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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12
HONEST JOHNS RECORD.
How He Voted In Congress on the
Question of Free Silver.

How He Voted In Congress on the
Question of Free silver.
Hon. Halvor E. Boon, ex-member of
congress from the Red River district,
a life long reformer, and one of the
ablest men in the state, in his paper,
the Fergus Globe, in 1926, testified as
follows: He was in congress with Lind
and knew whereof he spoke:
IF the Hon. John Lind is nominated
for governor his record in congress will
be very thoroughly overhauled, unless
satisfactory to the gang. AS the Penny
Press and the Minneapolis Times are
urging his nomination very strongly we
suspect that there is something else to
be served beside the public good.
PERSONALLY we like Mr.. Lind, but po-
litically we believe him to be a reformer
la Knute Nelson. Lind's friendship
for bimetallism now reminds us of Nell
sons vote for the Mills tariff bill.
Here are Linds votes on the silver
coinage question:
June 5, 1890, in the house of repre-
sentatives, bill 1881, known as the Win
dom silver bullion purchase bill, was
pending. Mr.. Bland moved to recon-
nit, with instructions to report back
bill for the free coinage of silver.
AMONG THOSE WHO VOTED
AGAINST BLAND'S MOTION IS THE
NAME OF JOHN LIND.
In the senate, June II, the BILL H.
R. 1881, was reported by the finance
committee of the senate with :undry
amendments; while it was pending Mr.
Plumb, of Kansas, offered an amend
ment for free and unlimited coinage
which was agreed to. After a long
wrangling in the house Of representa-
tives, June Is, vote was had on the
senate free coinage amendment. aud
JOHN LIMBS NAME is RECORDED
AMONG THOSE WHO VOTED
AGAINST IT.
In the house of representatives
March "a, 1892, house bill 1926 for the
free coinage of silver, ETC., was pending
Mr.. Borrows moved to lay the bill on
the table, and THE NAME OF join
LIND is RECORDED AMONG THOSE
WHO VOTED FOR THAT MOTION.
These are the only instances where
John Lind during his six years in con-
gress had chance to vote on the lucs-
ton of free coinage of silver, and rs has
been shown HE ALWAYS VOTED
AGAINST IT.
THE REST OF HIS RECORD IN
CONGRESS WILL BE FOUND UNI
FORMLY IN FAVOR OF THE MONEY
POWER.
We have not written this in the hope
of heading off Mr.. Lind's nomination for
governor. But we publish it in order
to indicate our position in regard to
Mr.. Lind's candidacy now, and before
his nomination Is made.
We have cordially opposed Knute
Nelson's political aspirations because
We. from the start, regarded him as a
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

political fraud-as one who, while pre-
tending to be for the people, was re-
tanned by the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Globe.
Mr.. Boon is now supporting Lind in a
perfunctory way; but he has never
taken back this utterance, and he can
not. The facts stand on the imperish-
able record of congress-, and the men
who are engineering Lind are now work.
ing tooth and toe nail to destroy Boen.
The Penny Press has gone the way of
all flesh, after doing all the harm it
could; Senator Stephen B. Howard, who
was the negotiator of the deal between
Bill Washburn and Lind, to put the
latter up for governor in 1896, is DOW
chewing his moccasins in Alaska; Billy
Williams, our old enemy, is on the
mountains of British America, with
wrath in his heart and bottle in his
pocket. Ringdal, who, as chairman Of
the Populist convention of 1896, agreed
to by all the factions, went out of his
ming for congress, and DENYING THAT
HE BELIEVES IN POPULIST PRINCI-
PIES!
There is nothing left of the con spir-
acy of 1896 but Honest" John Lind
and the Democrats.
John is running on the platform of
military glory, and the tremendous
Charges" he made against poor Uncle
Sam, in Tennessee, when he compelled
him to pay for twice what he got, in
Guiding shoes, which, as he says, went
to pieces if you looked at them. The
government was anxious to get John out
of the service. 1t said he was more
terrible than an army with banners"
In six months he would have bankrupt
ed the republic.
The Democracy-like the poor, .'ryl
the small pox-are always with us.
They are the most unprogressive part
of the human family. They are the
same chaps who declared in 1864 that
the war is failure" They keep the
cow catcher at the end of their train
for fear of being run over by the cows.
They are daisies!
But the Representative stands like
rock
"Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of
worlds. l. D.
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

ago on an anti-monopoly Democratic
ticket, and cheated out of the office by
the Democratic leaders
He has always been on the side of the
people. When he was rich he estab-
lished hospital and helped thousands
of poor, penniless creatures to health
and life. He has a heart in him as big
as an OK.
He runs Independent. What of it?
Every free man should be independent
The servile cusses should be tied to-
gether by the tails, like a regiment of
monkeys.
The election of the Republican or
Democratic candidate for mayor would
signify nothing. DR.. Ames election
would be hailed with joy all over the
Northwest.
Give him your votes. He has faults
let him who has not vote against Ames.
l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

knowledge of affairs or a deeper love for
humanity. Our readers will remember
the many able letters from his pen which
have appeared in the past in the columns
of The Representative.
Mr.. Howe came of old revolutionary
stock; and was full of the spirit of de-
votion to right and self-sacrifice of the
men of IT'S
1t is a great pity that such men should
die and leave the world in its present
wretched condition. 1. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

instead of remaining at home and attend
Ing to his fences.-Minneapolis Times.
Did not the Minneapolis Times long
ago turn down free silver and Bryan?
Did it not Backyard us because we
would not support John Lind; and then
turn round and desert him?
"The funeral-baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage
feast"
as Hamlet says.
The Times has jumped down its own
throat 80 often that it begins to look like
a Katharine wheal! I. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

We are making tremendous fight. at
great sacrifices, to preserve the life of
the Peoples Party. You don't want it to
die. So be good enough and generous
enough to leuk at the label on your pa
per and send us in the little balance that
is due.
"MuZZle not the OK that treadeth out
the corn
Let him have enough to live on as he
does his work
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

signed to me. To do less would be
Sinking my duty as a citizen.
My sympathies and convictions are
with the movement, but neither desire
nor will seek the nomination.
Hence you will pardon me for refrain
ing from answering the questions which
you suggested, or any question bearing
on the propriety of my nomination at
this time. To do 1t would be to place
me in the position of being candidate
for an honor which l do not seek.
If the nomination comes to me at all
it must come to me on my record, as it
stands and as made up during my serv-
ice in public life, and not upon profess
sions made at .,this time. Very respect
fully yours, -
JOHN LIND.
If Honest John" declined to answer
because he was not a candidate, why did
ne not reply to- these gentlemen When
ne was a candidate, and was stumping
the state soliciting votes in 1896?
Why does he not reply now, when he
is again candidate?
Inc law sends, 2 man who obtains
goods by false .pretences to the state
prison. What should it do to the man
who tries to get votes by making the
Populists believe he is a Populist, the
Democrats believe he is Democrat, and
the Rnnuhlicanc hol;ox,o ho 8, , D.x,,l>,:
can?
How much is this above thimble-rig-
glng, Now you see it and now you
don't see it? ID
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12
THE CAT IN THE MEAL.TJ-R.

The st. Paul Globe-now supporting
Llnd-said, during the campaign of 1885,
Washburn will not down.
State Senator Stephen B. Howard man.
aged the Washburn campaign in the SEN
atorial end of the capitol during the con-
test with Gov. Nelson. He is also the
man who went to New Ulm to persuade
John Lind to alter his expressed deter
mlnation not to accept gubernatorial
nomination. Howard camped right
alongside of Lind, and after three days
work went back to Minneapolis in tri-
umph to make the declaration that Lind
would run. Lind's acquiescence was
conditional, but the Washburn Repub-
licans of Minneapolis express confidence
that they can comply with the condi-
tons. One is that the suggestion of his
name shall come from the free silver
convention of today, with the declara-
ton that all free silver men must subor-
dinate everything else to ''the cal1se"
second condition is that the Democratic
nomination shall be secured for Lind, on
a free silver platform. The third condi-
ton contemplates an "UNSOLICITED
INDORGEMENT FROM THE POPU-
LISTS. Securing these, Lind will make
the race.
AS stated in the Globe heretofore, John
Lind is the chief counsel of the Mime
sofa and Dakota Millers' association of
which Washburn is ruling spirit. 1t
has been intiMated that he will not have
to put any money of his own into the
campaign, except possibly for personal
Lind to the point of consenting to 60
against Clough are all members of the
committee of 100, whom David recently
defeated so badly in Henepin county
The gold men among Washburns
: friends will not become publicly identified
with Lind's candidacy until after he has
secured the Demopop nominations, if he
gets them. Then their excuse will be
that the state government has nothing to
do with the financial question.
The Globe has it on credtable author
ity that the ex-congressman has been as
sured of the support of the Minneapolis
Times and Journal, and so far all was
seemingly clear sailing"
Observe that the poor, insignificant
Populists were to nominate Lind WITH
OUT SOLICITATION!
OF course. They were the "rusk" that
was to be thrown in with. the bread.
They amounted to nothing, and were to
be reduced to nothing. Owen was the
tool to do this dirty work, by preaching
decentralization and scatteration.
This whole thing is one of the vilest
and boldest attempts to destroy a great
party, and wipe it off the face of the
earth that was ever known in the his
tory of American politics.
SMASH THE CONSTRUCTORS AND
LET THE PEOPLES PARTY LIVE.
If the fusionists win, it will end true
Populism.
IF THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOOD
ENOUGH TO FUSE WITH, -1IEY ARE
GOOD ENOUGH TO STAY WITH
Don't vote for either the Republican or
the Democratic ticket.
Stick to L. c. Long and his associates.
Poll $4,000 votes, and we will carry the
state in 1900.
Nothing wins like courage and consist
ency. The world revolves around the
man that stands firm.
Down with the tricksters and traders
and scalawags
Death to the fusionists. /. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12
SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
We have received the following let
ter:
Shelly, Mimi, Sept. 22nd, $685.
Editor Representative"
Why was John Lind your favorite man
for governor in SO, but not in 9S? Has
Lind undergone any change in his re-
form views in the last two years?
How can we expect any reform by di-
viding ourselves up into SO many par
ties? 1t seems to me when SO doing it
will only be a clean sweep for the pres
ent party in power-history proves that.
Why is it that both Donnelly and Owen
claim to be the advocates of reform, and
are continually fighting each other like
two bears. I cannot see where the So
called brotherly love is to be found
which is expected from an advocate OF
reform.
Yours truly,
]. ]. AARESTAD
l. Lind was not our first choice for
governor in 1896 We simply found our
self forced to submit to a cunning game
set up by Bill Washburn, head of the
Miller's Ring; Lind. it's attorney, and
lot of leading Democrats in st. Paul and
Minneapolis. Washburn was actuated
by desire to revenge on Governor
Clough the part he had taken in defeat
ing him and electing Knute Nelson
United States senator; Lind was con-
trolled by an Unsuitable greed for office:
and the Democrats were solicitous to
shuttle off the awful odium of Grover
Cleveland's deadly subserviance to the
Gold-bugs, by pretending to take up
new issue.
1t was agreed that Lind, disgruntled
Republican, was to be made governor, by
Populist votes; the Democrats were to
take the United States senatorship by
Populist votes; and the Populists. who
cast the votes, were to have nothing but
the glory of electing these non-Populists
to the highest offices in the state.
S. NJ. Owen. who is neither Populist,
Democrat nor Republican, but simply an
Owen office seeker-a Japanese mermaid
half monkey and half cod-fish-a man
who would blow up the kingdom OF
heaven. and destroy the hopes of the
whole human family, for an office worth
$500 year, was to go to congress!
The Populists were to be made Demo-
Gratis: they were to 60 In under the nose
and come out under the tail. Instead
Of band of heroic statesmen, the lead.
ers of the nation. they were to be made
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

]. n. Bearnes, Of Bank of Commerce
building. Minneapolis. very able law
suit against the Minneapolis Times for
libel He will make it hot for that vir-
tuous sheet He will try to uncover cle
he succeeds Tom Canty's long ears will
he seen sticking out from under the wood
pile
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

Lind's big meeting Oct 10. Mime
apolis. was a fizzle. Half the audience
meandered out before the soldier Of
New Tim lad talked twenty minutes.
That is the result of trying to make a
great man out of a second-rate country
attorney. for the wheat ring.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

Lind said Oct. 10. he was not Popu-
hst-never had been. and never would
be-
That relieves the Peoples Party of a
crushing load OF responsibility.
But if he is not a Populist why should
Populists support him?
Answer me that-yOu addle-headed
sons of guns!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12
DOCTOR ANES.

Doctor Ames is running for mayor of
Minneapolis.
He is not the candidate of the Peoples
marty. and does not ask to be.
Nevertheless we wish him we'll.
A vote for Ames Is not vote for fu-
sion with any old party, because Ames
has renowned both old parties.
He was elected governor several years
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12
PATRIOT,


Death is sweeping away the friends of
humanity while the skalawags bloom in
perpetual youth.
We have just heard of the death of our
old and IGNORED friend, Hon. Jonas ii.
Howe. of Corcoran, Hennepin county,
MIMI. at an advanced age. A truer man
never lived; nor one with broader
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

Can.y says Twitchelfs book, Bond
and Industrial Slavery" is anarchistic.
Canty's horse sense is jackanistic.
POpulists should compare the two
books
A fool is worse than an anarchist.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

Stacy's paper is dead. 1t died so
quietly that we knew nothing of it until
the remains began to smell To para
phrase Whitier's line on Webster,
And hold your nose!"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12
"HONEST', JOHN LIND.

Always Running for Office. Hut Never
Candidatc-Wants the Votes of
Men, Hut Will Not Say Whether He
Is POpulist, Democrat or Repub-
"Buy Pig In a POke''-SOmebody
Is to Be FOOled-WhO Is 1t:
Read the following letters.
John Lind has repeated that answer
again for this year. Is an honest" man
afraid to tell where he stands?
THE QUESTION.
Minneapolis, Mimi, July 18th, 1885,
Hon. John Lind, New Ulin Minn.--Dear
Sir The undersigned, committee ap-
pointed by the president of the Peoples
Party Ames Club, in accordance with
nit the following questions for your
consideration. Please answer at your
earliest convenience, and greatly oblige.
l. Is it fact that you now believe
in the principles enunciated by the ma
tional Republican platforms of 1894,
1888. and 1892?
2. If the late Republican national
convention at st. Louis had declared fer
free and unlimited coinage of silver, 16
to l, would you have Endorsed their
platform and be found working with
them today?
3. Do you believe in the government
ownership of railroads, telegraph and
telephones?
4. Do you believe in the municipal
ownership of street car lines, electric
plants, water works systems and other
public utilities of like nature?
5 Do you believe in the government
issuing money direct to the people with
out the Intervention of banks, and MAX
ing the same full legal tender for all
debts, public and private?
6. Do you believe in direct legisla-
ton, and will you favor the initiative
and referendum?
Z. Do you believe in and will you
support measure looking to the cleo
ton of president of the United States
and of United States senators by direct
vote Of the people?
Respectfully yours,
c. B. MABEN,
J. R. LEWIS,
H. S. SEED,
H. A. HANSON,
JOHN T. ROOD,
Committee.
HERE is HONEST" JOHNS REPLY.
Messrs. C. B. Maben, j. R. Lewis, H.
S. Seed, H. A. Hanson, John T. Rood,
Committee, Minneapolis, Minn.-Gen-
tlemen: Your communication of The
18th inst, with the inclosed clipping,
received and has been carefully noted.
I regret exceedingly that anything
should have occurred to justify the opin-
ion evidently entertained by your conf
mittee that I am a candidate for the
nomination of governor at the hands of
any party. Such is not the fact am
not candidate. l have said that if the
forces opposed to foreign domination in
national affairs, and to corrupt clique
rule in state matters should unite i'll
this campaign, and united ask me To-
participate in it as their candidate for
governor, would assume the task as
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

Lind told a friend the other day that
Peoples Party as much as he thought he
had. He was picking his teeth then
with S. NJ. Owens tail, which stuck out
between his teeth The rest of s. NJ
was where il made no difference what
banner you marched under.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

Are YOU reading some one else'S copy
of The Representative? If you are be
generous and help us by your subscrip-
ton.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

The Cincinnati Democrats in their con-
gressional convention tabled the free sill
yer and Bryan resolutions. That's what a
presidential possibility gets for going forth
to fight and have theiague for his country
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

Get up clubs for The Representative.
That is the pest way to advance re-
form.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

Did be. he that first cries Hold:
Enough
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

The Peoples Party, Of Minnesota, once
more lives
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

The battle is getting hot and we are
ready for all cOmers
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-12

Get up clubs for The Representa-
tive 1t will be 4 gatling-gun until the
last traitor is buried. Spread the light.
1t is the most original paper in the Unit
ed States Push it if you love the truth
''Twitchel1 and Temple may be regard
I'D as fairly representative of the NOR
Atty and general character Of the party"
Tom Canty in Minneapolis Times.
Indeed. Is Tom Canty fairly repre-
sentative of the MORALITY of the flu
sion ticket?
If he is God help the fusionists.
god-Priapus.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-16
DIED IN A DRUG STORE.
Mrs. c. f. Hicks's Head Dropped and
She Quietly Passed Away.

Mrs. c. F. Hicks, of ia South Noble
street died last night shortly before IL
clock at Huder's drug store, Pennsyl-
vania and Washington streets. She had
gone into the drug store and sat down. She
said nothing and was not questioned, be-
cause it is customary for people to wait in
the store for street cars. One of the clerks
saw the old woman's head droop, and think
ing she was i'll, stepped to her side. In u
moment lher life had slipped out of her
without giving the least tremor to her body.
temptS were made to revive the woman ana
to induce artificial respiration, but all
failed. She was taken to the city morgue.
engraved her name, and in the other Leroy
to mother" 1t was this last ring that lea
to Mrs. Hicks's Identification The direc-
tory showed that Leroy Hicks lived at ia
South Noble street, and PatrOlman Hauser
found him there. Hicks did not look at the
body in the morgue, but he knew by the
rings and the sealskin cape that the dead
woman was his mother. He said she Was
slXty-two years old, and had told him
that she felt she had heart disease. Lately
she had complained of stomach trouble
Last night Mrs. Hicks attended the meet
ing of the State Association of Charities
and Corrections at plymouth Church and
was on her way home when she died. Mrs.
Hicks's husband is a baggageman on the
Pennsylvania Railroad. lie mad not lived
with her for a long time. She lived alone
with her son.