The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-07-27
A SANDER ANSWERED.

Capt. Lowe, of the Faribault Jeffer.
sonlan, one OF the best and truest men
IN the state, replies to an abusive arti-
Gle by Maj. Hotchkiss, of the Preston
Republican, as follows:
| We copy the above to show to what depths
OF duplicity those who have sold thei,
| own souls for pottage will go to smirch the
character OF men who have stood as Arm
as the everlasting hills for right and ius-
| tlce. Ihey DO 1t to cover up their own
contemplate chlcanery, which is fast be-
ing recognized by their dupes Mr.. Hotch-
| KISS. the author of the above. before Tho
iast state convention. repeated over and
over again in his own paper the National
Republican, that he would never consent
10 fusion with the Democratic party unless
tney woulo lndorse the principles of the
eop.e party mat he had been contend
ing for for 80 years. He was one ~ tha
committeeman from the fusion convention
10 arrange terms of fusion, and he after
ne read the report of said committee in
answer to the questions from us How can
you IN the light of your oft repeated dec
laration in your paper, consent to a fusion
with the Democrats, when nothing is vet
known OF the PLATFORM" His reply was
quoting his own language: "They were 40
good we could not help it," He went back
on his 30 years of record and became from
.nat nour an earnest fusionist. Mr.. Hotch-
kiss will not deny it.
What conclusion must every honest mon
come to- 1t was a deliberate going over
to the enemy, abandoning every princinle
ne mad battled for, for 80 years, conserving
to disorganize and disintegrate the hosts
OF reform in this state in the interest Of
that party he had but a short time he
lore characterized as a harlot and incapa-
bic OF doing good act.
Mr. Hotchkiss did not do this t-aitorous
act with blinded eyes. for he remembered
well how the Democratic party utterly
ruined and routed the old greenback partv
with the very tactics with which in 1898
they used him to destroy the Peoples Party.
But let us answer the vile and baby-like
charges of this wreck of ages" lettering
on the verge of the grave with malice in
MS heart, because forsooth we have dared
to refuse to bow the knee to Bael And
because we have dared to call atttention ~
his hypocracy.
Go to our record Of four years of active
war; follow our course in South Dakota from
the DAY we became organizer for the Far
mers' Alliance until we laid down the
scepter Of president for the second term.
ana continue up to the present hour and
we Will DEFY the Northwest or West to show
man VINO has made more sacrifices and
VINO has more persistenly kept up the
ngnt for principle and pure Populism than |
we nave Yes. we did organize Renville |
county, putting league in every township |
out one In the county, organizing coun- |
ty league, the only one ever organized in
the state, organized under and by authority
OF the state organizer; collecting from the
people as per instructions, as we went |
among them, the munificent sum of $1.32
per day; did it that we might get bread
Tor family we had nearly pauperized in up
holding the principles OF Populism
Every word of this is true. Cant
Lowe has had heroic life-as heroic
since he left the army as it was while
ne was in the army. And it is shameful
mat that old man, Hotchkiss, with the
thirty pieces of silver in his pocket.
should try to defame man who prefers
poverty with honor to a fat Office and
lishonor.
Capt. Lowe brushes away the ISLANDERS
u Hotchkiss, and leaves not a blot on
lis good name. IN