The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-04-05
THE TIDE HAS TURNED.

Agitate and organize in your precinct.
Then, stranger things have happened
than that we win in 1900. When amid
the confusion and smoke OF the past two
or three years, men ran hither and thith-
er, panic stricken, we knew what we were
about, when, unmoved, we chung to the
Omaha platform. Be the tempest never
SO wild the floating raft at last finds
shore Colonel Park, OF Texas, the state
that stood most true in &C. has spoken
the Alpha and Omega. He says, that
with Our referendum club system the
Omaha platform on which we, the sole
occupants, remain, presents everything
the great majority of our people now
want Fools would we be, to desert that
to which the tickle crowd must return.
that even the Republicans of Kanabec
county, are ready to break ranks and
come to US.
The National Executive Committee APP
pointed by Colonel Park knows what is
expected OF it and proposed to do it.
Where there is will there is way They
know there is high, an immortal honor,
in store for everyone browning the peo-
pie at the close of this nineteenth cent
ury. In this short life that honor tran
sends all Others To the men, who to-
day in Chicago and New York, are open
ly avowing that democracy is failure,
that the Cower of ,,,ooa,, ,oJ e+,od;,o .,
armies shall crush our own people, we
freely reply, NEVER. 1t would be so,
were Bryan, representing false democ-
racy, to come into power. He cannot.
That would thoroughly dishearten the
people, by failing to give them what they
expected, to such degree that success
full reform organization could not be
again formed for at least decade.
Every man Of us has but to give a
sensible. quiet. little knock at precinct
doors, spread all over our country, in our
different sub divisions of work. AND
THE VICTORY is WON. SHOOT
AT SIGHT EVERY MAURAUDER
PROWLING IN DARK CORNERS
OF YOUR PRECINCTS, SELFISH
LY Sinking HIS SHARE OF
THE FIGHT.
The true Peoples Party men can get
along very well, Mr.. Butler, without any
more of your conventions. thanbk you
The fypocritical Democratic party can
not depend on single Populist vote
again If you don't believe it, send a
nickel for our state and national plan of
organization. You will then see for your
self
We are OF the people, and to the people
will return the moment we fail to do our
duty. So the precinct clubs will order.
This is not spread eagle speech. Duty
begins at home. Our own Ions are
awake. Read what NJ. P. Moran writes
about his club of thirty noble men. Yes,
and to our brothers east, west and south
OF us, we ask, can you not hear the in
spring voice of that brave old soldier of
ours, Hon. L. c. Long, Magnolia, Mimi,
the hero of many battles, not the least
OF which was that of last fall, when as our
leader holding the nomination for GOV
ernor, he kept our little Spartan band to-
gether against tremendous odds. We
ask you now to put forward better or a
truer soldier in any of your states. Read
what he says this week We assure YOU
he VIII give the enemies of mankind a
very different battle from now on to 1000
than last fall. You can trust him.
You can not only trust and follow him,
but you can now and today address a pos
tai to him, on which you can say. 81 am
an old friend of yours, Mr.. Long, am
glad you are publishing lively Mid-road
Populist paper. Send me sample copy"
For my part l am determined to make
good use of one dollar by converting it
into the true paper of this soldier, farmer
and editor, who knows how to write and
speak, SO that even plutocracy. empow-
cred by the venal lying public press, fears
him.
When Napoleon first returned from ex-
lie, his magic name was sufficient to
arouse the French people So, next year,
the name. Peoples Party, will not fail
again to arouse the dormant energies of
the American people-and it will not be a
Waterloo either.
Mr.. Hungry Bellied Ofice-seeker, our
people have not lost sleep over your dis
graceful trades. The mass of them have
not even heard OF your incessant schemes.
But when they 60 to the polls in 1000,
they will see the names of two old parties
that have fooled them for thirty years
They will also see the name of the Peo-
pies Party that means everything to them,
Independent, of entangling alliances; and.
unlike you, they will not hesitate how to
vote.
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CLUBS.
NO.
E. J. White, chairman; Nov. 10. 1903,
Morriston, Rice county, Mimi, secretary,
Frank Barnett; treasurer, VIM Leibrenz.