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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
STATE PRISON IRVINE.

|ANl-- sal
The management of the Minnesota State Prison has
for sale sufficient quantity of each grade Of Irvine
ufactured at that institution to fill cash orders for less
than load lots accommodate the farmers of Mime
sota This condition will be maintained throughout the
season. regardless of the fact that have refused fill
orders which have been received for than 100
loads Send your orders and they will be filled promptly
Samples and Prices Will be Furnished Request.
In ordering Irvine, state shipping directions plainly When
shipments ordered to stations having agent be
and remit sufficient cash to freight thus securing
prompt shipment All reittances should be made in bank
drafts money registered letters Address all
orders and correspondence to
HENRY WOLFER,
WARDEN OF MINNESOTA STATE PRISON,
SALTWATER, MINNESOTA.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

First it was trim the platform to suit
the uueducated silver forces. Then 1t
was union of the reform forces" Then
Il was Endorsement of Bryan, for a
three months fight to get free silver
Now some of these fusionists are so
bold as to advise the abandonment OF
the PEOPLES Party in favor Of the DEM
ocratic party, while other fllsionis.s de-
clare that the union with the Democrats
is permanent. It has been a slow
/ Temptation, but the boys are onto the
racket now and have knocked the
Scheme overboard-Missouri World.
:n For over twenty years each successive
2 postmaster general has recommended
the adoption of postal savings banks
by the government, but, as each one has
stated in his recommendation, as his
opinion, that the accumulations would
be SO great that the government could
make no legitimate use of it without in
fringing upon or coming into compcti-
ton with the business of her citizens,
the recommendations have been Of no
value.
am of the opinion that a system of
postal savings banks could be adopted
and all of the funds accumulated safely
loaned to citizens for the purpose OF
buying, building or paying for a home
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

decaying corpses along the route were alb
sOlutely unbearable.
AS the train sped through. starving wo-
men waved their arms imploring the
engineer to pick them up.
Many were SO weak after the train
passed, they fell from exhaustion.
The country is an absolute waste.
The starved Inhabitants just press on
until unable to proceed further, then lie
down and die
The mortality in that province Is ter
rible.
The official list shows 1000 deaths there
alone this year
And the United States can tolerate
such cruelty right at their doorsteps:
and see the vultures feeding on human
flesh And the United States not only
claims humanity but Christianity and
the best government under the SUM-
guess the infanta's (Spain's) gold, as
sent. has proven a reality, and has
hypnotized congress, the United State:
watch dogs and lawmakers, so they
can neither see, smell, nor feel II our
watcn dogs had not been hypnotizcd
with the infantas shining gold, wouldn't
they have been mad enough to have
spanked her to within an inch of hef
life, which she has deserved thousand
times over and over?
Who does not recollect the feverheat
Sherman and others of our good an0
true CD watch dogs were in last
winter? They were mad enough to
swallow Spain. But she understands
when there is danger ahead and she
knows that our watch dogs are easy
subjects for her hypnotic gold. That
accounts for our watchdogs' calmness
until short time ago when they began
to bark, and the little infanta Spain
sent another million and half to stop
their barking for another year.
If the devil don't take such servants
the devil is a nymph.
AXEL JORGENSEN,
Keystone, Mimi.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
Direct Liquidation
Editor Representatives.

Editor Representative:
In 1892 l organized the direct legis-
lation league in South Dakota, raising
some 5000 and visiting many counties.
By concerted action some six or eight
counties instructed their delegates to
the POpulist convention TO have direct
legislation included in the state plat
form. When the committee on plat
form met we first adopted resolution
indorsing the Omaha platform and then
adopted plank favoring tn initiative
and referendum. After that nine other
planks were adopted, making eleven in
all. Thinking that too long a plat
form we passed a resolution shat the
first two should be the platform and the
| others, appended resolutions" to be
submitted to the people so soon as di-
rect legislation should win.
Why cannot we do tina. at the next
state convention? This would make
the platform read something like the
following:
PEOPLES PARTY PLATFORM.
The Peoples Party of Minnesota, in
convention assembled, hereby renews its
allegiance to the platform adopted at
Omaha and St. Louis. For this cam
| paign we submit to The voters of Min
| nesota a platform containing single
issue-that of direct legislation ty
| means of the referendum and initiative.
PROPOSED REFORMS
Immediately upon the victory of the
Peoples party upon this issue we will
submit to the voters of the state for
| their sanction or veto, bills concern
ing the issues contained in the follow
! ing questions:
l. Shall homesteads of 81, 900 and less
be exempt from taxation?
2. Shall the voters of the several
counties be empowered to fix the SAL
aries of their county officials?
3. Shall cities be empowered to own
and operate such public utilities as a
majority of their voters shall desire?
4. Shall party candidates be selected
by the system known s,direet nom
| nations? - -
| s. Shall our United States senators
be instructed to work for a national
| referendum on the free coinage of silver
and gold at the ratio Of l6 To- i?
6. Shall mortgages be assessed to the
| holder and the amount thereof be de-
Quoted from the assessment of the
mortgagor? me1ts o, voiIco
| Z. Shall the state begin the construc-
| ton of system of railways, t. be- own
| ed and operated oy the state, beginning
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
Words from saltwater.

Editor Representative:
Enclosed please find 81 to pay one
years subscription to your Middle Of
the-Road scripture. My subscription
run out since June 20. l am very glad
to find that you are not one of those
who cannot get above Is to l in this
reform movement. l am one Of those
kind of mOrtals who want to know
everything worth knowing on all and
every question of our political econ
omy. l want to get at the whole
truth, and they say a suppression Of
the truth is as bad as a lie. All re-
forms must come from the people. When
the Savior came ON earth to reform
and save the people from the devil, he
first tried those they called the doctors
of the law. They were somewhat like the
lawyers and office-holding politicians
of our time. He could do nothing with
them; they were too much like the
gold bugs of our time, and as he was a
middle-of-the-road man and came to
save the people he had to go to the fish
erman-the common herd-and he
| found them all right, ready to follow
right through the middle Of the road
+; and narrow road at that. He tells
us that there are two roads-the broad
road that the old party hacks and the
| lawyers, called doctors of the law, fol.
| lowed, which leads straight 20 hell
and the narrow road, which he wished
the Populists of his time to travel, led
! them up to heaven and brought them
i peace whilst on earth II Our reformers
must do likewise--go1.tobt he people
He had no use for the half -and-hall
Christians. He said: Because thou art
neither cold or hot, would vomit thee
out of my mouth" The half-and-hal
politicians of our day are just the same
as near as l can Judge. "By their acts
you shall know them"
Saltwater, MINI. J. DORIAN.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

We received the following letter from
the T. M. Roberts Supply House, which
explains itself:
The Representative:
Gentlemen-Please note: There has
been a party going around through the
country claiming to represent us, and
collecting from the farmers one dollar
per farmer for Irvine, telling them that
they could have until November to pay
for the balance, or if they paid cash
when the balance reached them, they
would have 5 per cent discount. Now
we state in our advertisements that We
employ no agents, and we also state
that we sell only for cash, and these
two facts ought to be sufficient warn
ing, SO that no one would be imposed
upon by people that go around as these
people have been doing, collecting mon
ey in this way, and representing them
selves to be from u.s.
We thought probably you would like
to put free notice in your paper as
warning to your patrons. and same
might be the means of having This
party arrested although from the num-
Der of complaints that are coming in
and the notices of same in the daily
paper, there must be more than one
party at this kind of work
While We regret this very much in
deed, we are not to blame for it, an(
none of your subscribers, under any
circumstances, should pay anything on
an order to be sent to us, unless they
are personally acquainted with them
or they are neighbors one to another
Yours truly,
7. NJ. ROBERTS.
MINNEAPOLIS MINI,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
Editor Representative:

Editor Representative:
We admire the stand taken by the
Iowa Populists in having their ticket
in the field this fall They stand out
prominently in contrast to those that
are willing to follow a Democrat. 1t
is no use denying that the name of the
ticket will mark all it's voters its own,
its voters acknowledge the Peoples
party, but transform it to a myth,
and, Judas-like, betrayi it with kiss.
The Peoples party natures as it ad-
vances, ever yielding to faithful work
ers. new vigor, new unity, new strength.
All the untiring assaults Of the two old
parties, all the dissolving acids of criti-
cism of our best and ablest men, nave
failed to check it's onward march But
while foes rage, and some of its friends
imagine vain thing the Peoples party
stands unchanged, fresh and youthful,
as on the day of it's organization.
H. l.. SAND.
Stockholm, Mimi
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

The Minnesota State Fair, which will
be held at Hamline, midway between
the two cities from Sept. 9Th to the
18th, will be the best ever seen in the
Northwest. The past two exhibits have
been especially prosperous, and as the
result the association offers premiums
and purses to the amount Of over
$4,000. This large sum is stimulating
every department, and the entries OF
exhibitors are pouring in as never be-
fore.
The buildings are being Overhauled
repainted, repaired and renovated. The
grounds generally are being put in
order, walks and roads repaired, and
the race track is absolutely in super!
condition. The purses offered for the
races aggregate $500, and some of the
most celebrated horses in the country
will be present. Happy Jack, the ia
nous horse which PAGES in 2:O9 without
rider, driver or sulky will give daily
exhibition during the races. He is the
original horse to give this unique ex-
hibition.
The displays of stock, poultry, dairy
products and farm machinery will be
unusually large and the whole exhibit
will be a veritable harvest home fol
the farmer.
In addition to the exhibits there will
be various amusements, such as balloon
ascensions and other attractions. The
railroads return exhibits free, carrying
them direct to the grounds. One fare
for the round trip will be given visi
tors and steam and street cars run III
rect from the Twin Cities to the
grounds Both St. Paul and Minneap
oils have carnivals state fair week, civ
ing free evening street displays. The
whole week will be one of pleasure ant
instruction. Parties desiring to CAM
on the grounds can obtain the free us'
of tent by writing to Secretary r. w
Randall at Hamline.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
900 Reward 800

The readers OF this paper will he
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all Its stages, and
that Is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is
the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease requires con-
stitutional treatment Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in do
ing its work. The proprietors have
so much faith in its curative powers
that they offer One Hundred Dollars fol
any. case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials. Address
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

Prof. DObbyn Taken to Task.
Editor Representative:
notice in the Journal of 22d, w. R.
Dobbyn says: Il have never gone back
on a friend or betrayed a promise"
Mr.. Dobbyn's memory is short, very
short, or else he knowingly tells that
which is not so. OF all the men in Hen!
nepin county who take active part I'M
politics, Prof. Dobbyn makes the most
mistakes, profits the least by experi4
ence and is the first to suggest "a little
caucus to agree on men we will sup
port" in order to down an opponent
To my certain knowledge L. M. Aver
L. D. Brown, E. R. Lynch and Prof.
Dobbyn were the ringleaders of the
Peoples party Hennepin county state
league, and the first two were outspok-
en- against Donnelly over a. year pre-
vious to the St. Louis convention, and
it was my impression all along that
both Lynch and Dobbyn were also op-
posed to Donnelly's advancement po-
litically. 1 therefore was not surprised
at their conduct in st. Louis. But a
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
REFORM BOOKS AT GOLD STANDARD
PRICES.

We have arranged with Charles H. Kerr
G. Co.. of Chicago. to send any Of our read
ers a large package of excellent reform
books, all different, for only ~ cents. The
package contains the following books:
Warren's Money Chart. a new and i'm
portant work, 135 pages.
The People VS.. the Goldbugs. by A. D.
Warner, 144 pages.
The New Democracy and Bryan Its
Prophet, by C. r. Tuttle. 50 pages.
How to Govern Chicago. by G. r. futile.
story from Pullmantown, by Nico
ech-Meyer. 1l0 pages.
The White Slave, or THE Cross of Gold, >"
nv Helen l.. Sumner. 81 pages.
The People or the Politician, a handbook
of Direct Legislation. by r. L. Taylor. 60
pages. .
nv Jesse F. Orton, 81 pages.
Illustrated First Reader in Social Econ
Sound Money from Business Stand
point, by F. A. Cleveland, Phi. B., 80 pages.
These ten books together contain IT'S
pages Every of them is we'll worth
reading, and will help make votes If given
dfT lent to those who have thus far voted
with the plutocrats through ignorance.
They are worth $1.60 at regular prices. and
the supply will not last long. Send 30 cents
to this office today and they are yours.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
Weyler's Brutality.
Aitkin, MINI

Editor Representative:
l hope you will excuse me for in
truding on your patience once in a
while. When Christian nations can
under a fine mantle of hypocricy MUIR
der people by the thousands, so man
can count 300 dead bodies from the
car windows, is it not enough to arouse
a feeling of horror in the breast Of ia
human being, even if he had heart
of stone? Read the following from the
Minneapolis Times of the 9th inst:
HAVANA July 26.--(New York Journal
Telegram)-A prominent English tobacco
buyer of an Ango-American firm, return
ing by rail yesterday, after a fortnight's
sojourn in the Pii{ar dtl Rio district
tells shocking sSoryiiof frightful dis
tress along the linz of'nthe western rail-
way. y
q. Large numbers of'pacfffcos. fleeing from
the famire-stricken country, crowded the
track.
DEAD LIE ALONG THE RAILWAY.
From the car wirHsow betwee Pinar del
Rio City and Havana ffa1cOunted 300 dead
bodies on the emba nknents and the grass
near the line. with fiocks of vultures hover
ing over them. eE
The pestilential oSors farising from the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

vestigation impels us to the conclusion
the only path open to us t. deprive
money of it's influence in our legisla-
tive halls, and until that is accomplish
ed all efforts will be futile for the ac-
complishment of any great reforms
Push it along. J. r. LOWE
Sacred Heart, Mimi, Editor Peoples
Waterman
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
POOre ON the Professor.

Editor Representative:
1t seems strange after Prof. Dobbyn
was completely "vindicated" by the state
central committee, he still keeps in
great labor, and after so often an
nouncing to the whole world that he is
the true Populist editor, yet finds
it necessary to write over column
editorially to explain his position. Now
1 have been a careful reader of his
paper for several years, yet from all
can gain from his TRADES for the past
three or five months, it will be neces-
sary for him to write many more col
umns of explanatory editorials before
| can see any good to come to the re-
form movement from his writings or
recognize him as a true Populist, and
unless he can get down . notch from
his abuse 1 will be forced to the con-
clusion that among the blunders made
at the st. Louis convention last year
the greatest one was electing Prof.
committee. After apparently exhausting
his vocabulary in his abuse of those
who differed with him in regard to the
national conferences, he now appeals
| organize the state. Nearly everyone
| who, all these years, have worked in
season and out of season to make the
] Peoples party and maintain the party,
/ ho hror dod sfr-oi 10
| question is if those who sacrificed SO
much all these years to organize and
maintain the Peoples party are wiped
out by this great learned political
/ "mogul,' as rebels" jumpers and
TRAITORS" upon what lines are we to
take up organizing Every organizer
must advocate the infallibility of the
national committee and particularly
the professor, or be eternally wiped out
as a traitor by him.
| am unable to say what line of action
it is best to take to organize a body
| of professors" but this do know, the
action of the editor of the Progressive
| Age, and others on the same line, has
| done more in the same space to com
plete the decentralization of the farm
ers than any other one cause; and he
can "toot'' his learned "bazoo" from
now until after election, and SO far as
farmers are concerned he will organize
"Nit.'
If he is SO anxious to see the masses
of the people organized. why should
he continue to berate those who, by
their untiring work, long before he was
identified with reform, outside of pro-
hbition, created the Peoples party
suppose he feels that the party will be.
come so respectable, if those workers
can be driven out, his so-called "bet.
ter element will rush in and embrace
his sO-called allies, who are now max.
ing grimaces at the Peoples party, as
the little boy pictured in an old spell.
grass at him to make him come down
out of the apple tree. l see no hope
for the future in an organized way
Events are shaping things rapidly, anC
there is no doubt in my mind but mex
year will witness some political shake
ups" that may leave some wise pro
fessional political "know-alls" in
rather fOrlorn position, and possibly
they may be able in a weak manner
to inquire about the political Cyclone,
as in the ''shake-up' they will hav,
but little time for observation
HAMLINE V. POORE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
Initiative and Referendum.


| want to emphasize the Importance
of the position taken by L. C. Long
in the last number of the Representa-
tive. that the Peoples party ought to
make the initiative and referendum the
leading plank in it's platform of the
future. When this is obtained all else
will follow naturally. Men of all par
ties, the educated and ignorant, the
rich as we'll as the poor, recognize the
fact that we no longer have a govern
ment by the people. Representative
government is an ignominious failure
and the means used to make it a fail
ure is Fastening the country to the vor-
tex of ruin. The womb of the future
holds foetus of monarchy, or we
must make our country in fact what
1t Is in name-a government CT, by ana
Tor the people. Our reading and in
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

with a line from st. Paul to Duluth,
the labor to be paid for in certificates
which shall in turn be receivable for
freight and passenger charges on such
railways and also receivable for income
and inheritance taxes?
w. H. KAUFMAN,
Editor Jeffersonian, Faribaut, Mimi.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
NOTICE GRAIN SHIPPERS.

The Duluth Grain and Produce Co.
of Duluth, Mimi, guarantee you from
to cents above Minneapolis prices
for wheat oats, barley and flax They
handle butter and eggs and all farm
produce.
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on the monthly installment plan.

on the monthly insta11ment plan.
The rate of interest could be made
very low, as there would be millions
of dollars deposited in sums OF less than
IS. which would draw no interest, and
the balance would probably not draw
over per cent, provided it was subjec.
to no taxes-Dr. David H. Reeder. In
The New Race
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

The Old Reliable American Noncoaformist ia
again in the family that gave it birth. and Is
celebrating Its return by more vigorous. bold
and outspoken demand for radical reforms than
any other journal of national circulation. 1t is
edited and published by PROF C. VINCENT
who is we'll known political speaker in more
than 20 states 1t is spicy. but not iconoclastic:
bright. but not bitter; logical and profound. but
not dry and prosy. In short 1t Is just what
every Populist family should read, and every
Populist should delight in extending its circu-
lation in his locality.
1t is the NEWSIEST. BRIGHTEST. SPICIEST
and ABLEST Populist paper In the United
States. and it is read in every quarter Of the
country. 1t Is six-column, eight-page weekly
journal Of established reputation and circulation.
founded in 1879 Subscription price. 500 a
year. Trial trip months % cents.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

Do you want to read Bryan's book:
1t is complete history Of the last CAM
paign, and contains all the arguments
in favor of bimetallism. Send us S1.5o
and the book will be delivered to you.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
Iowa POpuliSts Endorsed.

Minneapolis, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
MRS. L. G.. JOHNSON
A Warning.

We received the following letter from
explains itself:
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-11-04
| OYERO COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
HoLBROOK.

j. FL. Prunty is on the sic!; list.
John Wasson returned home
Sunday and will begin school
soon.
G.. p. Randall has been having
great success fishing on the reser-
voir this week.
Mrs. VIM. Taylor is suffering
from an attack of fever.
Miss Mayme Wasson, of Rocky
Ford, visited her parents Saturday
and Sunday.
Parties from La Junta have
taken the contract to move the
Lakeview school house IL miles
southwest. They are compelled
| to proceed quite slowly in order to
take it through in good shape.
E. E. Taylor started for eastern
Arapahoe 90. Monday with herd
of cattle.
The Democratic rally held al
Center last Friday evening was
we'll attended.
Mrs. Allen Moore left last
Thursday for visit to her child.
rem at Good Hope, Ill.
A. w. Shelton and sons and G.
ID. Horner returned home from
Utah Monday with fine bunch ol
lambs. Mr.. Shelton will feed
310O lambs this winter, ]. L. Ben.
net 525 and Randall & Stutzmar
1000.