The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-05

d. Sem, ST., OF Pelican Lake, Otter-
tail county. writes to Boen's Fergus
Falls Globe IN answer to Tom Hodg-
son:
We see Mr.. T. G. H. writes: s.Joip or
die" thought would not answer his letter,
as he evades the main question. II he
would Just word that heading q little diff
ferent and make 1t read: Join and die. !"
1t would be more correct. That IL really
the true meaning Of the phrase when held
out by the so-called Reform Democrats to
the fusi0nists II Mr.. T. C. H. would come
out and tell us that he Is an out and-out
Reform Democrat Gas he really Isl. we
would have more respect for him. But he
poses also as a Peoples party man. and is
doing his best to persuade true Peoples
party men to believe in his. platform of q
single plank-to GUST the rascals and i'm
perialists., or Republicans. But he is will
Ing to put sheep, wolves, foxes and tigers
all in one pen, and seek to accomplish 1t
regardless of consequences He and his as
sociates seem to think more of Philippine
and Porto Rican slaves than of the millions
OF white slaves at home hence we call it a
sham battle. Now. Mr.. H. can call this stu
pidity or Hannaism. The question is not
simply to GUST the fox to let in the wolf,
but will they give us true reform? We
challenge Friend H. to take the Peoples
party platform, and that of the Reform
Democrats at Chicago in 1896, and lay them
side by side, and If he can convince me
Except as to free silver), we will be with
him under Reform Democracy, not Demo-
Pop.
He says Populism Is not dead in Grant
county On account of fusion, but because of
political corruption. That reminds me of
two little boys on my farm. One was my
boy, the other was q neighbours boy. had
some pigs In a pen out TN the yard, so each
one took a stick to drive the pigs around,
and have some fun told them to be care
full, they might kill the pigs. The second
time I went out they had killed one, sure
not kill it; it's the other boy" But the
other boy said 1t was my boy. saw at
once that they were both guilty.
Bryan gave the lie to his reform when he
took for his running mate banker and
single gold standard man.
You compare the true Peoples party with
the Phillips and Garrison party. We know
something about that. and the comparison
Is simply nonsense. That is another of your
filings. Would the Republican party ever
have been born II the founders had contin-
ued as Whig-Abolitionist-R Republican party?
No, never. They had to come in under one
name, on one platform, and they did not
beat around the bush to get there either.
Now. finally. we Mid Readers have not
left an iota of the Omaha platform. We
still believe in it.
All of which shows that the Midroad
sentiment is rapidly growing in Otter
tail county.
For long time they made the voters
there believe that the whole issue was
''Donnelly and anti-Donnelly." Now
they begin to perceive that the question
is, "Shall the Peoples party and the
Omaha platform live or die? Or shall
they go into the belly of the Democratic
party and rot there forever"
Donnelly has been abused and de-
nounced simply because he stood by the
Peoples party and swore it should not
be murdered to give few scamps petty
offices. -@
And Tom Hodgson complains that
when Doctor Fish, with $4,000 Of Re-
publican money in his pocket, attacked
us we did not run away. but stood up
and failed him so that he had to leave
the state, and not long after the world.
And, therefore Mr.. U. Sem, ST., replies:
You speak about two Of our leaders abus-
truth that night than ever before in their
lives. Am I mistaken, or did you not
at that meeting uphold the living one against
the one who Is now dead?
OF course he did. He knew we were
right then, and he knows we are right
now. He will be marching under our
banner before this campaign is over.
I. D.