrats refused all
overtures from. the Populists, and
turned them down, there was no other
course open to them but to nominate
their own ticket and manfully support
it, which he offers to assist in if he
comes to the state.
It is not in my heart to characterize
those Populists who from misappre-
hension of the facts, have been parad
ing the Hanna checks to the discredit
Of true Populists in Ohio. They have
taken the newspaper version and on
that authority been led into doing
heroic, stubborn branch Of the great re-
form movement an incalculable injury
It is unjust Let it cease. Ohio Popu
lists are not seeking to interfere with
Nebraska. We are content that local
self government shall prevail. We ask
no more from you who are fighting
under entirely different environments.
If the president of Mark Hannas
Coal Operators Combine we're running
for governor on the Democratic ticket
in Iowa, Kansas or Nebraska, would
Populists support him? Answer that
and you have an answer to the ques-
ton why Coxey runs for governor in
Ohio this year.
HENRY VINCENT.
MaSSillOn o. Oct TO- 1897