The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-26

threats of civil war. The moment that
occurs we cease to be q tree people. We
will be driven from pointe to point, by
appeals to our fears, sineifsall s. liberty
is lost. Universal waf is better than
universal slavery. Death is preferable
to bondage: ga Es@<
THE PEOPLES PARTY MUST DIE.
That Ii the Decree Of the owen Gang
Fa.eral sern5 %
The mark is onsskl .wal,s al aown.
The Peoples Parts be crdsifed.
Read the follods 6llIlls q, .san
article written by ta1lseesl4 sa.scales,
Prof. Dobbyn, tosstz = = Dress.
which prints it undsSs endorsing
headlines, thus 'kdade-peliv-
cred by Prof. w. R. Debbyn-To Those
Who Would Defeat Union by Agitating
Distracting Conventions:
1.-The man who will place any obstacle in
the way of union Of ait political forces
which prote st against the rulnOus rule Of
monopoly and the Republican party.
whether he knows it or not is emissary
Of mammon, an agent of plutocracy and
an ally Of the demon of. dissension and de-
struction in American politics. He is doing
the ditry work of the hydra-headed mon
ster of selfishness. and ought either to be
enlightened or suppressed
The meaning of this asinine screed
is that the Peoples Party must AT
ONCE merge with the Democracy and
the Free Silver element. We are not
to wait for a state or national conven-
tion-we are not to afford the member
ship any chance to confer and counsel
together or speak for themselves-but
AT ONCE-at the order of the fOwenites
the Peoples Party is to dissolve and
rearrange itself under the Democratic
banner!! We say Democratic banner
because no Democrat of any prominence
proposes to meet us half way in COM
promise organization. The concessions
and sacrifices are all to be made by the
Peoples Party. There is no future for
us but to march unto the Democratic
camp and lay down out arms. All the
noble record Of the past is to be wiped
out. The campaign Of 1892 is to be
apologized for A wet sponge is to be
passed over our principles. The Cincin-
natl convention of 1891, the Omaha
convention of 1892, the St. Louis con-
vention of 1896, were simply stepping
ofn NV WI to IN RI
the Democratic camp!!!
And who is that makes this demand
An insignificant nobody, named Dob
byn, who, when the rest of us were toll
publishing weakly newspaper which
advocated Prohibition, as the great rem
edy for all the ills of the human family
hard times, low prices, scarce money
supply, corporate domination-and all
the rest. This is the jackassical mani
kin who tells us we must turn Demo-
Gratis or confess ourselves the hirelings
of Mark Hanna! uu4-,t. ,-.--~-u g. 49,.
We have just received a letter from
our gallant leader of Southern Mime
sofa, the brave and sagacious Thomas
J. Meighen, beloved of every Populist in
the state. 1t is private letter, but we
know Mr.. Meighen never says anything
in private which he is not ready to pro-
claim on the house-tops, If any good
purpose can be served thereby; and so
we take the liberty of quoting a few
lines from it. He says:
You will notice Dobbyn talks ol
'Disloyalty to the Peoples Party This
comes with poor grace from man who
last winter came before our state COM
mittee, uninvited and INSISTED THAT
OUR COMMITTEE SHOULD MAKE A
CONFESSION TO THE WORLD THAT
THE PEOPLES PARTY WAS DEAD
And now this dastardly eleventh. hour
convert tries to stab the womb into
which he has surreptitiously crawled,
and destroy the very platform on which
he pretends to stand. Failing in his at
tempt to get the state central commit
tee to proclaim the death of the party
he now writes to Hon. F. c. Gibbs,
chairman of the Peoples Party state
central committee, to prevent him from
putting out call for the selection of
delegates to the Nashville conference
of Peoples Party men. Mr. Gibbs no.
bic answer appears elsewhere in this
paper. me
And the evidence all shows that in do
ing this he, Dobbyn, is not merely a
weak-minded struggling volunteer, but
one of a well-organized gang, headed by
S. M. Owen and the Evening Press.
Referring to Mr.. Owens letter to Ma
jor Hotchkiss Mr. Meighen well re-
marks: .i''.E LIZ. =.
He (Owen) says he wants a new
NAME (for the Peoples Party. If we
had NOMINATED SEWALL FOR VICE
PRESIDENT AT ST.: LOUIS. AS HE.
(OWENO ADVOCATED, we have moth
ing left now to re-christef. =. l
did not favor the calling Of a. cotven-
ton in July by the national committee,
and agree with Chairman Butler so far:
but when 1t comes to a question of the
right of the Reform Press Association
to call a CONFERENCE.-THE to the
question of recognizing 3 or ignoring