The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-01-05

out for meeting Monday. The declara-
ton Of principles for the new Fusion club
prepared by Messrs. Corser. Smith and
Owen, will be sumbtted to this committee,
and it will also probably select temporary
officers to be approved at the first public
meeting. The lists stand as follows:
Democrats-W. H. Donahue, F. B. Long,
George NJ Blocker, E. g. Erickson, A. T.
Ankeny. Joseph Kiichli. s. A. Stockwell,
H. P Herring, F. G. Burke, c. B. Marvin,
Grant Stringham, H. D. Irwin.
Silver Republicans-Judge C. E. Wander
burgh, Curtiss H. Petit, John Day Smith,
Leonard w. H. Manley, John w. Arc
lander J. E. Nash. D. F. Morgan, Henry
L. Chaffee, J. Nj. Bartlett, o. B. Clarke,
A. R. Archibald. E. S. Corser.
Peoples Party-S NJ Owen, E. r. Lynch,
T. J. Cation, w. r. Dobbyn, F N. Stacy,
John Burns, T. B. Farmer J. w. Oyen. R.
! +. Hoskyn Hector Mclean. A. e. Barker,
A. A. Segerstrom, l.. d. Brown, Johanas
Hansen, Freeman P. Lane.
AS president of the club the following
names have been mentioned, most of the
gentlemen being so we'll known that their
political affiliations need hardly be referred
to: MesSrs. COrser, S. M. Owen, Frank
Stacy. w. H. Donahue and Judges Pond
and Vanderburgh; for secretary, Lester B.
Elwood Jack O. Davis A. f. Barker and
H. d. Stocker, Jr.; for treasurer, julius J.
Heinrich, Henry Hill and John Cogan.
We would call attention to several
points.
In the first place the men who are
named here as representatives Of the
Peoples party do not include any from
throughout the state; they are all, as
far as we are aware, citizens Of Min
neapolis. The names of many Of them
will be unknown to the bulk Of our
readers. There are others who, we
understand, don't sympathize with any
such movement; among these are Prof.
I. j. Cation and Mr.. A. A. Segerstro1n.
When you take out the names of our
old friends, S. M. Owens, E. R. Lynch,
w. R. Dobbyn and F. N. Stacy, there is
very little left.
When we turn to the Democrats we
do not find the names of any leaders
of that party in the list; neither T. D.
O'Brien, the Democratic member of the
national committee, nor Mr.. Rosing,
the chairman Of the state central COM
mlttee of that party, appear in this
list. They could not They hope for
the triumph of Democracy in 1900 and
they know it would be political suicide
for them to enter into another party;
hence they stand back, and are willing
to see Owen and the rest disorganize
and demoralize the Peoples party, by
leading them to marriage which
cannot be contaminated,
There are some respectable men, like
Judge Vanderburgh, Hon. John Day
Smith, ]. M. Bartlett, etc., in the list
OF Silver Republicans; but it is well
known that the Silver Republican party
IS composed more of officers than
OF private soldiers. They are like the
brigade which Artemus Ward proposed
to organize during the civil war. il
which every man was to be brigadier
general.
We do not expect much OF Owen.
Dobbyn, ct al, but it does seem to us
that they might be better engaged than
In this work of disintegrating the party
without any consultation with the
party; and it looks especially bad to
find that the same men who are in
strumental in this movement, to organ
ize a new fusion party, are the same
men who have done all in their power
to prevent the Peoples party from
holding mid-winter gathering, at
which Populists can preach their doc
trines. 1t looks like a shameful con-
splracy to drive the dagger into one
party, while at the same time they are
forcing through the knot-hole Of oppor-
tunity new party, without head.
body or legs.
We are sorry to dwell upon these
things, for we have no desire to per-
petuate bad blood, but our readers
can see that if we do not expose these
consplracies against the party We
would be as big a traitor as the men
who are engaged in destroying it.
We hope public opinion among the
Populists of the state will stamp out
ali such efforts as are now being made.
we are willing that the Peoples
part, at its next convention, shall de-
eide for itself whether it desires %
again enter into a combination with
other parties and divide the proposet
spoil among them, as was done tho
other day in Iowa; or whether they pre-
Ter to go it alone upon the Omaha plat
form. It it is the desire of the majority
that such should be the case the rest
OF us Will have to submit, and if we are
not satisfied we will doubtless have an
opportunity to organize new PARTY in
which nothing of the kind will be nos
sible. IN
HONEST MEN MAY DISAGREE