The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-04-26
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OUR EXCHANGES.
GOOD FOR THE MANKATO
JOURNAL"
1t says as follows:
After congratulating F. NJ. Currier on
his Populist vote, it says:
I'VE predict right here that there will
be Populist not Demo-Pop concern
in this county next year.
Bryan is continually prating about JET
ferson In his day, Jefferson was all
right but he is quite dead now We
should LOOK FORWARD, not back
ward. PROGRESSION and not retro
gression should be the cry. Our ideal
is to come and is not in the misty past.
But then come to think Of it, what does
the average Democrat care about Jeffer-
son? 1t is the spoils of Office he seeks.
Every Populist in the state should
sound the cry of mo more fusion"
While we have an admiration for Bryan
yet it must be admitted that he is lead
ing the reformers just as Allen 6. Thur
man led the greenbackers into Democ-
racy and destruction The Peoples Party
is party of progression, and will some
day be the dominant party of this coun-
try. Get into line.
We are not prophet, but will wager
hat Of last years existance that hereafter
the Peoples Party will stay in-the-mid
dle-of-the-road. All signs point that
way."-Mankato Journal, Mankato,
MINI.
"When the politicians and money
mongers want to destroy the Peoples
Party they always get papers and parties
to temporarily pretend conversion to our
principles, until they get control OF our
party and destroy it, or they divide the
friends of popular government into war
ring camps.
Without New York the Democratic
party is helpless In Chicago, Harrison,
a gold man, is in control. In Missouri
the legislature refused to hear Bryan
speak, and in several western states the
Democrats have refused to work with
Populists as in Iowa ana Kansas. In
Nebraska, the Democrats are about even
ly divided between gold and silver. In
this division we see the reelection of
Mckinley.
What is the meaning of all this Popu-
list doctrine of Democratic newspapers,
especially in large cities? The order has
gone forth that the masses must be kept
out of the Peoples party Can you be-
lieve these great newspapers. owned and
controlled by gold men and plutocrats,
are in favor of the reform of the Peo-
pies party? Is it possible these leaders
have been suddenly converted? If the
people trust these politicians again, in
stead of forming precinct clubs on the
Cincinnati plan, and ruling themselves,
making their representatives servants,
they will be disappointed, as was the case
with the greenbackers and the Alliance
movement Bryan said in '92, he was in
favor of these principles. but in 90 he
worked against them. Now he is advo-
eating them again. If he and his fol-
lowers are true converts they should adj
vocate the election of Barker and Don
nelly, but if they are working as poll
ticans for their own benefit they will
work against Barker and Donnelly. How
can you leaders expect the people to be-
lieve you are real converts to Populism
when in all your acts you have been such
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bitter enemies of these people? Form
Popuist clubs now, and rule yourselves.
Dalton Herald, Whitfield Co., Ga.
Butler, the non-descript Republican,
Democrat, was made chairman of the ma
tional committee in 'o6 by men like HIM
self Milton Park was made chairman
at Nashville by the people themselves.
Now, which is entitled to the confidence
and respect of the people?
AS long as men who are unsound, or
plutocratc papers, are allowed to creep
into our party, the people will be traded
by the traitors every time. Eternal vigil
lance is the price of obtaining Populism.
The Peoples World, Fla.
Since Milton Park has issued call to
action in which he ignored the existence
of Marion Butler and all other fusion
lists, there is more spirit manifested in the
the fusion deal of 1896. 1t begins to
look now as if there was going to be
general awakening all along the line and
a thorough reorganization of the Peo-
pies party.-West Plains Quill, Howell
Co., Mo.
There were 217 millionaires in the last
congress. = The environments of
the insane are as delightful as music. fine
buildings, pictures. theaters. books. ETC.,
can make them. You, on the outside. are
not crazy, yet how are you treated? How
many times has your wife and little ones
enjoyed the theaters, beheld beautiful pic
lures, listened to music? Who do you
really think is the most crazy-the poor
devil in the asylum, or you outside, who
insist on maintaining system that but
increases the numbers of victims, and
forces those who are yet whole to exist
in worse and worse conditions?
Several thousand men came to this state
from Minnesota the past week searching
for homes. Is it possible all the land is
occupied in Minnesota? Or do they
think capital is less avaricious in Wash
ington? While our climate is glorious
and the natural resources unlimited, our
Minnesota emigrants will find that all
those good things will but increase the
ferocity and greed of the capitalist
beast."-"The Spirit of TO-" Tacoma
Wash.
whether American capitalism ex-
pands or not, American wage workers