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

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SIAO1s'
What Is He, Republican, Democrat, or
Simply . Hireling Of the Corpora
tiOns.
Ed. Representative.-The disorganiZers
of the Peoples party in Minnesota have
a newspaper organ. published in Mime
apols, within easy reach Of Bill Washburn
and Charlie Pillsbury. The name of this
broadside of laundering, inconsistent
hypocrisy is 1.-THE Free Press" and it's edi-
tor is the 'inexpressible Stacy" chairman
of the fusion state cOmmittee-that Is of the
Owen, Bowler, Austin, Dobbyn, Ring dahl
and Lynch branch of the cunning game of
plutocracy called fusion-excuse me- "hon-
orable cooperation" Which of these terms
Is the most applicable to the nature of the
scheme 1 hope to show in this article.
l believe 1t is fair and right to Judge an
organization by it's official head. Then
Stacy (what an inspiration there is in that
name) represents the inward politics of
fusionism. Stacy stands for fusion and
fusion stands for Stacy He is the fusion
guide board nailed to the Pilsbury- WASH
burn post at the political crossroads,
whittier is he directing Peoples party men
who have first been deluded and then be-
wildered by the cry of honorable co-opera-
tion?' Into the Dismal Swamp of political
disgrace and disaster, to be lost in the boys
of shame and despair, or be crushed be-
tween the crocodile Jaws Of gold standard
Democracy and miller and elevator ring
Republicanjsm. 1t is time for the sunlight
of truth to break through msts and dispel
this Will-o' -the-wisp delusion.
In the Free Press of July 22nd appears an
article, under the caption of "Mid-Roadism
in 1894" which open the eyes of any honest
reformer to the true nature of fusion.
ind soil Nv
will here quote and discuss, as briefly as
possible paragraphs from this. the most
remarkable argument l ever saw in pre-
tended Peoples party paper. 1t says:
In 1894 the Populist and Democratic par
ties went mid-road. This was unavoidable,
because they were wide apart In principles
and platform But in 1893 the situation is re-
versed The record of 1894 shows the suicide
of mid-roadism and the necessity for CO.
operation. 1t elected Knute Nelson and the
straight Republican ticket from top to bot
TOM q
Your grand and noble efforts in building up
the Peoples party from 1892 to 1894 to over
come the evils brought upon the country by
the two old parties was Suicide You
should have co-Operated with the forces you
had set out to defeat and destroy, and in
this way gathered in a few offices-enough
for Stacy and his fusion friends, at least
But Stacy says cooperation in 1894 was I'M
aVoldabe, because the Populsts and Demo-
Gratis were different. whereas in this year
OF grace. four years later, 1.-The situation
is reversed" How is the situation re-
VerSed! In 1884, If our memory serves us
correctly, the Democracy of Minneso ta in
dorsed the bOnd-issung admins ration of
Grover Cleveland, while this year they in
dorsed the action of the Democratic repre-
sentatives in congress who voted for the
issue of $500, coo worth of bonds twice as
a q md Nd
Democrats also indorse the Chicago Plat
form, which declares for a redeemaol pa
per currency, and does not dem1nd direct
legislation. And in South Dakota this year
although fusion was brought about, the
Democratic platform did not declare for
greenbacks. governmental ownership of pub
lie utilities or direct legislation, and vet
there was a large sized row in their con-
VentlOn over 80 much POpuliSt heresy in
the PLATFORM So much for platforms Now
as to the personal conduct of leaders S. NJ
Owen went before the committee on resolu-
tons at the Peoples party state convention
in 1894 and tried to keep '16 to T. out Of our
platform q was there, and speak a1visedly)
While Gen. Baker (middle-of- the-road candi-
date for governor the ticket Of Mr.
Owens Alliance party in 1922 secured the
Democratic nomination for congress be-
tween L. c. Long and McCleary, and in
sured McCleary's election all of which kar-
monies very well with the conduct of Mr.
Owen and his particular friends in 1893. The
only reversal of the situation 1 can see is
that in 1894 true Populsts predominated and
controlled in the Peoples party state CON-
VentlOn. and kept principles at the front
while this year the Peoples party conven-
ton was packed by ward heelers and bum
politicians who denied the right of free
speech, sent principles to the rear and put
pie to the front, thus rending our party
asunder and carrying fraction of it into
a rrn vr,ot oI
is neither Populism, Organism or Towne Re-
publlcanism, but cunning trick of the ma
tlonal banks, railroads and wheat rings to
side track reform.
AS to the election of Knute Nelson in 1894
why need Stacy complain? He supported
knute in 1892. and tried to make speeches
for him. But in some instances, especially
UP in Martin county, where he was hooted
from the platform (for particulars apply to
the chairman Of the Martin county p P
colnmittee), he was damage to the cause
Turning again to Stacys article in the
Free Press, find that he consumes an en-
tire column in giving what he calls the Of
fetal returns of the election of 1894, even
following it up into county elections, and
then concludes with this statement:
Taking the average of the votes cast Tor
both state and congressional tickets in 1894
the Democratic candidates polled about II
per cent more votes than the POpulistS"
Again. brother Populists. what think you
of man pretending to be the chairman of
the Peoples party state committee, who de-
votes full column in his paper to a Jug
glery with figures, trying to show that at
the last election where the relative strength
of both parties could be seen, the Demo-
Gratis were stronger than the Peoples par
ty? Exhausting every art of the lawyer
politician to prove that the Peoples party
was the third party in the state, in 1894, III
stead of the second, as We proudly pro-
claimed ourselves. Is that the way to
serve the Peoples party? Where in all the
POLITICAL history of the century can be
found a parallel for such glaring and bold
faced treason?
And this man is the 'hosen leader of the
gang who want to be recognized as the true
Populists and who are trying to persuade
us away from the old guard who organized
the party in 1892. And they charge Ignatius
Donnelly, author of Caesars Column"
THE Golden Bottle" and other great
works, whose every sentence breathes
truth, liberty and love for humanity-they
charge even him with treason n their des-
perate attempts to justify themselves in be-
traying the grandest movement that has
graced American politics since the Revolu-
ton. which laid the foundations of our gov
eminent. Bit his name ard fame will be
On every tongue hundred years after these
liliputian scamps have been buried beneath
the mountains of wrath and indignation
which already trembling n fall