The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03


and Nightmares, he trots out speci-
men that he calls "loud-mouthed
vociferous cuss," and the reader won
ders whether this one is dad" to all
the other cusses.
Following is the article in full:
STIRRING UP THE ANIMALS.
The meanest traitors to Populism are the hire
lings of plutocracy who claim to be mid readers
II alive. we will be there to protect the party
against the treason Of Mr.. Donnelly and his
following.
With regret 1t Is here admitted that all we
nss ws Or SAID IT,, to Mr.
been an objection except where Mr.. Donnely
SoSa not be a. the front Then his services
roadfsm with Mr.. Hill in the background.-Na-
tional Republican.
We have known Major Hotchkiss, editor
of the National Republican. for well on to
40 years; have always admired his genius
and believed him to be true ref0rmer; but
when he begins to spread it on so thick and
rub it in so hard. 1t has tendency to stir
Us to wrath. However. when we think of
his snow white hair and grim and wrinkled
visage, our wrath is changed to sorrow to
think he is so easily beguiled by the Dem
lilah of modern Democracy. In the charges
set forth by the major Ourself must be in
cluded. OF course he has always intimated
that We were an innocent, guileless ignO-
ramus led astray by traitors who so far sur
passed us intellectually that we could not
comprehend their awful villany. But If to
be true to the principles of Populism and
the party which first promulgated them,
and to the men in whose brain they were
born, constitutes treason, then we deserve
to be branded according to our capabilities
as the most blood stained traitor in the out
fit. No doubt the major is correct when he
says the Road party has some bad men.
so have all parties. Christ had his Judas.
and all parties, denominations and sects
have been damned by the same breed who
represent the articulates of the human
species. But when the major charges or in
sinuates that his highness Jim Hill was
behind the Mid-Road movement in the in
terests of Eustis and in opposition to John
Lind, he makes a statement which he can
not prove. In the convention of June 49,
which the major has always designated as
the trump" 'bolter" convention, con-
vention which we Endorsed and of which we
were chairman, and where spoke against
nominating a ticket, but favored the cleo
ton OF committee to see that the Peoples
party name went on the ballot, we were op
posed by loud voiced, vociferous cuss who
would hear to nothing but the nomination
of a full Mid-Road ticket. And now for the
delectation of the major and all concerned,
we propose to trot out one Of the ghosts,
'hOpgoblns, nightmares" of which we
spoke on former occasion For obvious
reasons which all concerned will at once
comprehend and appreciate, we dislike, at
this time, to uncover the nakedness of this
skeleton, but the truth Of history demands
that We turn on the light.
During the campaign of 1898. the afore-
said loud mouthed individual who demanded
a Mid Road ticket in the convention of June
n n1Ir ho
clear from Minneapolis to talk what he
did not care to write" He said the jig
was up; that the Mid Readers were in the
soup; that DR.. Johnson had gone over to
Lind. and all the Scandinavian elment
would follow at his heels; that he. himself.
was working for Lind and that he had a
free pass on the Great Northern received
personally and individually from Jim
Hills own hand. He further said that j.
J. Hill told him that he was in favor of
Lind and opposed to Eustis. And to cap
the climax, as a sort of benediction, he in
timated procuring us pass from his
majesty J. ]. HILL provided we would cast
our lot with the orphans and said he
was in a position to guarantee in case
John Lind was elected-which he was sure
would come to pass-that we would not be
forgotten in the councils of the sanhedrim.
These are facts-facts to which, with one
hand on our heart and the other on the
Bible. with the awful doom of the world
as portrayed in Caesars Column" looming
before us, g,-zing down the abyss of time
to the eternal world. we swear and affirm
to be true. James J. Hill may have been
behind the Mid Road movement; if so, his
his subtlety and ingenuity excites our most
profound admiration, and to his satraps and
minions, designing tricksters, double dyed
traitors and carrion vultures, does Mai.
Hotchkiss, Maj. Bowler, Rngdahl, Gibbs
ct al. owe their present position and the
7n1l re ;c
necessity for us to champion the cause of
Mr.. Donnelly. He is able to fight his own
battle. But the fact remains that he has
been consistent in his course, and while
the tadpoles in the human frog pond have
traduced, malgned and abused him. he has
stood immOvable and mistaken for the
cause of justice and humanity, and time
and posterity will vindicate his action
Mr. E. Cummings, staunch Populist
OF Fillmore county and delegate to the
June 18th convention, commenting up
on Mr.. Longs article, writes the Pres
ton Courier:
Rarely has wretched. perverse and con-
scienceless humanity treated one of Truth s
most ardent and able champions more basely
and insultingly than did the plotters for
fusion in the June 18th convention treat
1gnatius Donnelly. Mr. Donnelly readily
and heartily accepted the truly honorable
cooperation plan presented by Fillmore
county's nOblest son, Thomas J. MeiShen.
But the OwenDobbyn crowd spurned it,
spat upon it and howled for Jim Hill"
And as for the even more despicable char
acters who forced honest men upon a sec
ond ticket and then deserted and betrayed
them. find nothing which more tersete an
completely expresses my opinion of them
than the following couplet from Pope S
Homer:
Men like these we shall not find
In all the miscreant racn - human kind
Yours very truly,
W. E. CUMMINGS.
If readers of Mr.. Longs article fail
to recognize the animals by either de-
scription or smell, they will be allowed