The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-07-20
THE SEPT.5C0NvENTI0h
Let the Whole Country Rise Up
Against Him.

Senator Buffers paper, The Caucas-
ian, is out in an article indOrsing the
fusion combination in this state, and
denouncing the real Peoples party
ticket
We have disliked the idea of nomi-
mating a national ticket this year. on
Sept. 5. at Cincinnati, because we did
not like to see the party still further
divided; but if that Cassius-like scoun-
drel, Butler, is to continue to advocate
union with the Democrats in every state
in the Union. the sooner we have a
ticket of our own in the field the better
The conference at Omaha, on June Il.
boosted that they had tied Butler with
a hog-tie;' but his answer is to con-
tinue to advocate merging into the Dem
ocratic party from his elevated and in
fuential position as chairman Of the
national committee of the Peoples party
Populists might just as well expect to
hold a creased pig by the tail, as to
control this slippery, infinite rascal.
He is now trying to lay the Populists
of the United States on the altar of sac
rifice, as the price of Democratic sup
port in North Carolina, to secure his
own reelection to the United States
senate. He began the game of treach-
cry at the meeting of the national com
~mittee of the Peoples party, in the
spring of 1896, when he appeared with
40 proxies in his pocket, but was afraid
to vote them. He was then planning for
Bryan's speech, which he knew would
come.
If the Peoples party is to be muir
dered by the Buffers, Bowlers, Owens
and such scamps, the sooner it COM
mences the disarming and destruction
of it's damnable assassins the better The
right OF self-defense is the primal right
of everything that lives.
Is it not dreadful thing that our own
chairman, of our own national commit
tee, should advocate the merging of our
party into the bowels of widely differ
ent organization? Was anything like
it ever heard of before in the history of
politics?
Is it not horrible that we should have
to stand by, helpless and silent, while
our party is fed in broken fragments,
like scrap-meat, into the mouth of the
Democratic behemoth?
If our ship has got to go down, let
her sink with all her guns blazing and
all her flags flying.
"'Tis not in mortals to command success
But We'll do more dear Brutus, we'll de-
serve it..
We will not rot into nothingness, like
the poor, slaughtered Greenback party,
but as long as fragment survives, the
Peoples party will cast forth hill-level-
ing bombs of dynamite.
If scoundrels destroy our party, even
it's ashes shall be terrible to the enc
mics Of mankind.
When we meet, Sept 5, at Cincinnati
(there is where our party was born in
1S9D, we can stand with one finger on
the electric key that will explode the
magazine and so standing, we will force
the resignation of Butler and the re-
organization of the national commit
tee, with every man on it true and
earnest Fopulist, or we will forever de-
stroy their trading capital by putting
up at once a national ticket and organ
izing tremendous campaign to carry it
through to victory
We must get this shirt Of Nessus of
the paralyzed limbs of our Hercules, or
confess that We are less than men.
Half-fares on the railroads are al
ready arranged for. Let us send a ire
mendous delegation there, every man
ready to fight and die, if necessary, for
the preservation of the Peoples party.
We are not human beings if we per-
nit our vast labors OF the past for the
good OF the race to be overruled and
brought to naught by such little,
starveling nincompoop as this treacher-
Gus fellow, Butler.
Hold meetings, boys, to elect dele
gates, and take up subscriptions to pay
their expenses. Let us hear from you
what dates would be best, and our state
committee will issue the necessary call
to elect the delegates.
Our enemies are forcing this fight on
us. Let 1t go on until the last rot
ten corpse is cremated.
Milton Parks, as chairman of the re-
organization committee, has already is
sued the call for the Cincinnati conven-
ton on the 5th of September Id.