The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-18
ORGANIZATION COLUMN
III. b. Fay, NJ. D., Editor, 80 Washing
ton Ave. s., Minneapolis, Mimi.


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severally and for himself hereby sub
scribe to the Omaha platform as reaf-
drmed at Cincinnati, Sept. 6, 1898, and
rules of organization there and then
adopted; each Of us declaring: l re-
nouace utilization or cooperation with
either Republican or Democratic party. I
deplore, with the Omaha and Cincin-
natl platform, attempts of the few, pos
sessing the coin of the world, to divide
and divert the attention of the great
| producing class on such false issues as
tariff, silver or foreign conquests, while
| wholesale public robbery, enslavement
of the masses, political trades, every
! form of legislative corruption and pri-
vate corporate oppression is unnoticed
by the subsidized or muzzled public
press trust. 1 am opposed to this un-
just industrial and political system,
which makes millionaires of money and
stock gamblers and tramps of real
wealth producers. And as the combin-
ed remedy, we each of us do severally
and for himself especially advocate the
three following fundamental principles
of the Omaha and Cincinnati platforms:
First-Collective public ownership, not
only of the public school system and
postal service, but also of such means
of production and distribution as rail-
ways, telegraphs, telephones, coal mines
and trusts, as fast as they become dan
gerous monopolies and the people elect.
Standardization and maintenance of
an honest measure of values and medium
of exchange, national greenbacks, is
sued by the government direct to the
people, and based on the values Of all
commodities and resources of the ma
ton; full legal tender, receivable for
all public and private dues in the United
States; also used in employing idle labor
on public improvements, Third-Recog-
milton of the right, of the peo-
pie to rule, i. e., the initiative and refer
endum with imperative mandate. We
do each of us severally and for himself
therefore request that we may be privi-
measures, as enrolled members of the
Populist Party in precinct club No. -,
OF -, county of .............. State Of
............ 49,.
NAMES. p. o. ADDRESSES.
Every voter neglecting to subscribe to
these principles is missing a grand op-
portunity or disregards duty in refus-
ing. CUT OUT THE ABOVE FORM
AND AT ONCE SIGN YOUR NAME ON
A PAPER PASTED UNDER IT. Put
1t into your pocket. Fast as you meet
voters in your town or precinct get other
signatures beneath yours. Of the num-
Der elect chairman, clerk, treasurer;
add later, as the number enlarges, two
judges of election. Report results,
dates, addresses, within two weeks, be-
fore, if possible, to the secretary of the
state committee, H. B. Fay, 80 Wash
1ngtOn avenue south, Minneapolis, Mimi,
who will report your club number in this
column; and, if stamps are inclosed,
send you further directions.
BEFORE SPRING, not only Mime
sofa, but many other states all over our
Union, MUST HAVE SIMILAR CLUBS
IN EVERY PRECINCT; clubs Offering
the people the only genuine, practicable
referendum system possible or existant;
clubs ready to prove to all voters who
are not willfully deaf. blind or corrup-
tible, that prosperity can be inaugurated
in 1900 only through the above cardinal
tenets.
WILL REFORM PAPERS PLEASE
COPY THE ABOVE OR PRINT SIM
liar, PLEDGE. The columns of the
Representative are open to similar re-
ports from any or all states, and special
issues at wholesale prices will be sent to
clubs everywhere. giving such reports as
such clubs may direct.
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MORRISTOWN, Mimi, Jan. 12-Editor
Organization Column Representative: Call
your readers attention again to Sec 10
National plan. 1t says, mo one not en-
rolled in a precinct club can take part in
the government Of the reorganized Peo-
pies party, vote on its policy or the selec-
ton of candidates" Hon. Wharton Barker
on request, informes me he is member Of
a precinct club. So, hurrah for Barker for
president in 1900. 1 will suggest as burn
ing necessity a club directory. Nothing
would compare with this in stimulating or
ganization.
70 repeat, no man can be supported by
true Populists or share in party manage
ment who is not an enrolled member of a
precinct club. E. j. WHITE
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All clubs reported will be numbered
and entered in this column, and
should be preserved for reference until
the number is sufficient to publish the
directory above referred to.
Club No. 1-E. J.7White, organized at
Morristown, Mimi; NOV, 10, 1898, by F. i
J. White, chairmans Frank Burnett, sec
rotary; VIM. Leibrenz, treasurer.
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