The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-29

that extensive work of that kind will
take the party out from under his in
fluence. l am suspicious that there are
some in our party, true Populists at
heart (some editors, even), who are
still tipping and blinking before the
senator.-T. H. Garfield, in Missouri
World.
Tucson, Ariz.
"Straight Populists are prepared for
the worst. They have a ticket in the
field that will give way to any straight
Populists the rank and file may choose,
but will not give way to anyone else.
The Cincinnati convention placed
ticket in the field to remove all doubt
as to whether the Populists would run
a candidate of their own. Some POpu-
lists thought such action should be
taken as early as last year, in order to
save the reform movement others could
not see the necessity of so early con-
vention. But now the wisdom OF the
Cincinnati convention, of calling it and
it's action, must be apparent to most all
Populists. Surely all Populists must be
glad that we have ticket in the field
that will not be hauled down; that
though the rank and file may change
one or both names on the ticket, at the
referendum vote, the flag of straight
Populism will not be hauled down. 1t
is up to stay up.'-Missouri World.
When William Morris was asked If he
would be the poet laureate of England,
he replied: NO. But he added: Il
will be the poet laureate of sweating
men,"
"There were no signs of discord, Gre
ated by hirelings of goldbugs, a mid
road, diversion. Whoever breeds dis
cord in the Peoples party shows himself
to be traitor to reform principle.
There seems to have been none of that
class in the Pennsylvania convention"
BY Maj Hotchkiss, "the Degenerate"
in National Republican.
''Why did not the Republican tell it's
readers that it met as fusion contin-
gent of the Peoples party of Pennsylva-
MIA, and instructed it's delegates to the
national convention in disguise. The
man who acts like an honest Populist,
for Populist principles, is characterized
by traitors such as Hotchkiss as being
in the pay of the goldbug oligarchy,
but it is done to cover up the tracks of
those who, like him, have befouled their
nest in betraying the Peoples party
into the Democratic party. Such men
as the editor of the Republican, Maj.
Bowler, Ringdahl and Gibbs have been
paid their price, and now are gloating
over the destruction they have wrought
in the ranks of reform. BY Capt.
Lowe, in the Jeffersonian.
There was perfect harmony in the
Populist party until the pie-hunters
transformed it into a Democratic an
mex. While it may be, and is probably
true, that our old friend Maj. Hotchkiss
says that there are black sheep in the
Populist party, it won't improve their
morals to turn them into the corral
with the Democratic goats. BY Hon.
L. G. Long, in the Initiator.
The reform editors from Texas,
Georgia and other states are positive
that there can be no fusion in the South
in 1900, for the reason that the Demo-
Gratis won't have it, and the Populists
won't consider it with either party. The
main strength of the Populist party is
in the South. The Northern Populists
must either abandon the Populists of
the South or they must abandon the
Democracy Of the North. 1t is one or
the other.-Minnesota Jeffersonian.
The sworn report of the Republican
state campaign committee contains an
item of $4,000 as a contribution to the
Democratic campaign fund (the Becker
campaign). The Populists tried to en-
tighten the people on the dark and dubi-
GUS ways of the twin hypocrisies. but
were met by the combined forces of Re-
publicans and Democrats, with the howl
OF cranks, liars, etc. The program was
carried out to the letter. We know Just
what part James J. Hill took IN THE
LAST CAMPAIGN. We have the trait