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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10

THE TRUTH MAKES ITS WAY.

Kansas and Populism still live. The
whangdoodle dirge, Of the wailing press has
been silenced effectually The POpulist state
administration was declared by the Demo-
cratic and Silver Republican state conven-
ton, that met a few days ago, as the best
administration the state ever had. They
pointed out where the woolly Pops had saved
many hundreds of thousands to the state,
heartily indorsing their proposed reforms
as well as those put in operation. The Re-
publicans in their state convention had not
one criticism to make against the state adj
ministration The administration in
such marked contrast with the late Repnbli-
can administration of rotten jobbery and
prof1gate extravaganza that about the
whole state has turned Populist.-Advocate.
Poor, abused Populism! How fear
fully has it been slandered and belied!
They steal our principles and kick us,
and our own men grow so weak-backed
at the abuse that they are ready to run
and hide their heads under the coat
tails of old parties, with records foul
enough to turn the stomach of a brass
monkey.
But there is Kansas and Populism,
thank God! The clatter of the liars
subsidies in silence, and the grand truth
shines out like an illumination.
Take courage, friends, and on with
the fight! l. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
The State Fair This Year.

A private letter from Secretary Ran
dali, of the State Fair, states that the
prospect for great show at the State
Fair has never been better While the
managers keep in mind that the show
is practical and educational, they always
provide amusement, and this year, aside
from great races for which Minneapolis
and st. Paul each guarantee $1,000, the
special attractions are the finest that
have ever been engaged. Everyone who
saw Marian Mills or Happy Jack pace a
mile without driver or sulky, without
skip or break, will be surprised to learn
that that wonderful specimen of horse
education has been so far outdone that
five pacing horses will pace an actual
race without sulky or driver, making
the time in low figures, probably below
2:1O. 1t is hard to believe this per-
every afternoon of the Fair week. A
balloon ascension will also come of
every afternoon, between the exciting
races, which will be the hottest sort of
contests. One Of the new features will
be day fireworks. These are Japanese
invention, and will excite and surprise
everybody by their novelty. Remember
that one fare on the railroad pays both
ways and that the date is Sept. to 10,
inclusive.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10

lords, and the recent report on financial re-
lations shows that her share of taxation is
Fl, 5000 over what 1t ought to be.
II English landlords take 900 a year
out OF Ireland and the English government
spueezes from the impoverished country
each year 50, 00O, 900 more taxes than it ought
to, whose fault is It? These figures show
that the economic relations between Eng
land and Ireland are scarcely less villainous
than those between Spain and Cuba. Spain
sq2eexes the economic life out Of Cuba and
England so Expresses Ireiand.-Mnneapolis
Journal.
Our revolution of 1776 grew out of the
fact that England was trying to make
another Ireland of it's American colonies.
It forbade them to manufacture their
own goods or ship them to anything
but English ports If we had not liber-
ated ourselves in 1875 we should not to-
day have ten millions of population, and
we would be mere string of wretched
provincials scattered along the Atlantic
coast. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
ON GOOD AUTHORITY.

A correspondent of the Journal objects to
a statement in these columns that Ireland is
an example of British misrule, In contrast
with the beneficence of that rule elsewhere.
That the present deplorable economic con-
0ition of Ireland is due to the mistakes of
British administration is witnessed by the
following excerpt 4 from page 81 of the
statistician, Mulhars Industries and
Wealth of Nations"
While the economic conditions of Great
Britain, as regards national earnings and
expenditures on food, Is highly satisfac-
tory, the case is far otherwise in Ireland
which country has been, in chronic state
of misery since the close OF the reign Of
George II. Excepting a brief interval from
1855 to 1851 The expenditure on food is
only 31a pence daily (per capital, or half
what 1t is in Great Britain. 1t seems strange
that Ireland shouldis per- inhabitant, spend
less on food than either Spain or Austria,
seeing that the average earnings of the
Irish people are much higher than those of
Austrians or Spaniards; put we must bear
in mind that Ireland has 70 pay tribute Of
At least e2O00,0o0 Ulvearfto absentee land
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
COMING TO 1T.
Free Silver in India.

DENVER, Col, Aug. A special to the
Times from Washington. D. c., says: In
formation has been received here from Lon
don through private channels to the effect
that the Indian mints are to be reopened
to free coinage, and the assertion is made
that this will occur at an unexpectedly early
date. The report of the Indian commission
er is to be published before the LIST of Sep
tember and this is expected to throw some
light on the details of the matter.
There is strong effort to have the ratio
changed from 16 to /, to q to l, and it is
asserted that a willingness to assent to
this change has been evinced by both the
United States and France. The establish
ment of a ratio of % to 1 would have the
effect of increasing the present price Of sill
yer, but 1t would, on the other hand, prob
ably prevent forever the restoration of the
ratio of 16 to l.
There is some disposition to doubt the
accuracy of the Information, but this doubt
appears to arise largely from the fact that
1t is unexpected.
The inevitable is coming. II India
opens the mints to free silver at % TO l,
the price Of silver will rise proportion
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
JUST AS WE TOLD YOU.

Talk about platform and principle! Who
will now believe that the local fusionists
are after anything but the offices? Every
one of the disgraceful rows which they
have had in Minneapolis this year has
turned upon the question of what individ-
ual should have the nomination for a GER
tain Office 1t has been an unseemly
scramble of individuals for place and the
people are Disguised. 1t did indeed look
three months ago as if the Republicans of
Hennepin county would have difficulty in
pulling their tickets through this year,
and the fusionists thinking they saw vic
tory ahead of them, at once let go all
holds and went at each other like cats and
dogs. The contest began with the nomina-
ton of Cation for congress and reached its
climax in the shrievalty Knockout in the
county convention. Self-respecting Demo-
Gratis by the score in all parts of the city
have announced their intention of voting
the Republican ticket this year.-Minne-
apolis Journal
Is there anybody fool enough to be-
lieve that there was anything behind
fusion but greedy scramble for office
CAN YOU NAME A LEADING FU-
SIONIST WHO Is NOT AN OFFICE
SEEKER? THERE IS NOT ONE.
! That was the animus Of. the whole
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10

w. H. Tinsley writes from Roanoke coun-
ty, Va: Our party in this state mas been
almost blotted out by fusion, yet a few are
scattered over the state like sheep without
a shepherd. We have no more confidence
in the Democrats than in the Republicans"
If ever the forces of reform are again rail-
lied for effective work. it must be. under
trusted leaders, and after the present fusion
regime are sternly relegated to the rear.
This condition becomes more and more evil
dent every day andoit emphasizes the fact
that the first duty of every true Populist
is to aid in the defeaoiDf fusionist leaders
everywhere this faii.eGhicago Express.
That's so. To elect them to office is
to give them Increased power with
which to turn the Peoples party over
to the Democracy II our party is to
live these men must be taught that be-
traying it is not profitable. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
NOT THAT.

The overwhelming Democratic triumphs
in the state elections in Alabama simply
marks the downfall of the Populist party
in that state. The Republicans have at
tempted no separate organization--at least
to the extent of putting general tickets in
the feld-for several years, but now there
is a chance for them. The Republicans in
Alabama would undoubtedly. be able to
make a better showing than the Popuists
have done.-Minneapolis Tribune.
This does not prove the downfall of
the Peoples party, but is another illus
tration of the folly of fusion. The Pop
ulists united with the Republicans in
Alabama, and every member of the
party that hated the Republicans stayed
home or voted the Democratic ticket.
How long will it take the fools to learn
that in politics two and two do not make
four? Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
FREE HOMES.

The spread of Socialism in The agrlcul-
tural district of Lauenberg need not excite
surprise, because 1.-The laborers could never
hope to acquire the smallest spot of ground
as their own possession, and were kept in
a state Of dependence on the gentry and
the peasant prOprietor.-Prince Bismarck.
The ownership Of piece of the earth S
surface is the only safety of humanity,
and the only guarantee of freedom.
Hence the platform of the Peoples
party demands that the homesteads of
the people shall be free from the consta-
BILE, the sheriff and the tax-gatherer.
What say you, brethren? Are you
ready to 60 out and proselyte for this
grand reform, among your friends and
neighboFs? Isn't this of more import
ance than putting Jim Bowler in an Of
flee that will pay him $40 a day?
BAH! I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10

from this world, for have no home. no
friends, no money. no work. SO made up
my mind to go and rest with my dearly be-
loved wife and my three girls in Calvary
cemetery, lot 8, block s. section 2. I mean
to let you know that Pat O'Halloran has
the deed to my lot, and I want Pat O'Hal-
loran to have charge of my body, and see
that 1 am at rest with my wife and chill
dren.
Dear friends. I mean to let you know
: that I have been in st. Paul for thirty
years. and lived an honest and sober life.
Now I am SO years of age, left forlorn
with no home, no friend no money. Daw-
son has robbed me of my hard earnings.
My brother-in-law has done the same.
Thomas Armstrong. I forgive him. I bid
goodbye forever to this world, and may
my soul rest in peace with my wife and
THOMAS BURKE"
Aug. 1, 1898"
Mr.. O'Halloran, to whom the dead man
intrusted what business he had of late
years. informed a Times reporter last night
that Burke had on deposit about $500 in the
Bank of Minnesota when it failed, and it
was also learned that he sold his claim for
SIS.
The deceased was native of Ireland
and he resided in st. Paul about thirty
years, being at one time fairly weil-to-do.
But reverses came, and within the past
'ters. since when he lost heart and con-
tnued to fail in health and spirits. For
several years past he has been employ
by the city on the street force, but recent
ly he has been out of work. He was well
known in st. Paul and universally liked
for his happy disposition and generous
nature.-Minneapolis Times.
We do not desire to bruise the broken
reed, but it cannot be forgotten that the
Mr.. Dawson referred to knew enough TO
know that the single gold standard
would destroy the country, and yet he
had not courage enough to oppose it,
but, On the contrary, in 1896, supported
it. After his failure he admitted that it
was the demonstration of silver that
ruined his bank, and reduced him from
many-times millionaire to poverty.
Why will men not have courage enough
to stand by the right, though the heav-
ems fall? This cowardice is wrecking
the world and will reduce mankind to
universal pauperism. I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
STACY HAS GONE HOME,

Frank N. Stacy has finally been re-
warded by the Democrats for his be-
trayal of the Populists. The Democrats
in a Democratic city convention, with
out any fusion or conference with Pop
ulists, have claimed their own and given
Stacy, as Democrat, not as Populist,
the nomination for the Office Of city
comptroller. In November the voters
will give the Office by an Overwhelming
majority to the Republican candidate.
Stacy, like Owen in the Peoples par
ty, has fallen from grace and could no
longer get a nomination for anything.
The Democratic party was last refuge.
With the exodus of few more such
Democracy will again need publication
as badly as in the times of Grover
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
A VILLAINOUs OUTRAGE.

TWenty-Seven years ago the citizens Oh
St. Clair county, Mo-, voted $25000O in bonds
for railroad. and the bonds were given to
the Tebo and Neosha Railway company, a
company which existed only on paper.
They sold the bonds to Eastern capitalists
and the road was meyer built The $40, 000
in bonds had grown to 1.564.sS6 by the af-
cumulating interest. This amount the courts
have tried to collect, and the people refuse
to pay it. Four years ago the United States
Judge had the county judges placed in Jail
for contempt because they refused to pay
the bill. The judges spen. Is months in
Jail, until their term of Office expired. Last
month the same procedure took place, and
three judges-Tho.11as Gill, Thomas hewitt
and Robert Lyons-are in the Kansas City
Jail for contempt. 1. =
This is a rare example of judges standing
by the people. hewitt and Lyons are can
didates for reelection, and the county
should give them a rousing vote. A COM
promise is proposed by the county of the
par value of $2al $780, but the corporation
demands $780, 900. The United States judge
can place the whole county in contempt
and take control Of the affair and pay the
bogus railroad thieves the full amount IF
this were DONE 1T might serve as a good
Illustration of the rOttenness of the courts
and bond system. 1t is high time the Pop
ullSt party takes the initiative in purifying
the courts, and here in Nebraska is one of
the best examples of a machine court. One
year 1t viii make point of law constitu-
tional If 1T will give the offices to the Re-
publ1cans, and the next year it will make
1t unconstitutional il it will give the Offices
to the Republicans. In short, it is Re-
publican cOurt.-Omaha Nonconformist.
How In the name of all that is rea-
sonable can a community be compelled
to pay 81, 564 1896 for which they never
received cent of consideration?
We can understand why "the custom
merchant can make the giver OF note,
obtained without consideration, respon-
sible to an innocent third party for the
face of it. But this is merely the result
of rule adopted to facilitate business
But who ever heard of a bond being
negotiable paper in the same sense?
The law maxim is "caveat emptor'-
purchaser look out" If a man buys
stolen horse he gets no title to it, as
against the real owner, however limo
Gently" he may have paid his money.
How can the holder of swindling bonds
have any better claim than the swind-
Ter?
And yet so completely does the money
power dominate this country that the
plainest principles of English law are
perverted to help rascality rob the
people.
Do we not need political party that
shall pre-eminently represent public
rights against private swindling?
I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
GIVE HIM AN AUDIENCE.

S. M. Fairchild, member of our
state central committee from Hennepin
county, during the week commencing
Aug. 18th, will be in Ottertail county
doing campaign work for our simon
pure Populism and the Midroad Popu
list ticket. Mr.. Fairchild, perhaps, has
done more to defeat fusion and preserve
the Populist party in Hennepin county
than any other one man. He is an old
time Populist, as distinguished from the
18th hour regenerated. He will speak
at all points where he can find an
audience. He is earnest and convincing
as speaker, and goes from here loaded
with reform books and papers. Our
friends should see to it that he has an
audience at every possible point and
an opportunity to do good work.. Trust
to Mr.. Fairchild for the good results.
e. A T..
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
ANOTHER RICHMOND.

a new ally. l.. D. Foster and W. Lee
Moore have just established in Mime
apOlis middle-of-the-road weekly
newspaper called the Independent Eagle
Eye. We wish them every success, and
are sorry we have not hundred more
newspapers just like it. 1t is an earnest
advocate of the 5th September conven-
ton, it will do good work. Success to
it. .'.-~-'r l. p.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
TOO TRUE.

Many farmers paid Is cents pound for
twine that but for the Republican dirty
work of the state prison board would have
cost but cents.-Fergus Globe.
|. The friends of the state prison board
can make all the excuses they please,
but the fact, stated by Brother Boen, in
the above extract, is true: FARMERS
PAID Is CENTS A POUND FOR TWINE
THEY OUGHT TO HAVE OBTAINED
FOR CENTS.
What are you going to do about it?
Is this system to continue next year?
What say you? Will you slump down
and not resist the robbery? Or will you
get hump ON you, and elect able and
earnest men to the legislature to right
these wrongs?
You are to answer at the ballot box.
l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
JOHN RUSKIN,

The guilty thieves of Europe. the real
source of all deadly war in it, are the cap
italists-that is to say people who live by
percentages on the labor of others, instead
of by fair wages of their own. All
social evils and religious errors arise out of
the pillage of the labOrer by the idler; the
idler leaving him only enough to live on (and
even that miserable). and taking all the rest
of the produce; Of his work to spend in his
own luxury, or in the toys with which he
beguies his idleness.-John RusAin.
John Ruskin is one of the great lit
craft of the world.
If he lived in the United States he
would be a Popu1ist, and not with a
Jim Bowler Democratic attachment,
either. He realized there is something
more at issue in this world than free
silver-and an Office for Jim. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
STANDARD OIL TRUST.

Rockefeller's Standard Oil company
has been brought into court by the at
torney general OF Ohio This has re-
vealed the stockholders and the number
of shares each one represents, as fol-
lows: John D. Rockefeller, 9,244; Mar
tin Snyder, 1; Frank Rockefeller, 1:
F. B. Squire, 1; L. H. Severance, 1872;
Charles W. Hardness, 2,076; William
Rockefeller, 4O7; H. w. Flagler, LOOT;
Benjamin Bruster, $50; H. H. Rogers,
Git; John D. Archibald, 587; w. H. Til
ford, So; Walter Jennings, 49,; Esther
]. Jennings, 1856; Oliver G. Jennings, So;
Emma B. Auchincloss, IS; Annie B. Jen-
nings, IS; Oliver H. Payne, 719; estate of
Charles Pratt, 1,799; Helen j. James,
"a; A. McGreager 1; Sampson H. Hark-
ness, SO; w. l.. Hardness, 251.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
FAILURE IN CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, Aug. 4-Georse P. Gore & Co..
auctioneers one of the oldest business
houses in Chicago made an assignment yes
terday for the benefit of creditors. The
available assets are $125,0OO and the liabill-
ties are estimated at from 500. 900 to $3.50, 600
Poor business is given as the cause of the
failure.
What, poor business" in the midst
of universal prosperity? Impossible.
Have we not the assurance of the Re-
publican state platform that their party
has restored prosperity on the single
gold standard platform? And yet the
lunatics will fail, and owe two dollars of
debt for every dollar of assets. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
BIG SHOE SMASH.

BOSTON, Aug. 2.-Hosmer. Codding & Co..
of this city, who among the largest
boot and shoe dealers in New England, as
signed yesterday afternoon to Charles w.
LAYERS, president of the National Shoe and
Leather Exchange, of this city. Liabilities
are estimated at $780, 900.
Really these single gold standard
good times are becoming excruciating.
Old Hugh Mccullough, secretary of the
treasury, claimed that the abundant
currency of 1868, ETC., was making the
people immoral by giving them too much
prosperity.
No such trouble now. Bankruptcy
and suicide are preserving the morals Of
the people in grand shape. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
HCRRAH FOR MARSHALL AND KIT
SON

In Marshall county the Populists refused
fatty to fuse with the Democrats, and they
nominated straight mid-rOad ticket for
both the county and legislative offices.
Hans B. Imsdahl of Warren was nonin-
atel for senator, and Hon Peter M.
Hendricks, of KittsOn county, was nomin-
ated for the house. All through it is a
strong ticket and the Globe predicts its
success.
We know both Imsdahl and Hendricks
intimately. They are men of sterling
worth. and if we can be of any assistance
to them during the campaign we will aid
them to the extent Of our time and means
should it be needed.-The Fergus Globe.
Amen TO every word of that. We
have known both Imsdahl and Hendricks
Intimately for many years, and better
men or truer Populists do not live.
We shall try to speak in Marshall
county during the campaign, if they
want u.s. /. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
DESPONDENCY AND SUICIDE.

HARVEY, Mich, Aug Paul Bruhn,
druggist, committed suicide last night by
taking strychnine. Dependency over bust
ness matters drove him to the act. He
leaves wife and four children.
All this comes of not subscribing for
the daily Republican papers. If this
man had been a diligent reader of the
st. Paul Pioneer Press he would have
himself l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10

State Of Ohio, City Of Toledo, Lucas Coun-
ty, SIS.
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner Of the firm of F. j.
Cheney & Co, doing business in the City Of
Toledo County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum Of one hun
dred dollars for each and every case of
Oatarrh that cannot be cured by the use of
Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December. A. D.
1886. A. w. GLEASON,
(Seal.) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system Send for testi-
monials, free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO.,
>.a- Toledo O.
Sold by Druggists. Is cents. .r.ts,
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
southwestern Patents Issued This
Week.

Week.
Reported by John E. Stryker, Pat
tent attorney, and F. G. Bradbury, pat
tent solicitor. Pioneer Press building.
st. Paul, MINI.
Peter Benson, Minneapolis, Mimi,
capo tasto.
Peter Benson, Minneapolis, Mimi,
guitar.
John Bigelow, Minneapolis, Mimi,
cigar holder and tobacco pipe.
Olaves I. Bye, Hillsborough, N. D.,
music holder.
Nathaniel j. Shields, Stevenson, N. D.,
spring bed.
Oscar K. Sletto, Fergus Falls, Mimi,
belt regulator.
Lizzie A. Rines, dressmakers' rule
design.
John e. stryker, Patent Attorney, =.
q. Bradbury, Patent Solicitor, Pioneey
Press Bldg, st. Paul, Minn.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
BANKING HOUSE FAILS.

WHITEHALL. N. Y, Aug 4.-The bank
ing house of John Hall & Company. at Fort
Ann, n. T., closed it's doors yesterday.
The cause of the failure is said to be in
judicious loans. The liabilities are nearly
$50, 600.
What, another!
Wait until our Republican farmers
are selling wheat for 50 cents a bushel,
and you will hear them howl. They
will be ready to reorganize their Alli-
anceS then. l. u.