The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-15
TO PEOPLES PARTY
FRANCIS HI. CLARK, CHAIRMAN OF
THE STATE CENTRAL COMMIT
TEE, ISSUES AN ADDRESS
SPEAKS WELL OF THE TICKET
Each Man on It-Gives
Some suggestions as to What the
Party Has In Mind to DO-Vic-
tory for All If They Work To-
gether---WiH Make an Aggres-
sive Campaign.

sether--W1H Make an Aggres-
sive Campaign.
Hon. Francis H. Clarke, who was
elected chairman of the state central
committee Of the Peoples party, taking
the place of +. M. Stacy, who resigned
TO devote his time to his own campaign
for comptroller of the city of Mime
apolis. issued an address yesterday. Mr..
Clarke felicitateS the party on the
makeup of the state ticket, and tells
what the party, of which he is the rep
resentative, proposes to do Following
is the address in FULL
To the Peoples Party of the State Of
Minnesota:
The state central committee of the
Peoples party, appointed by that con-
Vention which nominated John Lind for
governor and J. M. Bowler for lieu
tenant governor, at a meeting held in
Minneapolis Sept. g. 1885, elected me
their chairman for the ensuing two
years, In place Of Hon. Francis Stacy,
resigned. When l accepted this place
L assured the committee that I did so
as one who was and would continue
unalterably opposed to the merging Of
the Peoples party in any other poIit
lcal organization. Permit me to re-
peat those assurances as a part of that
political gospel which I deem it to be
my mission, in this position, to carry
to all who, in this state believe in the
rule Of the people.
We are at present combined for the
sake of principle and for victory, in CO.
operation for this campaign with the
Silver Republican and Democratic par
ties. Our standard bearer is that de-
voted patriot and soldier statesman,
Hon. John Lind, of New Ulm. Second in
command in this contest is another
soldier, whose patriotism was not only
tried on many a battlefield Of the Civil
war, but always in the front ranks of
that irrepressible conflict against mo-
nopoly and corruption which has been
looming higher and higher and grow
ing stronger and stronger, Maj. j. M.
Bowler, of Bird Island. Alexander Nc
KinnOn is our candidate for treasurer;
julius j. Heinrich is our candidate for
secretary Of state; Judge John F. Kelly
is our candidate for attorney general;
George N. Lamphere, another soldier
and tried patriot, is our candidate for
auditor; z. H. Austin, of Duluth, is our
candidate for clerk of the supreme
court; Hon. Thomas CAVITY, Hon. Daniel
Buck and Hon. William Mitchell are
our candidates for justices of the su-
preme court.
This is indeed a ticket of which the
Peoples party may we'll be proud, for
1t is made up Of men who have always
stood for popular rights and who be-
lieve in the rule Of the people Our
cooperation with the Silver Republi-
can and Democratic parties in this
campaign involves no surrender of our
individuality, our rights or our prin-
ciples. The platforms Of these parties
are Identical in the most important of
their planks, and all declare for that
most desirable of all systems, to wit,
the system by which the people have
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submission of certain laws to be re-
pealed or enacted by popular vote
1t would be worse than absurd for
these parties to divide and vote sep
arately with certain defeat in view,
when their object is expressed to be
the enactment of the self-same laws
But, while this is true there are yet
a few who profess to believe that in
such cooperation the Peoples party
must suffer. Why, 1 ask? 1t has APP
peared to me impossible that our party
could suffer by such cooperation if its
principles are just, its candidates true
and its organization complete AS our
principles are unassailable except by
falsehood and ridicule as our candi-
dates are above reproach it follows
that, If we are in danger Of loss or de-
struct1on by cooperation, that our
fault, our weakness consists in our
lack Of organization. Let us, then, or
oughly in every district, county, town.
ship and precinct Let us organize ut
independently. Let us have our own
committees, our own auxiliary league
our papers, our own speakers and make
our own campaign. We can work har-
mOn1ously with the committees, speak
ers and members of the Silver Repub-
lican and Democratic parties without
SUFFERING any loss, if we keep our own
organization intact.
Victory will be our victory if we win
together; defeat will be ours if we are
divided. The state central committee
OF the Peoples party has it's head
quarters at st. Paul, separate and dis
tlnct from those of any other party.
We propose in this campaign to COM
mence and push through the succeed
ing two years system of organization
which will prepare our party for indie
pendent action hereafter, if it chooses.
We want every county chairman to
send in to headquarters the full list
OF the county committee. Where there
Is no county committee, we ask mem
bers of the party to organize and send
in the names of it's members
1t Is our intention to organize at once
q referendum league throughout the
state, which Is to be devoted to the
great purpose of obtaining direct legls-
latlOn for the people of the state. The
pAtI VI Ills league Is mover, simple anu
effective and we believe it should en-
brace among it's members every believ-
er in direct legislation in this state.
Through its medium we hope to bring
such pressure to bear upon the next
legislature, whatever its political COM
pleXion, that it will submit a conSti-
tutional amendment providing for di-
rect legislation, to be voted upon at
the next election. In this connection
we have adopted as our motto and the
motto of the Referendum league that
of the Swiss Democracy, namely,
"THE PEOPLES MOTTO - WE
TRUST OURSELVES.'
Hitherto we have permitted our leg
islature to delegate the sovereign pow
ers of the state to enormous combina-
lions of capital and these bodies have
employed the wealth which they have
amassed through the favor of our peo-
pie, to corrupt our official servants and
obtain further grants and special
privileges to the scandal of our state
and the shame of popular government.
We have confided in them long enough
Our trust so far as it has been in them
reposed, has been outraged Therefore
our motto, 1--WE Trust Ourselves" in
dictates determination to reverse the
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