The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-13

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airy 4th. at the Merchants Hotel, St.
Paul. Some Populist members, from
the Red River Valley, whose names
appeared appended to the call, told US
that they had never signed it. But
we were not disposed to be captious,
and so we attended the meeting.
There we found the fourteen Peoples
Party members and the eight Demo
cratic members, and in their midst,
like the devil in the case of JOb,) the
illustrions Mr.. Lynch, ''as large as life
and twice as natural" He was not a
member of the House, and not likely
ever to become one; but there he was,
and he continued there right through
the session. He was the only stranger
present. We expect that some day
when we sit down in our chair In the
House to find ourself in Mr.. Lynch's
lap! There is no telling where a chap
of such monumental gall will make
his appearance.
1t soon became apparent that the
caucus was called to force Populist
members and Democratic members
into another fusion; and thereby af-
feet the action of the State Central
Committee when it met the next day,
and compel it to establish the
Peoples DEMOCRATIC party. Mr..
Stockwell made a speech in which he
urged that there we're only two par
ties in the state:-the Republican par
ty and a SiameSe-tWin, double-bar-
relied, hair trigger concern: and that
the Siamese twins must get into the
same suit of clothes, mem con.
We took the ground, in reply, that
there were three great parties in the
state:-the Peoples Party, the Demo
cratic party and the Republican par
ty; that they were separate and dis
tinct; that the Peoples Party had
many planks in. its platform which
the Democracy did not endorse: that
last summer we had formed a temper
airy alliance with the Democrats for a
temporary and specific purpose; but
we had nevertheless maintained our
own organization. appointed our own
committee; and held our own conven-
ton; and that we were just as much
a distinct and separate party as we
were at Omaha in 1892. We further
urged that we had but fourteen Popu-
list votes and eight Democratic votes
against ninety Republicans; that
there was nothing to be accomplis he'd
by fusion; that the hardest thing we
: had had to contend with, in the recent
campaign, was the Republican argu-
ment that we were brevet Democrats:
that the Peoples Party had dis
solved; was dead. merged with Democ-
racy;--and that therefore we were
justly responsible for all the Demo-
cratic mistakes since $780,. And if it
now appeared, that even our insight
icant vote, in one branch of the Legis-
lature, could not refrain from rushing
into each others arms, las soon as they
met, and making another fusion-eS-
pecially where there was nothing to
be gained by tive would confirm all
these charges. That such action
would not help, but would hurt De-
mocracy itself; for as we had lost
thousands of votes because we, had
united, with the Democrats, SO the
Democrats had lost thousands of
votes because they had united with
us. That every tub should stand on
its own bottom. ETC., etc. sa...5
Mr.. Martin, (Dem.), of St. Paul. cor
daily endorsed our position as just
and wise, and nearly every Democrat
in the room followed his lead. The
result was that both elements select
ed their own candidates and voted for
them, in the House next day.
But still Mr.. Lynch was not salts
fed. Supported by Dobbyn and the
abdominal Ayer,-(we speak of that
gentleman and his abdomen with the
greatest reverence, for into that cav
ernous abyss went all the funds raised
last year by the Peoples Party
Leagues Of the state). They urged
upon the State Central Committee
the fact that the Populist party was
already, actually. legally dead; and
only awaited decent burial; and tina t
the longer the corpse remained above
ground the worse it. would stink. The
COmmlGuee rcplleu Dy UNANIMOUSLY
adopting the resolutions we have
quoted above; insisting that the purity
was not dead, and. by the Eternal, it
should not die! And urging that PEG
pies Party Clubs mot Leagues), should
be formed in every township in the
state, under the direction of the
State Central Committee, and not of
the man of mighty, viscera, the re-
rowned aerial Aver. e, .. -~ :, ~
We repeat that we stand appalled,
before the illimitable gall Of these
nobodies; and especially of Lynch, who
proposes to wipe out the very orxaniz-
alton which gave him his cierkship.
We are not SO much astonished at
Dobbyn, because that worthy runs so
much to beard that his brains have
suffered serious Impairment; one can
not have the virtues OF a goat and a
man at the same time. And in Ayers
case 1t is simply an Illustration of the
predominence of bowels over intellect.
Since the contribut lions of the faith
full ceased to flow down his outlet he
has been absorbing the gray matter
of his own brain, and there wasn't
much of it either to absorb!
Every man who knows enough to 20
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