The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-14
Organization
Department.

O1X0A1AA0llO11
Department.
(Send communications for this col
umn to DR.. H. B. Fay, Al Washington
avenue south, Minneapolis, MIMI
MID-ROAD OR PEOPLES PARTY.
Why don't you who, for different rea
sons. desire only the name People,
Party" in the coming Minnesota stat,
campaign. take Immediately. before i
is too late, the only means of getting it
What is that? Head subscription lis
at once to fight In the courts for oul
rights. We can win. If you don't Dc
that now, don't kick later, when you
will have to explain what "Mid-Road'
in Minnesota means. If you don't at.
tend to this yourself no one else will
In our referendum party there are nc
bosses to demand it. Who will follow
me with $40 subscription for this pur-
pose?
THE FUSION COMMITTEE-AC CHAIN
OF SAND.
Such is always a number of men
united by no higher motive than greed
of self-advancement. It is bound to fall
apart. In Iowa such a chain, held by
Gen. Weaver, has been seen at his state
convention to have only so links left.
Will the Minnesota fusion state COM
mittee recognize this CHASTITY death
rattle?" Are they to behold their wiser
members gradually leave the transpar-
ent fusion shells of crawling caterpil-
lars, green and repulsive, to expand into
the grand prospect of honest Populism
Is the Minnesota fusion committee to
suffer slow, lingering death?
What do you say, Mr.. Meighen? How
do you answer, this, Adolph Paradis?
Remember your committee has not even
a Gen. Weaver for backbone, but only
those small of1ice-worshipers, Clarke,
Stacy, Austin. We believe true Mime
sofa Populism is sure to grow much
faster than in Iowa. Even there, start
ing with only Is honest men, it is fast
fusionists, because the
truth always wins in the end. Have
you not found this to be true, Commit
teeman Morrison, of Mankato, whose
independent" Populism Is conclusively
shown In L. c. Longs paper of the 9Th
inst. to be for sale? Every Populist
should write to Magnolia for that paper.
1t is showing up skeletons in many clos
cts. We are forced to believe this of
you, Mr.. Morrison. because you have
spurned honest offers for cooperation
in rebuilding the Peoples party. You
would not have done so, had
your late published conversion to the
Mid-Road party been caused by any
thing but disappointment because Lind
had the good sense not to reward you
Tor deserving your own party in the last
Voters who produce the real wealth of
Blue Earth county must be taught to
elect their own numbers into Office, in
stead of supporting newspapers, and
men running stores, upheld by Republic
IAN and Democratic gold and silver dol
airs, or they and their children will die
worse than slaves by far, than they
we're when they first saw the light of
lay.
1t was disgusting to see some of those
fusion committeeman involved in long
as to how they might or
yanize the enslaved farmers, so as to
compel Democracy to give offices to
hree or four of their number.
Darwin was right. Surely such men
must be ASS-ended from animals with
ails and horns.
The committee is composed of ]. Van
'lyke, Hastings; Carl Bullus, West Con-
ord; H. C. Nelson, Hayward; E. S.
2eishus, Cottonwood; A. M. Morrison,
dankato; w. R. Hodges, Sleepy Eye; R.
\. Walsh, St. Paul; John Burns, Mime
lpolis; H. P. Bjorge, Underwood; R. c.
Mitchell, Duluth; Frank Warner, Buff
alo Lake; A. H. Hendrickson, Sank
center; DR.. c. M. Ferro. Minneapolis;
:. P. Olney, Appleton; Francis H.
Clarke, st. Paul; z. H. Austin, Duluth;
r. J. Meighan, Fillmore county; c. N.
Perkins, Stewart; Adolph Paradis, St.
PAUL; F. N. Stacy, Minneapolis; ]. May
lew, St. Cloud; Richard Glavin, Warren.
only the last II were present. They
ldded as proxies: A. Mosher, T. D. D.
evans, Tracy; Mr.. Pendergast, St.
PAUL; Paul E. Fontaine, Minneapolis;
v. A. Hotchkiss, Preston.
The most outspoken Democrats of
hem were, as might be expected,
dessrs. Austin, Stacy, Glavin, Mayhem
nd A. Mosher somebody's proxy with
(whose late appointment has
uined his morals), Warren, Hotchkiss
nd Francis H. Clarke as close seconds.
They accomplished nothing for re-
orm. They are only dipping into the
cry same political tactics, schemes and
ricks with which they disgraced them
elves in '98. They Endorsed an early
ational convention, which, as Mr..
warns us, will fool no one this
ime. Some of them argued that this
you'd, as they wished, facilitate fusion.
But for some reason they voted down
n early state convention.