The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12
AN ADDRESS
TO THE POPULISTs OF THE STATE
OF MINNESOTA.

TO THE POPULIsTs OF THE STATE
OF MINNESOTA.
1t Is with great pleasure we announce that
The Peoples Party of Minnesota has, for
the second time obtained place on the Of
fetal ballot of the state, by filing with the
secretary of state petitions from more than
2.OOO voters, In behalf of our ten candidates
making 10000 signatures in all. The fees of
the candidates have been paid, and we arc
now in the field to abide the verdict to be
rendered on Nov. Sth next. To obtain these
10000 signatures has been Herculean task,
accomplished by the unpaid labors of more
than score of heroic workers in all parts
of the state
The attorney general of Minnesota has
recently decided that the action taken June
18th last in the city of Minneapolis
| merged the fusion Populist and Democrats
into one party; that there is no longer
fusion Populist' party nor Democratic"
party in this state: but from their COM
mingled ashes new party has been born,
known as the Peoples Democratic party
and only on that ground and by that name
are they to be admitted to place on the
state ballot. The attorney general also
raises. by implication, the question whether
both these parties have not committed sui
ctde." and whether either Of them received
one per cent of the vote given two years
ago. If they did not, and there is no way to
show that they did. they have no right to a
place on the ballot.
The demise Of the fusion Populist party
| leaves us in undisputed possession Of the
name and rights of the Peoples Party Of
Minnesota. We are the lineal heir of the
Omaha organization of 1892. Local law may
compel US. on the state ballot, to call our
selves the "Midroad Populist Party" but
we are the Peoples Party and nothing else
1t is very likely that some of the parties
| in interest belonging to the Prohibition or
Republican organizations will raise tho
| question whether the peoples Democratic
party candidates can go on the state bal
! lot without petitions signed by 1000 voters,
While the attorney general holds that the
| two parties are now one, they did not issue
certificates to their candidates as the GER
tificate of one convention; or as Of one
party; and therefore their certificates
are of no effect. They cannot be
| one party to get on ballot and two par
| ties to issue the certificates, without which
they cannot get on the ballot
AS the official representatives of the Peo-
pies Party of MINI esota. We call upon all
| ballot box, on the Sth day of November
next, the ticket nominated on the 10th Of
June last. as follows:
PEOPLES PARTY TICKET.
For Governor
LIONEL c. LONG. -...
For Lieutenant Governor
KITTEL HALvORSON.
For Secreter Of State
NJ WESENBERG.
For State Auditor
CHARLES H. HOPKINS
Fer Treasurer
P. H. RAHILLY.
For Attorney General
JOHN F. KELLY.
For Clerk of Supre ne Court
STEPHEN w. POWELL
For justices of the Supreme Court
JOSIAH A. TEMPLE.
EDGAR A. TWITCHELL
S. GRANT HARRIS.
Most of these men old soldiers, who
did not when the battle ragged, hide among
the pork barrels, but bravely faced the bull
lets Of the enemy, without commission or
large salary Most of them are farmers;
and all of them good citizens and noble,
manly men,
Stand by the Peoples Party. Do not bar
ter 1t away for few petty offices. What
VIII 1t profit us to elect a man governor
who does not dare to say whether he Is a
Populist Democrat~or Republican? How
will 1t help reform to restore the Democrat
ic party to power? Did not that party do
more to demonetize silver in 1873 than the
Republican party? Did not the Democratic
president, Cleveland, prove himself the
most abject slave of the money power that
ever sat in the White House: Did he not
bring about the repeal of the Sherman act
1.-The tub thrown to the whale by the Re
publicans? Is not the whole Democratic
East as we'll as part of the West repudiat-
Ing the silver question, and calling the gold
Democrats back into their embrace? Are
they not making the campaign In this state
on local issues, and Ignoring the great ma
tio1al question on which they are divided?
If we poll, as we think we will, so, 900 Pop
ulist votes. on the Sth of November next
we Will help solidify and build up the Peo-
pies Party from The Atlantic to the Pa
Cific. fhoro ohvrc
reform in 1900. 1t looks now as If the
Democratic party will be as completely split
up in that year by the money question, as
1t was In 1860 by the slavery question. The
one issue is as purely sectional as the other.
We will do the best we can. with the
limited means at our control, to make a
canvass of the whole state.
Let every man who loves his country,
and who would redeem the producers and
business men of the land from the cruel and
crushing despotism of the money power
give his voice and vote.
Respectfully.
p. H. RAHILLY Chairman.
H. B. FAY, Secretary.
GEO. HALL.
]. r. CAMPBELL
CHARLES SMITH.
c. ]. ARNTZEN
ERIC OLSON.
FERDINAND BORCHERT.
]. H. HARRISON
NJ. r. PARKS.
E. w. BONHAM
S. w. POWELL.
PETER MAX
A. H NELSON. =,
8. NJ. FAIRCHILD
J. E. NORSTROM
L. d. FOSTER.
c. B. MABEN.
MARTIN JOHNSON
FREE SILVER TABLED.