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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-04-20
A NETANORPHOSIs,

A striking evidence of the kind of in
fluences that are at work in the Peoples
Party is found in the course of Mr.. F. c.
Gibbs, of Waterville, chairman Of our
state central committee.
Time and again he declared himself
an antifusionist and a radical OF the
most radical type. Now he refuses to is
sue the call for the Peoples Party state
convention unless the Democrats agree
to facilitate the coming together Of Popu-
lists, Democrats and Free Silver Repub-
licans in the same hall on the 18th of
June.
Last fall he told Mr. Swain, of North
field, one Of the members Of the state
central committee, that he would issue a
call for the usual mid-winter meeting Of
the Populists Of Minnesota. He then re-
fused to do anything Of the kind; and
when voluntary call was put forth by
leading Populists of the state, he refused
to attend the meeting or recognize it, and
denounced those who had called it.
And yet he we'll knew that while our
POpulist meeting was thus to be headed
of, those he sympathized with were at
work trying to push to the front a rival
organization Of Democrats, Republicans
and pie-counter Populists to take the
place OF the Peoples Party.
It passes our comprehension how an
obscure country merchant can dare 1T
tempt to drive the great party which
has honored him with position into the
arms OF another organization, simply TO
elect a few men to office And how he
refuses to perform his duty by calling a
state conference until he is assured that
the fire is kindled and the pot ready in
which to melt and fuse all the incon-
gruous elements into one discordant and
ill-smelling whole.
God help the Peoples Party whenever
its own officers insist on it's destruc-
ton.
Only the people rising up, en- masse,
can preserve the life of the party, and
drive these officious creatures back to
the obscurity from which our great
movement has temporarily lifted them.
Let the people speak thunder tones in
their township and county conventions
by emphatic resolutions.
If they really desire the Peoples Party
to be made an appendage Of Democracy
let them plainly say so, and the rest Of
us can withdraw from the field and from
the hopeless task Of trying to serve the
people through such an instrumentality
We will place monument over the
grave Of the slaughtered Peoples Party
with this inscription:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF THE PEOPLES PARTY OF
MINNESOTA.
A GREAT AND NOBLE ORGANIZA-
TON.
BORN AT OMAHA, JULY 4, 1892, MUIR
DERED BY TRAITORS IN 1898.
BY THE SAME BREED OF
MEN WHO KILLED
THE GREENBACK
PARTY TWENTY
YEARS AGO.
It was formed to save human liberty and
insure human happiness. It's life was
traded away by office-seekers for the
hope of little plumber.
But out of Its dust shall arise a new
Phoenix, whose beak will be red with
the hearts blood of traitors.
GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE!
DEATH TO THE DESTROYERS OF
THE JUST HOPES OF THE OP-
PRESSED AND AFFLICTED
NATIONS.
The knaves may capture conventions.
They cannot trade away the convictions
of bold and honest men. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-04-20

Suppose we elected John Lind gov
ernor. and he was surrounded by Re
publican cabinet and legislature. What
could he do? He could only appoint
those to office the Republican senate
would confirm
Do right and stand firm
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-04-20

The Peoples Party is the voice Of God
crying in the wilderness Of human in
justice.
The cruelest crime in the world is to
conspiracy.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-04-20

bondsl nothing but bonds throughout the
message!"
What pity that we have a congress.
How nicely plutocracy could fix things up
but for these wild asses Of the desert like
Tillman. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-04-20
Never submit to injustice.

Do right and leave the consequences
with God. He never does wrong for the
sake Of peace.
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The knaves may capture conventions.
They cannot trade away the convictions
of bold and honest men. l. D.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18

As matters stand, another volunteer force is an impossibility unless the Alger scan- dals are thoroughly sifted and shown up in their true light Alger himself is huek- stering politician, and the nature of his po- litical appointments should be held up so that all will understand them. The acts of his political quartermasters, commisssries and drunken surgeons should be pitilessly exhibited. The very safety and security of the republic are involved in the issue. A volunteer soldiery is our best hope, and a volunteer soldiery has become impossible under Algeric methods.
 It is indeed doubtful whether a commis sion consisting of Messrs. Dodge, Sexton, Denby Howell, Keen and Gilman will add to the stock of public information. General Dodge is a close political friend of Secre- tary Alger, and so for that matter, is Col onel Sexton, the newly-elected commander in-chief of the Grand Army of the Repub- lie. Both of these men have publicly ex- pressed their approval of-even their ad- miration for-the war department as con ducted by Secretary Alger Gilman is pres ident of John Hopkins university, and Dr. Keen is Philapelphia physician and pres ident of the National Medical association. The hands of both are very full, and both are men who generally prefer to "stand in' with distinguished personages. Neither of them can be depended upon to do more than follow the lead of Messrs Dodge and Sexton, who will doubtless work the scheme for all it is worth in the November elec- tions.
 Capt. Evan P Howell of Atlanta would certainly endeayor to bring out the truth; but in a commission that possesses no real authority, and unsustained, as he will be, by the other members of the commission, he will not be able to throw light on dark places, or to place the responsibility where it belongs.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
SOME OLD MUTTON

From the Philadelphia Record
 In a recent display of canned meats in this city a case of mutton was exhibited which, it was claimed, holds the record for longevity. Forty-four years have elapsed since it was placed in the tins, and a can which was opened showed the meat to still be in good condition. When the good ship Fury was wrecked in 1854 the canned nut ton, with other stores, was cast ashore at Princes Inlet, in the far north Sir John Ross, the Arctic explorer found them some eight years later, and helped himself to a number of cans. The remainder rested there for twenty-four years, when the ship Investigator appeared and brought them home. For nearly a quarter of a century the meat had withstood a climate where the variations of temperature range from 90 degrees below zero to 80 above, being al- ternately frozen and broiled. It is still pre- served as an object lesson of perfection in canning.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
NO MORE SPANISH TYRANY 1NCUBA

From the New York Journal
 Among the thousands of political prison CTS in Cuban jails are Sonora Rosar,o Collazo and Sonora Penarredonda, women of education and refinement They have been in prison for the past five months on charges preferred by Bancos spies
 They are accused of aiding the Cuban in surgents. One of them is said to have enemies of Spain while the other is sus- pected of the heinous crime of sending the insurrectionists a bundle of clothes.
 Neither has had a trial. They have had to subsist on the coarse, unclean prison food; are forced to sleep on the floor, and are compelled to share the same cells with women murderers, their quarters reek.ng with filth and noxious odors.
 Appeals to Blanco have only mitigated their sufferings in a small measure.
 These victims of Spanish brutality, in common with many others cruelty impris- oned cannot understand why the United States does not grant them liberty. Nor can We understand it.
 There is an impression that we whipped Spain. We punished that country for i S cruelty to the Cubans, and yet we permit the continuance of these outrages upon in nocent people in Havana.
 If the United States is supreme in that island we should accept the responsibility our victory carries with it, and serve mo- tice on Spain that outrages upon Cubans for political offences must cease.
 The dictates of humanity alone should fmpel this government to break the chains Of every political prisoner in Cuba
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER

From the Hamilton News.
 We see it stated that Roswell c. Smith, the present incumbent, will not be an ap- plicant for re-appointment as railroad com- missioner. MT. Smith was from Birming- ham, and his successor should in justice be from the same section of the state. The name of John w. Tomlinson has been pre- sented to the governor. He is a true demo- crat, champion of the silver cause, has rendered valuable service to the cause of democracy, is man of national as well as state reputation, and Governor John ston will reflect credit upon his administra- tion by appointing John w. Tominson to succeed Roswell c. Smith.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
Two Premature Presidents.

President Masso, at Camaguay, Cuba, and President Aguinaldo, at Malalos, Lu- zon. may harangue and prooalamate to their hearts content, but Camaguay is not Cuba, and Malalos is not Paris.
 The Cuban commission is now in session, and the details of the Spanish evacuation will doubtless soon be agreed upon. It should be well advanced at the beginning of the dry season in November Seven or eight months will then follow in which American troops can restore order and in- stitute good military government through out the island. When order and peace are restored, and prosperity begins to show it's smiling face, and preparations for crops are well advanced, then plebiscite may be possible, but it is doubtful whether the needful governmental and sanitary reforms eau be inaugurated and established in single year. Until they are, no popular ap- peal is admissible. The insurgents must learn to proceed slowly. Many matters need investigation and rectification. The rep resentative nature of President Massos republic needs looking into, and this cannot be done until the island is fully occupied.
 President Aguinaldo is more bumptious than his Cuban brother, but he too, will have to await solutions and results that are altogether beyond his control. Paris first and the Americans afterwards. will have something to do in settling the Fili- pino question. It is very knotty, and Pres- ident Aguinaldo should pardon some delay. He asks the Americans to return to Amer ica, leaving him and his associates to ma nip-iiate the islands that Dewey's genius conquered If he does not become too ur- gent or insstent, all will be well. If he does, he may need lesson or two; but the chances are very good that both of the Dew-hedged presidepts-Massc in Cuba and Aguinaldo in Luzon-are simply feeling their way and airing their feelings in the customary grandoquence of their respec- tive localities. There will be no serious trouble in either case, and the end is not in sight either in Cuba or the Philippines.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
The Spread of the Fever.

The fact may as well be accepted now, as it must be ten days later, that there is to be renewal of last years epidemic. The infection is steadily spreading over the state of Mississippi. It now has foothold at Taylors, Orwood, Waterford and OK ford, in the northern part of the state, and at Winona and Jackson in Central Mis- sissippi. It is more than probable that the trouble sprang from the case of Dr. Gray at Taylor's in the last days of July. The infection was neglected for fully thirty days, thus repeating the story of Ocean Springs, and today it is plain there is to be widespread epidemic in that state.
 If Alabama is to escape another visita- tion of the fever, work of the sternest sort must be begun at onceA general cleaning up of town and country is as much needed as shotgun quarantines. pr. Porter's sur prising success in Florida is more due to the sanitation that he enforces, under the Florida laws, in towns like Taylor's and in towns of larger growth as well. He really makes sanitation his chief depend
  ence, although of course quarantine meas ures in a state of great coast lines become important. In every respect, Florida is today ten times more exposed to visitations of the infection. chan any other state in the sootidn, and yet it is today the state that is regarded as safe and secure against the fever
 Why is this? The answer can be read in swamp-surrounded, ill-drained, i-kept Taylo-'s. It can be read, too in hundre ds of other towns, big and small. Clean up! Cart away or burn up all filth. Get ready to starye the fever germs that accident may bring to the state. The officials will endeavor to minimize the importations of germs, and the people should starve to death those that do slip in.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
Better Schools Needed.

Public sentiment in this state now fairly and fully demands six-months terms of better schools in all sections and for all children of the state The partiality here tofore shown to a comparatively few in seventeen towns in the state must be spread out to the benefit of the vastly greater number. Conditions cannot at first be fully capitalized. The favored few will still be favored, but the neglected multi tude of bright-eyed boys and girls in the state will not be wholly neglected in an educational sense, for the present country schools are worse than none at all
 Public sentiment has reached point that demands attention. The three platforms of the recent state campaign alike demand better schools and larger appropriations for their maintenance, and no one will be bold enough in the coming legislature to take stand that means, when stripped of all sophistry, the fall of the state in the tables of illiteracy, to the foot. The good old state is dangerously near that position now. little neglect in the two Carolinas is about all that saves us from an unenvi- able reputation.
 But educational affairs are to be better ed in Alabama. As evidence of the rapid and thorough change in public senti- ment, the Age-Herald is glad to be able to add the recent comment of the Wetump- ka Herald the situations:
 More money should be spent in the maintainance of the public schools of Ala bama, and first class teachers should be paid living salaries to teach the children. The age when every man must have some education to get along in the world has dawned upon us, and the children of our people must all be educated. Let no young man 20 years from now have the right to say that he was not given an opportunity to learn to read and write. Three months halfway schooling in year is not suffi- cient for any child, and our people must rise to the emergency, and if necessary raise the tax higher so that every child in Alabama shall be given an opportunity to improve his mind.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18

CRoKER IS sANeUINE

From the New York Sun.
 Mr. Croler is one of the most sanguine citizens you ever meet these days. He not osly believes that the democrats are to capture the legislature, but he is convinced that they are to win on their state ticket as well. MT. Murphy believes the same, and Mir. Hill has similar notions.
 The silver democrats, those who insist upon an indorsement of the Chicago plat form of 1S96 are to assemble in Syracuse on September 27. They swear with all sorts of oaths that if the regular demo- cratic state convention does not indorse the Chicago platform, they the silver demo- crats, will hold a convention of their own and name a Chicago ticket"
 Some of the democrats were greatly pleased yesterday, they said, over the ac- ton of the Citizens union the night be- fore in indorsing Roosevelt for governor, and over a state ticket put into the field by an independent committee of independ- ent citizens" located in the City club. The democrats are banking upon this move ment to help them out this fall there is no question of this. for the reason that the biggest democrats in the councils of that party admitted it yesterday. The demo- crats, through their friends of the Hon- man house. believe that the Citizens union state ticket, and the candidates for sena- tor and assemblymen that the Citizens union will name in New York city and elsewhere to fill out its ballot in the col umn which will be headed by the Citizens union emblem, will work havoc with the republicans, especially as to the complex ion of the next legislature at Albany.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
LIFE'S PHILOSOPHY

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 The younger man is the more he has to unlearn.
 Our mistakes contribute much to the wisdom of others.
 Every dog has his day, but, like men, they always want two.
 Time is caught by the tial more fre- quently than by the forelock.
 For every dollar a man wins on fast horses he loses two on slow ones.
 When a woman loves a man she loves to make him believe she doesn't.
 Youth is going to do things tomorrow that old age didn't do yesterday.
 Every man knows how wife should be managed, but few are able to do it.
 great many of the thoughts a man has today appeared in yesterdays newspapers The trouble with the disagreeable things people say about us is that most of them are true.
 man never realizes the worthlessness of his earthly possessions until he tries to pawn them
 When a man isn't willing to practice what he breaches it's about time for him to give up preaching.
 Whenever some husbands and wives agree 1t is to the effect that they made serious mistake in marrying
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
HOW TO TREAT BORES
From the London Sketch.

From the London Sketch.
 The chamber of deputies of the little Dushy of Luxembourg has shown it's ca pacity in dealing with bores Especial an- noyance was recently caused there by the interminable speeches of one of the two so- cial democratic deputies, who make up a party all by themselves in the chamber Directly Dr. Welter, the deputy in question, got up to make speech, all the other depu- ties rushed out of the house welter- skelter if one may coin phrase, and left him alone with the speaker. At first this did not greatly disconcert him, but when he found that not only were his speeches boy cotted in the house, but even the reporters ignored them, he resigned himself to save his breath for future expenditure upon his porrdge. That he must be a very bad bore indeed seems to be proved by the fact that he was never able to secure the attendance even of his colleague.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

From the Chicago News.
 It's a mile on land, but it's knot at sea. The office never has to seek the man on pay day.
 Some dogs are pointers and some are dis appointerS. More people have the gift of speech than the gift of silence.
 The older the trousers the better they are prepared for the fray.
 It's easier to read about love in a cottage than it is to bring it about.
 When passenger trains are telescoped the passengers are apt to see stars.
 A stitch in time saves nine, but nine can be taken in no time on a sewing machine.
 The man who tells you that all men are equal really believes that he is a little more so.
 The man who is always waiting for some- thing to turn up is usually asleep when it finally comes along.
 Trapeze performers. liquor dealers and lawyers must be admitted to the bar in or der to practice their professions.
 If wives were as nice to their husbands as female clerks are to their male custo- mers but few matrimonial failures would be recorded.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
A Constitutional Convention

From the Oneonta News.
 Nothing short of a constitutional conven- ton will give us some much needed legisla- tion in Alabama. There are those who be- lleve that such convention means the dis franchisement of thousands of voters, and that property and educational qualihca- tion will be incorporated in the proposed new constitution. Granting this to be true, is there an honest intelligent man in Ala bama who does not recognize the truth that there are hundreds of people in our state who have no right to a franchise, and that for the protection of our common wealth we need some restriction thrown around our ballot box? But this is far from being the sole purpose of consti- tutional convention. Better schools and better roads will grow out of such con- vention, and healthier, more prosperous state of things will be natural sequence
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
JOHNNY HAS COME HOME

For The Age-Herald:
 The time for mustering-out has come: The Alabamians are at home,
 Contented, smiling, cheerful! And many (were they now confessed Would tell you they have been caressed By sweethearts left most fearful. But there are heroes in that lot Who have no home, nor friends, nor cot Where they'll be fondly greeted Who know no mothers breast will hide Her feelings, while she scans with pride Her boy-the 'undefeated!' All freely offered up their lives Some gave up sweethearts, sisters, wives, For army's stern privations. Give them the honor that is due The brave, the just the right, the true- The pride of Christian nations. Be thankful, then, this Sabbath day That loved ones who have been away Have safely braved wars storm; And drop a tear for those who lie Asleep beneath some distant sky In U. s. uniform.
 -k. W. Hudson.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
Birmingham Free Schools

From the Florence Times.
 Birmingham has taken away the incl dental fee of her public schools The schools are absolutely free in all grades up to the High school. We are glad to see this. Birmingham is now on the highway to permanent prosperity. May that &bod day soon come to Florence when her schools, too, may be absolutely free. We believe the present administration will do all they can for the schools and make them free as soon as possible.
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
Better Schools

From the Scottsboro Citizen.
 The Florence Times say that the senti- ment in favor of better school facilities, better education and more of it is gaining strength all over the state. Yes, and the fact is growing deep and settled in the public mind ,Aat no illiterate people can become prosperous and that no educated can be kept down in the mire of poverty Ignorance and illiteracy, says the Times, constitute the tap-root of the states chief Woes"