The representative., 1898-05-18
A BLACKBOARD NEWSPAPER.
Getting Wrought Up.

tent are gathered Owen, Lynch, Dobbyn,
Bub Williams, Stacey and all the rest OF
that salacious gang who are ready to
attack all who will not consent that the
Peoples Party shall be swept out of ex
istence in Minnesota as it has been in
Ohio, Iowa and several other states.
When things look black for fusion
the Times grows abusive of all true
Populists and opens the slop-buckets of
it's wrath over their devoted heads. 1t
has no argument, but, as usual, it drags
in Jim Hill and Mark Hanna.
1t considers it horrible thing that
in 1892 should not be willing to turn
Democrats in 1898. If they will not
then they are in the pay Of the Repub
licans!
We quoted in our last issue under the
head of Gossip" an article from st.
Paul paper setting forth that the friends
of Mr.. w. w. Erwin, who recently ran
for mayor in st. Paul on the Populist
ticket, would push him for the Populist
nomination for governor before the
Peoples Party convention of June Is.
We did not indorse or advocate such
action, but simply gave it as an interest
ing item of news which our readers were
entitled to know.
Mr.. Erwin has as good right to run
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| avowed Populist while Mr.. Lind is not.
Mr.. Lind has no pre-emption claim on
the office of governor of Minnesota that
we know Of that would entitle this
Democratic sheet to rise up behind the
bulwarks, shot gun in hand, to slaughter
reform editor for merely mentioning
the name CT any other candidate.
And what has this Democratic editor
to do with our Populist convention and
nominations anyhow?
He says:
This appears to be the condition of the
Peoples Party in this state. And it is due
to the fact that so-called leaders in the
party are more anxious for the success of
the Republican party than for the triumph
noisy but totally insincere Endorsement"
The Times would denounce us as an
egregious ass if we insisted that it
should at once drop the Democratic
party and support the Populist ticket,
and declared that If it did not it was in
the pay of the Republicans.
Think Of it! The vote of this state in
1S94-the last time the Democrats and
Populists voted eparately-stood as fol-
lows:
Populist vote ....................S 1880
Democratic vote ............. 1854
Populist majority over Democrats, 34,3O6
Here are 34,306 arguments why the
Democrats should indorse our state
ticket, and why we should not join with
them on terms of equality. Is it not
excessive impudence for a paper repre-
senting the third party in the state to
| assert that the second party cannot go
| it alone, but must fuse with them? Why
do they not declare that the Prohibition
lists must likewise vote the Democratic
ticket, or stand convicted of being in
the pay of the Republicans to defeat
Democracy?
The Peoples Party did not come out
| OF the Democratic party, but out of the
Republican party. Its existence was
rendered necessary by the fact that
Democracy and Republicanism were beth
engaged in "a sham battle"-as the
Omaha platform put ton the tariff
question to keep the money question
from being considered by the people.
And after having misled the people for
80 odd years, and perceiving that they
were played out" and could not carry
state in the Union, they suddenly
turned back-handed summersault and
lit on a corner of the Peoples Party
platform with both feet And as soon
as they had caught their breath after
this violent exertion, they began to in
suit and blackguard the Populists, and
declare that if they did not turn Demo-
Gratis at once. mem con, they had sold
out to Mark Hanna and Jim Hill!
And if fusion is going to help Demo-
cracy why should Jim Hill oppose it?
Is he not the biggest frog in the Demo-
cratic puddle? Did he not run the
Cleveland administration, and was not
Kelly and Doran his right and left
bowers:
The Times continues:
Erwin has much chance OF election
1or governor as he had for mayor of ST
Paul, and not whit more And he knows
| It, He is simply dividing the anti-macnine
| forces In the state He is too astute a
| politlclan to sincerely believe that his cam
| uloacy can have any other result This
| Iact Justlfles suspicion of his sincerity and
should thoroughly discredit him with tht,
| voters OF all parties. Practically the same
| may be said of Donnelly, about whose
| motives. however, there Is, even less douot
! Jim Hill has declared that the pcou.e,s
Party shall never again come So near "a
| carrying the state as It d.! in 1896. AMI
| Donnelly's relations to Hill arc matters of
| public knowledge. Indeed, he makes no
| disguise of them: but in his own paner
frankly admits that he is under pecuniar nv
obligations to the great railroad monopo-
| list which preclude any opposition on his
/ part to Mr.. Hilrs schemes"
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