The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-19
Organization
Department.

H. B. Fay, Washington avenue south
Minneapolis, Mimi
CAN AUGHT BUT THE FAST
APPROACHING GRAVE UNITE TRUE
e.ss MEN?
THEN AND SOON LYING TONGUES
WILL ALL BE STILL.
Thousands crowded Minneapolis, Oct
IL, mainly to welcome the brave, gener.
GUS hearts, who freely poured the vigol
of their young lives into the tropics of 8
far distant race, rather than to chez,
the presidential puppet of the money
power. bowling almost unnoticed, like
an automaton in their rear. Oh, Nc
kinley, turn your bayonets on the plu-
tocratic robbers of all the natural rights
of both Americans and Filipinos alike,
Oh, Bryan. thou fallen idol, would thou
had possessed the Lincoln greatness of
soul to have proclaimed IAN independ-
ent party, entirely controlled by the
people, Is better than the Democratic
party, ruled by the same plutocrats that
own Mckinley! We have sadly heard
you declare principles If possible,
COIN at any rate"
Therefore, both old parties competing
for the same favors from the same
trusts, what is your duty, my reader
Is any duty YOURS? Shall the great
mass Of ou. voters, almost as Ignorant
or Indifferent as Filipinos. politically.
be confused, forever misled by so simple
trick as the change of a name
"Greenback," then Democrat, 'sFarm-
ers' Alliance" or Peoples Party" then
Democrat" again?
The president was hurried to the ele-
CANT mansion of Mr.. Lowry, our street
car magnate. But in the procession on
foot were the grayhaired veterans of
the civil war. they who freed black
race from one form of slavery; their
sallow faces, trembling steps, ragged
and soiled clothes, sadly testifying that
their march. probably to many the last,
has been like that described in the fol-
lowing letters. a profitless, hopeless life
struggle, under the aristocratic "stars
and stripes" every thread of which be- |
longs to the industrial lords of produce !
.:on and distribution.
And the smiling, popular Democrat.
John Lind, in the carriage back of the |
president, who, for moment, seriousl-5
expects him, any more than Mckinley
TO say to such men as Sir Thomas Low
ry, the railroads are rightfully the peo-
pies; you cannot longer own them;
you shall not have the privilege to tax
the people through them"
Those hints of indorsing Lind's adj
are venal bosh, gentle
men.
Again, l ask you, reader, is there arv
duty at all for you to perform, NOW?
Yes. 1t is actively, publicly, immedi-
ately, to ORGANIZE CLUBS; or very.
very soon, your chance for many years
20 capture through the polls what JUST
y belongs to you will be lost.
Populists, the enemy, by persuading
men in your own ranks to obscure the
'aat a!ifel ence between fusionist, like
lind, and a true Populist, squarely
tandine on the Omaha platform, is now
leleatlng you. Such men are refusing
@ take one single step ahead, by organ
zing on the Cincinnati plan, even in
heir own precincts. They are blocking
our progress. {
llnd has persuaded them that the
way to save" CD the Peoples party is
ot to put up head for our ticket next I
ear; that since the radicals are deter '
nlned to have a party, to render it
lerely nominal party, by postponlng c
IL organization and campaign work In J
hat scheme the Democratic party Is to t
congratulated on having so shrewd t
n advance agent as Lind But lest
Honest John think it is wake he is
t, let me assure him him the heart of
he Populist corpse still beats, bedad.
IS going to pull itself all out of the
lsion coffin. and give the ''guvnor" f
,rrible kicking, sor It's the Demo-
attic party that needs all the gold mix q
Tres your office holders and railroads
ire to uselessly burn on it to keep it h
i've. tt
So, my friends, it is better to march v
foot, after the worlds historic no.
emen, into heaven, than ride in pal p
e car with the rabble for short year
two. b.
Men of the South, like B. w. Nichols.
Oleoak, KY, are doing WE'LL Men of q
lnnesota, like j. o. Johnson, of Foss-
n, are blind, are not leading their fell ia
W industrial slaves out of bondage.
Where do you stand, reader? Will pt
u send report of your own locality,
answer to my questions? AS A. C. 10
lrrett writes, your answers will be
and keynotes to many points," Or. sa
IL you neglect to do even that, also re-
Sc nickel for our organization &c
mphlets, decline to engage any speak ce
for me to send to your town; or, like tn
R. Johnson, refuse even to send free
'orm literature? Will you only look TT
for SELF, sulk and grumble? IA
IN that event, have manly. honesty &c
ough to openly admit at once that
pulism is farce; that martial. pomn fic