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

The Fourth district congressional commit
tee of the Peoples Party met at The Com
mons, corner Eight and Jackson streets, St.
Paul, Wednesday evening, July 13. Chairman
MCGEE presided. The committee voted that
the convention to nominate a cadidate for
congress should be held at Forest Lake on
Tuesday, August 9, 1898, at II O'Clock a. m.
1t also decided the basis Of representation
as follows:
Kanabec county, four delegates.
Isanti county, six delegates.
Chisago county, five delegates
Washington county, eleven delegates.
Ramsey county, sixty delegates.
This list includes three delegates at large
from each county, thus making the total
number Of delegates eighty-siX.
1t is hoped that county committees will
act promptly in giving the greatest pub
icity possible for primaries, and that dele
gates will appear with proper credentials.
Calling the convention for Forest Lake
was happy idea, the delegates take
their families and have big basket dinner.
Arrangements are being made to send a
van out through the Fourth congressional
district to make an Alliance campaign. AS 1t
is known that more Republican, Democratic
and Populist farmers will come out to hea r
lecture the Alliance subjects than if 1t
were advertised to be strictly a political
meeting. The cause of Populism will not
suffer from an audience of that kind, as
that political party advocates nearly every
plank of the Alliance. In this state a cam
paign could be made upon the Alliance plan
because Of the state being peculiarly an
agricultural one.
Most of our candidates farmers and
old soldiers. Let every congressional dis
trict do as the Fourth will do, nominate a
farmer for congress and send farmers tC
the legislature from all political parties and
watch the results in the shape of favorable
legislation in the cause of agriculture. Leave
the politician, the lawyer and the represent
alive of corporations at home.
We have just finished another book tha
will be scattered broadcast throughout the
| Northwest, covering items of general In
terest to the farming community. We will
distribute % COO in each state. Anyone de
| string of these books send in their name
| and postoffice address, and we will plac
| them on our mailing lists for future publ
cations.
| Mr.. Hamlin V. Poore, who was elected
| state lecturer last winter, declines to &C
| cept the office. Therefore, the executiv
| board will be called upon to elect stat
| lecturer. This is the most important Ofnc
| in the Alliance as the work of organizin!
| is entirely in his hands. He issues commits
| sions to organizers, charters to Alliance
| and has general supervision over all deputy
| state and county organizers. The man VIII
| should be assigned to this work should b
| a man who can and will give up a grea
| deal or time IN LraVellnS dDOul anu OISdhiZ
| ing. Hon. Eric Olson, of Sherburne, VIC
| president of the Second congressional dis
| trict, is acting state lecturer, and has traN
| eled considerable the past two weeks OF
| ganzing Alliances in the southern tier {
| counties. Mr.. Olson is very enthusiastic ur
on Alliance matters, and the board would
well to elect him to this responsible worl
| referendum vote has been sent out
the members of the board and we hope "
will hear from every member before ne,
week, when we will publish the result. Men
bers of the board will therefore send
their vote for their choice to fill this pos
| tion. ]. C. HANLEY,
|