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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
GOLD MEN FOR GOVERNORS.

The Southern Mercury, of Dallas. Texas,
says:
In New York. New Jersey ana Connectl-
cut, the Democrats have nominated gold
men for governors. The free silver Demo-
Gratis Of New York have nominated Henry
George, Jr., in opposition to Judge Van
Wyck. In Illinois. Governor Altgeld says.
speaking of the action Of the Cook county
convention last spring: ''rhe convention de-
lberately betrayed the Democratic trust:
spat with contu nelly in the faces of loyal
and honest adherents of party principles
and debauched regency and fair play in
the most open and shameless manner
Such is the record that the Democratic
party is making for itself in other states.
But in casting principles to the winds in
a scramble for the spoilS of office, they
are but following the example set by the
Texas Democracy at Galveston. where
man was nominated for governor who mas
always been in the doubtful column on the
silver question. over man like old Dick
Wynne, who has given a lifes service to the
cause of mis- party.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
Tam many Is for Gold.

Slill comes the Eastern Democracy
against the Western and Tammany repl es
to Harvey's advancement to the manager
ship OF the Silver Democracy by nominating
seven Gold Democrats in the sure and Ger
tain Tammany congressional districts.
zee Democratic organization New
York yielded in 1896 to supposed party reg
ularity and supported Bryan. OF course
there were thousands and thousands OF
Democrats who would not stultify them
selves by supporting the Chicago platform
and consequently did all in their power to
defeat Bryan and his Populistic heresies
but the regular organization as expressed
in Tammany and the county Democracy
stood by the Chicago ticket.
Loyalty ended with the election of 1896
and now the Eastern Democracy are str.y-
ing to make i party alignment that will
bring all Democrats together"
Is there any place in such combina-
ton for the true supporters of the Peo-
pies party?
Rotten Tammany and goldocracy.
Bryan stamped in the mud, or forced to
buy nomination at the price of his
principles.
Are you ready to swallow such dosee
l. ID.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
to send for Wharton Barker, Tom Wat
son, Mrs. Lease, etc., to make some
speeches for us. I. D.
THE TRUTH WINNING.

No man has been more shockingly
and persistently abused than ourself;
first, for advocating that the human race
should not be reduced to utter wretched-
ness to enrich lot of Shylocks; and Sec
ondly, for believing that Francis Bacon
was the real author of the so-called
shakespearean plays Fellows who
never read any one of the thousand
pages of THE Great Cryptogram" are
the loudest to denounce it as absurd.
But the truth grows in spite of all,the
fools, living and dead.
Last Saturdays Chicago Times-Herald
contains an article which says:
Now it doth appear that We are all plag-
iarists whether We be great or little. Ten
nyson cribbed his "Idylls' from Mallory,
Mallory his ''MOrte d Arthur from Jeoffrey
de Monmouth. and Monmouth from Nennius
and the trOubadOrs. Shakespeare lifted
bodily the plots of many OF his plays, ana
now the deadly parallel is being produced
to show that he borrowed not only the story
of ''Macbeth' from HOlinshed's 'Chroni-
cles," published in 1851 several years before
Macbeth was put upon the stage, but also
that he took much of the language; Of
course the citations proceed from an
authority that is English. British people
are loyal, but outside of Scotland and Corn
wall one could accuse them of being
clannish. An American lady tells OF being
at large dinner party In London, ana
finding herself the only guest who did not
believe. or profess to believe, in the icono-
elastic theory of the Baconian cryptogram!
Our adv1ces from England fully cor
roborate this statement. In that country
it is now only the ignoramus or the
"faddist' who believes that the drunken
play-actor of Stratford was the author
of the most learned and profound pro-
auctions of all the ages.
AS soon as our cowerdly literati of
the United States-pre- eminently provin-
cial in all their ideas-rolling up their
pants on Broadway when the cable in
forms them that it is raining on Pail
MaTl-as soon, we say, as they learn that
the cultivated classes of all England are
unanimous in support of the Baconian
theory, they will throw up their hats for
it, and stop sneering at "The Great Cryp-.
togram" and it's author.
We hope, by prepotent vigor, to bury
all the internal fools that have been
hooking us. l. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
POURING IN.

During the last four days we have re-
ceived new subscriptions from Ohio,
Connecticut, North Dakota, Georgia, On
ton, Tennessee, California, Oregon, Ar
kansas, Louisiana, Florida, Wisconsin,
Massachusetts,. Washington, D. c., Iowa,
and Idaho, besides hundreds from Mime
sofa.
We shall be glad when this local battle
is over that we may devote ourselves en-
tirely to national matters. I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
BASED ON 4 FRAUD.

w. G. LIE Due, of Hastings, C"Bill Lay
Duck" as Cakes Ames used to call him),
poked his head up out of the waters of
cultivation the other day and proceeded
to prove that the whole settlement CT
Minnesota was based on fraud, per-
petrated by him in New York in 1853.
Here we have it.
At the meeting of the Minnesota His
tOrical society at the capitol last evening
Gen. William G. lie Due. of Hastings, read
Il paper on The Influences that Led I'M
migration to Minnesota Territory" The
generals article d humorous account
of his experiences while commissioner from
the territory of Minnesota to the New York
crystal palace exhibition in 1858. He was
appointed by Gov Ramsey to take charge
of Minnesota's exhibit Among the other
products of the territory he took live
buffalo, donated by old settler named
Conradi. to be exhibited in New York. That
animal was the cause of an unbrOken series
OF predicaments on the journey, and when
New York was reached it was discovered
that the directors of the exhibition had
made no provision for animals, and the
buffalo was not given place in the space
allotted to Minnesota.
The few specimens of furS and farm
products filled the space so poorly and
looked so lonesome that Mr. lie Due went
to the nearest seed store and bought
large additional supply of the finest sam
pies of grain and farm produce. The aug
mented Minnesota display made very
creditable showing, and was the only eX-
hibition of products of the soil. Gen. LIE
Due called Horace Greeley's attention to
the exhibit and the fact that it was the
only one of its kind Mr.. Greeley was struck
by the evidences of the fertility of Mime
sofas soil. He wrote a long editorial on
the subject. which widely read and
copied. and resulted in turning the tide Of
immigration toward the territory of Mime
sofa.
1t is very evident, to every thinking
man. that if Bill LeDuck had not per-
petrated that deception on Horace Greeley
Minnesota would have remained howl
ing wilderness to this hour, and the peo-
pie east Of us would never have known
that there was such country
Let statue be ereced to Bill, repre-
senting him leading buffalo bull by the
nose; with a bag of seed, raised in New
York, but labeled MINNESOTA under his
arm, and on the base of the Statue these
words: -..4. ---
pennsylvania had her Penn
Maryland her Lord Baltimore.
Virginia her John Smith.
Kentucky her Daniel Boone.
And Minnesota her Billie Lay Duck;
who fooled the people into crossing the
Mississippi by buffalo bull and bag
OF fraudulent seed. All honor to the
man who thus started a sovereign state
upon the career of virtue and honesty
which has since SO greatly distinguished
her." Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19

and juries and the legislatures and the
newspapers, and "the proper Limitations
and restrictions" end in thin air.
There is no remedy but government
ownership AND "HONEST JOHN"
KNOWS 1T; but he has not the courage
to say SO, but tries to fool the people
with platitudes, that he may get their
votes and draw $1,000 a year for two
years.
That is all there is to Honest John"
and he is trying to fool the Scandina
VANS into voting for him because by
chance he was born in Sweden. Would
he not have been the same man if he
had been born in Kamchatka or Russia?
Is it any sweeter 10 be fooled by coun-
tryman than by an alien? |. ID.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
A CURIOUS BOOK,

Mr.. Charles Holbert, of Minneapolis,
has published a singular work, entitled
tx Rays on the Future" in which he
claims that the Biblical prophecies prove
bracing revolution, in which Anti-Christ
will appear and the political affairs of
the whole world will be overturned. At
the climax of the revolution Christ is to
reappear and then we are to have the
millennium
Those who are curious upon such top
jcs will find this very interesting
book.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
''HONEST JOHN" on RAILROADS.

In his speech, Oct. 10, in Minneapolis.
Lind aid:
The most fertile eXpedient by which I'M
scrupulouS men have robbed the public
through corporations has been by the prac-
tice known as ''watered stock Now L do
not wish to be understood inveighling
against corporations as such. 1 only con-
denim the abuses that have crept in and
which they have been guilty of. A corpO-
ration Is a sort of fictitious personality,
created by the law. 1t is indispensable for
carrying on many of the operations of mod
ern SOcyy. 1t enables men who could not
otherwise embark in business to associate
their savings With others and thus raise the
requisite amount of capital to undertake
terprises which an individual could not car
ry on. But this being which the law creates
possesses the attributes and powers not pos
Sessed by man. 1t has brains without moral
responsibility With such a combination
you can look for greed and cunning. and We
find it too often. A wicked man dies: cor
DorationS live on forever. TO entrust such
beings with the most important function of
society, such transportation. telegraphy,
etc. without surrounding them With proper
limitations and restrictions and making
them accountable to the state at any and
all times for their doings seems little less
than criminal
Now, this is very pretty and plati-
tudinous, but what docs it amount to?
'The most fertile expedient' to rob
the people, he tells us, is watcred stock
And then he proceeds to defend corpora
lions and show that they are valuable
aids to civilization!
He thinks corporations should not own
railroads, telegraphs. ETC., without sur
rounding them with proper limitations
and restrictions"
Bosh: Are they not now surrounded
tions"-and what do these amount to?
The corporations buy up the courts
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
MOVING.

We have now got our state ticket on
the official ballot, the candidates have
paid their fees of $50 each and the cam
paign is opened. The advices from the
state show that we are going to poll an
immense vote. We get hundreds of let
tiers like this:
"Graceville. Mimi, Oct 4, 1898.
'"Everyone will be surprised at the
large vote the mid-roaders will receive
in this legislative district. Respectfully
yours,
IN. P. MORAN"
The 1880 signatures obtained to our
petitions show the earnestness of the
people.
We could send out flood of canvass
ers, organizers and speakers; but we
are all poor and the times are hard.
IF SPEAKERS COME TO YOU SEE
THAT A COLLECTION IS TAk:EN UP,
A LA SALVATION ARMY, TO PAY
THEIR EXPENSES AND HELP THEM
ON THE WAY.
We are not too proud to accept help
from those we are working for. We
have either to get our funds from the
people or from those who plumber the
people If the latter the plundering will
20 on.
We call upon you all to give us cam
paign fund.
SEND 1T TO THE REPRESENTA-
TIVE AND WE WILL SEE THAT IT
IS TURNED OVER TO CAPT. A. H.
NELSON. TREASURER OF THE
STATE P. P. COMMITTEE, AND RE-
CEIPTED FOR BY HIM; AND REPORT
ED IN THIS PAPER.
Do you want us to win? If you do
send us in your contribution-be it ten
cents or ten dollars.
We can do nothing without money.
Money makes the mare co.
This is your fight. Take hold and do
your best.
If We can get funds we may be able
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
WHAT Is HE WORKING FOR
A Pelican Lake correspondent of the
Fergus Falls Globe says:

Fergus Falls Globe says:
Brother Boon, are you not making IA mis-
take by calling on l.. c. Long to withdraw
In favor of Lind? l have spoken to some
about what they would do in that case,
and they answer Stay at home, vote the
G. O. p. ticket" You fellows call Lind an
honest man, and say he is a Republican.
Now, | would ask. where is the honesty in
a man when he refuses to explain him
self? We would like to know what reform
he is working for? To deform the Peoples
party, or reform the rotten Democracy?
Please answer some one who knows. We
are shaking in our boots to know.
He is working for the Office of gov
ernor and the $1,000 year salary.
And the Democrats, as the Labor Union
says, are working for the appointments
he will nave to give away if elected.
What will you get. Brother Fusion
Pop?
Not a SMELL
But you will help to destroy the Peo-
pies Party and the Omaha platform.
Is the game worth the candle?" l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
HOw's This:

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned. have known F. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions, and financially able to carry
out any obligation made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo. O.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure IS taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price .5c per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls family Pills are the best.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19

posing as Honest John,' who after ''in-
vestfgation," makes statements that he
must have known were false; and, again,
acting as director of a state bank, attesting
reports to this department as correct that
he must have known to be false and mis-
leading. as he certainly was aware of the
large loan to the mill company.
There Is but one word that applies to a
man who deliberately misstates facts which
are within his knowledge and that word is
Mr.. Lind and his friends can supply the
word. NJ D. KENYON
Public Examiner and Superintendent of
Banks, Minnesota
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
~ nothing but their own credit and as

by nothing but their own credit and as
sets
Away with bank currency of every
kind, and in it's place put government
notes, secured by a sufficient gold reserve
to make them always redeemable in
gold!
Or better still. issue greenbacks, re-
deemable by being received for all taxes
of the nation, and all the states, and by
Icing legal tender for the payment of
all debts. public and private.
If a piece of property is worth fully
$1,000 mortgage on it for $1,000 ought
to be worth $1,000; and thousand s.
notes. that can pay off that mortgage.
must be worth $4,000. If not. why not?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
LIMBS FOOL FRIENDS
HAVE PRIVATELY DISTRIBUTED A
CIRCULAR AMONG SCANDINA.
VANS OF THE STATE.
1.-THE YANKEE ELEMENT
They Are to he Wiped on the POlit-
zeal Firmamemt-Circul Pub1ish-
ed by the Swedish-American Pos
ten Of MinneapOIils-It Will BE Re-
pudiated by the Mass of Scanlina-
Wan Voters.
(St. Paul Dispatch.)

The worst boomerang the Democrats
have yet launched has just returned and
smashed to smithereens the plans of the
committee which launched it.
1t is in the form of circular letter
to the Swedish voters of the state, and
was published in the Swedish-American
Poster, of Minneapolis, Oct. II.
The circular begins by declaring that
cancer which must be exterminated,
and continues in long diatribe of the
same tenor, declaring that the Scandina-
VANS have never been given the proper
ton of offices to which they were enti-
tied, and urges them to rise up in a solid
mass and wipe the Yankee element" off
the political armament by voting for the
Swedish candidate, John Lind.
The letter was intended for private
circulation and among the Swedish
American citizens of the state, and ema-
mates from the association formed in
Minneapolis for the promotion of John
Lind's candidacy among the Scandina-
VANS. Whatever effect it may have had
among the members of this association
in the Mill City, the Scandinavians over
the state at large Indignantly repudiate
it, and say cnat the men who issued the
letter are neither good Americans nor
worthy representatives of the Swedish
Americans, who have adopted this
country as their home, and it will cost
the candidate whom it was designed to
help thousands of votes among the peo-
pie of his own nationality.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
LIGHT IN THE, EASI.

GREENBACKS AND BANK NOTES
The New York Sun, in commenting on
the failure Of the Tradesmen's National
Bank. observes:
Could any fact more eloQuently DEM
onstrate the folly Of the governments
taking npon its shoulders the care of g.
100 banking institutions, scattered over
the country, and of assuming the respon-
sibility OF vouching for their solvency?
Could any fact also demonstrate more
completely the folly Of handing over to
these 300 institutions and to $500 more
like them, the function of supplying the
country with a paper currency secured
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
"THE HOG QUESTION"


clares-Why, Then. Should Popu-
lists Vote for Him
A great many honest POpulists have
Teen misled into the support of John Lind
for governor. because they have been
told by fusionists that he was POpuiist
at heart But in his speech at Mime
apolis. Oct 10, fle said
Il do not wish to be understood as de-
tending the acts OF the fusion legislature
(of 1917 AT THAT TINE WASN'T
A POPUIIST. To be frank with you, my
friend, will say to you THAT DON'T
KNOW THAT 1 HAVE ANY PARTY.
Perhaps it might be said of me that l
AM A POLITICAL ORPHAN"
What shameful declaration!
Parties represent principles; and when
man says, Il have no party" he says
in effect, Il HAVE NO PRINCIPLES.
Here is tie whole world battling over
great questions, which concern the pres
eryation of liberty and the happiness of
the whole human family. And a VII
lage lawyer steps forward, and with a
eminent in my hands and I will run it
for you. but | cannot say how | will run
it, because | am a political orphan; l
belong to no party, and | have no prin-
ciples."
Some years ago there Was 4 great con-
test about the hogs running at large in
the city of Hastings, near which we live
The owners of the hogs wanted them to
run; the people who had no hogs wanted
them shut up. Society was torn wide
open to its foundations on that great is
sue Shall the hogs run OF shall they
not?"
A grain buyer named Van Auken. was
nominated by one of the political parties,
for mayor Ee was shrewd fellow.
The hog owners' and the hog haters
rushed at him. Where do you stand on
the hog question: they shouted.
He took each one quietly aside and
whispered in his ear impressively, with
cordial squeeze of the hand:
Il am ALI. RIGHT on the hog ques-
ton
1t is needless to say he was triumph
antly elected; and it is also needless to
say that one Of the contending parties
was fooled.
He was an orphan" OH the hog ques-
ton.
That is the game John Lind is playing.
1t is shrewG-it is adroit-but it is
scarcely honorable. 1t contemplates
cheating somebody.
Who is to he sold out?
Is it the Populists? Or is it the Demo-
Gratis? Or is it the Republicans?
Shall the hogs OF plutocracy be shut
up or shall they continue to run at
large" the people ask.
Il am all right Oh the hog question:
replies John Lind. Il am a political
orphan"
But we demand a specific answer.
''Shall the plutocratic hogs continue to
run at ;arge?"
Il have no opinions, says John, Il be-
long to no party; l am an orphan.
am without principles. But | want that
Office and the $1,000 year"
And they are asking votes for him on
the ground that he is a Scandinavian.
We cannot believe it. When did a
member of that bold and manly race,
ever before stand up in the face of the
world and say:
Il have no principles. | have no party
do not dare to say what l think on
the great questions of the day. l am
gagged and muzzled. All | ask is the Of
flee of governor and bucketful of
corn"
No race is so attached to principle as
the Mortimer; and no race more thor
oughly despises coward or trickster.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19

Mr. Donnelly spoke at Assembly Hall,
st. Paul, to crowded house, for two
hours, on October IA. and was repeatedly
cheered by the enthusiastic crowd. MI.
S. Grant Harris presided.
The midroad Populists, of st. Paul,
are full of fire and vim and will give a
good account of themselves on election
day.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-19
TROUBLE In RICE COUNTY.
Serious Charges Against Mr.. Swain.
MorristbWff, Mimi, Oct. IA, 1898.

Serious Charges Against MIR. Swain.
MorristbwH; Mimi, Oct. IA, 1898.
To the Editor OF The Representative
Dear Sir: It Vas lucky providence
that saved you from Faribault on the
Sth inst att
H. A. Swain made a slick and clean
flop of the Peoples, Party into outstretch-
cd lap of a gaping. gawking Democracy.
This is the way he did it:
At committee meeting it was deter
mined to let the primaries nominate. 1t
was also determined to suggest names for
the Offices al.
This was left to Mr.. Swain. The pre-
cincts were to, ELECT one of their number
to make returns and canvass the vote
and declare the nominees.
Well, we met in the court room. Mr..
Swain called the convention to order;
placed John Ames pronounced Demo-
crat fusionist, in the secretary's chair.
He called for committee on credentials.
l saw how the cat was jumping, and
kicked l said that there was no use for
such a committee That the men en-
powered to act had their credentials in
their pockets direct from the primaries.
That settled the credential business.
The returning board then got together.
l was struck with the sameness of each
return. But l. said this is a nomination
by the primaries. will not inquire into
it; for with me ''the voice of the peo-
pie is the voice of God"
Mr. Swain came in and "let the cat
out of tie bag" by saying they have all
voted for the names I sent out. Upon
inquiry l found that the names sent by
cur mid-road chairman were the names
of the men nominated by the Democratic
convention previously held, and with
which our chairman had held a con-
ference.
Was not that Sticky done? 1t is
sneeringly said to me, your platform and
plan of organization is good, but the
right kind of people have not got hold
of it. 1 begin to believe 1T. Too many
leaders are trying to please everybody
and in the end please nobody, and make
asses of themselves into the bargain.
Yours,
E. J. WHITE.
We count Mr.. Swain among our
friends, and we are sorry if he has done
anything wrong as indicated in the fore
going letter. We, will be glad to hear
from him in explanation of his course.
MIR. White is also dissatisfied that we
had to call ourselves "mid-road Popu-
lists" So are we. But If we had tried
to use the name peoples Party" the
secretary of state would have refused us
a place on the state ballot. Or If he had
given it to us the fusionists would have
gone into court and enjoined him, and
SO we were constrained, by local law, to
take new name.
But the ATTORNEY general now holds
that there is nj longer Peoples Party
but that it is merged into the Democratic
party, under the name of "People's-Dem-
ocratic Party, and we now have undis-
puted possession of the name peoples
Party of the sthte of Minnesota" and will
hold it through all the future. |. D.