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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
The Ninth Ward Club Meeting.

The Mid-Road Peoples Party club of
the Ninth ward held it's weekly meeting
at GAL Polk street northeast, Friday,
Dec. %, with a good attendance.
We have agreed upon a membership
fee of 81 a year, so there will be no hat
passing on the program.
By the present outlook, we think the
club will be great success. We will
organize the ward from one end to the
other. and we will fight from now to
1900.
We will in the near future hold a meet
ing in some hall in the ward. And will
get some prominent speaker, such as
Mr.. Donnelly, Mr.. Twitchell, Capt. A. H.
Nelson and others if We can, to speak
for us, and will have grand opening
rally for the 1900 campaign. Respect
fully yours,
HG. THRESSA,
GAL Polk street northeast,
M. DUGAN,
SIS Fifth street northeast,
M. o. INGEBRIGTSON,
637 Van Buren, street,
,a Committee.
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WHEAT GROWERS SHOULD ORGAN
IZE.
Keep Up the Alliances.

Glendorado, Dec. 16, 1898.
To The Representative
The war is over. The election is over.
The party of honest money and high morals
has triumped; and the Democratic mule is
now, after it has swallowed and digested
the party of calamity-howlers, feeling as
proud imported English sire; well
convinced that before two years from now
the money good in Europe will be the
money of our country and the money ques-
ton out of the way. Two years from now
it will fight a sham battle over the trust
problem and stand good chance to get
its old place back by Uncle Sans manager.
The daily liars are now taking rest and
for a change of diet stuffing the people with
prosperity news, and long editorials about
the Independent farmers. whos are holding
back their wheat for higher prices. These,
they say. have become new factor In the
wheat market. and at the same time. are
paying OF their mortgages to such an ex-
tent thai banking and money-lending will
soon be something of the past.
At the same time their wheat reports
show that wheat is going to Europe at the
rate of seven million bushels per week, and
about five million per week are consumed
in this country.
The whole civilized world Is depending
upon the United States for breadstuffs. In
spite Of this fact the wheat combines of
this country and Europe are able to keep
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
Conditions Affect Litters.

Breeders Of swine desire to obtain the
most prolific animals, but not all breed
ers have studied their business with
sufficient closeness aud accuracy to know
that, while some strains are more
fecund than others, all strains depend
quite largely, in the matter of focund-
ity, upon the feed supplied to them and
upon the general conditions in which
they are kept. The sow that Will drop
a certain number of pigs, under certain
conditions, can not be depended upon to
maintain her average if the condition
of her existence is changed for the
worse. A SOW that drops small litter
when her surroundings are all bad, will
often increase the size of her filters
when her surroundings are improved
Exchange.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28

wheat down below the cost of production.
What a disgraceful state Of affairs There
never was a time when a Peoples party
on the Omaha principles was more needed
than today.
But there ought to be one or two more
blanks added to it. There is very little said
in that platform to induce the wage-slayes
to Join the party. There ought to be at
least this plank added to it. Government
shall furnish employment to all unemployed
labor"
Fred Douglas once said: For years I
prayed to God to help me, but my prayer
was not heard until l ran away"
If the farmers want to be saved they must
do something else than send prayers TO
congress, governors, wheat inspectors ana
state legislators in order to be saved Iney
must try to save themselves Until govern
ment trust can take the place of private
trust they must fight combines with COM
bnes. There are other ways for wheat
farmers to dispose Of their wheat than SELL
ing it to the combines for so cents per
bushel I have been feeding wheat to my
milk cows with good results; and know
of one man in this neighborhood who for
years has been feeding every bushel raised
to his COWS. Even last year he led 81 cent
wheat to his cows. He started farming on
a forty of brush land, and is independent
today when some Of his nelghDOrS VINO
have been raising wheat ana selllns- " lho
combines are poor.
If the wheat farmers all over the country
will organize themselves into alliances they
can get their own prices for their wheat
in spite of all combines. They can, when
ever wheat gets too low send orders from
their headquarters, either to feed certain
per cent of their crop to their stock or
keep IT. in their granaries
IF the farmers had been organized and fed
their stock 10 per cent of all the wheat
marketed this fall, all the elevators in the
world would have been empty today.
JENS p. ANDERSEN.
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sity Of teaching the Omaha platform; and,
as Tor any OF our humble selves, distaste-
full to your pride, we are at your mercy.
FroVe our unfitness or the observation-disclosures
OF any committee rule or plank to the ma
1or1ty OF our club membership, and both we
or it is forced at once to retire. As the
accomplished editor Of 1.-The New Time
says: rs there any reason why Gen. But
Ter or Mr.. Towne should not help form
such clubs. where the majority shall rule
and which at the next presidential cleo
ton shall sweep every state. Who dare OPP
pose it? Is it not practicable? Is there any
thing visionary or distasteful about it? Is
1t not true Democracy?' IS THERE ANY
REASON, READER, WHY YOU. YOUR
SELF. SHOULD NOT IMMEDIATELY Sc
SUCH A PRECINCT CLUB?
HOW TO ORGANIZE PRECINCT CLUBS
Copy or cut out either of the following
forms or 2 contributed by John o. label.
chairman Michigan Peoples party state CEN
trail committee; Dr. s. A. Calder, Hinsville
Ga. and our own Capt. J. r. Lowe, of Fari-
bault. MIMI to which paste a sheet Of
writing paper Above No. 1 paste
the Omaha and Cinnati platforms and
national rules of organization. Get
sign such papers papers There II p's being No 70
OTHER REQUIREMENT WHATEVER
for admission to precinct clubs. every true
reader in every precinct or township. under
StanulnS POpIlSm can, II inspired with the
spirit Of industrial and political freedom, get
at least three signatures. This great cam
paign of the peoples is now in YOUR hands.
reader, to let die. as you choose. or push to
victory in 1900. Every signer is entitled to
all the rights of a Populist in voting on
any referendum, or initiating any measure,
save one, and that One-"fusOn:" for, in
the future, when a precinct member judges
the Republican or Democratic party more
worthy of support than his own, it is time
he ceasees to call himself a Populist, and
enrolls himself a member of that other
party. Members having signed these en-
rollment papers are Immediately to organize
by electing a chairman. secretary and treas
urer. Either Of the two former officials is
at once to notify our presidential and vice
presidential candidates. and Milton Park
Dallas. Texas. chairman of the National
committee. of the organization of the new
club. The addresses Of the enrolled members
should also be sent to that member of the
state central committee living nearest the
newly formed club. Any child can do as
much. Every voter should do that much.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
A LETTER FROM CAPT. NELSON.

He Gives An Interesting Letter Con-
corning Some of the Inside History
of the Recent Campaign.
Editor Representative:
In The Representative of the 21st inst.
Hamlin V. Poore had an article that is
a puzzler. I have known Mr. Poore we'll
and favorably for several years, and
have noted his articles frequently in The
Representative, and have never before
felt called upon to criticise him, but in
this one of the 21st inst. there is much I
cannot agree with, and if his suggestions
should be carried out to their logical
conclusions l believe it would result in
disaster to the Peoples party. But be-
fore we enter into the discussion of
questions which he suggests to better the
condition of the Peoples party, for which
we shall combat, we will stop to answer
the question, Can any step be taken that
will remove the cause for personal GRIM
nations or recriminations.
AS 1 suppose this question relates
wholly to the Peoples party, we answer
yes.
That is easy, and inasmuch as there is
no patent on it, and so easy to perform,
we hope every member of the Peoples
party in the future will adopt it.
1t is this, Comrade Poore: For each
member of the Peoples party to take
hold of the work to organize in this state
what We have saved in 1898 out of the
political wreck of 1896, and the attempt
of men, assuming to be leaders of our
party, who are either fools or knaves, to
deliver this Peoples party to the De-
mocracy for little offices and other petty
considerations.
We now have a legal existence, and
the first Peoples party man who makes
a personal attack on another worker, sit
down on him hard, and not divide up in
sections and take sides, but attend
strictly to business and run over per-
sons who insist on indulging in crimina-
tions, and they will end, and all persons
| and parties and peoples will respect us.
Now, Mr.. Poore, we come to the ques-
ton of what you think ought to be done
| and that is to call the state central COM
mittee of June Is together and ask them
if they favored fusion.
Oh, Poore, what the devil do you sup
! pose the people Of the state of Mime
sofa cares whether this or the state OF
national committee of 1896 favor fusion
or not? They have done all they could tt
lead and deliver us into the Democrat,
camp. What do we care what tina
cona0ittee Of June Is does. or whethel
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
One God, One People, One Money.

"Would you make men equal, equalize the
dollar"
The ultra or extreme demand of the gold
standard for money is oppressive beyond
the comprehension of the masses. 1t is
leech representing private interests. fas
tened upon every limb Of our productive
system, drawing the life blood from the
great commercial body represented by the
toiing millions and injecting it into the
bloated, distended body of millionaire money
mongers, represented by private gold. The
attempt by the owners Of labor and it's
productions to measure up to standard set
up by the avarice Of few men, so high that
the gods cannot attain to 1t, Is as the Hin
doc worshipers of the river Ganges, throw
ing the bodies and souls of their offspring
and themselves into the madly rushing
tide, with no reward but the demoniacal
voice of heather GODS or the grave crying.
"Give. give and tarry not, 1T is enough"
The people must know that money Is not
a measure of value. but the exchange, the
transfer of property from one party to an
other. Money is a stamp of measure or
price. To legislate value into any kind of
money is a vain endeavor to make prop
erty Of the means used for the exchange
of property, and is bare-faced robbery. 10
believe that intrinsic value exists in money
is believing a lie that you may be robbed.
The intrinsic value is in private gold. One
half cents worth of paper bearing the gov
for money as the gold eagle until you run
up against the gold owners intrinsic value.
Without the gold standard the price in
money Of a farm was $40 per acre. With
the gold standard and claim for intrinsic
value in private gold. the price Of the land
is reduced ne-half, or to $40 per acre. Thus
one-half Of the wealth, the price of labor
and the productions of labor are transferred
to the owners Of a medium Of exchange for
all property. AS plain as the cloud tn 1T
obscures the light of the sun is this de-
ceptive robber system forcing the intrinsic
value of the rich mans metal into the ex-
change, for the labor and productions OF
the poor man. Legislation voted by the
producers of wealth and owned by the
money mongers, has legalized the steal and
clothed the thieves with legal power to Sc
cure the other half of the peoples wealth
to themselves by destroying all the peo-
pies money and compelling them to m2rt-
gage their lands and homes to individual
money owners for a medium Of exchange
to carry on the commerce of the country.
s.. NJ. eFAIRCHILD.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
Organisation Column.

Edited by Henry B. Fay M. D. g Wash.
Ave. 8. Minneapolis, MINI.
(Io whom applications for Omaha or Gin
cinnati platforms. lecture appointments.
plans OF organization reform literature,
printed forms for organization Of precinct
cubs. suggestions how to conduct Social
science meetings, ETC., also articles, relative
thereto for publication, may be sert)
WHO CAN FORM PRECINCT CLUBS?
ANY person willing to lend helping hand
TO toilers; any toiler with energy left to
neip himself; any social revolutionist, whose
neart beats fast on call to action; any hon
est man. with heart bigger than a pocket
DOCK unwilling to silently watch the pluto
cratic thief the coin and stock speculator,
Dreak, not alone into your home or mine,
out into all mortgaged homes. stealing
!hence justice. prosperity. happiness; also
farming and industrial slaves; retailers,
wastefully tearing down competitors and
cheating customers in the weary attempt to
make both ends meet; manufacturers, who
have lost their home markets. many times
more valuable under normal conditions
than all foreign markets, and who are now
Va1nly about to compete with cheap eastern
labor adding thereto the cost Of thousands
or miles of transportation Of articles those
eastern people can produce cheaper than we ;
even our fusion friends, temporarily mis-
taken, now say that no other sham battle
as tariff. silver or foreign conQuests, shall
divide and divert the fight Of the people
against plutocratic ShylOck
In campaign dependent on the people
VINO are robbed directed against their rich
robbers EVERY ONE MUST FORM PRE-
CINCT CLUBS. If reformers sincerely de-
SIRE TO see the producing classes success
1ully oppose organized wealth, their only
opportunity lies. thanks to our referendum
plan, In now forming precinct clubs of this,
the first party, that has ever declared for
complete rule of the people. Our party
stands for everything the good sense Of an
intelligent people and the teachings of ex-
perience justify For this reason thought
1ul men can see that our party shall re-
main as fashioned at Cincinnati and is
pound to supercede old parties. To get
votes. old parties deceive the people with a
lalse popular government, only to sell them
through committees. delegates and office
holdefs We cast the gauntlet of an ex-
treme Democracy. There is no middle
ground Pick up the challenge, We who
dare defend plutocracy monarchy, the rule
o. hing Coin We reaff1rm the great neces-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28

they ever meet again or not. They no
longer control the Peoples party, nor can
they legally call a Peoples party con-
vention. They have fused the Peoples
party out of it's legal existence. Their
party has now become the Democratic
Peoples party; and they will have 20
go on the ballot by petition under any
other name. Besides, do you suppose the
great mass of people would rally around
a standard held up by such men as that
committee for leaders? They have been
weighed in the balance and found want
ing, and if they are honest they and their
friends will put their shoulders to the
wheel and work in the ranks and not
demand the right again to lead; until
by earnest, honest service in the ranks,
they have shown they are competent to
lead.
Soon after the election of 90 this state
at st. Paul, to do just what you ask Of
them now; and they issued call to the
| people in which they took strong
grounds against fusion. Again they met
in this city in early spring of '98. and
again gave out that majority was OPP
posed to fusion. Practically the same
| men, of the same line of thought, are
the committee of June Is. Again l say
we have had enough Of such leaders.
| Mr.. Poore objects to the name Midroad-
| Peoples-Party. The committee of the
midroad convention have been very &C
! tive and aggressive and should receive
due credit for their effective work.
They were soon confronted with this
condition. Men who at the Hennepin
avenue convention were active in plac-
ing ticket in nomination, and pledged
money to aid in the campaign. and said
they would stand by their candidates to
the going down of the sun, Nov. Sth, were
soon writing to these very same candi-
dates to decline their nominations, and
refused to pay the money they had
pledged, and when the committee had
learned to a certainty that some of the
candidates would accept they instructed
their secretary, H. B. Fay, to file their
certificates of nomination with the Sec
rotary of state, and when he appeared in
St. Paul for that purpose the secretary OF
state refused to accept his certificates fol
the reason some of the fusionists had
filed certificates as the Peoples party and
there could not be two parties of the
same name on the ballot.
The committee held special meeting
employed eminent counsel, and decided
that there was great risk in a mandarin!
cause, inasmuch as three of the supreme
court judges were candidates on the fu
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
FORM NO. ,.
FORM NO. 1.

We the undersigned do each
rules OF organization there and then
nounce afalon cooperation
depore with the Omaha
possessing the coin of the world divide
quests while wholesale public robbery
trades form legislative
unnotd by subsidized
to this unjust industrial political
combined remedy
fundamental
public
button railways telegraph
and
national greenbacks issued
of
gal tender receivable for all private public
ton OF the right the
with imperative
fore request that privileged
measures enrolled members
O
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28

There is more catafrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether. and until the, last few years was
supposed to be ncurable. For great many
years doctors pronounced it local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with, local treatment
catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured by F.
J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. is the only
constitutional cure on the market 1t is
taken Internally in doses from 10 drops to
teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
Give Us the Old Greenback.

Troy Mimi, Dec. II, 1885
Editor Representatives
Dear Sir: Please find check for 500 to
place to my credit. This will make me
ahead instead of in arrears. Not by that
wave of prosperity was this made possible,
but by the result of those old greenbacks
produced over 20 years ogo, and here Is
Wishing we had them all back in use again.
The cry will soon be Where is the gold
we heard SO much about as honest
money!" Gone to the Golfers of the Jews and
bondholders. Still hoping for a redeemer in
the near future
I am sincerely yours,
NJ N. CROSS.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
Tourist Rates South.

The MOnon Route are now selling tick
cts to Florida, Cuba and all Southern
winter resorts, good until May 81. Also
homeseekers' tickets to points in Ten
nessee, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Lou
isiana, at very low rates. For map,
folders, rates and other information, call
or address L. E. Sessions, N. w. Passen-
ger Agent, 403 Northwestern building
Minneapolis, Mimi.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
GUITARS, MANDOLINs,

Musical goods and repairs at lowest pos
sible prices. Wholesale or retail lots.
Goods guaranteed. Agents wanted. Write
for free catalogue and price list.
NORTHWESTERN GUITAR AND MAN
DOLIN MFG. co.
24-26-28 Washington Avenue North
Minneapolis, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
Mr.. DOunelly>s Books.

We are receiving so many applica-
lions for Mr.. Donnelly's books that we
have concluded to keep supply Of them
on hand hereafter. and furnish them di-
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Great Cryptogram," 1913 pages, il
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The above prices include the postage
which on the Great Cryptogram" is
&c. Address: ''The Representative"
care of Ignatius Donnelly, Hastings,
MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
r. IN. Farmers Of the Northwest.

Brothers unite. call meetings in every
town in which wheat is sold. Organize and
build farmers elevators. demand farmers
terminal elevator at Duluth. This accom-
pllshed, call annual conventions OF all local
elevators set price on wheat to pay for
raising It; start your own board of trade.
We can sell direct to Europe and adj mar
kets needing wheat. They have robbed US.
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sion ticket, and would be prejudiced
against us; and the only sure safe way
was to adopt the name ''Midroad-Peo-
ples-Party"; and this alone saved the
party. Had we adopted the other course
I am sure we would have been defeated
and crushed out of existence. AS it was,
the committee had to appear in the SUI,
preme court and defend mandamus pro-
ceedings to prevent SOME of their candi-
dates from being forced off from the bal
lot. Everything WAS done that could be
done to destroy the party. The midroad
committee drove the fnsionists to the
last ditch, even toIthe' supreme court;
and there forced them, to respect our
flag.
We are now legal party; will you,
Mr.. Poore, ask such a committee who
have done such faithful work, and the
people who have had the courage to vote
their honest convictions, to stand aside
and again be led by men who, to put it
mildly, have shown such incompetency
to lead?
Remember that the Midroad-Peoples-
Party is the only legal peoples party in
Minnesota, and all parties and peoples
of this state must and will respect them
for the brave and honest battle they
have fought for principle. The people
must regard them as safe to tie to- No
surrender of principles is our motto. We
have been tried under fire and not found
wanting; forward shall be our watch
word A. H. NELSON.
Minneapolis, Dec. q, 1898.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28

United we conquer, divided we fall. We
the people, are the government and can
have just laws if we stand together. Think
awhile The workers are poor. the producers
Of all wealthy, and the drones are rich.
FARMER.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
Strike For Reform.

Willmar, Mimi. Dec. 10, 1898.
The Representative, Minneapolis:
Dear Sir: Enclosed please find check for
$500 for the paper. Hoping you will keep
right on striking from the shoulder till the
ignorant gets their eyes open.
Yours for reform.
M. c.. TOLLEFSON.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-28
Does This Mean Tout

Does This Mean Yous
A new Smith grubber, direct from fac
Tory, for sale by us, very cheap. Do you
want it? Do you need it? If so, don't
let his golden opportunity pass by. Ad-
dress THE REPRESENTATIVE,
Minneapolis. MINI.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-06-17

The Republican administration hhs,
fought the proposition to tax its mil.
llonaires slush fund contributors for
war purposes with much greater afdor
than It has shown against the Span
lards.-Journal of Agriculture.