The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-04-27
THAT CALL.

THAT CALL.
In the call, just issued by Chairman
Gibbs, for our state convention, we read:
The Peoples party has ever been found
firmly at its post, without single thought
of sacrificing one of it's sacred principles,
BUT WITH BROADNESS OF MIND AC-
CEPTING CONDITIONS NOT OF ITS
OWN CHOOSING.
How neatly the trickery is buttered
over with false pretenses
How nicely the back door is left open
for the whole Democratic party to march
into the heart Of our citadel!
This is some OF Lynch's trickery.
With a broadness Of mind accepting condi-
lions not Of its own choosing!
What is 1t that can force, on a free
and independent party. conditions not
Of it's own choosing?" And is it ''broad-
ness Of mind" to submit to conditions
we have not chosen?
Is there anything, in the Omaha plat
form, that calls for such a surrender?
Did the Republican party rise to power
by submitting to outside conditions:
Did it preach fusion" at any point of
it's history? Did it combine with the
american party in 1860, and call itself
the Experimentation Nothing party"
No; it told Simon Cameron that the
American party must dissolve, and drop
it's intolerance, and come into our ranks,
as Republicans, pure and simple.
Could Abraham Lincoln have been
elected president in 1850 If he had had
to carry the odium of church burnings
and religious murders? Certainly not.
But are these conditions mot Of our
own choosing?"
We quoted last week from the Mime
apolis Journal:
Chairman Gibbs of the Populist state CEN
trail committee, having made the statement
CONVENTION TO MEET IN MINNEAPO-
LIS UNTIL HE HAD BEEN REGULAR
LY NOTIFIED THAT THE DEMOCRATS
HAD TURNED OVER EXPOSITION
HALL, TO BE USED FOR A JOINT MASS
MEETING IN THE EVENING. E. s. Cor
SER leader Of the silver Republicans. wired
him that THE DEED WAS DONE; that
the Democrats had turned the hall over to
the silver Republicans. and. in turn. the
latter turned it over FOR THE JOINT USE
OF ALL THREE PARTIES.
Here were conditions imposed on ''the
broadness of mind" of the Peoples par
ty, without their consent, but these con-
ditions ARE of the choosing of the Peo-
pies party, through their state chair
man!
And then trick Of words, Is inserted
in the call, which justihes it: and
leaves the door open for a fraud that
is to stab the Peoples party to death.
First-The chairman of one party.
against all custom and precedents.
makes the holding of his state conven-
ton contingent ON the action of two
other parties!
Second-He refuses to permit the par
ty. Of which he Is chairman, to hold its
convention, unless all necessary arrange
ments are made to fuse" in one hall.
secured by all three parties, with the
Democrats and silver Republicans
Third-And in the call for the Peo-
pies party forthcoming state convention
this action is excused and justified. as
accepting conditions not of our choos-
ing!" And he has just chosen them!
Nay, forced them on the other two par
ties!
Can Chairman Gibbs tell us where he
finds his authority for any such monkey
work?
Will he point us to any precedent, for
any such monkey work, in the history
of the politics OF the whole world?
Is there any man who can fail to see
that all this means, what it has meant
in all the rest Of the Union, the subjec-
ton of the Peoples party to two other
parties, and it's decentralization and de-
struction?
If we lead our people into camp with
the Democrats, what bugle-call is there,
in all this world, that will ever call
them back to our own great standard:
Having once mingled the sheep and
the goats who will separate them again,
or take the stink OF the goats out of the
fleece of the sheep?
And will we call the stencil "broadness
of mind" and this voluntary surrender
accepting conditions not of our choos-
ing?"
Bah! Bosh! Bum! BOOdle!-I. D.
BEWARE OF THE CREEKS.