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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10
ANOTHER RICHMOND,

While we cannot depend implicitly
upon the gossip of the newspapers, we
can at least learn something of what is
going on. Even a we'll told lie may be
instructive.
We find the following in recent issue
Of the St. Paul Dispatch:
dispatch Bureau, Postal Telegraph Cable
Bulding.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The preliminary
political gossip concerning the coming state
campaign in Minnesota, has reached Wash
ilgton, and various views are expressed re-
lative to the situation. OF all candidates
mentioned for governor, Tams Bixby seems
to be the probable winner. 1t is said that
If BXby heads the Republican ticket, John
Lind will not care to trust his candidacy
before the people in second attempt to
reach the Minnesota state house. In this
connection, a story has been going around
this week that the Fusion-free silver fol-
lowing are starting a quiet boom for JUS
tice Thomas CAVITY, of the supreme court.
for the POpocratic nomination for governor.
letter was received here recently, in
which Judge Canty's candidacy dis
cuSSed, and 1t was stated that there is a
strong sentiment developing in his favor.
CAVITY is pioneer PopOcrat. When he
was nominated for the supreme bench.
he was Endorsed by the old alliance party.
His recent decision in certain cases invOlv-
ing the rights of the state to regulate
freight rates for railroad companies, it Is
said, is responsible for his gubernatorial
boom.
If it be true that Judge CAVITY will
throw his "beaver" into the guberna-
torial ring, he will be found very
formidable competitor by any one that
stands in the way. He is shrewd indus
trious and persevering, with a thorough
knowledge of public affairs and public
men.
The immense falling off in the Re-
publican vote in recent elections
throughout the country will revive in
terest in Minnesota politics, and the
Pcpulist nominations will not go beg
cling for want of candidates.
On with the battle and may the best
men win. 1. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10
CALL THEM DOWN.

There is hope on the part of the ad-
ministration men that Senator Wolcott,
of Colorado: Carter, of Montana and Man
tie, his colleague, will swing into line and
support the administration policy on the
question of financial legislation.
1t is said that Senator WolcOtt is under
obligation to stand by the president. Be-
fore he was appointed to head the oimetal-
lie commission Wolcott was warned that
his efforts to secure an International agree
ment would fail. He is said to have re-
sponded: We'll, if l can get a chance to
present the matter to the governments on
the other side, and do not succeed, then
will support whatever policy the president
advocates"
If Wolcott and the Montana senators
stand by this provisional agreement. there
will still be enough Republican senators
to compensate for the loss of one or two
in todays contests. Hence, the fate Of the
nation is not hanging in the balance, as
Senator Platt and some of the people out
in Ohio would have the country believe-St.
Paul Dispatch.
Senators Wolcott, Carter and Mantle
represent in the United States senate
constituencies strongly anti-single- gold
standard. The founders of this nation
intended our government to be a gov
eminent of, for and by the people, and
the great majority of the American peo-
pie have never abandoned that inten-
ton. Our constitution contemplates
that the will of the people shall pre-
vail. No provision was made in that
instrument looking to the sale of a
whole state by traitorous senator
Colorado and Montana are states in
which the people have often reached
justice by the short cut, and should
these three senators betray the trusts
reposed in them by their constituents.
in justice their high official positions
should not save them from the short
cut. A political apology, an expression
of regret, tardy recall from office, are
plainly not suited to such emergency
cases. E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10

other end Of it. They expect to run into
heat so intense that 1t will give forth
steam enough to run all the railroads
in Pennsylvania. They may happen to
strike chimney and go plumb down
into a plutocratic, honest-money con-
vention, with the devil acting as presi-
dent pro tenn, during the temporary abb
sence of Mark Hanna.
If now some one would drill a hole,
two miles deep, into human nature, they
would probably strike a solid chunk OF
LIE, one hundred miles square, which
they would find to be the foundation or
cornerstone of all human history, poll
tics and belief
This newspaper is kind of perpetual
Hold your principles" circular, ad-
dressed weekly to all the honest men
of the Northwest.
Get clear of yours, J. Adam, as soon
as you can, and come in and help lis
protect the human family from the in
finite liars of the world. I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10

means doubling or trebling of the in
come Of the people Of the country: this
means twice or three times as much
money to pay our debts with as we row
have; this means the extinguishment of
debt and general consequent prosperity.
To tell us now that the present condi-
ton, where almost everybody is paying
interest to somebody else, is happy
and prosperous one, is as much as to
say that the less one has the more he
has.
All we need to bring this line of ar
guing to the reductio ad absurdum is to
restore the ancient law of selling the
people for the debts they owe. This
would give us, according to the Times
Herald, the perfection of human happi-
ness; for IL it be good thing to owe
next year, would it not be better thing
to owe a debt that we never can pay at
all? And If it be a good thing to take
a mans horses. COWS, chickens and
wheat, and land, for what he owes,
would it not be a still better thing to
take his wife and children and himself?
We see that in some of the Southern
states, they are now selling men, who
will not, or cannot get work, on the
auction block to the highest bidder. It
would not take much of change to
restore the blessed conditions of the
past; and it must not be forgotten that
the Peoples party is the only party in
the United States, or in the world, that
stands up in defense of the common
rights of mankind.
Debt is a disease. All this talk about
the debtor and the creditor being in a
happy partnership, is nonsense. We
might just as well argue that the hang
man and the man he hangs are part
ners in firm for mutual improvement,
and that the rope is simply an article
of association. But the one goes home
with the money in his pocket, and the
other goes to his grave
What the world needs is justice--not
plausible excuses for injustice.
Relieve labor from oppression, and
let it enjoy the fruits of it's own indus
try. That is all it asks.
The horrible degradation of this lying
age is exemplified when we see intelli-
gent and educated men, the editors of
newspapers, forced to argue that it is
good for a man to be compelled to sup
port another man, because of the in
adequacy of the money supply, which the
agents of the people have brought about.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10
A COURTEOUS INTERCHANGE.

Adam Bede says in his interesting
Budget"
"1gnatius Donnelly denies any connection
with the hOld-yOur- wheat circular of six
years ago, although he has always been
credited with it's authorship. We love Igna-
titus just the same, and wish he would. hold
his crowd If he isn't going to be busy mold
ing his wheat"
Thanks, Brother Bede, for your kind
expressions; but no one at the time the
hold-your-wheat circular was issued,
charged that we were the author Of it,
or had anything to do with it, except
to denounce it. That was a lie invent
ed long afterwards and perpetuated
with wonderful pertinacity We expect
that when we die our heirs will have
to place upon our monument a declara-
ton that we had nothing to do with
the hold-your-wheat circular. If they
don't the Republicans will meet once a
year in our grave-lot to pass resolu-
tons censuring us for it.
The truth is, Brother Bede, that If
you are able to take the lies out of the
world, the whole thing would collapse.
When the Lord said, LET there be
light" the devil said, LET there be
lies;" and it has been nip and tuck
between the light and the lies ever since.
Some scientists are now engaged in
drilling an artesian we'll near Pittsburg,
Pa, which is to be two miles deep, sim
ply to see what they will find at the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10

600 each, to presidents and general man
ayers, one government officer with $5,-
600 or 5000 a year, could supervise the
whole business. All Determinations be-
tween individuals and localities would
cease; just as in the postal service Five
billion dollars of wasted stock, bogus in
debtedness would be wiped out, and
cease to take $3OO,OOO,OOO annually out
of the peoples pockets. The corpora
lions would no longer interfere In poll
tics, to select judges, and elect legisla-
lures, and bride jurymen, and own news
papers. The people would feel like John
jenkins did, after he buried his wife.
Sa1h he: when l came home and went
to bed and did not find Maria there,
thrashing around and raising the devil,
felt as If l had moved into a new
country"
1t would be paradise!
Think of it! Honest elections; hon
est judges; honest legislatures; honest
jIrymen; honest newspapers; HONEST
POLITICIANS; honest men. Cheap
rates; cheaper excursions; prosperity
everywhere, and life a daily picnic!
Even the corporations would be better
of, for in the scramble they would prob
ably sell their over bonded concerns for
more than they would ever bring at
private sales; and retire from business
with their pockets full. But the people
would be freed rom bondage forever.
What say you? Are not such results
worth fighting for? l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10
CONTEMPTIBLE.

There are some mighty mean men in
this world; their principle is that when
a man or woman is down, it is the first
duty Of Christian and patriot to kick
them
We have been striving to raise a fund
to purchase a home for Mrs. Mary E.
Lease, who is homeless. We have re-
ceived all sorts of letters from parties
in Kansas against Mrs. Lease. Some
of the writer's of these letters pretend
to be Populists We received the other
day one such letter, to which we paid
no attention, but day or two after
wards, we found the substance of it
given in an article in the Minneapolis
Journal. 1t was very evident that while
writing to us as an assumed Populist,
the author of the letter had at the
same time, written to the MINNEAPOLIS
Journal "a Republican paper), so as
to head off, if possible, anything being
done to assist Mrs. Lease The follow
ing is the Journal article:
IGNATIUS THE INNOCENT.
Brer Donnelly is victim of misplaced
confidence, not for the first time perhaps
for Ignatus has put trust in goood many
badly frayed creeds and out-worn people
since his kaleidoscope career began
His robust appeals for Decent subscrip-
lions to aid that poor and down-trodden
friend or the people, Mary +. Lease in
her patheticaly described attempts to re-
deem her home from the grasp of the mort.
gage shark-the same mortgage shark IN
lCt moo hot
ern widow who depends on the Lease mort
gage Interest for portion of her living
nave all been turned to ridicule by the
facts. Leading Kansas Populists have
sent Mr.. Donnelly the sad intelligence that
MRS. Lease doesn't need any 1O-cent help.
that she Is electiOneering in New York
on big salary and is able to wear silks
and satins and diamonds and live at a
fashionable New York city hotel" These
Kansas Populists, whose wives. prohas>
don't wear satin and diamonds added Nat
Mrs Lease was able to mingle with mo
nabobs she had for years denounced in tbe
choicest expletives at her command and
that, On, unhappy woman. she seemed not
to dislike the comminglement
And so another doll is stuffed with saw
dust Alas for too confidng Ignatius. INas
for misguided Mary ELLEN. Alas, too for
Kansas Populism whose high priestess has
mingled with the enemy!
This is very contemplate to the last
degree. Mrs. Lease is not only Door.
but very poor; she is not lecturing on a
big salary In New York, but there in
hope that change of climate may benefit
her young daughter, who is exceedingly
sick and In danger Of death. Mrs. Lease.
herself, writes us that her own health
is failing, and that she contemplates re-
moving to the state of Washington on
account of the milder climate.
When a lady is engaged to lecture
before large and possibly fashionable
audience, she is expected to wear at
least decent apparel. The contemplate
dog who Is writing these letters against
her, would perhaps like to see her ap-
pear on the stage of an opera house;
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10
A NEW KIND OF FUSION.
An exchange SAYS:

South Dakota poled light vote. Demo-
Gratis joined with the Republicans against
the POpulists. OF the eight circuit judges,
the Republicans elect five In the Second
district Populist majority of LOCO was
overturned, Republicans winning by 500.
Later returns may add to Republican VIC
tories
We hope this statement is not true.
The Democrats have been claiming that
they were the natural allies of the
Populists and the hereditary enemies OF
the Republicans. If they have, in the
state of South Dakota, united with the
Republicans to defeat the Populists, who
carried the state in the last election,
1t is a shameful abdication of all prin-
cipleS, and will drive the disguised
Populists back into combinations with
the Republicans Also 1t looks as if we
are coming upon period of chaos.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10

clad in a straw hat and gunny sack.
Why these people should pursue a
woman, and an able woman, and poor
woman in this way, passes our compre-
hension. We hope such attacks will
simply be an incentive to Populists to
take hold and carry out the purpose for
which we started this fund.
For Gods sake let us have some char
they have been laboring for our benefit
I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10
ROLLING IN.

There are about $1,000 due to us for
back subscriptions; but they are now
coming in at a rapid rate.
Pay up, brethren, we contemplate
some important improvements in our
paper; and the sooner you pay up the
sooner we can accomplish them
We shall open the campaign of 1898
In a week or two. We want you to
get us up club.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10

as soon as the rank and file perceive
that this means, for their party, death
devils and send them down a steep
place into the sea-
In the meantime it will be we'll for the
members of the Peoples party to keep
their feet firmly planted upon the Oma-
ha platform, whatever mutations of pol
itics may occur; the principles therein
contained are immortal and must finally
triumph. We cannot all of us obtain
offices, but each and every one of us
can do his duty for the right in his day
and generation l. ID.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10
AN AGE OF LIES.

I quote the following from a recent
issue of the Chicago Times-Herald:
Warnings as to the physical dangers of
the Klondike region have been repeated
again and again, only to be disregarded by
thousands of gold-seekers.
Now warnings az to financial dangers
are being given not only from the gold
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NUGGETS OF PROSPERITY.
From the G. o. r. KlOndi K e

NEW YORK, Nov. 4-Oscar Hammer
stein, the theatrical manager. today as
signed for the benefit of creditors, to Lewis
I. Phillips.
Mr.. Hammerstein's attorney made the
following statement:
THE liabilities will be between $50 900
to $4,000. regard the assignment as tel,i-
porary matter. which will doubtless ave
little visible effect on Mr.. Hammerste!n's
affairs"
OF course! 1t rather helps a man to
fail for $4,000!
SALTWATER. Mimi. Nov. 4.-The sher-
if has closed Mclaughlin & Kilty's shoe
store on replevin action brought against
J. S. O'Bren by Assignee Setter. The
amount involved Is $4,000.
Senator OBrien Is in favor of Sound
money" That's right. The sound of
the sheriff's hammer, and the sobs Of
women and children, can be heard all
around it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-10
M'CLEARY AND SILVER.

The pedagogue has found it profitable
to mislead the people. He is no longer
teaching school in Mankato but is MAX
ing money and fame on large scale.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-19
THE STATE E1OMOLIGIST'S
REPORT.

Prof. " G. johnson, State cntomoligist,
has about completed his work for the
present year and is now on the Eastern
Shore looking after experiments now be-
inr conducted against the San Jose scale.
Upon his return he will enter upon the
work of preparing his report. On account
)" 'ack Of funds Professor Johnson has
been unable to visit more than one third
of the places in the State where his pre-
sence was desirable. The appropriation
for the cntomo,os's. work and travelling
expenses are not sufficient. Professor
johnson states that had it not been for
tie aid received from the Agricultural
College, the Agricultural Experimental
Station and from private individuals, he
would not have been able to accomplish
the work done by his department.
At meeting Of the Beitsvillc Grange
last Tuesday night Il committee Of three
was appointed to investigate the public
school system and to report at the next
regular meeting any changes that seem
expedient whereby the present system of
control and government of our rural
schools can be bettcred. The committee
is Prof r. H. Alvey, Prof. w. G. john
son and Mr. II. J. Patterson.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-19
FALSE PACKING.

\ two DAYS session of the Farmers In
stitutc, under the direction of Mr.. William
s. Amoss, closed at La Plata on Saturday.
The Bel Alton Farmers Club attended
the institute in 4 body, and there were
also many ladies in the audience. The
county, and it is believed that much good
will result from the meeting. The prin-
cipal speeches were made by Capt. r. w.
Sylvester, president Of the Agricultural
College, Nj james E, Rice and Prof. S.
3. Hedges.
After the close of saturdays session Of
the institute the Bel Alton Farmers Club,
in conjunction with twenty seven other
influential planters of Charles county,
adopted resolutions relating to false pack
ing of tobacco. The resolutions referred
to an account Of false packing of Charles
county tobacco, which had appeared some
time ago, and hich, III the opinion ofth
club, reflected upon the people of Charles
county generally. The resolutions con-
tinuc as follows:
knowing the injury to the planters
that has for years resulted from the dis
honest methods of certain parties in
Charles county, and, moreover, that the
State treasury has been made to pay out
| large sums Of money in the way of re
| carnations. in the above mentioned cas-,
| nearly $500, which ought to Lave gone to.
| ward decreasing our taxes, and recogniz
| iny that self preservation is the first law
of nature, and that unless something is
| done to put an end to this, We will lose the
markets of the world for our only money
! crop: therefore resolved, That we, th,
members OF the Bel Alton Farmers Club
| do condemn and denouCce all such dis
honest practices, and Do declare that thC
planters of Charles county had no hand il
the said fraudulent transactions, anC
knowing all the facts in the case, anC
lceminr it an injustice that they shout,
bear the oCiun If others dishonesty, d,
assert that it was the deed Of o@e pacllc
of bought tobacco
The clab also condemned the practic
of marking hogShcads with fictitious o
other names than III Sc Of The packers C
shipElrs . Il violation of the law, and rec
! commended that the Le%islaturc be pcti
toned to change the Law relating to lie
c,aH.atjou., to the effect that all recIama
tioGs snail he against the original p&cke
or shipper.