The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-01-11

Organization
Department.
(Direct letters for this column to Dr. H. B..
Fay. Al Washington avenue south, Minne-
apolis Mimi
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE.
MILTON PARK, Chairman, Dallas. Texas.
FRANK BURKITT, Okalona, Miss, for Ala
bama, Mississippi and Tennessee.
10. A. PARKER, Louisville, KY, for Ken
lucky, Virginia, West Virginia. North Car
DINA and Maryland.
]. o. label, Petersburg Mich, for Wiscon-
sin, Michigan. Ohio. Indiana. Illinois, Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington.
L. C. BATEMAN, Auburn, Me-, for Maine,
Massachusetts,, Vermont, Connecticut, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, Del
aware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
DIR. H. B. FAY Minneapolis, Mimi, for Min
nesota,- North and South Dakota Idaho,
Iowa, Wyoming and Montana.
4 PAUL H. DIXON Chillicothe, Mo-, for Kan
sas, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah, Missouri and
Colorado.
CLARENCE NUGENT, Stephensville, Tex,
for Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Marietta, Ca, for
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Populists living in the above states
should address their respective organ
I izers regarding the work in their diff
ferent states.
We are getting requests for referen-
dunn ballots from states widely separat-
ed as Maine and California. We have
authority to issue them only in the
states of our jurisdiction.
1t is our humble opinion that every
state in the union should now do what
Minnesota has done. There should not
be weeks delay in putting it into
execution.
This is our plan. Let true Populists
in every state write to their respective
organizer on the national organization
committee to forward the address of
their own state organizer, or organic
ers. The latter are to secure county
organizers for their states. These men
are then to have blank ballots printed
to be scattered through every county.
The ballots should suggest no names,
but leave blanks for the voters them
selves to insert any names they desire;
for president, vice-president, president
ial electors, following with blanks for
such state officers or congressman as
will be voted for next fall, but not in
GLIDING county officers.
n,, ho1 IN a.
are headed:
Peoples Party Nominating Referen-
dunn Ballot las adopted in Omaha, July
4, 1892, and reiterated at Cincinnati
Sept s, 1885,"
At the bottom of each ballot is
printed:
Name of voter
In own handwriting
P. O. Address, Town.
Street No. ~
county 80. Observation-Disclosures.
Name or No. of Precinct Club .........
.......... Number County. .........
OIdIc lOWn.
Range ............
Thus Minnesota will before long posi-
lively and finally declare herself by
direct vote.
The will of the majority will be simp-
] ly IN FORM asserted in referendum
conventions" We will send delegates
to the national convention" But aside
from aiding our Southern comrades in
organizing the convention our delegates
will be delegates" only in name. They
. must cast their vote only formally as
commanded by the referendum votes
now being taken. Discussion of this
subject in our annual meeting disclosed
the fact that we ALL to man, are as
welded to direct legislation as R. s..
Thompson, of Springfield, Ohio, or our
own Paul Dixon, of Missouri But we
also feel sure that to get it we must
once more and FINALLY meet as
agreed in a national convention but
with above mentioned limitations. In
our own state we shall not attend the
conventions called by fusion Demo-
CIdIS, UuI III d udIlOudl CONVENTION IL
becomes necessary to do so Tin appear
ance) in order to obtain united action
between different states, and especially
because we feel that we are able to fore
tell that other states are going to do
what we have done, and so the national
convention will prove to be what our
state convention is, merely formal
referendum convention to officially
declare the result of what the referen-
dunn votes had long previously made
manifest.
So let us vigorously, tremendously
push on to this end Otherwise old
party methods will win through our sin
of omission. Talk don't count. Act!
Because we put into practice direct
legislation we don't see the necessity of
giving up the Omaha platform. We be-
lieve that the great majority of all
voters, outside of the two old party ma
chimes, are ready to stand on it. AS
it was already Endorsed by millions,
we don't retreat over that ground. We
bring the means of getting the Omaha