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

tween MIN and Tammany HalI-be-
tween the West and South CT you care
to put it that way), and the North. y
That's what Croker said long weeks ago,
That's what he puts in print today.
This paper has no ambition beyond the
general aspiration that inheres to all
good Democrats. 1t hopes for peace
East, West, North. South. At this crisis
1t may only say as it said six months
ago. Its words then are it's words now.
All who will may read, and If the party
guides by what follows, Bryan will be
victor in the next campaign.
TO THE DEMOCRACY.
This paper said six months ago: Good
times are with us. If they haven't
pushed their banners into every corner
OF the land, they will. 1t is a matter
only of time-short time. And they
have sealed the mouth of Sixteen to One
and for the present, at least, let down
the senate lid on finance as a question.
With prosperity in it's lap, no public
will change it's scheme of finance 1t is
essentially hard-luck movement, not
possible in any glow Of better days.
Not an Israelite would have followed
Moses out of Egypt had times been
good; not peasant gone with Wat
Tyler and Jack Straw to London town.
And so with Sixteen to One. It must
be set aside, for it has set itself aside.
The arguments which upheld it have de-
parted, and the situations which sum-
moned it and would have been solved by
it, have faded away. No voice of pos
sibility will in 1900 ask for Sixteen to
One, and unless people desires it, you
cannot make them take it as a gift.
Speaking to Bryan, this paper, contin-
uing, said: In 1896 the Chicago plat
form was that which the country want
ed and what the hour claimed. 1t was
the natural message from the thought
to the thing. But that was three years
ago, and much water will run under a
bridge in three years. Both the thought
and the thing of politics are ever muta-
BILE. And today, from what they were,
both have had a change. The thought
and the thing of 1900 will need new
message and modified platform-ONE
TO GIVE, AND THE OTHER TO GET;
and you as leader should bend yourself
and broaden yourself to meet the party
needs. There be issues galore. There
are the income tax, and the inheritance
tax, and the election of senators and
dent) by the people. There are a wiser
tariff to strive for, and an economy to
strike for. There are the trusts to de-
stroy, lest they destroy us. THERE
ARE THE GREENBACKS AND THE
NATIONAL BANKS TO WIPE OUT,
AND A NEW BANKING SYSTEM AND
A NEW CURRENCY SCHEME TO IN
VENT AND PUT IN THEIR PLACES. |
And as we all abhor rogues and pity |
fools, there is the Republican war rec
ord to attack. The Republicans were |
dragged reluctantly to Spanish war, and |
the declaration was even made by DEM
ocratic (Turpie's) resolution. But when
war was on, then the harpies fluttered |
and the jackals gathered, and the rob-
ber crew about Mckinley began to fill |
their pockets. The storys too long to |
find place and space in this. It reeks
Of villainy, this story of the war, from
the purchase of the Merrimac, at thrice
her value, and her subsequent sly sink
ing to conceal the fraud, on, on, on, to
Algerism and poisoned beef which slew
a thousand soldiers for every one hum
1red that fell before the foe. There be
oceans of issues. THE PIRACIES OF
THE REPUBLICANS ALONE SHOULD
THEIR DEFEAT. In the three
months of actual war they stole every
government thing but the back fence,
and today, with Imperialism, they're
to steal that.
TO WESTERN DEMOCRATS.
Can you blame a New York Democ-
racy seeking to save itself? Do you,
proceed by any other rule?
Be wise, then, and look at a whole
country. Be wise concerning regions;
1on't be misled by a map. Grover
Cleveland was decisively the fool of his
lay because he could see nothing but
he East. See to it that you do not par
lllel his assininty by seeing nothing but
he West. Croker declares for Bryan
md for you. Are you free to accept his
lid? Or are you wiling to give this
tate to the McKinleyites, and leave it
aptive to the bow and spear Of Hanna?
Within the year, the local New York
Democracy opposing a popular idol
straight from the front and NitE the
'lood of battle fresh upon him, cut tsthe
republicans to $1,000. Had there been
10 San Juan hill, there would have been
10 Roosevelt, and the banners of De-
nocracy would be breeze-fung from the
tatehouse aagstaff today. New York
ends 19 Democratic men to the next
ongress, as against six in the one lust
losed. Where else was that sy
qualed, or where was it approac&de
Does one imagine with that record th6t
he Empire Democracy is to be sold ta&0
he Egypt Of politics by it's brethien.
7ithout protest. struggle or apnsef You
rgue vilely il you make such conclu-
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