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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24

temporary chairman Of the 18th Of June
convention was terrible. He rode rough
shod over decency, fairness and parIia-
mentary law; and lied outright when he
said motions were carried which were
overwhelmingly defeated.
But his little day Of Importance is
over. He has dropped into nothing
ness and will never be heard of again.
Brother Lowe, of the Jeffersonian, is
wrong when he thinks Gibbs went to
the devil politically because he hated
Mr.. Donnelly. He hated Mr.. Donnelly
because he went to the devil politically.
We never wronged him, and we were
most forbearing with his weakness; and
he knows today, in his heart, that we
were right in trying to keep the Peo-
pies Party alive and refusing to help
the Democratic party to swallow it,
Gibbs is supplemented, weak-mind-
ed individual, and was as clay in the
hands of the Owen gang. They were
to take the Offices and Gibbs was to do
their dirty work without reward, either
in this world or the next.
But Gibbs has withdrawn into a rat
hole and neither Owen, Dobbyn, Lynch
nor any other of the conspirators has
got any Office except Stacy, whose can
didacy is the joke of Minneapolis. Matt
Gallagher says he will cost the Demo-
cracy five votes where he brings them
one. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
GO TO THE CONVENTION.

1t should not be forgotten that the ex-
pense of the trip to Cincinnati has been
cut to less than regular rate to Chicago.
Delegates have an unequaled opportunity
to see the beautiful and fertile states of
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, at the
best time of year. In 1896 the St. Louis
road did itself proud in the furnishing of
the conveniences attentions and luxur-
les of travel, enjoyed and appreciated by
our delegates to ST. Louis. This same
road now makes the low rate for round
trip to Cincinnati and return, via Diff
ferent route, through Chicago for $3.50,
with the further stipulation to meet any
rate lower than this made by roads run
ming through Chicago. Take your vaca-
ton, your annual outing and attend a
great national convention and G. A. II.
encampment E.. AT.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
THE PROSPEROUS FARMERS.

The Chippewa Falls (Wis.) Catholic Sem
tinel says: THE saddest sight we see on
our streets is the overworked farmer and
his wife. The man has not washed or
shaved or cut his hair perhaps in a month,
streams of dirt and sweat fill all the wrin-
kles in his neck: his soied shirt and patched
jeans are sodden with perspiration and fifth.
and his whole appearance bespeaks toll and
hardship. Beside him sits the old woman
every woman is old in this section as soon
as she marries-a little cleaner it may be.
but her careworn face shows the pinch of
poverty even more strikingly than her nus
band"
This may not properly describe the
farmers of Minnesota, but it would he
well for every one of these to ask him
self what he gets out of his ceaseless
toll? Has ne received his share of the
blessings Of civilization, in this latter
end of the nineteenth century? Should
he be contented to wiring from nature a
bare living? Why should those who
live off him enjoy comforts and luxu-
ries which are denied to him? Is he
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24

CINCINNATI.

Minnesota will send full delegation
to the Sept. convention at Cincinnati
The full list of names appears in an
other column. Every man is thorough
bred Populist, not Democrat or fusion
hybrid on the list. Fifty such men con-
stit9te greater party strength than a
thousand men who are Democrats OF
Populists only as an office is given them
by one Of the two parties In the make
up Of the worlds population compromis-
ers have never taken high standing in
public opinion. Since deep disgrace first
attached to mans compromises with the
devil, effort has always been made to
conceal the identity of the act under
some new and strange name. The names
trimmers, fusionists and co-operationists
have all been assumed by the guilty
until each in turn was identified as only
a synonym for the same old disgraceful
compromise. e. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
THE TWO JINS.

The Todd County Argus in a recent is
sue said:
1t is amusing to note the suddenness with
winch some of the Populist fusion papers
nave awakened to the fact that T. 7 Hin
the railroad magnate is a pretty good fell
low and the friend of the farmer The rea-
son Tor this remarkable discovery is that
Mr.. Hill wilt give material aid to the fusion
ticket.
commenting upon the foregoing, the
Ortonville Herald rises to remark:
through all the successive stages Of what
Is now the fusion party in this state from
the days of the Greenbackers Changers
Farmers Alliance and Peoples party lin
Hill has been the bette noir of the reform
forces. as he is now of the real Populists.
the "mid-roaders. they are termed. Bur
the fusionists find in him a congenial spirit
especially since he has evinced willingness
10 give them some pecuniary assistance In
the present campaign.
Our readers will all remember how at
the 18th June convention, that blather-
ing bull of Bashan, the vociferous and
venomous and vituperative Jim Bowler.
roared Jim Hill at all who would not
follow him into the Democratic camp.
And now the two 'Jims" are Gin ca
hoots.' The one does the believing and
the other furnishes the substantial aid.
A little while ago the Bird Island Boa
nerges had the "Jim-jams" whenever
Jim Hill was mentioned; now he roars
as gently as a sucking dove. while he
hangs onto the coat-tails of the mighty
magnate of the Great Northern. ID
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
GOLD BUG MITCHELL.

Not all the Demo-Pop papers are of the
opinion that Judge Mitchell should be re-
turned to the supreme bench. After quot
ing the Wabasha Herald's claim that all
Republicans in that neighborhood intend
voting for Mitchell the Albert Lea Standa I'd
says:
Republicans going to vote for Judge
Mitchell! Why so? And if 50, which Of
their three nominees for the supreme bench
will they cut, and why? Judge Mitchell is
unfortunately for the union ticAel, a Pop
uliSt-Democrat nominee He was nominated
through mistake and through careless
ness, Tor he is corporation and money
monopoly fossil and a never failing repre-
sentative of those interests on the bench
They need him in their business and if
Republicans vote for him it is because those
interests, antagonistic in their Over-reach-
ing demands against the interests of the
people, are using efforts and arts and ap-
piiances to induce them to do so. Any
how, We know of many Populists that will
not vote for Judge MITCHELL"
We are glad to find the Albert Lea
Standard possessed of one sensible idea.
It must rattle around in the editor 8
empty head like a pea in a bladder.
The meanest part of the fusionist
performance of June Is, was Judge
Canty's forcing on the Peoples Party
convention the gold-bug. Mitchell. He
did it because 1t was understood that
Mitchell would in turn force the Repub-
llcan state convention to nominate
CAVITY. But they slipped up, and the
Judicial takers sat down on the ground
hard, In an astonished state of mind,
just outside the door Of the G. o. P.
convention. Liberal applications of ar
MICA and witch hazel have hardly suf-
feed to restore the proper moral tone
to their afflicted anatomys.
1t was well understood that the Pop
ulists of Minnesota had one sentiment
which lowered above all others-that
was, opposition to gold-bugs. And yet
there it stands! Mitchell, the gold-bug.
the POPULIST candidate for Judge of
the supreme court!
"TO what vile uses may we come at
Illustrious Caesar, dead and turned to
clay,
Can stop hole to keep the wind
away
The grand Peoples Party may be used
to boost gold-bug into one of the
highest positions in the state.
But then the unspeakable Stacy has
got his Democratic nomination for city
controller, why should not the Peo-
pies Party be content to die in the
presence Of such magnificent achieve
ment? Id
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
WILL BUILD IT'S OWN RAILROADS.

YOKOHAMA, Aug. 2O.-The Corean gov
eminent. replying to a German request for
concessions, has notified the German consul
at Seoul that it proposes to establish rail-
way bureau and to construct it's own rail-
roads, and that therefore no furtltsr con-
cessions will be granted.
These little, yellow pygmies, whom We
are taught to regard as barbarians, have
more sense than our American people,
with two centuries of public schools be-
hind them.
They refuse to give few individuals
the right to plumber them forever
Bully for the Coreans! We wish they
all voted in Minnesota this fall They
would be open to argument. while the
average American only responds to ap-
peals to his bigotry. All you have to do
is to pound drum and blow fife and
he will tear his shirt and stand on his
head, and wave his intelligent legs in
the air, till the cows come home. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
LIND AND BOWLER.
Scheme Of DemOc rats to Organize for
the Campaign.


the Campaign.
The plan OF Organization Of the Demo-
Gratis OF the state has been made public by
general communication addressed to the
various election districts of the state
Inc plan Is to assemble on the 18th of
august at 8 p. M, the full strength of the
party at each election district at the place
of holding the primary elections, and to or
ganize simultaneously over the state ir
each election district a Democratic cam
paign club. The clubs are to be called
Lind and Bowler Campaign Clubs and
the president, secretary and treasurer OF
each club will be the precinct committee of
the precinct. The whole body Of the pre-
cinct committeeme of ward or district
will make up the campaign committee of
that ward or district. A county campaign
club will also be organized to consist of
representatives of the various precinct
committees.-St. Paul Globe.
Lind and Bowler! Oh Lord!
This will degrade Lind while it can
not possibly elevate Bowler. But the
old fellow is plumb full of vanity, and,
if he could, would change the name of
Minnesota to Jim Bowler"
And observe that these are to be
Democratic clubs! Not a word here
about the Peoples Party. It has dis
appeared like lump of sugar in a
bowl of mud
Jim Bowler is Democrat and has
never been anything else. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
Al BAD MAN.

Six years ago William V. Allen was elect
ed senator from Nebraska by the politi-
clans. This year he is an issue before the
people. backed up by thousands of dollars
but no true Populist can afford to cast a
vote which will aid him in his ambition
Chicago Express.
The shameful accidents of fusion
have done all they could to destroy the
Peoples Party. DO increase their term
Of service will simply increase their ca
pacity for evil.
This is the same man who presided,
unfortunately, over the Peoples Party
national convention in St. Louis in
1896. We heard authpritatively, on
that occasion, that he had just received
a telegram from w. J. Bryan, declaring
that he could not accept the Populist
nomination for president, unless we
also throw Tom Watson overheard, and
nominated the plutocratic national
banker, Sewall, for vice-president We
climbed on a chair and demanded OF
Allen whether he had received any
such telegram, With front of brass he
lied, and said he had not. We learned
afterwad from Bryan himself and
others that Allen had such telegram in
his pocket at the very time he denied
it's existance!
The whole thing was a shameful af-
front put On party that, four years be-
fore, had cast twenty-one electoral
votes. Bryan wanted our support with
out conceding us even decent treat
ment
1t was like the Democratic Canty,
who, not satisfied with purloining the
Populist nomination for the supreme
bench, demanded that we must nomin-
ate the gold-bug, Mitchell, also.
1t beat the unauthorized gall of a
first-class confidence man.
We realize the inadequacy of the
English language to express stony emo
tions /. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
HORRORS OF WAR.

neighbor of ours, Mr.. Charles G.
Jeremey. who is in Cuba as a volunteer
writes his mother letter from which
we extract the following:
Il pulled through the battle all right;
but have been sick from lying on the damp
ground. The best friend 1 had was killed
he enlisted with me. He was from New
Prague.
Well. l suppose everything is fine up there
now but 1t is so unhealthy here; nearly
half of our regiment is on the sick report.
L think We will come back soon after
the Spanish are shipped-they begin ship
ping the oath.
We were issued beef this morning for the
first time. Coffee, bacon and hard tack,
three times day has been all we have
had The canned roast beef could not be
eaten: once in a while we have had "spuds''
and two onions.
1t is an awful thing to see dead men lying
on the hillside waiting for 6x3
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
CHOSE AN ICE BOX.
Albert w. LOwnsbury Picks Out q
Peculiar Place to Die.


Peculiar Place to Die.
ST. PAUL. Aug. 16.-Financial reverses.
coupled with ill health, lead Albert w.
LoWnsbury to end his life, sometime Sunday
at the Model Dairy, which he conducted at
51S Rice street. His prepa ration for death
was careful and the method employed un-
usual. Attaching piece of small rubber
hose to gas jet he laid down in an I'M
used refrigerator :everal feet away with
one end Of the hose under the refrigerator
cover so that the lid would not shut down
and stop the flow of gas, thus slowly as
phyxiating himself. The body was found
yesterday morning, when son of the dead
man went to open the store.
The dead man had lived in ST. Paul q
years. For q years he was conductor on
the Omaha road. When he left the service
of the railroad company seven years ago
he was in excellent financial circumstances
owning comfortable home at 1872 Nnan
avenue. and possessing something of an in
dependent income During recent years
however, he embarked in several business
ventures. each of which was a failure, and
finally Mr.. Lownsbury found himself at the
end Of his resources. Then the family home
was mortgaged and from this time on he
was mucn discouraged. Two years ago he
suffered an attack of nervous prostration
and his. wife says his mind was afterward
affected. He sometimes remained up all
night pacing the floor of his room. Thurs
day night lie was in an unusual state of I'M
rest and did not go to bed at ALL
Poor man! He no doubt voted the
Republican ticket regularly during all
those seven years; and constantly be-
lieved that prosperity had returned!
Every venture was a failure:" OF
course it was. Do you know of any that
were not, good reader?
What conversion there must have
been in that poor fellows mind, be-
tween his realization of the circum-
stances that surrounded him and his
belief in the truth of the editorials of
his Daily Lie?
Put board at the head of his hum
BILE grave, and inscribe on it
"ANOTHER VICTIM OF MISGOVERN-
MENT.'
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
THE UNIVERSITIES.

Norway, one of the most freedom
loving nations in Europe, has taken DO
sltiOn against national university, and
in favor Of free schools for the common
people. 1t is urged by many that uni
versities are breeders of aristocracy and
class privileges.
We were reminded of all this by the
following:
1t is chara cteristic Of the Americans to be
trifiing. They have acquired the varnish of
civilized life, but their natures have not
been refined. Americans are seventy mill
ions good natured people. gifted with fatal
optimism, with no serious thought of any
of the grave duties Of life. They have no
fine sense of honor; they cannot distinguish
between what Is honest and what is dishon-
est. feel with Sir Horace Walpole that
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
A WORD Personal.

The Faribault Jeffersonian says:
1T amuses us to see the mental gyra tions
of those who defend the action of the fusion
lists of the state and among the most anus
ing is that of Bro. Hotchkiss, Of the Re-
publican. He cannot, or at least does not
write a sentence on political subjects, that
it does not revolve around the idea that the
bolt of the Mid-roaders at MINNEAPOLIS was
Donnelly bolt, and that he fixed It up.
and that every man engaged in it, was in
it because he is a blind bigoted follower
or the Sage. Bless his dear soul, so far as
we are concerned our action was in perfect
accord with every sentence we have writ
ten. speech made or word uttered in pri-
waite conservation, from the day it was
known that Bryan was defeated.
I'VE realized then and more so now that
fusion destroys instead Of builds up the
weaker party 1t Is for this reason that
we have an uncompromising hatred of fl
sion In any form. except upon a common
name and common principles. We have
abundant of reasons for believing that il
Mr. Donnelly had not been in the conven-
ton there would have been a much larger
ooit or the convention would have put up
ticket irrespective of other parties for II
is known that Chairman Gibbs and manv
others were held by the fusionsts simply
because they could not divest themselves of
the idea that if they boted they would
necessarily be followers of Mr. Donnelly.
Mr. Gibbs is not an honest fusionist We
know that he did not desire fusion but drift
ed into it because of his personal hatred
of the Niningerian Sage"
This man Gibbs, here referred to, was
formerly one Of the most earnest and
radical Populists in the state; and con-
sequently he was our warm personal
friend. We published not long ago his
eulogium of our career in the last house
of representatives-praising us until we
blushed.
But unfortunately he fell into the
hands of such scamps as Dcbbyn, Lynch,
Stacy and Owen, and the result was a
complete change in the man. He be-
came Conservative, trader, a trick
ster, fusionist, bulldozer and a dis
grace to human nature. His course as
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24

one Of Gods outlaws, doomed to work
for others? Is he the mud-sill of the
whole governments superstructure OF
modern society? II civilization is to
endure must not the mud-sill be lifted
up to the top of the edifice?
What is the use of the public school
system if it does not elevate those it
educates? @
In every other civilized land except
this. the land owner is the aristocrat,
the gentleman. Here he is content to
grub bare existence from the soil, and
let the professional man do his think
ing.
In two years more the twentieth CEN
fury will dawn. Are these conditions
to be eternal? '-'
What say you?
The first condition of progress is:
THINK FOR YOURSELF. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
THE DELEGATES ELECTED TO GO
TO THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION
ARE AS EOJJOWS.

THE DELEGATES ELECTED TO GO
TO THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION
ARE AS FOLLOWS:
First District-P. H. Rahilly, Lake
City; J. r. Campbell. Clyde; w. D. Arm
strong. Waseca; C. H. Roberts, Ruthen.
Second Distribution. l.. c. Long, at
large; c. ]. Arntzen, Wegdahl; Joseph
Schneider, Madison; Eric Olson, Sher-
burn; Butterfield, Sherburn; o. Jacob
son, Chandler.
Third Distribution. Ignatius Don
nelly, at large; F. Borchert, Bird Island !;
A. s. Skegerud, Sacred Heart; A. w.
Potter, Boon Lake; Chas. H. Hopkins,
Fairfax; E. l. White, Morristown.
Fourth Districts. w. Powell, Still
water; G. w. Bonham, St Paul; Peter
Max, St. Paul; c. A. Rutherford, With
row; Peter Blees, st. Paul.
Fifth District-H. b. Fay, Minneapo-
lis; J. B. Dukes, Minneapolis; E. A.
Twitchell Minneapolis; A. L. Gardner,
Minneapolis; S. M. Fairchild, Minneap-
oils; A. H. Nelson, Minneapolis; John
Miller, Minneapolis; G.. w. Day, Mime
apolis
Sixth District-L D. Foster, st. Cloud ::
c. b. Maben, Wealthwood; C. F. Boholl,
West. Union; P. J. Seberger, ST. Cloud
L c. Cater, St. Cloud; W. B. Carter,
Princeton; M. Wesenberg, Duluth.
Seventh Gstrict-C NJ Ru1+ov,E'p,,ef
ton; H. B. Fay, Rumsey; IT, Sem, Cor
morant; A. P. Onsdorff, Henning; A. S.
Stephens, Beardsley; P. w. Sanderson.
Usage; John Gordon, Mollary.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
= FOLLOW THE REPRESENTATIV

Senator Hanna is right. The coming is
sues of American politics are not questions
OF the past, but the new issues arising from
the war and great and sufficient they are!
New York Sum-
so be 1T. Let the grand old party de-
fine Them and whatever they may be, the
Democracy will undertake to meet them {"
st. Paul Globe.
/ This reminds us of the poor Irishman
who was newly landed in New York.
and was asked what his politics were
He replied: Have you govern
ment?'
YES, '~-se'S'~'sr
Then replied Paddy. IL am feminist
it,"
The poor Irishman had some ilIstifi-
cation in the fact that his experience
had demonstrated that the government
of his country was always feminist"
the Irishman. But think of the organ
of the Democracy of Minnesota, which
declares that it only waits to ascer-
tain what the principles of the Repub-
lican party may be TO TAKE THE
OTHER SIDE!
Some years ago John Quincy Adams,
OF Massachusetts, after having been
president of the United States, was
elected to the house at Washington,
where he antagonized the South by be-
ing strongly in favor of the abolition of
slavery Near him was an old gentle
man from one Of the Southern states,
who when he sought reelection to con-
gress, was met in a public debate, by
his opponent, with copy of the Con-
gressional Globe, from which he proved
that the aged statesman had voted d.
rectly against a bill in which all the
people of his state were greatly interest
ed. The old gentleman was thunder
struck, and after examining the record
rose to an explanation. Fellow, citf-
zens," said he, Il always made it
rule to vote contrary to that id
abolitionist, John Quincy Adams; he
voted for this bill, and therefore 1 voted
against it, =:
cred satisfactory, and the sage and pa
triot was left at home.
The Globe may be equally unfortu-
nate. 1t may happen that the Republic
can party may propose some measures
that are right; and the Democracy may
not be willing to follow the Globe in
blind, bigoted and unreasonable op-
position to them
Right is right and truth is truth.
whether it emanates from Republican
or a Democrat
If you are in doubt, Mr. Globe, in
any emergency, consult The Represen-
tative. That is the fountain of truth
On all occasions. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-24
BUTLER GIVES Up.
POpulist Chairman Surrenders to the
Mid-ROad AGGREGATION.

POpulist Chairman Surrenders to the
Mid-Road Aggregation.
HOUSTON. Texas, Aug. 19-In a speech
at the big Popuist encampment at Green
vile today, Senator Marion Butler, of North
Carolina. national chairman of the Populist
party. surrendered to the mddle-of the
readers or anti-fusionists. He declared that
as national chairman he would promise
that there would be no trades or combines
with either of the old parties before the
next national convention. and that he would
call that convention at least a month be-
fore the Democratic or Republican conven-
lions convened. and thus prevent any op-
portunity of fusion. He referred to the
Omaha agreement" which is an agreement
between himself and Milton Park of Dali
las. the leader Of the middle of -the~road ele-
ment
We copy this, headlines and all, from
the daily papers. Butler is trying to
head off the Cincinnati convention by
pretty promises. But it won't t. work. If
man fools us once it Is his. fault; if he
fools us the second time it is our fault.
We cannot conduct the continental rev.
olution with Benedict Arnold in George
Washington's place. Not much. Mary
Ann IN