The representative., 1898-11-02
A LAST APPEAL.


talk to our Minnesota subscribers earn
estly.
You all remember tho shocking and
shameful way in which our party was
treated on the 18th of June last; the in
suits and injustice of which we were the
victims at the hands of that bulldOzer
Austin, and that knave Owen. You re-
member the Indignation that swelled the
delegates to the convention. You remem-
Der our determination not to be captured
by traitors and driven into the Demo-
cratic party. You remember how we
met together at the close of the session
and organized with view to keeping
the party alive and putting up a ticket:
you remember our harmonious and al
most unanimous action the next day in
putting our ticket in the field. You can
not forget the way in which our leaders
have been approached and bribed with
the promise of office. You have seen
our candidates shamefully assailed and
abused by Democrats and fusionists be-
cause they stood by their principles. and
were not willing that the great party or
ganized at Omaha in 1892, and which
polled over a million votes that year.
should become mere annex to the DEM
ocratic party. You have seen how, with
one exception, the heroic men there NOM
in no C&O 4~y% Ao;r
the Sth day of November it will be for
you to show whether or not you stand
by them
We hope that no man with the spirit
Of a man in him will desert our gallant
standardbearer on that day. You will
be told that if you vote for Mr.. Long and
his associates, you will throw away your
votes. Did the men who voted for John
c. Fremont in 1856 throw away their
votes? No. If they had not so voted,
Mr.. Lincoln would never have been elect
ed in 1860.
The cunning fusionists who come to
you with the plea that you will throw
away your votes unless you vote for
somebody who has chance of election,
will be the first when the election is over
to shout and rejoice at the small vote
given to our candidates, and to declare
that the Peoples party is dead forever,
and that there is nothing left for honest
Gratis under the leadership of Cleveland,
Carlyle, Whitney and HILL
This is 1.-The time that tries mems
SOULS" this is the time when heroes
prove their right to exist. God is "sift-
ing out the hearts of men before His
judgment seat" Every vote cast for our
ticket next week is guarantee of life
for our party in 1900.
Remember that if fusion wins next
Tuesday, every effort will be made to
crush the life out of the Peoples party
and destroy the men who stand up for
it. You remember the bright hopes with
which you went into the contest in 1892
you remember our tremendous growth
until the blight of fusion struck us, and
the miserable traitors got in their work.
There are some who will be so filled
with wrath at the Democrats for invad-
ing and breaking up our party that they
will feel like going over directly to the
Republicans. Do not do this. You SIM
ply strengthen thereby another party
equally hostile to our interests, and leave
us with few thousand votes as the sole
representatives of a once great organiza
ton. We have everything against us
stand by us.
What difference will it make to you
whether Eustis or Lind is elected? You
expect nothing from either of them. If
Lind wins it will simply be because his
cOuntrymen have voted for him. There
is no possible prospect that the rest Of
the fusion ticket can be elected Lind
alone can accomplish nothing if he want
ed to; and we do no believe he wants to-
You cannot even think that his triumph
will be the triumph of our principles, for
he repudiates them and us, while solicit
ing our votes. How can you advance the
cause of reform by electing man who
declares himself a political orphan y
and repudiates every principle essential
to reform?
However the election may terminate,
The Representative has done it's duty. 1t
has stood by the party in 1898 just as it
stood by it in 1892. It did not go into
the movement to obtain plunder or to
build up the Democratic party. If it
wanted plunder it could have sustained
the Republican party; if it desired to
help Democracy it could have joined
Cleveland in his successful effort to re-
peal the Sherman law and close the
mints against silver.
The Representative in any event, has
nothing to take back and nothing to
apologize for. AS long as the editor lives
on this earth he will fight for the right
as he understands the right; and when
he dies he will die cursing the scoundrels
who have betrayed great movement for
the elevation of mankind and traded
away immortal truths for some petty Of
| fees. Id.
VOTE FOR LONG.