The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-01-11
principles into the foreground. That

principles into the foreground. That
| is all.
| An important difference between the
believers in direct legislation in Mime
sofa and those of the Union Reform
party of Ohio is this: They have no
conception how to issue their referen-
dunn ballots in different states so as to
unite on a national ticket Hence: that
party is only disruptive-local. But we
are going to unite and grow under the
plans adopted into: strong national
party that will not only gain direct leg
islation in practice, but also hold fast
to the Populist principles the public is
now prepared for.
LIND A SMART POLITICIAN
He loves votes, even Democratic
votes, but he positively declares he will
not stand for another term. Whereup-
on his erstwhile hungry, selfish, Small
reformers." all fall on their knees, cry
ing:
Great Is Diana of the Ephesians!"
Poor, helpless crowd of incompatibles
not men. They all, bogus Populists
and old-time Democrats alike. admit
that those sublime CD reform" prin-
ciples of theirs whatever they may be)
cannot outlive this orphan" Their
pretensions of freeing mankind blighted
| with the possible passing" of 165 lbs.
| of human flesh, avoirdupois!! Them
| selves-zerO.
Perhaps, with foresight and honors
| full upon him, John Lind would be
| pleased, before his star descends tenn
porarily, to retire until in the fullness
| of time he might ride on a REAL, not
sham, party.
| But Lind, ambitious, is helpless.
Were Honest Johns bluff not to
run again not an old chestnut, it might
| mislead those who hate hypocritical
| sham reform into delaying an i'm
mediate effective organization to defeat
him. But this time, despite the pre-
mature glee of few shallow Republi-
cans, Gov. Linds refusal to run Lind
cannot depend for success on a head
less opposition.
! Lind, as the one man able to disrupt
the Peoples party of Minnesota, must
be defeated.
| In presidential year Republicans
will not vote for an orphan" If Lind
/ is not a Republican still, he must on the
| stump defend a rotten Democratic ma
chine that places Gen. Daniel, who
! praised Cleveland for crushing the
| strikers at Pullman, on it's national
/ committee. Reformed Democracy, in
deed! That party is nothing but a
trimmer and trader for Office. 1t has not
! principles. With their loud mouthings
| against "a crown of thorns upon the
| brow of labor" Bryan's managers, with
whom Lind is training, have never
! failed, as on Wall street, or in Ken
| lucky, to prove themselves the plant
tools of the trusts. Lind must take the
| stump with Winston, who, at the
Democratic national convention of 1896,
!
says: Il will vote for the Democratic
party whether right OR WRONG" who,
with Ringdahl and Owen, believes in
direct Observation-Disclosures REAS-
ONABLE!! LIMITS, their own con-
ceit to mark the limits
| Lind and Towne must be made to
show how shallow and false are their
pretensions of fusion" spurious Popu-
lists by standing on a Democratic plat
| form with Senator Clark of Montana,
whose immense wealth purchased his
seat in Washington Lind and Towne
must take the stump with Gov. Steun-
berg, Of Idaho, Democrat who, to
please the Standard Oil trust, and pos
sibly get into the United States senate,
has kept confined in worse than Libby
| prison thousands of miners without
any charge brought against them,
without any trial; has had soldiers to
shoot them, and now says he will con-
tinue to hold them, Gagged like wild ami
mails, as long as he is governor, "as an
example to all organized labor" What
| folly for such men to pretend friend
ship for Filipinos!
Let true Populists daily warn igno-
rant voters against such a party, up
held by such men; party whose wrong
doings could fill volumes; whose sins
are not confined to the Southern and
Eastern states.
Democrats will combine with Repub-
licans EVERY TIME to defeat REAL
reform.
Hitch not to such a party of plumber
for the few, oppression of the many!
Hitch not to Lind nor Towne Hitch to
no leaders of old or new parties, but let
all minor parties combine under the
referendum to overthrow both old par
ties and all leaders, with what would
surely result in a majority indorsing
the cardinal tenets of Populism.
Lind would be happier at New Ulm,
although it might not pay him so much
as to run JUST to break up the Peo-
pies party of Minnesota"