The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-03-02
OUR FORUM
NOW COMES HAzccN
HE DISCUSSES SOME PERTINENT
QUESTIONS.
Thinks st. Louis Convention Illegal
Its Acts Clearly Illegal and Warns
pOpuIists to Use Initiative and
Referendum in Future.

Referendum in Future.
If it would not be occupying too much
space that could be devoted to more
valuable matter l would like TO have a
Chat with the boys in the rifle pits, who
like myself are allowed once in while
to show their heads above ground and
shoot off their mouths, so it don't antag-
Onize the bosses.
Things have got into such an Internal
tangle that don't know just where am
at and l would like a little information
doctrine now being promulgated that the
God who makes world cannot destroy
1t, and that the created is greater than
the creator, rather new theory? Or in
other words, if the Peoples party made
a national committee and that commit
tee refuses to do the work demanded Of
1t that they cannot set it aside.
Suppose capitalists had hired me to
superintend the erection Of building in
some desirable place in the city OF Chi
cago, others having buildings in the
same locality come to me and say, we
don't want that building erected and will
pay you just as much for holding it back
as your employers pay you to build it.
My employers get the material On the
ground, the workmen are hired end
come to us for instructions but say |
am not ready, day after day they return
only to receive the same answer; yalu-
able time is being lost, inclement wealth
er is coming on and my employers say
to me why don't you commence work, if
you are not going to do this job we. will
have to hire some one in your place.
With proud disdain l say to them, you
hired me to superintend this work and
you cannot discharge me and you can
not put any one in my place.
Now, according to the argument ad-
vanced by Mr.. Washburn, OF Massa-
Chusetts, in a former issue Of this paper
/ could block the construction of that
u
for the resurrection. In substance he
says that the Peoples party has a
national committee and that there is
no power outside that committee that
can call a conference or convention.
and that if the representatives Of the
party do so they become bo1ters.
Still that committee (of which he
claims to be member) from that great
political Jonah, Mary Ann, on down
to his most subservient tool, sit playing
the dog In the manger, while our liber-
ties are swiftly disappearing and the
ring of the hammer in the pawn shop
of the money changers tells us but too
plainly that the letters are being forged
for the limbs Of unborn generations
One week we see the Mass. man walking
all over the gentleman from Maine call
Ing him inconsistent, bolter &c. and
the next week ne turns complete
somersault and lights down in that self
same conference, and unless rumor lies.
takes part in their deliberations. Now,
] would like to know, who, when and
where? Which did he when the wheels
began to move, get afraid Of being left
and climb on, or has he become bolter
also?
| want to state fact right here, and
would like for every hybrid to get ready
so they can howl crank in concert as it
will sound louder I'VE have no ma
tional committed"
After the howl ceases they can masti-
cate the following. At Omaha when the
second declaration of independence was
promulgated, the following fundamental
law was adopted through the influence
of the boys who had been engaged in
forming the lines for nearly a quarter
OF a century only to see them thrown
Into confusion on the eve Of battle by
some Internal renegade who was in the
cause only for money, AMI shows that
they were on to their lob.
Now read carefully. We, the Peoples
party at the outset, to secure rerma, ent
control of the organization unaffected
by the selfish interests of those in pub
lie service, do hereby in national conven-
ton at Omaha, on the 4th day of July,
1892, establish this ordinance as the fun
damental law of the party organization.
viz:
No person holding any office ~ trust
or profit or emolument under federal
or state municipal government, includ-
ing senators, congressman and mem
bers of the legislature, state and local,
shall be eligible to sit in or vote in any
convention of the Peoples rarty, and
a copy of this ordinance shall be at
tached to every call for any future
convention.
The definition of fundamental is a
basis, hence essential The founders
OF the party saw that it was essential to
exclude Office holders and seekers after
office to avoid just such predicaments as
confronts us now, hence its adoption.
Was that law ever repealed? No. Was
1t attached to the call for the St. Louis
convention. No! Hence that conven-
ton must have been illegal and II the
convention was illegal it necessarily fol-