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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26
DOING AWAY WITH THE CONVEN.
TION.
The st. Paul Globe says:

TON.
The st. Paul Globe says:
Some Is years ago the Democratic party
rose up and put an end to what had come
to be known in politics as king Caucus. ,.
That was simply the designation which was
given to the practice which prevailed Of the
policy and nominees of the party being die
tated by few leading men at Washington
The congressional caucus was the means
whereby was determined in those days who
should be nominated by the party for pres
idential Office. 1t fulfilled the office which
is now assumed by the national party con-
ventiOn. 1t was suppressed because it was
abused and because Is came to be universal
ly recognized that 1t was nothing whatever
save machine through which to register
the will OF few leading spirits of the party.
The question is now presenting itself to
many minds whether or not the national
convention Is not destined to meet the same
fate which befel the congressional caucus
OF the first quarter of this century No in
telligent person who read the proceedings
OF the Philadelphia convention, no matter
how good a Republican he may be, can truth
fully deny the statement that that body was
conducted and controlled throughout it's en-
tire session by Senator Hanna, of Ohio, and
the few men who enjoy his confidence in
politics. 1t was in no sense and to no degree
whatever a deliberative body. Indeed,-it did
not pretend to be anything of the kind. The
nominee Of the party was already decided
upon. The platform on which that candi-
date now stands was brought into the con-
vention with the O. X. of Mr.. Hanna placed
upon It. 1t was adopted. Even IL it was
thought advisable by a few little marplots
VINO had their own miserable schemes to
advance to suppress portions Of that plat
FORM. Its adoption by the plat
form committee and by the convention itself
was none the less a mere perfunctionary
performance, gone through as a part of the
machine operation.
In that convention everything was timed
as by clockwork. The papier mache ele-
plant had been ordered and built some weeks
before the holding of the convention. Most
OF the work of the convention as well as
most OF the enthusiasm displayed, was pro-
duced automatically. Everything was ar
ranged to the small details and the scene
shifting was done as plainly with the knowl-
edge OF the audience as it is done in anv
kheater In the land tonight.
In Kansas City the same control by a few
men was apparent. Mr.. Bryan's bust was
made use Of something after the fashion Of
the Republican papier mache elephant The
nominees Will was the supreme law. and the
convention was little more than the mere
agency through which that will was regis
tered. There was genuine enthusiasm there;
and the proceedings OF the convention proved
tho tremendous earrestn2ss of the great
body Of the delegates. There was a degree
of Dsoo3neaees and spcntsusety IN Kansas
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26
CINCINNATI PLATFORM

The Peoples party of the United
States, assembled in national conven-
ton this 10th day of May, 1900, at
, firming our mistaken belief in the
, cardinal tenets of the Peoples
party, as set forth in the Omaha
platform, and pledging ourselves
anew to continued advocacy of those
grand principles of human liberty
until right shall triumph over might
and love over greed, do adopt and
proclaim this declaration Of faith:
L. We demand the initiative and
referendum and the imperative man
date, or such changes of existing
and fundamental and statute law as
will enable the people in their sOver-
eign capacity to propose and compel
the enactment Of such laws as they
desire; to reject such as they deem
injurious to their interests, and to
, recall unfaithful public servants.
2. We demand the public owner
ship and operation of those means of
communication, transportation and
production, which the people may
elect, such as railroads, telegraph
ana telephone lines, coal mines, etc.
3. The land, including all nat
ural sources of wealth, is heritage
, OF the people, and should not be
monopolized for speculative purposes
and alien ownership Of land should
, be prohibited. All land now held by
, railroads and other corporations In
, excess of their actual needs, and all
lands now owned by aliens should be
reclaimed by the government and
held for actual settlers only.
4. A scientific and absolute paper
money, based upon the entire wealth
and population of the nation, not re-
deemable in any specific commodity.
but made full legal tender for all
debts. and receivable for all taxes
and public dues. and issued by the
government only, without the inter-
vention Of banks, and in sufficient
quantity to meet the demands Of
commerce, is the best currency that
can be devised; but until such a
financial system is secured, which we
} shall press for adoption, we will IA
vor the free and unlimited coinage of
, both silver and gold at the legal "a
) ito of 16 to 1.
5. We demand the levy and COL
lection of a graduated tax on in
comes and inheritances, and con-
stitutional amendment to secure the
same, II necessary.
6. We demand the election of pres
} ident, vice. president, federal judges
) and United States senators by direct
) vote of the people.
Z. We are opposed to trusts and
} declare the contention between the
} old parties on the trust and monop-
oily question is a sham battle, and
) that no solution Of this mighty prob
lem is possible without the adoption
of the principles of public ownership
) of public utilities.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26

old Straddle-B Bug Weaver will bear wit
ness.
That your man, Twitchell, in declaring
that we Populists believe in Individual
ism in any class of utilities, does not
voice the unanimous sentiment of the
Midroad Popu1ist, is verified in the con-
tents of a goodly number of private and
confidential letters to me from some of
the upper strata of the Midroad Pop
ulists, thanking and complimenting mo
for the communication published in the
Representative June Z, which has in
spired me to continue the discussion Of
the Socialist question through your col
umns, with your consent.
l reiterate that 1 speak on behalf Of
the 81 900 Midroaders in this state, and
in their name l ask that you draw your
line between public and private utilities.
We desire at least to know to which
class of the utilities, public or private,
you place Mother Earth. If she Is not
to be classed with public utilities, we
ask, in the name and the blood of starv-
ed babies, which cry out from her for
help for their starving mothers, what is
meant by the third plank of the Cincin-
natl platform, and which has ever been
a plank in the Omaha platform, the pro-
mulgator and Trainer you are reputed to
be? Have you ever read It?
It says: "The land, including all
sources of wealth, is heritage of the
people" If that be correct most as
suredly it is public utility and should
be owned and utilized for the common
good of the whole people.
Most assuredly land is the source Of
all wealth, and If the heritage of the
people. it embraces all utilities and
leaves no place for line your man
Twitchell endeavors to draw between
what he terms public or private utilities.
II the land embraces all sources az.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26
500 Reward 800.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is one dread
ed disease that science has been able to
cure in all its stages, and that is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the
only positive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being constitu-
tional disease, requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
tenn, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have so much faith in
it's curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure. Send for list Of testimoni-
ais. Address
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26
THE WAR IN CHINA.

from st. Paul Globe)
ne civlilzed nations owe their command
tnS position TO the superiority of their in
! telllgence over that of the semi-civilizad
OF entirely uncivilized nations. Owing to
tnls superior intelligence they secured and
retained that dominance, which belongs tn
the possessor of the most effective and
strongest weapons of war. Modern arms
and protected it from an overwhelming in
vas1on of barbarousl hordes
AHe superior. weapon of the Roman SOL
uier was the defense and bulwark of Roman
civilization, and when the barbarians Sc
cured equally effective weapons and learned
the art OF war from the Romans, the sue
ces OF Attila was possible and Rome fell.
history Is now repeating itself. The civ.
ilized nations of Europe and America have
placed In the hands of the emi-ciyilized
chinese. the latest improved modern weap-
ons and taught them their use, and having
raised the ChiSese to their own level so
far as offensive and defensive power is con-
cerned. the Chinaman has become practically
the equal for warlike purpose of the Euro
pean or the American. In the matter of
stamina ana courage they may not be the
equal OF the best of the white races but
they certainly equal the mediocre and lower
grade European people
Now civilization will have to fight for it's
very existence, and unless it can increase
the effectiveness and destructiveness of its
civilized will stand on equal footing
physically, with the advantage on the side
of the barbarian by reason of his unre-
strained ferocity and lack of humane char
acteristics.
When there is an equality between
the different nations there will be no
great conquest of one people by another.
The first attempt to subdue the peo-
pie of the new world took place prior to
the application of gun-powder. The
complaints met each other with the
same weapons and on equal terms. In
the interval which extended between
the Scandinavians and the inhabitants
of the northern part of America, on the
one hand, and the coming of the Spanish
and English invaders 500 years later,
Roger Bacon had given the people of
Europe the advantage of his genius
One has only to read the record of the
people, armed with tubes belching fire
and destruction, against half-naked and
almost defenseless foe, to perceive the
inequality between the fighters
This was shown in the conquest of
Mexico and Peru, where a mere hand
full, equipped with the new weapons,
were sufficient to put to flight thousands
armed only in the old fashion.
History is too often the record of the
advantage given bytone people over an
other, due to SOME great inventions.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26
ANALYSIS OF FAILURES.

Dun's summary OF business failures for
the first half Of 1900 contains several points
OF instructive interest in relation to the
industrial situation. At first glance the
showing appears alarming, the aggregate
OF failures having increased by more than
l0o per cent over those of the same period
last year. but when the subject is thor
oughly considered surprise gives way to
satisfied understanding Of the cause and
effect ~
Dun is rather cautious in discussing the
situation. The commercial agency sees no
cause Tor alarm now, although it is plain
mat there was period In the recent past
wnlcn caused more or less worry. There
IS volume of information in the remark
that in the failures reported to date care
seen substantially all the commercial dis
asters resulting from an amazing rise in
prices last year. followed by weary but
largely successful efforts during the past
few months to get back to a normal state
OF business" Cause for satisfaction Is found
In the fact that business has been on the
whole so soundly conducted under condi-
tiOns of unusual danger"
This means. rather, that 1t is fortunate
disasters have not been worse When the
craze for industrial combination set in sew
eral months ago the Globe warned the
banks that they were treading on danger
GUS ground by assisting in the financing
OF the concerns. How much that warn
ing was worth Is revealed in the banking
failures for the six months Of 1900 the
majority OF which occurred during the past
three months, aggregating $25, 1922, 72O, as
against a total Of only $780,, 728 for the
corresponding period In 1899. The trust
craze made the conditions of unusual dan
ger" mentioned by Dun. Stocks were wa
tered to the bursting point, and prices
inflated In order to bring a profit on fic-
titious values. Sound financiers who went
into this sort of enterprise no doubt ex-
pected to stand from under and realize
something before the tide set in the other
way but 1t became apparent ninety days
ago that 1t would take the most skillful and
conservative management to avoid disas-
trous loss through the ill-advised venture
The well Informed are aware that the pro-
cess OF recovery and protection has been
going on for some time and that the banks
the end to submit to loss Of more than
$o,e00,000 emphasizes the dangerous stu
alton they we're In
When the process of contraction is
going on most energetically we hear
nothing Of it. The Republican papers
have nothing to say. They pass over
the dead point of danger without a
word. Now that it Is passed-:now that
the S25,O00,000 is paid-they pocket their
loss without word.
So it goes. So the banking conspir-
acy is kept alive
Some day, when the country Is COM
pletely unprepared, the crash will come.
and so will we realize the value of those
watchmen on the outer wall-the news
papers. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26
GEN. BARRETT DEAD.

Gen. T.. H. Barrett, distinguished citi-
zen Of the state, died Friday at Herman.
General Barrett was native of New York.
He served in the civil war, and it was his
command that fought the last battle of the
war That was at Palmetto, Texas, May IL,
1865, over a months after the surrender
of Lee. After the war he obtained an i'm
portant contract for surveying land in the
Indian territory, and qrom the proceeds
purchased II, 600 .acrea Of land in Grant and
Stevens counties, this state.
1t is with sincere sorrow we chronicle
the death of T. his Barrett, of Grant
county.
Gen. Barrett was great and patriotic
man. He invested nearly 100000 in
farm lands and improvements in Grant
and Stevens counties. If he had placed
$40, 900 in mortgages he would have been
better off at the close of his life
Il D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26
A CLINCHER.

When war between this country and Spain
two years ago became imminent, when 1t
became a certainty when the questions
arising out of it came upon us-in whose
hands was the country safer-in the hands
of the careful, prudent, conservative presi-
dent of the United States. one of the best
type of American craftsmanship, backed by
the Republican party, or in the hands OF
Bryan. this maker Of epigrams-the phrase
maker-backed by his hysterical followers?
Hartman Record.
The foregoing is sample of Republic
can campaign argument. The editor of
the Record manifestly felt that this par
agraph was a clincher, knock-down
argument in support of the administra-
ton.
president: Careful prudent. conserva-
tive" --
Why doesn't this man specify wherein
our president Is "careful?"
Why can't he, for decency's sake. be
honest enough to tell his readers that
Mckinley has been careful" to help
trusts reooup their contributions to his
campaign fund; careful" to suppress
the truth about the embalmed beef sent
to Cuba; careful" to protect Capt Car
ter, embezzler of public funds, until the
public press forced his Incarceration;
careful" that Gen. Eagan's retirement
for malfeasance in Office should be ac-
companied with full pay; careful" that
Alger should be made scape goat for the
war contracts with the railroads and the
owners Of old condemned boats sold to
our navy department; careful" that the
Merrimac was sunk off Santiago before
her fraudulent purchase and worthless
condition could be officially Investigate
ed; careful" to suppress the facts that
the war in the Philippines has been
failure from the start; careful to not
let the masses learn that all these for
eign wars are for Loot and franchise
grabbing by the Hanna, Rockefeller,
Morgan war syndicate? Yes, Mckinley
is careful careful" lest the facts be
known.
prudent" Here, again, the reader
would like bill of particulars showing
how Mckinley was prudent in not
talking for the gold standard in 1896,
when he had been free silver advocate
in 1878; prudent" in keeping his mouth
shut and staying at home while Hanna
and the barrel carried the election; "pru-
dent" in sending troops into Idaho to
help Rockefeller win strike only after
called upon by the Democratic governor:
prudent" in not rushing into the
Spanish war until Democrats had de-
manded 1t and the war syndicate and
contractors were ready to reap its bene-
fits. Yes. Mckinley has prudence. Now
as to his being conservative" there is
no room for controversy. No one will
question his conserving the best inter-
ests of the money power from start to
finish. In all this the editor of the
Record says he Is backed by the Repub-
lican party. Some people would boast
OF being horse thief, and we would
not think such boast strange from anv
man who can find anything to boast of
in the carefulness, prudence and conser-
vatfsm Of Mckinley. His administra-
ton, dictated in all things as it has been
by Hanna, and the trusts, has been one
to give mysteries" to a whole nation
E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26
"POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK

"POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACk''
The national Democracy put 16 to l in
their platform at the dictation of Mr.. Bryan,
but it was apparent to the casual observer
that majority Of the convention preferred
to 'reaffirm" rather than 'reiterate." They
did, however, declare specifically for the ratio
without regard to the action Of any other
nation, but, DemOcratic-like, placed the
plank in the shadow of a lot of buncomb
about expansion, imperialism and militariSm,
and they took special pains to keep the coin
redemption feature intact. OF all the hum
bugs ever attempted to be practiced on a
confding people, the Democratic financial
planks the most transparent, and we
are astonished that any man who ever
studied the money question could be content
with such flimsy and impractical declara-
tions.
OF course everybody knows the objections
urged against the administrations expansion
policy are only repetitions of the charges
brought by the opponents of Democracy in
the war with Mexico, and every student of
American history understands fully that the
so-called atrocities heaped upon the Cubans
and Filipinos about which the Bryanites
grow most eloquent, when abusing McKin-
ley, are only faint repetitions of the con-
duct of our soldiery when conquering New
Mexico, Arizona and California, and the
reader will remember that this war was con-
Quoted "for conquest" under a Democratic
administration. In fact, every attack the
Democracy makes on the present admins
tration can be easily parted by showing
that the same thing has been done by the
accusers, or that they themselves were the
beneiciaries. Take the Couer d'Alene bull
pen oufrages in Idaho, for an illustration of
the idea we wish to convey: Some of the
thoughtless delegates at Kansas City were
anxious to condemn in unmeasured terms the
president for sending federal troops into that
state to arrest and corral thousand or two
miners and hold them without trial for more
than year. but older heads knew it would
be playing with fire to tackle that propo-
sition, fer Idaho's governor was Democrat,
and he. 1t was who asked the president to
send the troops, and he 1t was who was re-
sponsible for the outrages perpetrated on the
citizens of his state.
So, also, is the hue and cry about the
Porto Rico tariff. neItralized' by the fact that
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE:
]. A. Temple, Minneapolis.
SHIPMENTS OF GOLD.

NEW YORK, July 18.-It is announced
that arrangements have already been made
60 ship 81, SOC. 900 in gold bars by the French
steamer sailing on Thursday Various in
ternational houses admit that they expect
to ship gold, and the estimates of the
amount for a week range from between
9,000, 900 to $4,000, 900.
So it goes, week after week; and that
which should remain in the country is
shipped out as commodity. And the
drain from South Africa Is supplement-
ed by the greater drain from China.
I. D.
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Health for ten cents Cascarets make
the bowels and kidneys act naturally,
destroy microbes, cure headache hill
BUSINESS and constipation. All druggists.
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Could Not he VERIFIED.

The police department received telephone
message this afternoon to the effect that q
man had been killed in runaway accident
at Fifth avenue south and Twenty fourth
street. Investigation, however, failed to
verify the report.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL:
e e. A. Twitchell, Minneapolis

CHIEF JUSTICE:
S. G. Harris, St. Paul.
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MjD-ROAD P0PULIST
STATE TICKET.

SEC'Y OF STATE:
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TREASURER:
S. w. Powell, Saltwater,
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OUR PLATFORM AND THE LAND
QUESTION.

An Important Question Asked by CAL
ifOrnia.