The representative., 1898-08-10

style are reverenced because they are
clothed with senatorial togas. Nominations
Sept are very Objectionable to those
bosses, for they will inevitably weaken and
shorten their senatorial gratis. Therefore.
We servile luke-warm Populists, bow in
obeisance, beseech them, because they are
senators, honorable men," Yours uncom-
plainingly to drink he poison those Demo-
cratic agents administer which shall cause
the party which made them to die a slow,
suicidal. agonizing death. For you 1t Is q
criminal folly to nominate and organize the
Peoples Party two years in advance. Those
Spantaro fusionists, not being just now ex-
actly as powerful as they wish although
they nominated and began their organiza-
tion six years ago, want two years more
before feeling sure that they will get con-
troll OF the temporary organization Of the
1900 convention. Give them their demand,
SO that. as in '96, you can be whipped into
line, or when too late, ignominiously bolt"
Don't be fools any longer. 1t is a full,
unconditional surrender now still greater
ignominy through future vain and childish
propositions. 1t is division now between
Spaniards and Americans. Solitary individ-
ual states however brave, cannot profitably
organize when the fusion national commit
tee does not even respect the courts. Do
not defer this strategic move in the vain
hope Of getting later on your side fusion
national committeeman that vote against
rank and file" as not even to deign them
next spring the useless sport of outlining
policies which would not be carried out.
The same personal motives actuating such
men will predominate later the same as
now. By acting now such worthless assist
ance as theirs can be many times supple
mented by attracting honest reformerS. A
national organization will take Georgia out
of the Solid South this fall, and we trust
that Texas will not put stones in her way
or in the way of the other states following
her. Choose what date you will for 4 con-
vention, and some will oppose it. AS we are
going to consistently, in national way,
bolt the Democratic party on the 5th of
September, as advertised, and in just the
same manner as our good friend Ferris
advises us to bolt Democracy in the states,
we are all prepared for it. Like wise vir-
gins, our lamps are trimmed for the wei
ding with our new candidates. Ii, brother
POpulist, you stand, as a foolish virgin,
without your lamp, we will lend you ours
when we return from Cincinnati to tighten
your path to important posts of work and
duty.
The Omaha meeting was purposely plan
ned to prevent all this. The conspirators,
mercenary press false reports th 1t the ''call
was Off" because of a second compact"
giving the true Populists all their hearts
desire. 1t is false as hell. But q national
committeeman were present. And these
were mostly pet fusion office holders. meet
ing in fusion stronghold, two-thtrds Of
whom held fusion proxies from fusion
states casting only one-tnird of the real
Populist vote, and appointed a fusion Gre
Dental committee. railroaded by the fu-
sionists, Allen and Butler, sitting as czars,
judges on their own trial. They were
greeted by the fusion governor Of the fusion
state of Nebraska, and instructed to work
for Democracy under Hill and Bryan: 81
out of 10 of them voted for i've empty fu-
sion resolutions, pleasing to their fusion
hearts, and again, like Spaniards, TO gain
time, asked the true Populists there assem-
bled to sing harmonies over them. OF
course. and for fact, all the true Popu-
lists there, refusing to be poodle-dogs to
fusonists, remaining grimly silent not vOt-
ing-all except Ferris. Bah! II is true Gen.
Phillips name was also sent out. But he
writes me, "Deceitfully and falsely my
name appears to the purporred compact tor
a convention in 1900" Gen. Phillips, thai
grand man, is heartily in favor of nom,-
mating Sept. s. 1885, The fusionIs.s. show
ing their plain determination there and
thea to destroy the Peoples Party, all the
tie Fopulists issued the call for the 5th
of September convention. So the fusioaists,
who had to delay action for long hours after
discovering their weakness in order to
telegraph for sufficient proxies, again lost
their prey.
The empty resolutions them selves are un-
worthy of mention. A resolution against
fusion i'll the States especially when fu
sion committee is left free to Interpret for
itself what is the legally constituted party
i'll ocntesting states. The resolution to hol1
a convention 30 days before the others, even
if eliol ced, would be of no practical value
for the people. At the best 1t was OILY
Senator Aller'S unsupported promise that
the convention should be so held And we
know that by the referendum rue of the
comm ttee any Of those 1 fusio l:sts WHO
voted fer the empty resolutions could at
any me- ment by mail rescind them if so de-
sired by the slippery old party politicians
that committee. And the com
pact is a.ready broken by each weeks Ut
terances since of Buffers nom-de- plume,
1.-The Caucasian"
Unprlncipled as Buffers fusion career has
shown him to be, preaching for the people,
but by his acts rendering opposition to
plutocracy Intellectual, STILL our mid-road
forces have been giving him much more
attention than he deserves. He is Cniy
SeratC1 Aliens puppet, and Woull he de-
posed. if necessary, to prevent ouc making
noEo nations next month. Morgan is sat's-
fed With far less of Popusm than l am,
since Re row says he is content 20 .'ptnd
many months simply fighting to oust the
tool, Butler. We must not be diverted frcm
our duty of making nominations in sGch
an eveEt. Watch the whole FUSION men,
agerie. Any other chairman IN the saddle,
uncnecke. by recognized refercn lum laws,
which no other convention than ours next
month would ever think of passing for their
party government would be unsafe, In view
Of what fusion has done in the past, even
If such good Populist names IS Morgan or
Trcys were to be substituted for but
ler's.
Next months nominating convention will
be the removal of a sick patient from the
Democratic house. which happy event will
occur in the darkest hours of the night,
Just before the dawn of a glorious morn.
Therefore, my brother. despair not at his
critical moment. Pour a full allophathic
dose of honest common sense into the pa
tient, and the turning point will announce
on-coming life Don't get tired now. Don't
say now you don't know what is TO be
DONE" and spread panic among the
watchers. Do you want them to desert
the dying body that yet may be saved?
Our beloved party will emerge soon as she
is far removed from the Democratic house.
damp with the mould of the years and poi
soned by foul miasmatic gasses, better for
the sickness, the same body, but so changed
for the better as to be hardly recognized
Address to Alliance.
Experience having proved that it is diff
ficult for the farmers, the wealth producers
of the country, to cooperate for ncutual