The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-10
BURN POWDER
MISSOURI STATE CONVENTION wAs
FORCIBLY TAKEN POSSESSION OF
BY Small Body of HfreIing Poll.
ucians Led by ROxelle, a Fusion
Se1l-out, and Aided by
the Police.

Wnen small gang of dead-b beat poll
t1cians already proven guilty of selling
cut the franchises of the Peoples party
OF Missouri for few appolntive offices.
| can peaceably take possession of a con-
vention hall, lock out the regular chair
man, regular state committee and 125
regular delegates, numbering three
times. the fusion delegates, it is time 10
burn powder at home for American lib
erty.
We are amazed at the reaceaple ac-
ton of the Missouri Populists under
such circumstances
1t is at the conventions that the peo-
pie are being disfranchised by the self
| perpetuating official class, and we will
| proudly assert that no such tyranny as
| was practiced by Rozella on the Missouri
Fopulists could be successfully carried
| ont i'll Indiana withuu, 5loodshed. Th ,se
official hounds may az we'll know it now
as later if they would hold on to their
Useless lives Will, attempting to dis
franchise the Peoples party rank and
lille voters by such methods at conven-
tions Make way for liberty And the
place to do it is at your conventions.
Having been locked out by the Rozelle
hfrelings Of Democracy, standing in
drench1ng rain 125 straight Populists
| adjourned to another hall, and held a
STATE convention, nom NJ ting full state
Populist ticket.
But the Rozelle set of fusion boodlers
also held convention, and a struggle
between the two factions will be resort
ed to in the Democratic courts Of Missou-
RI for place on the legal ballot" the
purpose of the Rozelle faction being to
dlsfranchise the straight Populists by a
false ,isket supporre, bg the courts.
| Men who will not fight for liberty
even ii it means certain death under
such circumstances, have lost the spirit
OF liberty. Death is preferable to life
under such tyranny.
| Remember the legal right to have a
ticket representing your sentiments,
and thus your right to vote is involved
in this sort Of tyranny.
| What will the Populists of Missouri
do If the courts, along with the old poll
ticians, newspapers. and official class.
uphold and sustain Rozelle's fake ticket?
| Why did not the straight Populists
| adjourn to some hardware store, arm
themselves with Winchester rifles, and
drive the Democratic hired Hessians of
hell out of the convention?
We concede the Rozelleites the right
to be Democrats Or whatever they please,
but they have no right to disfranchise
Populists.
What will the $4,000 Populists do if
the courts refuse an official place for
their candidates on the state ticket?
Will they tuck their tails and sneak off
to a cave?
We are not men-We are not worthy
of the liberty our fathers bought for us
with their blood, if we do not stop, even
| by the force of arms and rebellion this
| wholesale disfranchisement of the strug-
Cling Independent voters of the nation.
Shame on the newspapers that wink
at it!
| Shame on the political parties that
| make use of it!
| Shame on the courts that sustain It.
Look at it's horrible spread all over
the nation Look at the disfranchise-
| ment of the people by the official class
in the South! Look at the Goebel law
| of Kentucky! Look at the new disfran-
chisement law of Ohio. Look at the at
tempts at disfranchisement in Michigan,
Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska!
Look at the attempt of Democrats to
| pack the Indiana state convention of
Fopulists!
| the national Craftsmanship of the Peo-
pies party by fraud, while working with
all his might for Democracy.
| Such tyrants, such usurpers of au-
thority, such disfranchisers do not de-
serve to live! And when the Peoples
party begin to elect delegates for the
| national convention, we beg that the
| Populists everywhere remove the Demo-
Gratis and Republican hirelings from con-
troll of our legal organization, even if
| it must be done with guns.
If war must be had to GUST the tyran-
| nous official class and prevent disfran-
chisement Of the people, let it come!
We repeat it, let it come!-The Referen-
| dunn.