The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-31

Organization
Department.
(Send communications for this col
umn to DR.. H. B. Fay, Al Washington
avenue south, Minneapolis, Mimi
The Verdict, Bryan's official organ in
New York, in a most open and shame
less editorial, admits and commends the
deal between Tammany and Bryan for
harmonizing all off1ce-seekers.
This destroys the last pretense of flu
sionists for Populists to join the Demo-
cratic party. To refuse NOW to aid
the IMMEDIATE reorganization of the
Peoples party. by AT ONCE forming
clubs on our referendum plan, proves
a man either political fool or knave.
/ say it deliberately.
Bryan left free trade for free silver;
left Tom Watson for an Eastern banker;
leaves his true friends in Kentucky
for Goebelism; leaves free silver for
Croker, Wall street and the Harrison
ring in Chicago; left citizens life for
a colonelcy WILL LEAVE ANY
THING ito get there" Minnesota flu
sionists are not quite so clever as Bry-
an. They naturally let thepemocrats
do their thinking for them.
It costs Bryan, the capitalist politi-
clan, $50 (unless he stands in with the
railroads he refuses to nationalize), to
travel in luxury from New York city,
where he receives his orders from Gro
ker, to Indianapolis, Ind, except where
necessary to break up the Peoples
party. 1t would require a workingman,
saving IL cents week, eight years to
pay for this railway journey. Yet many
workers will be silly enough to vote for
Bryan, when the NOISE of the cam
paign, THAT PROVES NOTHING, be-
gins, instead of advocating with Popu-
lists the naturalization of railroads
and all other monopolies.
THE OTHER SIDE REPRESENTED
DE GRAY, Hughes Co., S. D.
DR.. H. B. Fay, Minneapolis, Mimi
Dear Sir: Your pamphlet and letter
to me, of recent date, has been carefully
read, and l am quite sure that you have
over-estimated the evil design of the re-
form Democrats, and also those you
call fusionists. True, the fusionists,
who wish to fuse simply for the sake of
gaining an office for the profit it brings,
are scarcely worthy of the confidence
of any libertyloving man. But the
men who are so tenacious to keep the
Mid-Roaders (so-called) to the front as
leaders of the reform movement, for
the same reason, are still less to be
trusted. See where H. L. Loucks has
fallen to. Simply because he could not
be boosted to the position he wanted,
and because he was SO loaded with
prejudice against the old Democratic
party that his small amount of charity
for them wouldn't allow him 20 see any
good in any of them; hence his ground
less slurs about w. J. Bryan, a man far
his superior in ali the more noble quail
tiles that go to make a good and great
man. Bryan cherishes every principle
that we Pops do; besides, he is the
chosen leader of at least three fourths
of the reformers or anti-imperialists
And, by the way, the question of imperi-
alism is bound to come to the front in
our next presidential campaign, whether
we wish it or not
The time is past to decide whether
the Peoples party shall live or not.
H. L. Loucks struck the first death blow
to it when he wrote his TRADE against
our national chairman (Butler). Then
they who echoed his howl, and finally
called the Cincinnati convention, and
there voted to bolt from the lead of the
national central committee, are the ones
who destroyed the prestige of the Peo
pies party. And all that these boilers
can say or do will never restore the
fallen fabric. Loucks' open traitorous
conduct ought to open the eyes of the
most blind, provided they are not also
governed by selfish motives, in their eff
fort to preserve the party name, to use
it as a steppingstone to desired pO
sition of profit. The MidRoaders $50
called) can never revive the party they
themselves have slain; and it is but
folly and child's play to assume to
grieve over it's dying frame. No band
of men that will take the course the
boilers of the Peoples party did, need
think for one moment that the true
lovers of reform will follow them in any
great numbers. No. They are looking
for the welfare Of the masses, not just
the boosting of few would-be party
leaders to a good thing, only to fail at
last. True, Butler and some others did
some things that we're not just the
proper thing to do; but l fully believe