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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-26
]. R. LOWE
Candidate for Congress in Third Dis
trict.

J. R. Lowe, candidate for congress in
the Third district, is making probably
the strongest Mid-road campaign being
made in this state, and should have the
active support of every Populist in his
district. He is an old soldier and vet
eran reformer. Since the civil war he
has spent 20 years on the frontier. in
South Dakota, as ranchman, farmer,
merchant and publisher. He was twice
president of the South Dakota State Alli-
ance. He was a delegate to the Ocala
convention, Indianapolis and Memphis,
and has always been opposed to fusion.
He is a native of Ohio, born of English
and Holland ancestry, and lived on a
farm till he enlisted in the volunteer SER
vice, Co. c, Both Ohio. He was made
captain July 4, 1864, and discharged July
]9, 1865. He was in the army of the
Potomac, with Sherman in his march to
the sea, and was wounded at the battle
of Bull Run.
Like Messrs. Long, Hopkins and Pow
ell on our ticket, he was a fighter in the
ranks at the front to the finish, and car
ries with him into this battle for politi-
cal reform the same courage and deter
mlnatiOn to stay with the cause. and all
true Populists will stay with j. r. Lowe
at the polls on Nov. 8. EAT.
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WILL RUN INDEPENDENT
A. Il. ID. Austin Announces Himself a
Candidate for Congress in the First
District. on the Platform of OppO-
sitiOn to Usury and in Favor of
Government Loans.
A CARD.

To the Voters of the First Congressional
District of the State of Minnesota:
l respectfully ask the support and suf-
frage for congress of all who recognize
money, between citizens, is king of the
United States, high god of the church,
and has pauperized the people; that it is
death to our liberty, absolute slavery for
our posterity, and unless this king is de-
throned, depopulation of our country Is
at hand.
Further, that money is creature of
the government, and interest for the use
of it should go to the government, from
the citizen, or from the government to
the citizen; that citizens who exercise
the prerogative of the king should re-
store what they have taken; that the
president of the United States is reduced
to the position of a page for the king;
that parties are the kings loyal sup
porters.
Now, if on the day following the elec-
tion in November, you can tell me that
$500 voters scattered through the dis
trict wrote X A. T. D. Austin upon a
blank space on the ballot, for congress,
l will tell you when interest for the use
of money between citizens will end by
the government issuing the money direct
to the people, thereby restoring law. or
der and confidence, by dethroning the
king Respectfully yours,
A. T. d. AUSTIN,
Alden. Oct. 20, 1898.
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EVIL OF PLUTOCRACY.

President Jesse. of University Of Mis-
souri,, Points Out the Danger of
Accumulated and Organized
Wealth.
In a recent letter, President R. H.
Jesse, of the University of Missouri, one
of the most cool-headed and patriotic
as he is one of the ablest. men in the
country, spoke of the menace which the
become to American institutions. No
intelligent American has right to pass
over or forget such words as these from
such man:
The tendency of modern times to-
wards socialism, communism and even
anarchy seems to terrify many people.
No one Will deny that there is such a
tendency. No one will question that it
threatens our institutions.
But to my mind this danger is small
compared with that which threatens
from accumulated and organized wealth.
Its Tack of sympathy with the struggling
masses is indeed one chief cause of COM
munism and anarchy. More than half
of the wealth Of the country is controlled
by less than 1000 men.
Many plead as an excuse that the road
to wealth is open to any man. The road
to enormous wealth in life time should
be closed to every man. No man car
accumulate the prodigious fortunes of
our modern plutocrats by honest labor
and clean transactions in the space of
one life time. Few immense fortunes
are gathered in life time by methods
weaathiest men have heaped up riches.
In ways that are morally no better than
highway robbery.
Manufacturers in many cases have
risen to princely wealth by grinding
down their employees to starvation wages
thus cutting off educational opportunity
and even moral training from thousands
of children that are to WELD the ballot.
Railroad magnates have often grown rich
by wrecking roads, depressing stock and
standing in" with construction COM
panies. Merchants have frequently be-
come princes" by forcing their COM
petitors to the wall, using for oppression
the powers that were given for good.
More than one colossal trust has gain
ed wealth and power largely by con-
spiracy with railroad officials, whereby
special freight rates have been secured
and denied to all % A3petitors.
Meanwhile society is supported by hon
est, hard-laboring people, who, guarding
the country at home and abroad, have
furnished protection to these men by
making life and property safe They
have rendered it possible for the pluto
crat, holding in safety his gains, to pass
them on to his children.
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Is "SfIyer'' SmOulderinX:

To the Editor of the Minneapolis Times:
1t does not require political expert or
one of unusual acumen to discover the
pecuiarities Of the present campaign, but
to correctly read the signs is quite an
othef. matter It's unusual quietness,
amounting almost to Indifference, is
thought by some to be the natural reac-
ton from recent excitement incident to
the war, and having no political assur-
ance on the part of Republicans to sure
and certain victory. But may l suggest
that possibly it might be that serene and
seductive calm that, rightly interpreted
foretells the coming storm.
The hesitancy and unwillingness on
the part of the Republican management
to open the campaign on national issues
upon the assumption that these issues
are settled, are liable yet to rude
awakening to the fact that the opposition
are preparing for an aggressive canvass
upon the unsettled issues left over from
the campaign of 1895.
The recent declaration by the Popullst
managers at Cincinnati that the cam
paign of 1900 was already begun, to-
gether with the new organization Of the
Democratic national committee places
Coin" Harvey in management end the
importation of an Eastern speaker to
work our city in the interest OF free sill
yer are straws that show the drift OF the
current.
The political aspect Of the financial
question may at. this time be linked to
fire in peat bog, which in still day
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-26

Albert Lea, Mimi, Sept. 24.-Populists
had a mass convention here this after
noon declaring for a reduction of sal
aries of county officers and demanding
that the state appropriate enough money
to pay private soldiers, so that their pay
and that of nome commissioned officers be
$25 per month. A full ticket was named.
Nominees for the legislature are: Zen
ator, H. c. Nelson; representatives o.
O. Opdahl and Edmund Hall. Capt. Ed
wards, named for county attorney, de-
clines
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Heroes of War and Peace.

(By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.)
All, that is story that takes ones
breath -s-
How the men rowed out in the face of
death;
Rowed as calmyly as fishemen may,
Who haul their nets at break of day.
But never was fishnet hauled in the
weather
That rifle and cannon and shell together
Rained on those sailors who drew from
it's bed
The wise sea serpent and crushed it's
But where is the story and where is the
For the heroes of peace and martyrs of
wrong?
They fight their battles in shop and
mine;
They die at their post and make no sign.
And the living envy the fortunate dead
AS they fight for pittance of butterflies
bread
They herd like beasts in a slaughter pen;
They live like cattle and suffer like men.
The life that has nothing to hope or gain
But ill-paid labor and beds of pain?
Fame, where is your story and where is
your song
For the martyrs of peace and the vic
Tins of wrong?
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HON. P. H. RAHIlLY.
Candidate for stat. Treasurer.

Candidate for stat" Treasurer.
Hon. Patrick Henry Rahilly, the Mid
road Populist candidate for state treas
urer, is probably the most extensive
farmer and stock raiser In Southern
Minnesota. He has an immense farm of
over 200 acres near Lake City, in Wa
basha county. He was born on a farm
near Limerick, Ireland March g. 1884.
His childhood to the age of 10 years was
spent on the farm, after which he was
placed at school in Limerick, where he
received a classical education In the
spring of 1S49 his father, with his family,
moved to this country and settled in Sus-
quehanna county, Pa, and two years
later our candidate left home to start in
life for himself His first two years for
himself were spent on a farm in New
York. where he gained thorough knowl-
edge of the cattle business, which has
siEce been SO largely instrumental in his
success. In 1854 the 'go West, young
man. idea seized him, and attracted by
Illinois Central railroad circulars, he
came to Chicago, thence to st. Paul,
thence down the river to Winona, and
for time was in the employ of Hon. w.
D. Lowery, near Rochester, who was a
farmer, merchant and banker
On the 23d of August, 1860, Mr.. Rahilly
was married at WinOna to Miss Gather
inc Norton, and soon after moved to his
quarter section, the site of his present
home, pre-empted by him in 1853 From
this beginning his energy, hard labor,
attention to details of his business and
thorough knowledge of his calling have
gathered to his possessions farm after
farm, until now he has the mammoth
farm of nearly two sections, with mag
nificent brick residence eQualed no.
where outside of the big cities. All of
this Mr. Rahilly has acquired without
the aid of any special or class legislation.
He has obtained it by his own efforts
entirely, under the Populistic principle
that he is today advocating of equal
opportunities to all and special privi-
leges to none. He has prospered without
being member of trust, combine, a
banker, monopolist or government
pet.
Recognizing his marked executive abil-
ity exhibited in the conduct of his own
affairs, Wabasha county has sent him
four times to the state legislature, three
times to the house and once to the SEN
ate. Populists, indorse and put for
ward successful honesty, and turn
down successful rascality. He has
worked and earned by fair.
honorable and legitimate means his
fortune, and the same qualifications that
have achieved success for Mr.. Rahilly
should be the very highest testimonials
for his eminent fitness to serve the state
in the handling of its cash as state treas
urer He will receive the vote of every
citizen who candidly compares the quail
1lcations of such man alongside the Re-
publican candidate and the Democratic
aspirant EA r.
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Men Who stand Erect,

Let me repeat that cOmpromserS,
abuses, never found or save free institu-
tions and never fight for human rights.
They always become instruments for the
enemy. Wherever they are in control
the party is unworthy of the respect Of
mankind Only men of conviction and
courage can save this land Only the
men who stand erect ever get recogni-
tion from the great speaker who pre-
sides over the deliberations Of the uni
verse.-JOhn p. Altgeld.
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MORE FAILURES.
The Coming Nation.

Who'll be the next? The Tradesmen's
National bank, of New York, a $4,000, 900
concern, has closed it's doors.
For 20 years it has been regarded as
one of the solid financial institutions Of
New York
Now it is heap Of ruins, with horde
to get back a few hundreds out of the
thousands they invested.
1t is interesting to notice that the
cause of it's collapse is the depression Of
the wool business.
The wool business was made an object
of especial care by the Mckinley admin
istration 1t was protected from foreign
competition by high tariff, and great
boom was predicted And the result is
a $5,OOO,OOO failure
This failure is another evidence of the
fact that our business has become bat
tie between giants.
What can the small bankers and capit-
alists hope for when such solid and long
established concerns as the Tradesmen's s
bank collapse like a punctured balloon?
l have no doubt that three years ago
this bank floated $25 flag in honor of
Mckinley and sound money
It's president and directors and clerks
no doubt scoffed at the Bryan movement,
and declared, with as much vigor as po-
liteness would permit, that nothing
would place our banks upon a solid ba-
sis except the single gold standard.
They looked upon the men who tried
to warn them as agitators and anarch-
lists, and denied that business was con-
trolled by few gigantic corporations.
The main question that this affair
suggests is, how many more such failures
must we endure before we become wise
enough to have the whole banking busi-
ness controlled by the nationy
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An Actor Shoots Himse elf.

New York, Sept. 30.-Seott Inglis, an
actor in Julia Arthur's company, shot
himself through the heart tonight in a
theatrical boarding house on West
Twenty-seventh street, where he had
been living Inglis was dismissed from
the company few days ago for failure
to attend rehearsal and had been re-
fused reinstatement by Miss Arthur. He
was without funds. He was an Aus
tralian, 80 years old. He married Miss
Yta Hamilton, a member OF Mrs. James
Brown Potter's company having met her
in Australia. She is at present i'll at her
home in Thomson, Clask county, KY.
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NUT BUSINESS PAYS.
Growth of the Industry-Farmers
Finding That Many Kinds Pro.
duce Very Lucrative Crops.

Growth of the Industry-Farmers
Finding That Many Kinds Pro-
duce Very Lucrative Crops.
(St Paul Dispatch.)
The commercial nutting business is
assuming greater proportions every year
in this country, and the farmers are
planting nut trees for profit along with
their apple. peach, pear and plum trees.
A nut orchard properly attended to fire.
quently yields as much profit as an
orchard of peaches or apples, and the
trees can be made to grow on the sides
of hills that can be utilized for little else.
In New England the bleak, stony hills Of
farms that were considered Of little real
agricultural value are being successfully
planted with walnut trees. chestnuts,
butternut5. and other nut-bearlng
erowths. In the West and Southwest
land that is too wet for corn, wheat and
other cereals is utilized for raising hick-
ory and pecan nuts. The latter, in par
ticular. will thrive on land that is fire.
wild state the trees are mostly found
growing on rich 4 uvial bottoms along
the streams Of fresh water.
California started into nut culture on
a larger scale, and the example it set has
been followed by most of the other states
Today it produces more than 100000
pounds of English walnuts, great guam
titles of almonds, improved chestnuts,
English filberts and hazel nuts. In the
South the pecan trees have been growing
for half a century in a semi-wild state,
but for ten years now groves OF them
have been planted and cultivated by the
farmers with every promise of success.
Int years new industry has sprung
up and developed into one of consider
able commercial Importance. Not only
has the market been supplied with home
grown nuts, but a wider demand has been
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will show little or no indie IS of con-
suming energy, while at same time
it is burning deeper, spre, =, wider ana
coming nearer the sur = and only
awaits a favorable bree, awaken It in
an active fame If these issues are dead
as thought by some, they certainly have
not been properly buried, and if this i'm
pOrtant duty is not attended to We are
liable to have very active corpse upon
our hands before the. campaign of 1900
Such at least is the opinion of
-LokerOn.
Minneapolis, Oct. 8.
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Laboring people. can you understand
this: Suppose. in some community, 1
employ 100 workers to produce goods on
which | set value OF $4,000, and pay
them $1,000 in wages. When they buy
back Of these goods, or others made and
paid for on the same basis, there are
$1,000 of goods left-an over production
which they cannot buy though they
not sell them will stop production. for
why make more when | cannot sell
what have? Then the men, being idle,
soon fall into want and crime They are
not allowed to produce more and supply
themselves, for then my $4,000 would be
worse than useless. But suppose | paid
them the full value of their labor, $lO,-
900? Then they could buy back all the
goods, and there being a need when the
supply is exhausted, all would 60 to
work. There would be no poverty or
crime. Now, no private employer Will
give the full value of the labor but il
the workers, through their government,
owned the land and factories they could
do nothing else No man can make a
profit off himself, neither can a COM
munity. Public conduct of business
would revolutionize things. but the revo-
and insanity is just what is needed.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-26

Horace Boies and Judge Ney Ignore
the 16 to 1 Demand.
Davenport, Ia, Oct. 1.-THE opening
of the Democratic campaign in the Sec
ond congressional district here tonight,
with Former Gov. Horace Bois and j. J.
Ney, of Iowa City, the nominee for con-
gress, as the speakers was marked by a
lodging of the free silver issue. Judge
Ney said he stood on the Williamsburg
platform, that Of the congressional con-
vention of this district which avoided
mention of the 16 to demand. Mr.. Bois
shalltown declaration. but supported
Judge Ney's candidacy in conventional
Democratic fashion.
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created The hygenic value of nuts is
better understood and appreciated today,
and the consumption Of them has stead
lily increased in this country. They are
used in an endless number of ways in our
modern cooking and confectionery. Ger
tain varieties yield valuable oil, such
as the pecan, which is used by clock
makers and gunsmiths, and also for table
purposes.
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Essential to safety.

Direct legislation is no longer merely
desirable. 1t has become essential to
the safety if not the continued existence
of the republic. A few years ago the
representative system was in decay.
Now it is dead and stinketh.-New York
Journal.
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STEPHEN W. POWELL


Candidate for Clerk of the Supreme
Court ssa
Stephen w. Powell, the Mid-road Pop
ulist candidate for clerk of the supreme
court, is Populist of the stalwart type,
earnest, consistent and energetic in the
cause of true political reform. Like all
the candidates on our ticket, he did not
seek the nomination. and his name ap-
pears upon the ballot as evidence of self
sacrifice to serve, the party. Like sew
erai OF our candidates Mr. Powell is one
OF the old soldiers He served at the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-26
Can't Get on the Ticket.

Albany, N. Y, Oct. 15.-The state tick
ct of the Chicago platform Democracy
will not go in the official ballot. The GER
tif1cate placing this Independent ticket
In the field was received by the. secretary
of state at II o'clock last night and in
examining it he found the 5urat of the
notary public on the Ulster county peti-
"A
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PROSPERITY.
Big Mortgage Foreclosure.

New York, Oct. 14.--Judge Gaynor, OF
Brooklyn, today issued an order permit
ting Frank and John Jenkins, Jr., to
begin an action against the John Good
Cordage and Machine company to fore
close a mortgage for 100000, the Kings
County Trust company, as trustee, re-
fusing to permit it.
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ton defective and notified the commit
tee. The error was not corrected before
the time for filing expired at midnight,
so the secretary of state has ruled that
the whole certificate is defective and it's
nominees cannot go on the Official ballot
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furnished as your present masters. That
is where you can show your bravery,
your intelligence, your deserving better
conditions. BY any other kind of
strike you lose, no matter if you get
your demands You have never demand
ed your full rights. In how many coal
camps have the men read the words of
great men regarding the equal right OF
all men to the land and coal and all
other minerals? Until the works of
George, GrOnlund, Bellamy, Herbert
Spencer and other great minds have been
read by these oppressed men, there is no
hope for them or their children KnOwl-
edge will make them free. and nothing
else will
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-26
A Mid.ROad Ticket in Colorado.

Denver, Colo, Oct. 4.-The state con-
vention of the middle Of the road Popu-
lists yesterday nominated the full ticket
with Simon Guggenheim, Denver, as a
candidate for governor.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-26
CONSUMPTION CURED

A Prominent Minister and Teacher Both Given
Up to Die. Were Cured
By the new treatment Names and addresses
given at the ST. Paul Me3ica1 and Surgical
Institute, Fifth and St. Petrr Streets ST. Paul,
Mimi, where cured This Treatment given at
home.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-10-26

When people vote directly on laws
laws are being enacted and will take an
interest in them above party, and law
receiving a majority of votes will be
above constitutions, legislatures and
courts There will be no doubt about it's
legality.
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MORE PROsPERITY.

A Big Bank Fnilure-The Swallowing
Up of Millions.
Pittsburg, Oct. 19-Notwithstanding the ru-
mors that have been afloat for some time
concerning the financial straits of the Ger
man National Bank. of this city. the an
nouncement this morning that the bank had
gone into voluntary liduidatioh caused
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PARAGRAPHS FROM APPEAL TO
REASON.
When the people vote on the laws. a
majority will rule. Now few rich men
can get laws in their interest and the
millions unorganized, are powerless to
prevent the robbery A delegated gov
ernment is a failure.
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II takes lots of suffering for labOring
men to go at thing in the way to get
the most out of it. Now the price of coal
has no relation to the wages paid the
miners. They could receive four times
as much as they do without
raising the price of coal, but
SO long as they vote for parties
that are operated by and for the rich,
they will get it in the neck. The only
place to strike is at the ballot box.
That is where you can get wages. That
is where you can have your children as
well clothed and educated as the chill
dren of your masters That is where
you can get house and have 1t as well