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The representative., 1900-05-24

even permitted { Democrat to dictate
their platform?
At Kansas City the climax will be
reached when the Democrats throw
Towne over the transom and put mp =
plute ticket and leave their Sioux Falls
contingent to vote for It straight stand
ing on a platform dictated from Demo-
cratic headquarters and then we wflhsee
whether Schilling will proclaim It .
grand success"
Mr.. Schilling seems to marvel at Mr..
Donnelly's opposition to Bryan and de-
clares Bryan has not changed. "A man
is known by the company he keeps" is
an old adage and Mr. Bryan must be
judged by this standard. In 1896 Mr..
Bryan's following and associates were
the Western Silver Democrats, Silver
Republicans and nearly 100000 Popu-
lists, constituting about half the entire
vote of the nation, and these were all
reformers With all this following
Bryan was defeated.
In 1900 nearly 100000 of these re-
formers will vote the Cincinnati, the
Indianapolis or the Republican tickets,
and in their places Bryan will get the
vote of over 100000 gold Democrats
and they will assume control because
they furnish the funds.
Bryan's party has changed since 1896
by the loss of 100000 reform votes and
gain of nearly the same number of
plute votes.
Mr.. Donnelly, like the writer hereof,
and many other Populists. supported
Bryan in 1896 under protest, because
1t was too late to help ourselves and be-
cause enough reformers went that way
to lend respectability and honest pur-
pose to the movement.
Schilling expects this year to re-
pudiate Wisconsin Democracy because
its leaders are corrupt, but will swallow
national Democracy because it is labeled
Bryan.
True Populists will never again be
fc Oled by the label. e. A. T.
The representative., 1900-05-24
"BLOOD ON THE FACE OF THE
moon GONE"

MOON GONE"
Paul Fontaine is one of those Populists
who are for Charfes A. Towne, first. last
and all the time. Mr.. Fontaine will not
listen to any proposition which admits of
the remotest possibility of Mr.. Towne' 8
being unseated between now and July 4.
Charles A.. Towne.' he declared yester-
day. '1s the man who can deliver over the
Populist vote to w. j. Bryan. This talk
about taking man out of the East is bun
combe. Here in the West is where we
must make our fight. 1t is nonsense to talk
about delivering over the vote Of the East.
Our standard bearers must both be Western
men. If the locality from which we select
our v1ce-president Is to influence the East
ern vote. then I say that vote is so unstable
as not to be counted on. If Fasteners
won't support Western men, then we can
at any stage of the game. II Townes nom
1natiOn at Sioux Falls is not ratified at
Kansas City, then the Democrats and Lin
coin Republicans may as we'll give UP the
fight. The Popuiist vote will go with
Towne. and II he Is to be treecherously
treated at Kansas City, then Bryan cannot
expect the undivided support of the Populist
party. The Populists took the initiative with
Towne because they believed he was a man
out OF thousands in whom they could put
implicit confidence. and with whom they
could safely entrust the principles in de-
Tense of which they are willing to join
hands with the other reform forces. My
word for it, they are going to see him
safely through, or make common cause with
him should he be thrown aside. de."-Minneap-
oils Journal.
While Fontaine Is ready to go to war
for Towne-"war to the knife and the
knife to the hilt"-$2O, ,0O0- Corser is
ready to trade him of for any old thing
satisfactory to the Democrats.
Paul is honest bYt he will have to
sing small.
He who sups- with the Devil hath
need Of a long fspobn;" and he who
trades with the Democrats must part his
coat-tails and take the kicks as they
come q
Put your cannon Under cover, Paul,
and chew crow. 1T is very palatable
dish after you pluck, the feathers out,
and humiliation is good for a sour
stomach. I. D.
The representative., 1900-05-24
MIR. RAHILLY's SPEECH.

The New York Sun, of May II, prints,
in full, with some very complimentary
remarks, the speech delivered before
the Cincinnati convention on the 10th
inst. by the Hon. P. H. Rahilly, of Lake
City. We print it from the Sun copy,
not because of the compliments it con-
tains to Mr.. Donnelly. but to show our
gratitude to- Mr.. Rahilly for his lifelong
and unshrinking support Of the senior
editor of the Representative He has q
will of steel and heart of gold.
e. A. T.
Il greet you, my countrymen. with fra
ternal regards. In your presence l bow to
the majority of the people. The sight itself
Is inspiring. the thought sublime. You
come from almost every state, nook and
corner of our ocean-bound country. You
are about to discharge a more than i'm
perial duty; with simplest ceremonials you
as representatives of the people, are to
Choose magistrate mightier than q mon
arch, yet checked and controlled by the
supreme law of written constitution
Thus impressed, I ascend the rostrum to
nominate the next president of the United
States. Minnesota presents him to the con-
the past forty years, has stood in the gaze
OF the world, discharging the duties of the
people. Today determines that, not of his
own choice, but by the mandates of his
countrymen, and with the sanction of
heaven, he shall I'LL the presidency for the
next four years; moreover, he has met and
mastered every question; he has been
trained for craftsmanship from youth his
fidelity in the past inspires faith in the
future. He is not hope, he is a realiza-
tior, scorning subterfuge, disdaining cor
ruption. He will declare to congress- drop
ping minor matters. that the supreme issue
Is REFORM revision and reduction of national
taxation; that the treasury of the United
States. glutted with unneeded gold, op-
presses industry. embarrasses business, en-
dangers financial tranquility and breeds ex-
adhering to the constitution, its every line
and letter, ever remembering that the pow
ers not delegated to the United States by
the constitution, nor prohibited by 1t to the
states, are reserved to the states respect
lively or to the people,
by the authority Of the Peoples party of
Minnesota, backed by the national Peoples
party, give you name, entwined with VIC
tory. ! nominate the Hon. Ignatius Dom
nelly o; Minnesota.
* do this not out OF regard for Mr. DON
nelly. although We have been the closest
friends for forty years, but because 1 think
he fs tho right man for the place, at this
time. II We nominate an obscure man, how
ever worthy he may be, we will be kept
busy unit! election day explaining who and
what he Is, and you know we have but few
newspapers With which to reach the peo-
pie. Mr.. Donnelly is the best known man
In our ranks. Hc has been lieutenant gov
srnor OF our state aud part OF the time
governor "a interim: also member Of con-
The representative., 1900-05-24
CORSER AND TOWNE.

Mr.. Corser's idea is that should there be
any pronounced disposition to spring some
one else for vice president at Kansas City
the representatives of the Democratic. Pop
ulist and Lincoln Republican national COM
mittees, who will be present, can be trust
ed with making final satisfactory set
tlement as to second place.-Minneapolis
Journal.
That means that Corser is ready to
drop Towne like a hot potato if any one
objects to him. Of course!
Why should Corser give up his $780,
900 year Office for Towne or anything
else, human or divine? Perish the
thought Id.
The representative., 1900-05-24

Ex-Congressman Howard, of Alabama.
would have been nominated but for the
failure Of his state to vote for him. which
they would gladly have done but for their
instructions to vote for Barker and Dom
nelly.-Jefyersonian.
Howard. OF Alabama. Is a tall. strong
featured man. powerful and forcible speak
o., very magnetic, with strong propensi-
tive for battle. but withal we'll balanced. He
has strong moral convictions. hence no
neral element in his nature that caused
h!:n 70 stand 1rm when such mon as But
Ter. Alien and Simpson fell into the meshes
lad by The Observation-Disclosures
Howsrd's speech. declining the Pop
ulis! nomination .at the Cincinnati
The representative., 1900-05-24
UNFORTUNATE.

We deeply regret the misfortunes that
have fallen upon our friend and neigh
Dor, Hon. R. c. Libby, of Hastings
MINI. Not long since his lumber yard
was burned out (no insurance.; and now
his beautiful steamer, worth $1,000, has
been destroyed by fire, and again he had
no insurance.
Mr.. Libby is public spirited, enter
prising citizen, who has furnished hun
dreds of men with employment for many
years, and greatly helped to build UT ~
city Of Hastings.
Can nothing be done now to testify
the respect Of the people and to raise a
fund to help him in his hour of trial?
/, D.
The representative., 1900-05-24

letter Of resignation. said: ''When party
methods have become 20 corrupt and tricky
that 1t becomes necessary. in order to carry
the party to the Democrats. to deprive men
Of their right to represent their state In
national committees, 1t behooves III men,
not Democrats In disguise. to ceme out
boldly for our party and begin tn fight
where we Lett on in 1894."-JefIersonian.
= That's it. We have wasted four years
of our lives to enable a few knaves to
get little Offices. and. - rule. they
didn't get the ohlces.
Now renew the work and push the
Peoples party. I. D.
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MIGHT BE CONVENIENT.

1t would be just like the Hon. Ig Dom
nelly to rig up his cryptogram and prove
that Lord Bacon wrote the Cincinnati plat
form.-Washington Post.
What we are working on now is to
find cryptogram that will demonstrate
that the Lord did not make all the in
Vulnerable fools that afflict the world,
of which the editor of the Washington
Post Is brilliant example. They came
about through the eff1uvia of a donkey
yard, which crystallized in mid-air and
was rained down on the earth. It Is a
noble work to relieve the Lord from
such responsibility. I'D.
The representative., 1900-05-24

Col. Patterson declared, in his speech
In Sioux Falls, that the Democrats have
now no principle except what they stole
from the Populists. This set of prlnci-
pies, with candidate for vice president
stolen from the Republicans, will make
rather a juubled-up political feast
And Tom Patterson was one of the
chief instruments in 1896 in aiding the
Democrats to steal the Populist prin-
ciples, and he is now doing his best
after robbing our party. to kill it. He
is bad egg" I, D.
The representative., 1900-05-24
PAUL FONTAINE.

Paul FOntaine wants to run for con-
gress in the Fifth district on the fusion
ticket against "your Uncle Loren"
Well, Paul isn't the worst of the pack.
He has some faint glimmerings of sense
not like the brilliant corruscations of
the Aurora Borealis, but more like the
subdued radiance of an elderly lobster
in dark cellar.
Go it, Paul; we will hold your hat!
Open the flood-gates of your eloquence
and wash Uncle Loren" into the sewer.
l. D.
The representative., 1900-05-24
THE SILVER HUMBUGS.
The Missouri World says:

The missouri World says:
Six of the eight delegates to the Repub-
Hcan national convention from Colorado are.
it is reported, Silver Republicans who sup
ported Bryan in 90, two of them being
among the wealthiest silver mine owners
In that state.
The Pops were surely trapped in go,
when they went in with these fellows to
unite the reform forces" The middle OF
the road Is the only safe place for a
reform party.
And these are the unwholesome crea-
lures who were too pure and holy to be-
come Populists! Towne is a type of
them. They used our brains and sneer-
ed at us. Bah!
A jackass turning up it's nose at a
philosopher! I'D.
The representative., 1900-05-24
ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES.

Our able friend, Frank Burkitt, Of
Okolona, Miss, editor of the Messen-
ger, has this to say:
What farce that Sioux Falls meeting
was! Not Populist there, yet Bryan
imagines he is going to be able to count
on thousands of Populists voting for him
and is still toadying to them. OF course,
Towne, the Silver Republican nominated for
vice president at Sioux Falls, will make a
graceful and beautiful getaway when Mr..
Bryan whistles, and the reported scramble
over his nomination last week was the mer-
est can't calculated to deceive somebody.
1t makes little difference to Populists
what is to be the outcome of the Sioux
Falls convention, which met on May g.
since neither man named has ever been and
is not now Populist, and not Populist
attended the convention as delegate. With
all the bluster and blow of the Butler Allen
combine of Office seekers, the convention
was very tame affair, and because of this
it was thought expedient that some man
like Towne. Silver Republican, be named
for vice president so that he could with
draw with a flourish at Kansas City when
the Democratic machine commenced work
that show of harmony in fusion might be
presented. Towne will deceive no Populists,
and it is doubtful if many Democrats are
so dull that they do not see he only wants
to get in position to be recognized for some
salaried place in the event of scratch vic
tory in November.
The truth is that when the leaders Of
this Sioux Falls gathering read in the
morning papers the reports of the
speeches made at Cincinnati, they were
ashamed of themselves and saw that it
would not do to turn the whole thing,
Democrats; and so they set up Towne,
Silver Republican, to prove that they
were still Populists! L. y.
The representative., 1900-05-24
COL. BRYAN MAKES A CONFESSION

COL. BRYAN MAKES A CONFESSION.
In sudden 1T Of impatience that over
came him the other day Colonel the Hon.
William ]. Bryan said to an interviewer:
Il am asked as often as once week
whether I have abandoned silver. To that
answer. No. But suppose should aban-
don silver, what difference would 1t make?
am not the people. When they aban-
don that question 1t will be an issue no
longer. The people make the issue, not
the man. No man is greater than his
party"
been prepared. Upon various occasions
heretofore we have commended Col. Bryan
for his unvarying loyalty to silver. We
have pointed out how it was impossible
for him to abandon silver without aban-
doning his self respect and forfeiting the
good opinions of people who have had rea-
sons in the past for believing in his sin
cerity, even II they could not subscribe
to his theories.-Chicago Times Herald.
We are sorry to see such a declaration
as this coming from Mr. Bryan; it prac-
tically means that If the people are
wrong on any question he will join with
them and be wrong too. If Christ had
taken this course he never would have
perished on the cross, and there would
have been no Christian religion. If
this doctrine is true Washington,
Adams and Patrick Henry, and Thomas
Jefferson, and all the rest of the pat
riots Of 1776 would have Joined the
Tories. who were undoubtedly in the
beginning in the majority, and there
would be today no republic of the United
States of America
A statesman Is one who leads man
kind, not one who follows them In their
errors to pick up the scraps they may
drop.
If free silver is right, 1t is the duty Of
William J. Bryan, and all other men,
to stand by it to the last gasp; to do
otherwise Is to be a trickster and a
miserable time-server.
We are sorry, indeed, that Mr.. Bry-
an should make any such declaration.
We admired him for what he seemed
to be. We feel as Whittier said of Web
ster:
walk backward with averted gaze
And hide his shame.
When faith is lost, and honor dies,
The man is dead" I. D,
The representative., 1900-05-24

Peake, Of Georgia. i made an excellent
chairman, eminently fair, cool and collect.
ed under the most embarrassing circum-
stances.-Jeffersonian. II s~. s.e-..,
True. Peake Of Georgia is a very able
man. a., I. D.
The representative., 1900-05-24
LOOK our FOR HARMoNY.

Wait until Donnelly gets after. Towne
over in Minnesota-then look out for har-
mony.-Fargo Call. su& Cd.
There won't be sanything left Of
Charley after the DeWocratic convention
meets on July 4th. The fusion abortion
will then wriggle, Itself out like snakes
tail at sunset. /. D.
The representative., 1900-05-24

This platform can never be changed, either
taken from or added to, without o refep-
enflum vote of the party unless any given
portion may have been crystallized into law,
-Jeffersonien.
And SO nobody can hereafter sell out
the party for personal profit. Human
ingenuity will at last get ahead Of hu-
man rascality. I'D.
The representative., 1900-05-24

We regret to chronicle the death of
Trnman Strait late of the grain inspec-
tion department in Minneapolis, and
brother of Major Strait, formerly mem
ber of congress from this state.
Mr.. Strait was kfndly-hearted, oblig-
ing gentleman and will be greatly
missed by all who knew him. I. D.
The representative., 1900-05-24

S. w. Williams, Of Vincennes, Ind,
was the leader of the Indiana delegation
at the Cincinnati convention, and one
of the brightest intellects In that body.
The representative., 1900-05-24
A GOOD ILLUSTRATION.
- The Missouri World, Paul Dixon
editor has this to saw.

SuAtOT, udS Iu1S 10 say.
One large publishing house in Chicago re-
'ceives through the mails a thousand dol
lars a day in postage stamps. This amounts
to 1896, 900 year. Postage stamps are
used as money to the extent of hundreds
OF millions OF dollars a year. Yet these
stamps are not redeemable in coin they
are not redeemable in paper money or
anything but dues ana only one kind of
dues at that-postage dues. They cannot
be exchanged at the postofices for larger
or smaller denominations. Yet these
stamps are worth their face. With this
object lesson 1t Is q wonder that anyone
The representative., 1900-05-24

Health for ten cents. Cascarets make
the bowels and kidneys act naturally,
destroy microbes. cure headache, bill.
The representative., 1900-05-24

c. J. Arntzen, Esq, Of Wegdahl, Mimi,
cinnati. Geo. w. Day was another.
The representative., 1900-05-24

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In order to reduce complaints to the min
imum in future we desire to ask the 1oi-
lowing questions:
Does your paper come regularly!
mailing list?
Are you getting NOR than one copy?
Does tho date on the label OF your pa.
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1er6.
The representative., 1900-05-24

The real People1 paxty are .jubiiant over
the resignation of JAMES Boyce, OF Kansas,
from the executive committee Of the fsssion-
list part Of the Populist party. Royce. in his
The representative., 1900-05-24

Cafe. observation and paylor cars On
Queen & Crescent Route. Florida and
New Orleans limited.
The representative., 1900-05-24
THEY REPUDIATE POPULIsM.

TOLEDO, O., May 19.-Charles A. Towne,
treasurer of the national Free silver Re-
with silver leaders, discussing plans to
send silver delegation to the Kansas City
convention. There were about 30 pres
ent. Mr.. Towne said
II am not Populist, neither Is Mr..
Bryan; that party, in the interest of re-
form. went outside itself to get candi-
dates. Imperialism will be the first issue,
the trusts, then the monetary question"
Isn't that a pretty state of things?
A so-called Peoples party convention
nominates two men for the highest Of
fees in the nation, and both at once an
nounce that they do not belong to the
party that thus honors them!
Have the Populists got the scurvy,
the itch or leprosy that these thingum-
bobs thus turn their backs and run away
from them. But they are careful to steal
our principles and our votes while they
repudiate us. .
Let no Populist vote for any candidate
unless he declares himself to be Pop
ulist.
If we are not good enough to train
with we are not good enough to vote
with. Id.
The representative., 1900-05-24

gress for six years, and he has been state
senator and member of our house Of repre-
sentatives for 10 or 15 years. BY his books
he Is known all over the civilized world.
His novel. Caesars Column. translated
into many Languages, has attained q sale
Of nearly q million copies and has produced
a great effect on the public mind. His AT
.lantis' has gone through thirty editions In
the United States and many more In Europe.
His 'RAgnar0k has been equally successful.
Hie Great Cryptografn,' upon the author
ship of the SAakespearean plays has pro-
his last work just published, 'Ths Cipher
in the Plays and on the Tombstone will
settle forever the Bacon Shakespeare con-
troversy.
IF this convention nominates Mr.. Don
nelly for the presidency, hundreds Of thou
sands Of men who have read his books will
ask: What is this new party and what
does 1t purpose to do? 1t cannot be al
together unreasonable II such a man is its
candidate for president.
Practically without newspapers to de-
fend US, we are the subject of all sorts OF,
ridicule and Misrepresentation. We need
a candidate who will call together great
audiences and explain our principles and
convince the voters.
1--WE claim that Ignatious Donnelly Is the
greatest orator and debater in the United
States This Is proved by the fact that even
the great Robert e. IngerSOll declined to
meet him in debate, when offered 81 900 for
one night to do SO; and that, too, after the
colonel had attacked his position on the
on-Shakespeare question. We are since
informed by Ingersoll's business agent that
the colonel subsequently became convert
to the Baconian theory and never afterward
repeated his Shakespeare lecture.
Through Mr.. Donnelly our party would
have hearing it could not get in any other
way. With q most kind and amiable nature,
he has. hrmness nothing can shake. If
elected president the people and all their
interests would be safe in his hands. AS
the author of The Omaha Platform, the
second Declaration Of Independence as it
has been called, the voters would know just
where he stood.
He Is no raw recruit. He presided over
the national convention In 1873 which nomi-
mated Peter Cooper ON the Greenback ticket
for president. He Is in some sense the
father Of the Peoples party for he adv0-
Gated its principles 20 years before it was
born. Nominate Mr.. Donnelly and you will
see campaign such as has never before
been witnessed In the United States. Elect
him and the people will have prosperity
and the abuses which now oppress .them
will be swept away