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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02
THE REPRESENTATIVE THURSDAY. AUGUST .. 1900.

bel. Carlyle, Steunenberg and those
Democratic senator's who helped Grover
kill silver as money Of final redemp-
ton. then will the Democratic party lose
its power for evil, then will the people
realize that no reform is possible with
In the lines and under the name Of the
Democratic party.
The Democratic party must be nrst
detroyed before true reformers can
ever get q chance to strike any effective
blow at plutocracy.
II reformers attempt now to strike
any such blow, Democracy Immediately
steps forward and says: LET me
strike" And the true reformer is asked
to step aside. The result is blow
against the people and the further
strengthening Of the money power.
Democrats this year, as in 1896, have
put up Bryan as a dummy to divide the
true reform vote, and they will vote for
and work for plutocracy's candidate,
Mckinley.
Democratic campaign funds will this
year, as in 1896, help to elect a pluto
president and plute congressman.
Fusion Populists will help this villain
GUS scheme and smile with satisfaction
while they get few of the clerkships
and minor Offices E. A. r.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE:
]. A. Temple, minneapolis.
THE PASSING OF SIMPSON.

Two years ago the people of the Seventh
congressional district Of Kansas informed
Jerry Simpson that his services in the ma
tional house Of representatives were no
longer essential to their happiness. There
upon MIR. Simpson retired to his ranch,
announcing at the same time his determi-
nation to retire from politics forever He
allowed" that he could get along very
well on the $4,000 he had accumulated and
the people of the Seventh district would
have only themselves to blame If their in
terests In Washington were neglected.
Soon the statesman Of hoseless fame tired
Of retirement. Nobody tried to drag him
out. SO he undertook to do the dragging
himself. He bought newspaper and got
before the public, but the public looked
the other way Then he Invested himself
OF the newspaper and went into politics
In still more practical way. He jour-
neyed among the Populists and told them
he desired to go to the United States SEN
ate. On Tuesday he arose in the Populist
state convention to ask that body to name
In his life Jerry was silenced. The con-
vention howled and Kissed until he was
glad to retreat In bad order-and evidently
In bad odor with his party. When the po-
itical procession has passed a man 1t is
hard for him to overtake the band wagon
the leader OF the band. Simpsons own
compatriot. John ]. ingalls,, could have
told him that
If the rude conduct OF the Fort Scott
convention signifies anything, 1t signifies
that the once famous Jerry has become
man without party and must hereafter be
content to amass wealth in the culture OF
long horn cattle 1t is sad to lose a man
like Simpson, but the country will have
to struggle along without him.-Minne-
epolis Times.
This is the end of the campaign VI
1896 when, in the national convention,
Jerry told S. M. Owen, "for Heavens
sake, not to let any one from Minnesota
present a name for president; that such
course would stampede the convention,
and there was no power on earth would
stop it."
Jerry is played out, and S. M. will be
In the next election. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02
etc. And we extend the

munications, etc. And we extend the
same doctrine to state and nation.
All railroad. telegraph and telephone
lines; water works, electric light plants
etc., should be owned and operated by
the whole people and run in the inter
est of the whole people and then we can
claim to be a free people. Until these
franchises are SO managed labor will be
kept and held at the mercy of capital.
The pOor~will be the slaves of the rich.
Only at the last election, we, the people
of the state of Missouri, voted for and
elected representatives to the legisla-
ture and they went to Jefferson City and
passed a law to enable the street car
companies Of st. Louis to consolidate
themselves into one great corporation
a trust-a monopoly.
This little measure of the law-making
power of the state has caused all your
trouble in st. Louis-think Of it.
Now, the Peoples party men require
all such laws, when enacted, to be re-
ferred back to the people-the people
who suffer by such laws and who feel
the sting of such partisan legislation
for their ratification or rejection, as the
case may be. If the people think the
law enacted be good one, they say so,
and are willing to live under it. This
God-given right makes us free men, and
our country free country.
We are nothing but mudsills to the
plutocrats and Office holders as Demo-
Gratis or Republicans.
The candidates for office allow us to
vote for them and hurrah for them until
they get into Office, then they do as they
please; indulge in self qualification and
enact laws to Cypress the people-the
yeomanry-that elevated them to Office
yet, after securing your suffrage, they
turn their backs on you and say, "the
people be damned"
This is not right in the sight of
Heaven, and I want you, while young,
to weigh these matters in your own
mind, ponder over them in your own
hearts, and try to come to some rational
conclusion before you exercise your
elective franchise. Think, O, think,
before you rush out into the streets and
throw up your hats high into the air,
no1ow ana yen at The top OF your
voices. Hurrah for GenI So-and-So!
Hurrah for Major So-and-So; Colonel
this one or Captain that one-they all,
only want your suffrage, then after
wards you may 60 to grass and eat
mullen until the next election rolls
around.
Dear boys, preserve this letter and
read it over in Is or 20 years and note
the difference between the affairs of
government now and what they will be
20 years hence.
Affectionately, your father,
MARK w. WOOD.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02
TWO OF A KIND.

The National Bank Trust-which for three
years has had secure grip upon the treas
ury of the United States through the sub
servient Mr.. Gage-has decided what shall
be done with q large portion of the surplus
in the treasury acquired through the OPP
pressive war stamp tax act 1t is to be
utilized. 80 the trust has decreed, in ex-
change for refunding bonds. About $780,
OOO,O0O, 1t considers, will be the proper sum
to use for this purpose. And as the trust
DEGREES 80 1t will be done. Who will get
this $50. 900 Of war tax surplus?, Largely
the national banks. Who are the bond
holders? The national banks. Who pays
the war taxes which are to be used for
the benefit of the bank trust? The people.
Where is the tax-raised money deposited?
With these national banks.-The Verdict.
The Verdict has spoken well, but why
not tell it all? Why not tell the public
that this same national bank trust had
its grip upon the treasury of the United
States during the last Democratic ad-
ministration through the subservency
OF John G. Carlisle? Why not tell the
public that Grover Cleveland and his
Democratic congress we're subservient
to this same national bank trust? Why
not tell the public that it was Grover and
his congress who. repealed in 1893 the
last silver coinage law on our statute
books? Why not mention in this con-
nection that it was Grover who issued to
these bankers 1852 100000 bonds and,
finally, why not admit that today nearly
the. same old Democratic leaders are
still In congress and the Democratic par
ty at Kansas City nominated and now
asks the people to vote for the same old
Adlai Stevenson who presided over the
Grover senate and aided and abetted
Grover in his robbery of the people in
behalf of the national bank trust? The
Verdict should tell it ALL A half truth
is often no better than a lie.
Tell the whole truth and no man who
is honest would vote for either old
party. e. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02

vention in North Carolina concerning But
ler's proposition to fuse: 1T makes me
puke." Ye gods and little fishes. just think
OF It! Towne was the unanimous nominee
Of the fusion Populists' Sioux Falls con-
vention Tor wee president. and he got 89k
votes Of 936. II he had besn beaten by
some other Silver Republican or fusion
Populist It would not have been an in
suit. but to give Towne less than one vote
In 10 and divide the balance between Cleve-
lands former political partner and David
B. Hill was piling up insult mountain high.
Missouri World.
And then the way in which they treat
ed the nominee of the fusionists!
They permitted him to hang around
Mr.. Bryan and beg for some considera-
ton, that might intensity the insult
they had put upon him.
And they told him to hold out and
keep his nomination, so as to leave
something for the fusionists to rally
around; and they gave out that in re-
turn he should have a cabinet position,
If he was good boy! And the Demo-
Gratis were elected!
Oh, Lord! I. ID.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02
TOM HODGsON's OPINION.

They have an able man up in Grant
county named Tom Hodgson. Tom il
an ex-clergyman. He thus refers to the
editor of this paper, in communication
which appeared in the last issue of the
Fergus Falls Globe: =
The man who Steps over and then has to
apologize for it afterwards is never going
to have influence among sensible men. The
greatest man you have in your ranks is
a living example of the ruinous habit of
denunciation. His talent for satire. ridi-
Guile and vitriolic repartee has been his
rum. brilliant orator, magnetic leader
matchless writer and debater a man of
learning, of science and of magnetic pres
ence everywhere. l never saw a man that
would not like to be his friend never
saw man that would not overlook his er-
rors more than any other public man
know. But he has used his tongue, his pen.
MS newspaper necessarily to recoil upon
his enemies. or supposed enemies He
has fiayed them alive He has hammered
and mauled them without mercy and that.
too. without regard to truth or justice. He
has alienated so many by this baneful hab-
1t that 1t is now impossible for him to rise
TO MS proper place In society, in politics
or in public esteem. Had he suppressed
this wicked talent he would have been him.
self insuppressible.
No names are mentioned, but it is we'll
understood whom he means.
Does the editor of this paper deserve
all this complimentary abuse? We think
not.
The first branch Of his indictment does
not apply to us. We never retracted
anything we have said of public char
acter in Minnesota.
Will Mr.. HodgEon mention anyone?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02
A FATHERS LETTER
TO HIS THREE CHILDREN LIVING
IN ST. LOUIS.
A CLEAR EXPOSITION OF THE
STREET RAILWAY TROUBLES.

At Home, Pike Co., Mo-, June Is.
Dear Children: Your mother has writ.
ten all the news concerning the crops
and the family, and your father will
add a word in regard to your municipal
troubles in St. Louis.
The issue between the st. Louis Tran
sit company and the labor union, when
you look into it calmly and examine II
carefully, are the skirmishes along the
line of future conflict that is to take
place between capital and labor.
The conflict is inevitable. 1t is sure
to come, and the sooner it is brought
about the better for bob capital and
labor.
AS to myself, being a farmer and a
laboring man all my life, l naturally
side with labor. The members of my
union have just as much right to the
use of the streets and public highways
as the plutocrats have.
They have the right of locomotion
under the common law, the same as
the rich corporations or the Transit
company.
The leading fact of the matter is, the
city did wrong in granting to the Tran
sit company the street franchises.
The people of the city should hold
all such privileges in their own name
and right.
Let the city, in the name of the whole
people, own and run the cars, and your
troubles will be at an end.
This would be a proper solution OF
your street car strike, which is at this
time staring you in the face in St.
Louis.
Let the masses of the people rise in
their might and take back to them
selves these municipal franchises from
the Transit company, and run the cars
as city enterprise, and you will be all
right
Then the proceeds of the street cars
will pay their own expenses and mil
lions more besides. The profit will
inure to the people-give them plenty
of money to pay all taxes and enable
them to reduce the fare from five cents
to two cents per trip.
This is the doctrine set forth and up
held by the Progressive Peoples party
as to the management of all street car
lines. telegraph and telephone COM
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02
HOW POPULISTS GET LEFT.

The report of the Peoples party state
convention Of Idaho Is headed by a mo-
nopoly organ "Popuists Get Left in
Idaho" This is how they got left
1t seems that conference committee had
been appointed, and the Democrats offered
the Populists congressman, auditor and
mine inspector, and rendered the Silver Re
pubilcans senator and secretary of state.
The latter accepted. but the Populists de-
manded secretary of state and one collector
in addition. The Democrats refused. Then
the Populsts offered to recede il the Dem
ocrats would adopt resolutions demanding
the immediate discontinuance of martial
law in Shoshone county and abolition OF
the permit system.
After sharp debate, involving the Occur
d'Alene policy of the state administration,
the Democratic convention unanimously
voted to close negotiations with the Popu-
lists and to fuse with Silver Republicans.
When the Democrats refuse to denounce
that scoundrel, fStsnnenberg, whom they
the Populists leave but they did not get
left. In Idaho one might as we'll vote the
Republican as the Democratic ticket. Both
are controlled by the millionaire mine own
ers.-SchiNing Advance.
Reformed Democrats, so-called, pro-
test when Populists measure the Demo
cratic party by Cd Grover and insist
that Grover is a black sheep and not
representative Of the party and with
pride they point % Bryan. In the same
way they proclaim against government
by injunction and martial law in times
of peace and den Pr y Governor steun-
enberg's oppression of the miners in
Idaho, but when the crucial test comes
the Democratic state convention of
Idaho stands by and supports that same
Steunenberg.
So in Kentucky, Democrats pretend to
stand for a free ballot and fair count,
while they support Goebel and the in
famous Goebel machine, and their idol,
W. J. Bryan openly and publicly sup
ports Goebelism. When the people
have discovered what Grover Cleveland
Democracy really is and repudiated,
they bring forward his running mate
and pal, old Adlai, and offer us the same
old medicine under another label. When
the masses learn that it is a part of the
Democratic game to push to the front
to catch votes, some half-decent Dem
ocrat like Bryan. and then reserve all
real power in the hands of such Demo-
Gratis as Hill, Stevenson, German, Goe-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02

Was it DIR. Fish? Does not Mr.. Hodg-
son know that the charge We made
against him was (rue? Did we not open
our columns for denial to him?
The only 9th E person we recollect
was S. M. Owen and him we denounced
for unfaithfulnesk to- his party. We said
the policy he WI hursuing would lead
US all into the ne11ocratic party. Has
not this proven true? Will he pretend to
be Populist?
= We are denounced today for being true
to the doctrines We preached in 1892.
L d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02
PROSPERITY.

Dunn's report says that the failures for
the first half of this year is 100 per cent
greater than for the corresponding period
of last year, and all this, too, in the very
midst of Mckinley prosperity!-The Jeffer-
sonian.
Think of that! One hundred per cent
OF failures in the first half of the pres
ent year. What viii the last half show!
In other words: Every man in bust
ness did it with twice the difficulty that
he encountered in the first half of the
last year.
This is the elimination of the pros
perity which resulted last year from the
favorable conditions which doubled the
price of everything! I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02

Three months ........................... I'D
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02
INSUL TMOUNTAIN HIGH.

Come to think 1t over. the Democratic
convention treated the fusion Populists
with as much contempt as it was possible
for one party to treat another. The f,,s-
ionists went to Kansas City with a candi-
date for vice president. They had fore
stalled the objections to anybody of the Pop
uiist party and selected man who had
never advocated Populist principles. who
had never borne the name of Populist, and
with this man, MIR. Towne, they knocked
at the door Of the Democratic convention
and asked for fusion with q Democrat for
president and Towne for vice president
The answer was 89h votes for Towne: s59k
votes for Cleveland's old running mate.
Stevenson. and 200 for David B. Hill. OF
New York. They might about a. well have
said as they did in the Democratic con-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02
flows Thiss

We offer Ono Hundred Dollars reward for
any case of Chtarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrn Cure.
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We the Undersigned. have known F. J.
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hin, nerfect,J honorable in all his business
transact;or~s and financially able to carry
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acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. Price 75c per bot
tie. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02

improbable event Bryan should be elected.
but we don't see any place for the average
voter to secure feparation for the humilia-
ton he must endure in trailing after old
Growers running mate.-Ths OkalonA Mes
eenger.
We have got few men In Minnesota
who hope for recognition II Bryan is
elected; and we wait patiently until
we can get after them.
Their time Il coming. !. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-02
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:
/. 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
} am telephone lines, coal mines, etc.
g. The land, including all nat
, ural sources of wealth. is a 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
H. 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 q
} 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 ra-
ito OF 16 to 1.
s. We demand the levy and col
} lection of graduated tax on in
; comes and inheritances. and a con-
stitutional amendment to secure the
) same. if 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 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, 1900-08-02
WHAT MISSISSIPPI THINKS.

The fusionists, we mean those who still
shout for Bryan, after Towne was turned
down and old Substitute Adlai was put in
his place. must be most complacent set
Of pie hunters. 1t would seem 1t don't
make any difference how contemptuously
the Democracy kick them around. they have
made up their minds to endure anything
n tho vain hope Of securing the promised
bone. Towps. Allen, Butler and old JIM
Weaver may b accorded q place, in the