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wounds and cuts soothed and healed
by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.-a
sure and safe application for tortured
flesh. Beware Of counterfeits. w. l.
Benedict.
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Immigration to United states.
The daily average Of immigrants TO
this country Is 300.
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Don't forget o. r. Webster Mt the
Pleasant street feed store when you
want coal and wood
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-31

An office.seeker seldom runs for the
postoffice to mail his wife's letters.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-31

Putting a porcelain egg under hen
Is setting good eggs-ample.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-15
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP IS EXTEND
ING IN ENGLAND.

Cities Building Houses and Charge
Part Of the Rent on Against Taxes.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. = United
States Consul Boyle, at Liverpool. has
communicated to the state depart
ment some very interesting information
respecting the great change that has
taken place in England in the matter Of
street railways. He says that from be-
ing one Of the most backward in the
matter of providing such accommoda-
tions, the cities of Great Britain are
now moving on an enormous scale to-
wards their construction.
He describes this movement as one
feature Of the remarkable municipal
socialism" which is taking possession Of
Lord Rosebery that the London common
council was conducting the greatest OK
pertinent in practical socialism the world
had ever seen.
Not content with municipal owner
ship of street railroads, electric and
gaslighting plants, water supply and tel
ephones, In several cities the municipal
corporations build dwellings for work
ingmen, run hotels, and eract AID cper-
ate magnificent baths.
In Liverpool the council has gone SO
far as to charge part OF what should lie
the rent from r,an;eira' hoascs o-cIp.e
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A Club Meeting.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, Fe

a Minnea polls, Mimi, Feb Is, 1899.
. The Representative, 623 Boston Block. City,
The Midroad Peoples Party club of the
Ninth ward held its meeting on Feb Z at
GAL Polk street northeast. 1t was cold
night, but for all that quite a large num-
Der of members were present. The club mad
a lively meeting. There was one new mem
Der received in the club. A II. Nelson acted
as chairman. A resolution was passed that
this club shall be known straight Mid
road Peoples Party club, and it is OPP
posed to fusion of any kind, and will not
allow any fusion talk at it's meetings. Men
of all parties asked to become rnem-
bers of our club and become good Popu-
lists. The next meeting Of the club will
be held Feb. 16 at p. m. at GAL Polk street
northeast 1t will have some important
work to do. All members of the club are
requested to be present. Arrangements will
have to be made for our meeting OF Feb. %
which will be held at Thompsons hail.
Central avenue and Seventh street. E. A.
Twitchcll will be the speaker of the even
ing, and other attractions will be provided.
The club extends a cordial welcome to all.
H. G. THIESSA,
Gal Polk street northeast;
NJ. DUGAN,
ISIS Fifth street northeas.;
s. GRAFSTED,
$50 Fillmore street northeast;
Committee on Hall and Entertainment.
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by workingmen as homes, against the

by workingmen as homes, against me
taxes of the community.
Referring to the subject of electric
street railways, Mr.. Boyle says that the
first line was started in Liverpool few
DAYS ago, and describes the equipment.
For the benefit Of American manufac-
turers of electric plants, fittings and rails,
the consul sets forth the best means
for these to put themselves in position %
secure valuable contracts, though he
points out strong prejudice on the part
of the large class of people in the cities
against the award of contracts to for
eigners. The Liverpool line is an over
head trolley, committee OF experts
claiming to have discovered that the
underground conduit systems, installed
in New York, Washington and Balti-
more, are failure.
He speaks of several other systems OF
electric car propulsion which have been
brought forward in England as novel
ties, but which are we'll known here,
such as the surface contact system.
A scheme under way, he says is to
connect Liverpool with all the manufac-
turing towns within radius Of II
miles by light suburban electric street
in the day time and freight at night.
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OMAHA PLATFORM.
PLATFORM OF THE PEnPT.E,s PAR
TY ADOPTED AT OMAHA. JULY
4TH, 1892.
FJNANNE

TY ADOPTED AT OMAHA. JULY
4TH, 1892.
FINANCE.
F1rst-We demand a national currency
safe, sound and flexible, issued by TIE
general government only, full legal ten
der for all debts, public and private, and
that without the use Of banking corpora
TONS just, equitable, and efficient
means OF distribution direct to the people
at tax not to exceed 2 per cent per an
mum, to be provided as set forth in the
sub-treasury plan of the Farmers ALI
ance. or better system; also by pay
ments In discharge of its obligations for
public improvements.
We demand the free and unlimited CO.
image of silver and gold at the present
legal ratio of Is to l.
We demand that the amount of circr-
lating medium be speedily increased to
not less than $50 per capita.
We demand graduated income tax.
We believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as pos
sible in the hands of the people, and
hence we demand that all state and ma
tional revenues shall be limited to the
necessary expenses of the government,
economically and honestly administered
We demand that postal savings
banks be established by the government
for the safe deposit of the earnings of
the people, and to facilitate exchange.
TRANSPORTATION.
Second-Transportat being a
means Of exchange and a public neces-
sity, the government should own and
operate the railroads in the interest of
the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like the
pOstOffice system, being a necessity for
the transmission of news, should be
owned and operated by the government
in the interest of the people
LAND.
Third-The land, including all the
natural sources of wealth, is the heritage
of the people, and should not be monop-
olized for speculative purposes, alien
ownership of land should be prohibited.
All lands now held by railroads and
| other corporations in excess of their &C
| tual needs and all lands now owned
by aliens, should be reclaimed by the
government, and held for actual settlers
| only.
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Petition for Direct Vote.

Editor Representative: When you pub
lished a copy Of the petition for direct vote.
which l am getting signed to present to the
legislature YOU omitted the letter Of eX-
PLANTATION which went with ii. Please al
low me to say to your readers that l wish
every one Of them who is interested In sa d
petition (see Representative of Jan. 10 to
cut it out. paste on a piece of legal cap and
to get as many signers to it possible
and forward to me direct at Wealthwood,
Mimi, or else to Hon. Ignatius Donnelly
at the Waverly hotel, Minneapolis, so we
can get all petitions together in shape to
present to the legislature. This is most
important step in the direction OF reform,
and trust hundreds will circulate the petit
tons in earnest. Prohobitionists. Free ST.
yer Republicans, Single takers. free home
stead advocates, and, in fact every one
who has a hobby, ought to be able to see
the milk in the cocoanut Of the petition.
Friends, study the petition carefully; then
help to get signers. Parties are designed
to put men into Office this petition designs
putting principles to the front.
c. r. MAREN
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Bilston, Box 46, Worthington; E. Nord-
quist, GA Worthington; J. A. Saxson,
Box 1876, Worthington.
NO. 4.
Organized Jan. 20, 1899, in eighth pre-
cinct, Ninth ward, Minneapolis, Mimi.
H. G. Thiessa, GAL Polk street northeast,
chairman; S. Grefstad, 500 Fillmore,
street, secretary; A. L. Anderson, III
Pierce street, treasurer; Gust Johnson,
ASP Pierce street northeast. Judges Of
election)
NO. 6.
Oraginzed in the 18th precinct of the
Fourth ward of Minneapolis, Mimi, Feb.
10, 1899. Chairman. H. B. Fay, M. D.
Al Washington avenue south; N. P.
Pearson, 80 Washington avenue south,
treasurer; Robert C. Danielson, secre-
tary. Mote: Above organization and
officers are temporary, waiting general
cal lsoon as the pamphlets are ready for
distribution.
EOlLOr OrSdulZdllOu SOluuu lCdoS
state in your column in the Representa-
tive that on Jan. 26th, we the under
signed Midroad Peoples men COM
pleted the organization of club for the
town of Sacred Heart. county of Rem
vile, State of Mimi. each and individ-
ually subscribing to the Omaha platform
reaffirmed at Cincinnati. We renOunce
all fusion or utilization with either the
Republicans or Democrats for the fu-
ture AND PROMISE THAT RENVILLE
COUNTY IN THE YEAR 1900 WILL
PROVE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING
BIGGER AND BETTER IN GODS UNI
VERSE, WE PERFORMERS ARE AIM
ING AT, THAN THE GETTING OF
THE DAIRY COMMISSIONER APP
POINTMENT. We will not be rail-
roaded into the Democratic camp by Of
flee seekers or such newspaper men. who
heretofore, have tricked us time and
again, almost succeeding in their nefar-
ious and villianous work. Money - Of
flee getting must not pollute our high
and lofty principles, destined to save
mankind and the down trodden masses
of humanity. The tempter must prompt
~ be told Get thee behind me-" in
whatever shape or manner he may ap-
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CONGRATULATIONS
PLATFORM OF THE PEOPLE S
PARTY ADOPTED BY THE GIN
CINNATI CONVENTION,


AS fundamental step to the preser-
walton of our endangered liberties, we
demand that the reign of corruption
shall cease in our legislative halls, by
the establishment of direct legislation.
We must shorten the pillow handles of
government, by bringing the legislator
closer to his principals--so close that
no lobbyist can intrude between them.
Through the initiative and referendum
all moral and political questions can
be submitted to a fair and impartial
vote of the people. and if adopted by a
majority of the voters become the law of
the land.
While we demand that if either gold
or silver is to be used as money, both
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-15

Send communications for this column
and reports of clubs to Dr. H. B. Fay,
80 Washington avenue south, Minneapo-
lis, Mimi.
Scoffer-GoOd morning, Mr.. POpulist,
why are you looking SO down in the
mouth today? Is your party dead.
POPULIST-Goodnes gracious, no. it
was never so flourishing It has the
best platform and plan of organization,
even to details for precinct clubs of any
party in the history of our country. Be-
sides, all our men are continually plan
ming and writing eloquently for the pa
pers. But you see feel mean with my
self While all the members of my party
are busy, kindly telling everybody, but
themselves, what to do, I, great selfish
hog that | am, won't even contribute 25
cents; but. for, very far worse than that,
l am unwilling to crawl out of my mole
and get a neighbor to form with me a
club in my own precinct. I just hate
myself because I can't brace up to do
this single, small, remaining act before
the people can win.
CLUBS.
NO. /.
E. J. White organizer and chairman;
Nov. IS, 1898, Morriston, Rice county,
Mimi. Secretary, Frank Barnett; treas
urer, VIM Leibrenz.
NO. 2.
Organized in sixth precinct. Ninth
ward, Minneapolis, Mimi, Dec. 16, 1898.
Chairman, VIM Koehler, 731 Van Buren,
street northeast; secretary, Nicholas B.
Beck, 7O3 Third avenue northeast; treas
urer, Thomas Scanlon, HOB Central ave-
nue.; two judges of election, H. Smith,
ZOE Van Buren, street; T. H. Quinn, COZ
Van Buren, street.
NO. 3.
Organized in town 101, range 80, cOun-
ty of Mobiles, Jan. 4, 1899. J. o. Larson,
organizer P. o. Box A, Round Lake;
chairman pro tenn, Gust Nystrom, Box
542, Worthington; secretary pro tenn, E.
O. johnson, Worthington, MINI. B. B.
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p. O. ADDRESS.

pear, or chaos and destruction will fol-
form than all the trusts and monopolies
put together. They can soon be taken
care Of, when we uncOmpromisingly
march under the Omaha standard. The
Southern Populists are not fools enough
to run after strange gods and office
seekers. Their action and success stands
out as reckoning light to every Popu-
list and true reformer within the con-
fines of the United States, and urges to
reOrganize the scattered and broken re-
form forces into a solid phalanx Please
send us stationery and pamphlets, give
us our state number; have the county
chairman assign us the proper county
number to our club, and report our or
ganization to Milton Park Wharton Bar
ker and Ignatius Donnelly, and oblige.
And now for long pull, and strong pull
and pull altogether. (Signed.)
Club Members of Club No. 3.
H. H. Kravig. Otto J. Westby, Ralph
L. Brook, Emil Lilleby, Thomas Daniel
N. w. Brooks, Ed Okins, l.. L. Rudi, o.
0. Enestvedt, P. P. Olsen, Gust Edelund,
Henry Lilleby, George B. Burch.
Officers.
H. H. Kravig, chairman; 0. o. Enest-
vedt, treasurer Henry Lilleby, secre-
tary; Otto J. Westby, Emil Lilleby
judges of election. P. o. address Of
above men is Vicksburg Renville coun-
ty, Mimi.
WYNCOTE, Pa. Jan. a. 1s99-Dr. H. B.
Fay, Editor Organization Column The Rep
resentative. Minneapolis, Minn.-Dear Sir:
have the honor to report to you that on
Jan. 3D. 1892 precinct club No. of Mont
gomery county, Pennsylvania, was duly or
gained under the rules adopted at the ma
tional convention of the Peoples party,
which met in Cincinnati on Sept. 5th, 1898
and that Samuel H. Barker was elected
chairman and Folger Barker secretary and
treasurer of said club. Permit me to add
that in Wyncote, the voting place of Hon.
Wharton Barker, we have already enrolled
as members of the club every Populist
voter. Kindly report the organization OF the
above club and oblige Yours Very Truly,
SAMUEL BARKER, Chairman.
This is to certify that a Midroad Peoples
party club has been formed In the town Of
Carroll. county Of Penobscot. and state Of
Maine, and made a choice OF J.-F. Richard
son for president. Aurelius Cushman for
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-15
FORM FOR =
PEOPLES PARTY PRECINCT CLUB.

and platforms are hereby abolished. and
instead thereof, nominations Tor ofices,
platforms and amendments thereto,
shall be made by direct vote 1t tho Peo-
pies Party primaries Of the political
subdivisions affected thereby
2. The Peoples Party shall consist
Of: A national committee Of three MEM
bers from each state. to be chosen by
the state central committee ON each
presidential year. q 1is
3. state central committee OF three
members from each congressional dis
trict to be elected by direct vote at the
party primaries on each election year.
4. A congressional committee of
three members from each county in the
congressional district, to be elected by
direct vote at the party primaries on
each election year.
S. A county committee of three mem
bers from each township or ward u
he elected by direct vote at the party
primaries each election year.
o.. XNdIlOudI, StdtC' OOu61 co6lOudl anu
county committees shall perform the
same duties as heretofore, not inconsist-
ent herewith, provide blank ballots for
the referendum votes herein contem-
plated, and canvas and certify the votes
cast in their respective territories.
T. The unit of organization shall be
the precinct club.
8. Any voter may become member
of the precinct club of any precinct by
subscribing to our national declaration
of principles and rules of organization.
9. Any member of any precinct club
who shall propose fusion or co-opera-
ton with either the Democratic or Re-
publican organizations, in the make up
| of ticket through conference commit
tees or otherwise, shall, upon convic-
ton thereof, by majority vote of his
| club, be deemed outside the party.
10. No person not member of a pre-
cinct club, and in good standing, SHALL
be eligible to membership on any Peo-
pies party committee or Peoples Party
nomination for any office
II. Each committee shall make
prompt report to the committee next
higher, of all referendum votes, and
| other matters within the jurisdiction of
such higher committee, and the chair
man of each committee shall be deemed
responsible for the prompt and faithful
| 49, h. J,,t; % \
| tee.
IL. State platform can be changed
only on demand of majority vote of
the precinct club membership of any
county, ratified by a majority vote of the
precinct club membership Of the state;
and the national platform can be chang
ed only upon demand of majority vote
of the precinct club membership of any
state, ratified by a majority vote of the
precinct club membership of the natic&.
| Is. No salaried official shall be cleo
ted a member of any committee of the
Peoples Party organization and any
member of such committee, elected to
salaried office shall be deemed to have
vacated his position on such commit
| tee.
IA. All Peoples Party candidates for
Office and members of Peoples Party
committees, shall at all times be subject
to the principles of the imperative man
date. and may be recalled by majority
vote of the league membership of their
constituency.
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DR.. Sackett, Of Herman, Mimi, writes
that he has used H. w. Bankers Nerve
& Bone Eminent extensively in his
practice of medicine. and especially rec
ommends its use for strains and bruises,
and in fact for anything where such
medicines are used. For sale at the
drug stores and dealers in medicine.
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CrestOn Iowa,
Carl l.. Stewart LumbefCo.,
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi.

I will drop you a letter to let you
know that l have bought my lumber
here, but l have regretted it ever
since. l could have done better by get
ting the lumber Of you, but l got in a
of work on hand and bad weather.
l will favor you at any time by re-
ferring others who are going to build,
and have them write to you. Yours
truly, A HANKE.
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The New Cure for Consumption.

Is attracting cases from all over the
Northwest. Patients given up to die
have been cured. This treatment is
used only at the St. Paul Medical and
Surgical Institute, Fifth and st. Peter
streets, st. Paul. Mimi, whose lung spe-
cialist discovered 1t.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-15
Tourist Rates south.

The Monon Route are now selling tick
winter resorts, good until May 81. Also
homeseekers' tickets to points in Ten
nessee, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Lou
isiana. at very low rates. For map,
folders, rates and other Information, call
or address l.. e. Sessions, N. W. Passen-
ger Agent, 40s Northwestern building,
Minneapolis. Mimi.
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OeSt currency THIS country ever possess
ed was the full legal tender greenback
of the civil war; And we look forward
with hope to the day when gold shall
be relegated to the arts of the country
and the human family possess, free, of
tribute to bankers, q governmental full
legal measure of value, made of paper,
that will expand side by side with the
growth of wealth and population Then,
and only then, will the people realize the
full benefits of civilization and the world
be made a garden of delights for man
kind.
We call attention to the public school
system and the postal service as exem-
plification of q beneacent state social
ism, which our people would only relin-
quish with their lives. And we demand
that the carrying of messages written
with pen and ink be amplified to en-
brace messages written by electricity
and that the train of cars which carries
our letters, be owned by the government
to carry those who wrote the letters.
No other reforms will avail much il cor
porations are permitted to say how much
they shall take from the producers, and
how much they will leave them. This
is taxation without representation in its
worst form. 1t is the disgrace of our
republic that foreign despotisms have
defended the right of the people in these
particulars, while corruption has made
self government helpless failure in this
land. We believe in the collective own
and distribution, which the people may
elect, such as railways, telegraphs, tele-
phones, coal mines, etc.
We are opposed to individuals or cor
porations fastening themselves, like
vampires on the people, and sucking
their substance and we demand that
| whatever can be better done by govern
ment for the enrichment of the many
shall not be turned over to individuals
for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the few.
Hence, we insist that banks have no
more right to create our money than
they would have to organize our army or
! pass our laws.
We reaf1rm the fundamental princi-
pies of the Omaha platform and declare
it to be the immutable creed of our par
| ty, coeval with it in birth and filed with
the spirit that launched it on it's grand
career. It must not be whitfield away
or traded off for offices. The man who
proposed to do this is an enemy of man
| kind; he would sell the kingdom OF
heaven for mess of pottage.
| In order to maintain the liberties OF
the people we must preserve their
homes, and we therefore demand laws In
the several states exempting the homes
of the people from taxation absolutely
in sum not less than $4,000, and a per-
sonal property exemption of not less
make up for this reduction of taxation
we favor an income, inheritance and
other like taxes.
| with malice toward none, with char
ity to all, with devotion to the right, as
| God gives us to see the right" we com
| nit our cause to the hearts and consci-
ence of the American people.
| RULES OF ORGANIZATION.
RULES OF ORGANIZATION ADOPTED
| AT CINCINNATI, OHIO, SEPT.
| g. 1898.
| l. All delegate conventions of the
Peoples Party for making nominations
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PLEDGE.

Having read the
hret to
O of
O
Pc
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In writing 60 0avert1sefD In this
napeP OUP v0trOus will confer . favor
~ say1ng that they saW ane o4vSse
1ta3Aent In the AeNrcSeRf141vos
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Balance due trea Surer

Balance due treasurer. ............... IS. Sc
1t will be seen from this balance that
your treasurer has payed out. for which he
has receipts, $3.50 more than he has re-
ceived. The reason for this is that the
treasurer has paid bills in advance Of
funds, believing funds would come in to
make the amount good. 1t will be seen from
this report that but one man, Judge Kelly,
of ST. Paul, ever sent his campaign contri-
buttons direct to me. Just how much the
secretary has received can only be correctly
estimated when he makes his itemized re-
port. Very respectfully.
A. H. NELSON. Treasurer
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those I know in other precincts and expect
to hear from them soon. F. H.