The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-26
with the secretary Of state two days after
the date of MIR. Longs letter.

| l..
Human patience could stand no more. On
! the first train 1 left for st. Paul and went
/ to the office of the secretary of state to have
/ my name stricken off the ballot. The secre-
tary declined to do so, claiming 1 came too
! late, that the ballots were already printed.
| etc.
| The sample ballot was printed-yes and
| on the same was printed my name fOr sec
| rotary Of state as ''Mid-road Populist -
! without ny consent. But the regular ballots
| were not printed, as my attorney Charles
B. Marvin, learned by telephone. The print
! ers were working on the form, but no form
was then in the press.
| filed my resignation, and the secretary
| agreed to bring the matter before the at
torney general the same day. He did So
but the attorney general took until the fol-
! lowing Monday to decide, that my name could
not be taken off the ballot And this not
withstanding sec Al of the General Election
Laws of Minnesota: I'm case Of the DEATH
removal or resignation of any candidate
after printing of such ballots and before such
election. it shall be lawful etc, thus show
ing that designations may be effectual even
after the ballots printed.
OF course l brought the case before the
supreme court on the proper affidavit. The
court decided as above But the court also
made the point that either Mr.. Wesenberg or
his friends had paid the legal fees for get
| ting his name on the ballot If Wesenoerg
pad the fee he knew that his name was on
the ballot If another did, without the
knowledge or consent Of Wesenbers, it was
an offense little short of criminal. And In
| that matter we agree with the court-the I'M
authorized action by that other who filed
the petition and paid the fee, was little short
Of, criminal.
MORE UNDER4AND WORK.
My attorney, Mr.. Marvin, writes me: up
! on the hearing I was met with counter afh-
| davits in which among other things appear
! ed that you had written letter in which
you practically had accepted the nomination
and stated that the $50 to be paid, you
| hoped TO be able to pay yourself, and would
apply to your subscribers to pay their bills,
and you therein stated, that If they rad any
Populist blood IN them, that they would re-
spond at once for such a purpose. have
no doubt that the court would have granted
your request to lave your name taken from
the ticket If it had not been for your let
ter to Dr.. Fay. above referred to."
I have neither practically nor IN any
other way accepted a nomination by petit
ton; 1 would make and did make efforts TO
raise the necessary money Tor the regular
Peoples party nomination.
Mr.. Wesenberg then relates the talk
| he had with DR.. Fay about raising
$50, ard, continuing. he says:
Designing Iascals may attempt for pur,
poses of their own to make PofiticaI capl1al
by rarsding the poverty of their victims;
men Of honor will not. But honor is ratner
scarce article with men who must resort 10
downright lying to bolster up their case, and
honorable men Will think Such O case Is hUC
worth the bOlstering.
FAY HAD FUNDS.
The only intimation I have ever had CT the
committee or anybody else paying the certif-
| icate fee Of any candidate came in this letter:
MINNEAPOLIS Mimi, Sept. t. 1S98.-My
Dear Sir: Do you know some Mid-road Pop
uist lawyer near you, willing to run on our
ticket as candidate for supreme oench! IL
so telegraph his full name and address to
| me. Attend to this at once: Ihf,l4rt a
Yours, n. b. ray M. u.
Up. 81 will contribute cost OF his GER
ti6cate of nomination, and 1 don't care how
Young he is l hope you will find one
SHOWS SOMETHING ROTTEN.
That letter would indicate something rotten.
Who was furnishing all this money? l did
not ask any Populist lawyer here to accept
the nomination. 1t would have been useless,
and 1t was an insult to the supreme court OF
the state. Il don't care how young he IS
he is good enough for the supreme court, or,
perhaps for "our purpose"
Brother Populsts, is this the way TO build
! up great reform party? That shining light,
dad" Foster, regarding whom even DR..
Fay himself has written in answer to a
| statement of mine some time ago, that had
| no use for him, that l was right in my opiu-
ion &C him, and c. NJ. Ma5on, OF not alto
gether enviable reputation in Minneapolis,
! asserted that "WesenbeTg did accept the nom
nation and that he helped circulate the nomi-
mating petition in Duluth.
Let them publish my letter of acceptance
and let them bring forward the hrst Du-
luth man, or any other man, whom l have
asked to sign the petition.
The cause of reform is not assisted by dis
reputabIe means. Just so long as these ele-
menrs are tolerated in the ranks OF reformers,
Just so long will reform be Impossible
In summing UP the matter | have this TO
say: The fraudulent substitution of a Mid
road Populist'' ticket by petition for the reg
ular Peoples Party ticket abzolves every
honest Populist from any and all obliga-
lions to support such ticket, and more-it
aims at destroying the Peoples party by
placing in the field this new party, this
called "Mid-road Popullst" party. Whether
that has been the original intention of its
promotors-not to say conspirators-the eff
feet is just the same. 1t will be a new
party and one aiming at destroying the
! PEOPLES party. Such an aim is worse even
than fusion.
From my earnest conviction of this. I can
come to no other conclusion than this: That
1t becomes my duty to ask all those who have
intended to vote for me for secretary of state
to abstain from so doing. unless they want
to kill off the Peoples party.
The secretary of state. who In the first in
stance. refused to do his plain duty, and
who had no perverted affidavit from other
parties to plead in defense of his decision, Is
the Republican candidate for reelection to
the same Office. He will deserve reouke at
the hands of honest voters.
VOTE FOR ]. J. HEINRICH.
And there is no other way to rebuke him
and compel an honest compliance with law,
and at the same time render migratory the at
tempt to substitute a new party for the
Peoples party, than by placing your X be-
hind the name of Julius J. Heinrich, the
Democratic and fusion Popu1ist candidate.
These parties have at least the merit of hsv-
ing acted openly and above the board. do