The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-07-20

County Committees Appointed.
The following address to the Populists
Of Hennepin county was made public yes
terday:
AT a mass meeting Of Popuiist workers. |
held in Minneapolis, July Is, the subjoined |
committees, appointed by the state CEN
trail committee for Hennepn county, were
Endorsed and ordered printed in the pub
lie papers, in order that voters may no
longer be misled as to who represents the
Peoples Party. This action is rendered
necessary by the fact that a dozen office
seekers remained in Labor Temple after the
Peoples Party convention had legally ad-
1ourned sine die, and these office-seekers put
themselves up for office, asking Democracy
TO support them, and were contemporary
refused. Not having sense enough 10 take
a well deserved kick for d hint they
adjol rned to August to then continue
their pegsarly tactics. Be not deceived.
Their convention represents nothing but
themselves. The subjoined ana duly APP
pointed committees will call the real req
pies Party conventions for the nominating
of all candidates at such time as they
see fit 49,
| straight Peoples Party ticket Will DE
put up from governor down to dos-catcher'
| Those political fusion trickSterS anu coh-
| fusion convention manipuators. desefters
! from our noble army of PopuHsts' mus,
either become Democrats in name, as wen
| as in methods and beliefs, or abanaon
! their false assumption and come IN as true
| Populists to our precinct clubs, which we
i are about to form everywhere, anu sun
| scribe to the subjoined resolutions.
We shall never again permit such dls-
| graceful scenes these fusion1sts enacted
with the help of their Democratic ailes.
1 late
| to sell the Peoples Party.
| We are following the commands OF our
| state convention, and as fast as practlcaoie
| developing a thorough system OF reIereh-
| dunn government for the control or our
| party. Those fusionsts, through RinSoal'
| their leader, in the state conventon' op-
| posed the referendum, preferrlng TO con-
tnue their hoggish trading for oihces ana
| votes, and to suppress the VIII OIL inc
| many which can only be accomplished ny
| means of old party conventions. hereafter
! as will be seen by the following resolutions
| which we have already engrossed IN our
| constitution, the humblest member OF a pre-
ciact club shall have an equal right with
| the highest official in the government OF his
| party.
Our representatives shall be servants and
| not masters, as IS the case in the two old
| parties the fusion party included. We
! serve notice that no one can be true Pop
uist who does not support the referendum
| committees and conventions All POpuliStS
must support the Long ticket, which is the
ticket of the farmers. the people and the old
soldiers, while the other two tickets are one
and the same in effect the servants of the
| plutocrats the only difference being that
one is called Republican and headed
| by Republican Eustis, the other fu-
| sion, headed by the Republican Lind. Both
are backed by a machine. With them the
| question and only difference simply is as to
| who shall get the offices. We hear from
them no earnest talk of principles and means
for benefiting the great masses of peo-
| pic. For the next two years true Populists
must shun all who advocate fusion under
Lind or Bryan. That is simply a scheme
to kill the Peoples Party and fool the peo-
pie by continuing the existence and farce of
the two old parties. Finally, in order that
the people may that this reorgan MIA ton
of the Peoples party IS sincere, and that in
the future there will be no danger as in the
past from the sales and treachery of politi-
cal leaders. we ask all honest-minded voters
to carefully read the following resolutions,
, ! which chara cteristic features of cur
party and bar all possibility of future fus-
ion and disintegration.
CAPT. A. II. NELSON
s. M. FAIRCHILD,
H. B. FAY, NJ D.,
: Members from Hennepin County of the Pop
ullst State Central Committee
RESOLUTIONS.
| Amy committeeman delegate. candidate
| or other official of the Peoples party hold
; his representative power, can at any time
be deposed by majority vote Of the men,
| bers OF the precinct clubs, his constituency
, who must at the same time by majority
| vote select his successor
l 2-On application of 20 per cent of +b.
! membership of any number Of nrec,nc,
clubs the acts of committees effectinr The
same must be put to referendum of s,1cr
membership, and all such acts shall be an.
nulled by a majority vote This same lau
! shall apply in the same ways to the 70.
;, | movdl of any official
d o-Ne insist that the law laid down q,
omana against permitting men who hole
ohclal positions in our local or nationa
l government from taking part in any Of the
business OF our party management, shall pt
| enforced.
Amy committeeman, delegate, cand;dat.
| or other official of the Peoples party
| holding in any way representative pow.
err, who shall vote for a conference viii
+ any other political party, through confer
ence committees or other wise looking t,
a pooling of votes of two or more politica
:, parties in the election of candidates. or shall
advocate such procedure, commonly know,
as fusion, cooperation, etc. shall by sucl
:, vote or advocacy be deemed to have vote
. | himself out of the party.
5-Any legal voter who shall subscribe t.
| the cardinal tenets Of Populism in the.
:, entirety, and agree to support the same t
the best of his ability; and also to oppos
fusion, cooperation or utilization with an
q other political party, can become a membe
Of any precinct club: but any membe
| proven to the satisfaction of the majort
., of his club unfaithful to these tests G
membership may by such majority be vote
outside Of the party.
y City Committee-A P. Lorenzo, j. F. Jer
kins, Frank Swanson, j. B. Dukes, ].
Larson, =. d. Newell, William D. Bray, "
- S. Moore, ]. ". Oyen, l.. Nj. Keller w.
Mccormick, Mons S. Baker, James Char
man.
- County Committee-Earl Hoisington,
II. Archibald J. p. Wichstrom. A. Sinnet
l., | Claus F. Peterson. E. A. Twitchell. Marti
Melgard, c. E. Hultmark, William Blaisdel
Harry Bunker, H. g. Thiessa, j. p. Cocl
l.. | ran. George Hopkins, A. Brayton, j. ]
| ConneL
~ 1T WAS LUCAS.