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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
A GOOD MAN BANKRUPT.
YALE MAKES ASSIGNMENT

YALE MAKES ASSIGNMENT.
Winona, Mimi, May 12.-(Times Specially
Considerable surprise was caused here
this afternoon by the voluntary assignment
Of Hon. W. H. Yale, the assignee being G.
NJ Youmans The liabilities are about
$4,000 and the assets about $4,000. The
fact appears to be that, years ago, Gov.
Yale became burdened with a large amount
Of unproductive real estate which has not
only remained on his hands, but has from
year to year added to his obligations in
the form of interest and taxes, until at last
he finds himself under the necessity of
surrendering what remains of the earnings
of a life time in the manner herein stated.
This fact will be learned with genuine re-
greet by large circle of friends not alone
in Winona, but throughout the state.
Winona, Mimi, May 1.-THE assignment
of ex-Lieut. Gov. w. H. Yale is more far
reaching that a first supposed.
The assets outside of some personal prop
erty valued at about 1000, consists of some
q lots or parts of lots in this city and else
where, which are scheduled at 1872, 900, but
which on the market, it is claimed, would
not bring near that figure. The liabilities
entire are placed at $4072O, and consist Of
notes and mortgages, the larger portion of
which are held by women, and which, out
side Of few are unsecured. Those who
are unsecured will practically realize moth
ing. Gov. Yale, as he is Familiarity known
here, was rated high, and his financial in
tegrity never questioned. In times when a
financial panic lowered over the country
persons with their little savings of 800 or
more preferred his note to a certificate Of
deposit in some bank. Gov. Yale's supreme
confidence in the future Of Minnesota real
estate values is the cause of the crash
which came yesterday by the announcement
of his assignment.
It Is understood that he desired to enter
his magnificent homestead, located in this
city, as a portion of the assets, but a num-
Der of his creditors refused it, as they did
not desire to see him entirely impoverished
in his old age.
We are sincerely sorry for Gov. Yale
We have known him for 40 years, and
we do not believe he would willingly
wrong man or woman out of a penny.
He is "a gentleman of the old school"
courteous and honorable.
He is simply another victim of a
damnable financial system, which he has
blindly sustained by voice and vote for
years, and which has shriyeled his as
sets into dead leaves and pebbles, and
left him in his old age football of for
tune. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
Another RefOrmer Gone.

FAIRCHILD-Rev. Gresham Fair
child died at his home with his son, Mr..
M. F. Fairchild, in the city of Kalama-
zoo, Mich, March goth, 1899, in the
Dist year of his age. He was born in
Remson, Oneida county, N Y, was the
eldest son of French and Anna Fair
child, with one brother, French, de-
ceased, of Clay, N. Y. His father died
in 1911, and his mother married Zebina
Ball for her second husband, and in this
family he had four half brothers and
three sisters, all deceased now but S.
Ball and Mrs. Caroline Plummer He
lived and received his education at Rem
sen, and in early manhood became a
school teacher. While youth his ex-
perience was clear in the assurance of
the Holy Spirit. that he was saved from
sin. Obedient to divine call, he &C
cepted local preachers license and be-
gan to preach the gospel with marked
success. He married for his first wife
Electa Bird Runyon, of Fulton county,
u,
woman. Children born in their home
were Almira, John Emery, Sylvester NJ,
Madison F., Henry c., and Anna. He
was licensed to eXhort in 1929, and IL
censed to preach in 1888. He was or
dained deacon by Bishop Waugh, of the
NJ. E. Church, ga years ago, and soon
after he went to Ohio, where he Joined
the Wesleyan Church, and became a
travelling preacher in Ohio, Michigan,
Illinois and Iowa. At the time of his
death, he was member of the Michi-
gan conference. He was a veteran that
retained good health and mental power
to the end of his life. His first wife
died in 1874, at Fort Dodge, Ia He was
married to Mrs. Ellen Morgan, of
Wayne, Mich, in 1876, and she died Feb
ruary, 1896. He was on a visit to
New York state for some weeks, and re-
turned to his home March 18th, and on
Monday, the goth, at noon, his son went
to his room to call him to dinner. He
sat in his chair apparently asleep, but
alas, my brother had fallen asleep in
Christ without struggle. He had step
ped into the chariot of Israel, and an
escort of angels had borne him to the
golden city of God.-Exchange.
Rev. Gresham Fairchild was a SUBJ
scriber to the Representative, and an
earnest faithful friend of the oppressed
Fifty years ago his sympathies went
out to the Southern slaves, and many of
these unfortunates were aided by him
in their flight across the Canadian line.
and his life was spent in denouncing and
exposing the wrong and in defending the
right.
One of his sons, S. M. Fairchild, is now
resident of Minneapolis: also a sub
scriber to this paper, prominent in the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25

nothing. And yet in the midst Of it
all this hungry lunatic.ig still calling
conventions to meet on the .name day
and in the same place with De46eEatic
conventions. 1t would be horrible>lf it
was not SO dreadfullys absurd.
When Weaver dies. should he be sent
to the dominions of his satanic majesty,
before the gate IL opened to him, he will
propose to fuse the Christian religion
with old Nick-sell all the churches and
divide the profits.
When he dies the last words on his
lips will be Fuse" and the probabili-
ties are that he will go where 1t will be
hot enough to fuse him.
He has been nominafly Populist. and
secured our nomination in 1892 for the
presidency; but he did not want to see
the party established, and when it could
not elect him he had no further use for
it. He is hungry for Office clean through,
from the inside lining of his hat to the
outside soles of his boots.
It is pitiful and it is shameful, that a
great cause should have such pretend
ed leader, who can see nothing Of it's
principles and out Of the agltations Of
mankind expects nothing but an Of
fee.
Go, Brother Weaver, go to your wet
cloud for Heavens sake, and stay there
till this campaign is over.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
so 1T GOES.

Bert J. Sawyer. well-known man about
town and heir to the large estate of his
father. the late A. J, Sawyer, was taken
to a Milwaukee sanitarium Tuesday night,
and is regarded cas- almost hopelessely in
sane, as the result of fast living. OF late
he became possessed of the idea that he
could cut a man to pieces and then put the
pieces together againD and told of having
taken his own brains out and washed them.
For the past week the police have had
him under almost,constant surveillance, fear
ing that he might attempt to carry out his
ideas. Friends accordingly decided to take
care Of him and sentuhim to the sanitarium.
DR.. G. F. Roberts and G. P. Wilson are ex-
ecutors of the Sawyer estate.-Minneapolis
Tribune.
What comes over the DEVILS back
goes under his belly"
A. J. Sawyer made vast fortune off
the farmers of Che Northwest, by giving
them over grades and overweights for
their wheat, and paying them too high
a price for the same; and now, from
his seat in heaven, he looks down and
sees his son wasting his carefully accu-
mulated hoard. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
TURN HIM OVER TO US.

Appleton Tribune: The St. Paul Dispatch
attempts to read j. F. Jacobson out of the
Republican party. But the fact that the
Populists don't seem to care for him proves
that he is all right where he is.
No. it simply indicates that the Popu-
lists have more wisdom than they have
been given credit for possessing. They
have learned something from the expert
ence of the Republicans.-St. Paul Dis
patch.
We sincerely hope that the Republican
papers of the Twin Cities will drive MIR.
Jacobson into the Populist camp He is
a very able and very honest man; but
we knew when he began to fight the cor
porations what the result would be.
They will never rest until they have bur-
led him alive, and planted pig-weed on
his grave. But the Populists in that
event will dig him up. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
COFFEE STEALERS OF RIO.

What lot Of policemen there are every
where. At the ends of the wharves there
are soldiers in uniforms to keep order. A
custom house officer is always on hand to
see that nothing goes on or off the ship
without paying duty and there are many
private detectives. close watch has to
be kept to guard against stealing for the
wharves are great places for thieves.
The detectives have to look out for
stealing below the wharves as well as above
them. for sometimes thieves come in boats
under the wooden floors, and stop just be-
low one of the big piles of bags. With an
augur they make a hole through the floor,
then piercer or pipe is stuck up through
the hole and into bag so that the coffee
pours down through the pipe in stream
to the boat. In short time a half dozen
bags can be emptied and if this Is taken
from large pile, no one will be the wiser
without the detectives spy the men under
the wharves.-Frank G. Carpenter
Wherever there is property there are
thieves. Coffee in Brazil wheat in Min
nesota. Big stealings make an aris-
tocracy; little stealings degraded crimi-
nails. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
THE SAME OLD SONG.

We find in the daily press the follow
ing:
DIES MONIES, Iowa, May 15-Gen J.
B. Weaver, acting chairman of the Peo-
pies Party for Iowa, today issued the call
for the state convention in Des Moines,
Aug 16, the same day the Democratic
state convention. He says the imperial
ism of wealth has at last brought us to the
Imperialism Of the sword. An effort will
be made to again fuse with the Democratic
party.
We have nothing but kindly feelings
towards Gen. Weaver; our personal re-
1ations have always been pleasant; but
we think it would be blessing to man
kind if God would just lift him onto a
wet cloud, and leave him there for the
next two years. He could make fusion
speeches to his hearts content The man
is morbid, rabid and crazy on the idea of
fusion. He has almost broken up the
Peoples Party in Iowa by a succession
of amalgamations during the last 20
years, and he is still at it.
Fusion has been proved a failure
wherever it has been tried. It drives
part of our people into the Democratic
party, and good many more into the
Republican ranks; it has cut down our
representation in congress to almost
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
Under the force Of these arguments the

Under the force Of these arguments the
committee adopted the resolutions by a
vote of seven to three:
We hope that there will be general
acquiescence in this action. The cherry
is too small to bite It in half again. ::
Let all hands go to work and organize
to see that no Bryanites or fusionists
are sent from their states to the ma
tional convention of 1900.
We believe that all who took part In
the Kansas City meeting were honest
and sincere.
Now, let us all do our duty and organ
ize referendum clubs % proposed by the
Cincinnati convention.
Men are nOthing-principle every
thing. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
MORE FALSEHOOD.

Some one sent out from Kansas City a
report that, at the meeting of the or
ganization committee there, the other
day, a strong effort was made to have
them indorse Messrs. Barker and DON
nelly for president and vice-president
and that it failed.
This is not true. It was not the place
of the committee to make any such in
dorsement. We distinctly and publicly
advocated, in debate, that no such in
dorsement should be made, because the
nominations were to be submitted to
vote of the referendum clubs for ap-
prevail or rejection; and the organiza-
ton committee had no right to interfere
one way or another in the matter, to
forestall the action of the clubs.
But this false statement was malic-
iously put forth and carried, by the
Associated Press, to every corner of the
land, simply to humiliate Messrs. Barker
and Donnelly, whose sole offense was
that, in an effort to save the Peoples
party from absolute ruin, they had per-
mitted their names to be used for two
high Offices, to which there was not
much probability of their ever being
elected.
But every cause demands it's martyrs,
and the old-party newspapers of today
are meaner and more cruel than the
lions and tigers that used to tear the
Christian victims to pieces in the Ro-
man Coliseum. I'D,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
A FARCICAL INVESTIGATION.

The La Crosse Press has the beef inquiry
boiled down so it may be put in a very
small can. 1t says: 1.-THE report of the
beef inquiry board is in and the president
has approved it. The beef was found to
be prime and the whole fault lies with
Gen. Miles for not reporting the rotten
conditions of the beef and with the soldiers
who refused to eat it."-Schilling's Ad-
vance.
This is equal to the famous verdict as
to the borrowed iron pot.
/. The defendant never borrowed the
pot.
2. There was hole in the pot when
the defendant borrowed it.
3. The pot was sound and perfect
when the defendant returned it.
n
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
HOW WAGES INCREASE.

The 1000 textile workers of Taftville.
Conn, who have been out on strike for liv-
ing wages so long, have just issued an APP
peal for help. In it they say Five years
ago the average wages paid on box looms
was about 81. so per loom with leisure, while
today the average is about $40 per loom. or
a decrease Of 80 cents; the total wages were
about $780, while today the average would
be about $3.50, or decrease of 81. Other
grades would show a corresponding de-
crease, hence you will see our cause Is
just" Make all checks payable to T.
Lizette, treasurer. George Kinder, secre
tary. Box ZIG, Taftville. Conn.-CoDing Ma
ton.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
ALL WRONG.

Frank Burkitt, editor of the Okalona,
Miss. Messenger" has this to say in
the last issue of his paper:
Kinds county has three and a half men,
bers of the Mississippi legislature and one
and half in the senate or five in all. The
Kinds county registration books show a reg
istration of about ., 100 voters. and the Plea
yune correspondent says 40 per cent Of these
are not legally qualified voters. In other
words Kinds county, which is one of the
most populous in the state and in which
our capital city is located can muster only
about 1850 legal electors. If this is true
and we suppose it is, for it's an estimate
made by the preachers who are fighting for
prohibition land they are all honorable
mem. may We not reasonably conclude the
proportion will hold good in other counties
of the state? Then Mississippi with a total
population of near a million and a half and
an adult male population of 900 can
boast only about 10000 freemen and all
the rest serfs. We want the intelli-
gent colored men to remember the Demo-
cratic party did this iniquitous business un-
der the pretext that they wanted to "elim-
mate" the negro from the polls in order
that the virtue and intelligence" Of the
state should rule. And we call the atten-
ton of the white people to the fact that the
same men who shouted amen to the con-
stitution Of 1890 are the very men who are
now registering and voting the longest
heeled. sharpest Skinned --LATEST nosed
mokes in this county under the under
standing clause in order that they may
hold Office against the protest of a majority
of the white taxpayers.
Can it be true that the supremacy of
the white race cannot be maintained in
Mississippi, except by such drastic and
extraordinary legislation?
Who will believe it? It is the SUI
premacy of the Democratic party, not of
the white race, that is aimed at.
They fear white Populists more than
they do black Republicans. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25

work and councils of the Peoples Party.
and an active and efficient organizer of
Farmers Alliance, Grain Growers and
other reform societies.
Hatred of oppression and a patriotic
determination to aid their unfortunate
fellowmen with the Fairchilds seems to
have run in the blood, and reformers
may we'll wish that the family could
have been more numerous and longer
lived. e. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
49, 1000
Al.al.
WHIT

Now that gold is SO plentiful that the
banks are glutted with 1t and seek to pay
1t out on checks. the public, who were SO
crazy for gold three years ago, almost in
variably express their preference for paper.
The scarcity Of paper money il now the
real grievance.
Gold rests on a superstition. Our
greenbacks, like our bonds, rest on the
faith and credit of eighty million of the
most powerful people on earth.
Does the merchant, when he issues
his promissory note, have to engrave it
on chunk of gold equal in value to
the amount named in the note? No.
Why, then, should the greatest of the
nations? IN
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
CONEY ISLAND.

This beautiful resort at Waconia,
Minnetonka, Reinhold Zeglin proprietor,
will be opened June 1. We know of no
pleasanter place to spend a vacation.
There is a charming lake, a lovely ISL
and, and Mr.. Zeglin is an attentive and
courteous host; and, best of all, he is
a thorough-going Populist. Try it.
n
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
A New Game Law.

A dOwn-east editor has drawn up
adopted: Book agents may be killed
from October l to September 1; spring
poets from March l to June / umbrella
borrowers from August 1 to November
1, and February to May 1, while every
man who accepts a newspaper two
years, and upon being presented with
his BILL says: Il never ordered it,"
may be killed on the spot, without re-
serve or relief, and buried face down.
ward without benefit of clergy
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25

banks. Compstitton and consolidation
are the oppositeA Of each other. Capt.
talists all preach competition and prac-
tice consolidation. when the masses
learn to Judge men By their works rather
than words. then this little game will
come to close. when Rockefeller and
Morgan own -thi4 country the country
may become posae&ed Of q sensible
thought and condmd Ito own itself. Why
not? N1S E.. A. r.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
PETER LEAVES US,

TOPEKA, Kas., May lex United
States Senator PETER, one of the founders of
the Populist party. and who for years was
considered the chief exponent of Populism,
Has returned to the Republican fold. APP
parent settlement of many of the questions
which were the cause of the organization of
the old alliance contributed to the change
in the political attitude of Senator PETER
Mr.. PETER said today:
II have always been Republican except
on one main questionable money question
That has settled itself apparently now. The
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
AN ABLE ADDRESS.

Read Frank Burkitts address to the
Reform Press Association on another
page. He was reelected president. A
deserved compliment He is a strong,
able, and reliable man, and a worthy
representative of the great, honorable
Southland. Id.
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lnpsrfest Page

scribed.
No lack of money to rob the people,.
The farmers wheat is to be lowered in
price. and the laboring mans bread is to
be raised In price.
How long. Oh. Lord. how long?"
]. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
EXCUSABLE.

While the landlady and the boarders bent
their heads devoutly above the table the
new arrival sat bolt upright.
The good landlady was shocked.
"Athesm?" she sharply asked.
"No, ma am" said the new bOarder-
"boil!'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Artemus Ward said it was impossible
to sit squarely on boil without hurt
Ing the chair.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
UNFORTUNATE.

A friend telephones us that there is
great excitement in Alexandria, MINI.
The "fool-killer" passed through that
town and started for Fergus Falls to
interview Eric, and thereupon the mayor
of Alexandria telegraphed him: "Come
back at once; you have missed Freder-
ick"
A fool who persists in living is a
calamity to a commonwealth.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
BAD OUTLOOK.

The Fergus Falls Globe says, May 9,
valley this year, and adds that "THE
FARMERS TEAMS AND SEEDS ARE
GENERALLY UNDER CHATTEL
MORTGAGES"
A pretty outcome for twenty years of
hardships and hard work.,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
THE SOCIALIST EXPERIMENT.

SOSlALAS1
We are very sorry to see that trouble
has arisen in the Tennessee colony of
Socialists, at Ruskin, and that it is
threatened with break up.
Every friend of humanity must deplore
this unfortunate conclusion of gallant
and noble attempt to improve the condi-
tion of humanity.
We sincerely hope they will weather
the storm. Don't give up the ship"
I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25

Health for ten cents. Cascarets make
the bowels and kidneys act naturally. de-
stroy microbes, cure headache bilious.
ness and constipation All druggists.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
OF COURSE.

1t is announced that the subscriptions re-
ceived by the various repositories for the
$4,000, 900 first mortgage per cent gold
bonds Of the United States Flour and Mill
ing Company were very heavy, and 1t is
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
Attention Farmers.

Do you desire to secure hundreds of sample
copies of agricultural journals. magazines cat
alogues. books. newspapers and circulars OF the
latest improved farm implements and machin.
stock, for two years or more7 If SO. seud us
your name with ten cents In silver and we will
rectory, which goes whirlipg all over the United
States to publishers. merchants and manufact-
ares You will get more reading matter than
you could purchase for many times the small
cost of ten cents. We want every farmers name
In the Tinted States In our Directory at once
FARMERS DIRECTORY CO.,
Department Al,
Birmingham. Alabama.
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