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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30
VICTORY,

Mr.. Donnelly Receivers Judgment
Press, for One Thousand Dollar.
and the Cost of the Suit.
We had busy time, last week, in St.
Paul, prosecuting our suit against the
Pioneer Press for libel
On the 4th of March last the legislature
met in joint session to pass resolutions
congratulating VIM. Mckinley upon his
inauguration as president of the United
States. Several speeches were made. and
we were called upon, by the joint con-
ventiOn, for some remarks. We spoke
kindly of Mr.. Mckinley; and said that if
we had had any doubts as to whether we
should vote for the resolution they were
solved by the fact that Cleveland was
going out as Mckinley came in. We
pronounced him the worst man that had
ever dwelt in the White House and allud-
ed to his Indifference to the treatment
of the Christians Of Armenia, the patriots
of Cuba, and the working people of this
country; and we added that he had the
ignominious distinction of being the first
president of the United States who had
made millions while holding office.
The Pioneer Press seized upon that ut
terance as an excuse for villainously
abusive article about ourself We at once
called on them to retract, and, as they
failed to do so in the time fixed by law,
we instituted suit against the company
for $4,000 damages. The result is an
nounced in the headlines of this article.
Our attorneys were our son Stanislaus
J. Donnelly. and his partner, Fred N.
Dickson. They conducted the case with
wonderful ability, and altogether out
classed Judge Flandrau and his man
Friday" Squires. This was the general
verdict of all who heard the case.
While we cannot hope that this will be
the end of the wrtched Wheelock's per-
secutions, he will at least hereafter attack
us within the limitations of gentlemanly
intercourse dated breath and
whispering humbleness" For he we'll
know that whenever he transgresses pro-
priety he will be pounced upon at once.
He will find it expensive business to play
the blackguard
We are informed that ten of the twelve
Jurymen voted to give Mr.. Donnelly
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SIGNIFICANT.


The Chicago Times Herald has this to
say about the attempts of the Republicans
to force the Populists into the Democratic
ranks:
The coming gubernatorial campaign
in Iowa is invested with more than ordin-
airy interest because of the fact that It
will be held under the new law which
provides that the name of no candidate
shall be printed upon the official ballot
for the same Office under more than one
party heading. The Illinois legislature
enacted a law of similar character at its
recent session, which received the ap-
prevail Of the executive. The Illinois
measure further provides that any per-
sen whose names has been presented as
candidate, or who has been nominted by
more then one convention, caucus or
meeting of qualified voters, may cause
his name to be withdrawn from any such
nomination by his request in writing,
before an officer to take acknowledgment
of deeds and filed with the secretary of
state not less than fifteen days, or with
the proper clerk not less than eight days
previous to the day of election, and no
name SO withdrawn shall be printed upon
the ballot under the party appellation or
title from which candidate has with
drawn his name
The politicians of this state and of
Iowa are quite curious to see the results
OF the first experiment under this law.
The measure, of course, was designed to
prevent fusion, but there is some doubt
among party men as the efficacy of the
enactment TO accomplish this result.
While the law will prevent the Pop
ulists, Free Silver Republicans and Dem
ocrats from nominating the same candi-
date and placing his name on the ballot
under three different party designations,
yet it is certain to bring about fusion on
the entire ticket from governor down.
Such laws represent the more or less
futile attempts of the politicians to pre-
serve the party alignment. The signs Of
the times indicate, however, that the
growth of political which
means new 'isms" and new parties-can-
not be curbed by legislation"
The laws referred to were not made to
prevent fusion" but to compel it, under
the hope that the different elements
would fly apart at the ballot box.
We have no such law in Minnesota but
by cooperating with the Democrats last
fall we will have to get up petitions,
signed by two thousand sworn petition
ers, to enable us to 60 upon the official
ballot. And the Democrats will have to
take the same course. The attorney gen.
eral will SO rule, and if he does not the
supreme court may. We cannot trust
the sense of justice of partisan opponents
We tried to cure this dilemma by leg
islation last winter but the Republican
leaders killed our bill in the senate.
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Men md Pigs.

In an imaginary community of pigs
described by Carlyle. one of the chief rul-
ers was asked, what is justice!" The
answer was: "Your own share of the
general Swine's-trough, not any portion
Of mine" But what is my share?" my
share" answered the chief pig, ''is, on
the whole, whatever l can contr1ve to get
without being hanged or sent to the
hulks." Some people are cruel enough
to believe that there are communities of
men where this same sort of philosophy
obtains.
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that is base, and decent men, men who
have any respect will soon shun such
positions as they would a leper. The
corporations, however, will always find
enough inscriptions men to fill the
places and serve them.-Appeal to
Reason.
If the judges were confined to adjusting
the disputes of individuals they would We
all right; but when you permit them to
decide what the laws of a country shall
be you put strain on them too great for
human nature to bear.
He who can negative the laws makes
the laws; and he who makes the laws
has all the billions of wealth of country
at his mercy. To put such power into
the hands of a few men who, the other
day. had hard scratching to get enough
to eat, is tremendous and colossal folly
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for a party for pushing the principles OF
the Populists as promulgated at Omaha
to the front, or at least some OF them
other than free coinage? How will the
transportation, land and financial Ques-
tions fare if they are to remain to be de-
termined by the present policy of the
party in power? The present discomfort
will still go on and unrest increase. Will
free coinage alone solve the great labor
question? Being only farmer l am
not supposed to know much any way,
and may be answered, 1T will solve it.
SELF Well, yes, will admit it will solve
itself some way as every question will.
II felt deeply Inundated last summer
by the barter and trade that was, so to
say, forced onto us by cunning design
yet will admit that many of the leading
advocates of that fusion were as honest
and sincere about it as l possibly may
have been in my disapproval. The Peo-
pies party did its full duty nobly under
the humiliating circumstances las .ney
= were too many of us) they were placed
under and by whom? Had the other
parties to the alliance done their duty as
Loyalty. the result would have been so
decisively different that there would have
been no hope of counting us out. Still
l may have too small a comprehension of
the audacity Of the Republican machine!
l for one believe that the counting out
act was done-that is to say that if every
bona fide legal vote had been counted for
whom cast. that Bryan and Lind would
have been declared elected"
We are glad to hear from Senator
Probstfield. He is entitled to be heard
He is very able and honest man: and
his words are words of wisdom.
He simply expresses the universal con-
census of opinion among Populists: -
The Peoples party must live and not
die.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30

The COllierville (Tenn.) Star says that
when an old subscriber died the other
day. leaving fourteen years subscription
unpaid, the editor appeared at the grave
as the lid was being screwed down for the
last time and put into the coffin linen
buster, a thermometer. a palm leaf fan
and recipe for making ice." Tennes-
see editors are noted the world over for
their thoughtfulness and kind hearted
ness.
That editor meant well. but we dom
see how a fan and linen buster would
be of any use to our delinquents when
they die They would shrivel into moth
ingness in the tenth part of second A
suit of asbestos with headgear and boots
OF the same might be of some use; and
we will furnish them to all who notify us
that they are about to die in arrears to
1.-THE Representative"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30
DOING NOBLE WORK,

"Prof. Cation has been invited to parti-
a large audience, June Is, in Nordeen
hall. He made. as usual, a splendid
speech. He has been doing a great work
for reform. The Evening Press says of
him.
prof. Cation has been invited to par
ticipate in the Ohio campaign and notified
that appointments are being made for
him in some of the leading cities of the
state. He will continue the present work
in Minneapolis until obliged to leave for
the Buckeye state. Friends of the cause
desiring dates of this kind made in diff
ferent parts of the city will please con-
suit with Prof Cation or leave word with
Manager Starkey of the Press"
Our friends throughout the state can
not do better than avail themselves of
his services. Write to our Mr.. P. J. Sc
berger and he will communicate with
him.
We are glad to know that Prof. Cation
is an earnest Populist, and is strongly
opposed to all efforts to kill the Peoples
party. He takes no stock in the doctrine
that we should abandon our name and
principles and merge with the Dem
ocrats.
He is one Of the rising young men of
our party-bofd,. earnest and indefatig-
able. 49, .
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30

mission cannot make rate of any kind.
1t has decided that a state railway COM
mission can only fix rate that will en-
able the railroads to earn expenses and
interest on its fictitious bonded indebted
ness. Now where are we at? Texas can
abolish her railway commission, take her
Convicts and build a railroad from the
Gulf to Red river, so as to connect with
tramp ships, but God help those states
that are not fixed like Texas, and God
help us too if the people don't get in
fight!
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VERY TRUE.

Everything. without exception, so
far as l know, that has made for the
advancement and upbuilding of our civ
ilization has been compelled to force
its feeble way along in opposition to
the jeers of the vast majority of man
kind Everything that is worth
anything has been assaulted
by the prejudice evolved
out of ages Of human cowardice and
brutality. Wendell Phillips delivered
the Phi Beta Kappa Grafton at Harvard,
June 80, 1881; and, in the course of his
remarks he gave a list of the leading
reforms which had gone on to victory
during the preceding forty years, in
not one of which. he said, had Cam
bridge scholarship taken any place,
except in opposition. The supposedly
pre-eminent minds are, almost invar-
iably, found decrying all reforms aimed
at benefting the races
Morse found it well-nigh hopeless
task to enlist anybody in behalf of the
telegraph. Napoleon declared that Full
ton and his laughable notions on the
steamboat question were foolish Well
ington pronounced the postoffice to be
visionary and absurd. The Suez Canal
was laughing stock for many a year.
Conceived by the noted socialist. En-
fantin. and pushed through by De Less
cps it may be seen by travellers, one
more monumental proof Of the ultimate
downfall of transitory popular ignor-
ance. Inch by inch. step by step, every
bit of the ground contested by the very
ones to be benefited, climbing painfully
up the heights of progress, the agitators
who. we might say, have made this
world what it is, SO far as are concern
ed the good things in it. have fought
their way"
And when the inventor of the tele-
phone told his wife that he would be
able to converse. in an ordinary tone
of voice, with people 500 miles distant,
that worthy women consulted the fami-
ly physician as to the propriety Of
putting him in an insane asylum!
The few are often right: the many
are generally wrong. Take out of a
community the readers Of The Repre-
sentative and nearly all the rest are
f1abbergasted idiots Two hundred
years from now the intellectual aristOc-
racy will be Boosting: -'the founder
of our family was one of the original
subscribers to The Representative"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30
DOWN BREAKS.

The Courts Sit on the Neck of the
People.
Des Moines, Iowa, voted to have pub
lie lighting plant but a Judge says the
people shall not have it, Thus we see
one-man power is dominant, and the will
of the people is the highest LAWN a
pigs ear. 9, yes, my dear brother, the
people rule in America-that is, some
people rule and the others have to obey
The man who dares assert this is not
free country is public enemy, calamity
bowler, bad citizen and should be de-
ported or hung. Yum, yum.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30
THE IOWA FUSION.

There are several things about the
Iowa fusion of reform forces that we do
not like. In the first place it is not fusion
at all, but complete merger. The Pop
ulists were led into the Democratic camp
by Gen. Weaver, who has sold out or
betrayed every reform party ever organ
lied since 1868!
Then the fight is to be made I'M
der the Democratic name, and with a
Democratic platform which is not as
broad and liberal as the one adopted at
Chicago last July. They say they re-
affirm that platform, but lay special en-
phasis upon that portion relating to the
financial question, believing, as
they put it. that the very
existence of the farming, laboring and
commercial interests of this country
depends upon change of our
financial policy, and we enter"
they say, Into the campaign
with the reassertion that we demand the
free and unlimited coinage of both gold
and silver at the present legal ratio of
Is to 1, without waiting for the aid or
consent of any other nation"
This simply means that while many
Democrats believe in the Chicago plat
form, it would not be policy to advocate
it ALL 1t might be dangerous to the sue
cess of the party. Many votes might be
lost and the pie counter could not be
reached. Advocacy Of principle is all
right when it does not interfere with get
ting into Office. The motto of these
policy men" is: "Ofice first" Get
your bellies to the pie counter and let
principles take care of themselves. they
think
Then there is another thing we do not
like, and that is the nominations and the
division of Offices. The Democrats get
the governor and Judge of supreme court,
the two most important offices; the Free
Silver Republicans get lieutenant COVER
nor and superintendent of public instruc-
ton, the next two in Importance; and the
Populists get the railroad commissioner
- asOp.
Why should the Silver Republicans get
twice as many nominations as the Popu-
lists? In 1894 the Peoples party received
34,907 votes in Iowa, and the Silver Re-
publicans none.
Another thing. We don't like some of
the candidates. There is Mr.. Plummer.
the nominee for lieutenant governor. who
is national bank president. He might
vote for free silver, but he probably would
not vote for another financial reform.
Then there is Mr. Kline, the nominee for
judge Of the supreme court, who Is not
even a reform Democrat He voted for
Bryan but under protest. Mr.. Rhine
hard, the candidate for superintendent
of public instruction is not known in
state politics. Mr. White, nominee for
governor, is for free silver, but as far as
is known, stands for no other Populist
doctrine
We don't blaine the hundred Populists
who bolted the convention We would
have done the Same. The Peoples party
of Iowa has been sold out
All honor to Gen. James B. Weaver.
P. J. S.
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LIBERAL.

The editor of "Svit'' a Bohemian re-
form journal at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, fell
among thieves (usurers) and they
thought to strange his paper and shut
off its teachings by foreclosing on his
plant for $500. He appealed to his read
ers in little circular and in ten days
they responded 81, 100 more than he need
ed to raise the mortgage! There is still
the milk of human kindness sweet in the
bosom of the laboring people, but it has
all soured in the bosom of the prosperity
class.
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CAN THIS BE TRVE1
Or Are Women Stand cred.

TOPEKA, Kan. June 8.-The men
of Jamestown, Cloud County. Kan,
threaten to call public meeting to de-
nounce and protest against the terrible
condition of things in that town.
At the spring election the women re-
belled, and after bitter fight. in which
they were arrayed against the men,
they elected the mayor and full set
of aldermen. The issue raised by the
women was that of morality. promising
to make jamestown a clean municipal
ity.
Now the men declare that since the
women came into power saloons have
been opened, cock fights and other
sports are permitted, and a small poker
game is allowed to run. They de-
mand that the women stop these things
or resign.
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THE JUDICIARY.

The Standard Oil Co. has property in
Portland, Ore, worth $3.50, 900 according
to local paper. The assessor put it at
$2O0,OOO for taxation, but judge reduced
it to $2O,50O! These judges are great
people. They are not in it for their
health. No man allows a foreign cor
poration to escape $4,000 a year taxes
just for fun. The judiciary of the United
States is more corrupt than congress-if
that were possible. The word Judge or
justice should become a synonym for all
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30
HAWAII.

The Sandwich Islands are about to he
annexed to the United States and made a
territory.
They may be of some value in a COM
mercial and strategic sense.
Ii justice would only spread with ter
ritorial increase
The true measure of the greatness of
q nation is the happiness of its people.
Rome possessed the known world and
was at last overrun and destroyed by
barbarians.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30

They have Peoples party paper in
Faribault, Mimi, called The Jefferson
ian," which seems to be on the right
track. 1t quotes as motto these words:
his bread in the sweat of another man s
face, is not the sort of religion on which
men will get to heaven.-A Lincoln"
"If any (rich or poor will not work
neither shall he eat.-Paul."
We wish it all success.
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PATRIOT SPEAKS.

We find in the Minneapolis Evening
Press, of the 26 inst, letter from Hon.
formerly state senator and one of the
founders of the Peoples party in the
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Funny.

Davenport, the cartoonist, made a good
hit in the N. Y. Journal the other day.
He had big Hanna and little Willie Nc
Kinley. in one chair, laughing as though
their sides would burst at a campaign
banner leaning up against the walls of
the white house reception room. The
banner was like this
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30

Don't despair if things do look badly.
God has this republic in special charge.
It is perhaps the most interesting spot
today in the universe.
Judas got his thirty pieces of silver:
but did it stop the establishment of
the Christian religion? No; it helped
it to triumph.
Don't despair. Do YOUR duty. God
will do his. He is right behind you.
When you strike blow at wrong his
almighty power will make your arm
weigh ton.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30

Yale Locks. 2Oc Pant Clips, &c.
Bicycle Whistles, Is cents.
Repair Outfit, 10 cents.
NJ. s. w. Pumps, 20 cents.
Christie Saddles, -.
Ricvcle Tire Cement, 8 cents
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30

Toe Clips. SC per pair.
Dixon's Graphite, cents.
New Departure Bells. rs cents.
Bicycle Lanterns, 50 cents.
Bicycle Ena mel, all colors, 10 cents.
Sprocket Locks, 10 cents.
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Total per mile (4S7.4 miles) ....
Mr.. SChilllng says further:

Iotal per mile (4S7 81 miles, ........... So 4y
Mr.. Schillng says further:
1t appears that the. Chicago City Rail-
way can be duplicated for at least $11, 43l. 100
or S62,652 nile although it is capitalized
at $166l9,50O at $9O.2lS per mile, and this
capital had a market value in March 1897.
OF s2S6l9 500. 1888 per mile, and at
times has a fourth more value.
The west side system, which can be
duplicated for SAB, OILS. 61,033 per mile.
is capitalized at $50. 293 800 or 1860 per
mile. and its securities have Il market
value Of $36, 679, 100, or $2Sl 02O per mile
The north side system. which can ap-
parently be duplicated for $6927 $780, or $751;
3R a mile. is capitalized at s5l, 800. or
or $l45. 343 per mile and there securities
worth today s24.6l0. 400 $243,9S7 per
mile.
The remedy for all this is municipal
ownership; and the defeat of the Hum
phrey bills will be a great step in that
direction. 1t is better that the whole
people should have the immense profits
than few capitalists or adventurous
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1t will get so, after awhile, that the
taxpayers will insist on being put in
prison, and compel the convicts to go
aut and go to work 70 support them.
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ION to Nashville" is the slogan re-
sounding from Maine to California and
from the great lakes to the Gulf. Such
an outpouring of the liberty loving mass
es has not been seen or heard of in this
country since the day that made Omaha
memorable in the political history of this
country-People's Messenger.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-30

Grain Commission and Stock Brokers'.
and 3 Chamber of Commerce, Mime
apolis. Mimi.
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The Courts Again,
The United States supreme court has
decided that the interstate railway COM
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For $3.50 we will send Bryan's Book
"The First Battle" to any address.
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WANTEn-A few Agents for Cyclopedia on
A' M American and Stock Raising. Sold
on installments None but workers wanted.
western Book Agency. st. Paul, Mum.
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8: Vote For
: M'KINLEY
: & PROSPERITY.
Funny, wasn't it?
Retail TRdpOles.

to Reason.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-05-12
In Defense of Durrant.

A Carson lawyer says he has 1t
from good authority that the next
move in behalf of Durrant will be a
highly sensational one.
1t will be claimed that Durrant,
as a medical student, performed an
operation on Blanche Lamont to
assist Il fellow student out of trouble,
but she died from the the effects not
without first telling Minnie Will
iams, however, Of the occurrence,
Then after the Lamont girls death
it was necessary to kill Minnie viii.
liams to keep her mouth closed. .
There are no surprises in store for
the public no matter what course the
attorneys for Durrant may take, but
this would be a novel defense in
view OF the facts so far q Known
News. q '.