The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01
Organization
Department.

direct letters for this column to DR.
H. B. Fay, II Washington avenue south,
Minneapolis, Mimi
At our late annual committee
meeting Messrs. Hendricks and
Larson handed to Mr.. Peter Max,
the treasurer, $500, expressly to-
wards printing in the Swedish Ian
guage an address to the public. Since
then Mr.. c. ]. Arntzen has had 1000 ad-
dresses struck of, at his own expense,
In the Norwegian language. Any de-
string the latter should address Mr.. c.
j. Arntzen, Wegdahl, Mimi, or myself.
l have just received a request from
Committeeman John Hendricks. of
Bradford, Isanti Co., asking me to reply
in my column of the Representative to
letter Of A. P. Yngve in the Cam
bridge Independent. and send copies for
distribution. This I have about COM
pleted. but owing to lack of room in
this issue, l must wait till next week
before printing it.
Committeeman Hendricks has thus
given me q good idea. 1t is this: Let
all readers who desire any particular
subject written up, of interest to our
party, mail me their request. State
how many and what points you wish
treated, for what kind of readers you
desire it. This l will do in any Ian
guage. Then If you accompany the re-
quest with as many dollars, for Treas
urer MaX-twO to five-accOrding to the
length of the desired article, and how
many thousands you wish printed to
distribute, you will be the means of do
ing untold good. Thus no one, however
limited, but what can address audiences
of thousands Thus we can increase the
number of intelligent voters without be-
ing put under obligations to the rail-
roads, without effecting a secret under
standing with the Tammany Democrats
of New York city, without-but the list
of Office seekers is to long to mention.
We are glad to see by the Minneapolis
Times and Journal that the Hennepin
county 'fusionists" of the last campaign
met at Masonic Temple last Friday
evening; and, mirable dictu, voluntarily
took upon themselves the name Mid
road Populists" title they had
long derided. They Endorsed H. ]. O.
Reed for mayor and John Lind for gov
ernor.
Then on Saturday we were glad to
meet Paul Fontaine at the Windsor
hotel, St. Paul, who asked the unneces-
sary question: If we would abandon
our own organization if they should be-
come themselves the real, Independent
Peoples party?"
With bubbling JOY over these develop
ments we rushed to Prof T. J. Cation
with the special request that he fill out
one of our nominating referendum bal
We hope Prof. Cation will grant us the
privilege of publishing in this column
next week his idea, as thus expressed,
of what a real Peoples party ticket
should be for 1900. Likewise, we here
with call on H. J. o. Reed and Paul
Fontaine. BY silence, we must assume
them fusionists still.
The man who mailed me referendum
ballot from Montana for Barker and
Donnelly, and for J. A. Shedd, of Will
low Creek, ommitted to send me his
own name. Please do SO now.
Oakland, Freedom Co., Mimi, Jan. rs.
Well, Mr.. Fay, you plan is teaching us
that we do not know as much about
voting as we thought we did.
l presented blank tickets in The Rep
resentative to several who used to
claim some Independent Populist blood
in them, but it made them nervous when
they could not name q single man for
the offices. They appeared to feel as
Wigfal, Of Texas, when he said in con-
gress, in about 1856, that the worse sin
was the sin of Ignorance" 1t even
made me grunt, and then l could not
fill out single ticket, because there
are so many Judases in camp and per-
haps I have blundered in so much.
Doctor, your plan of voting is a grand
thing. Perhaps you folks would never
have thought of the way unless you
were true patriots. and saw this fine
republic going down to He'll on a tobog-
an slide.
If we never win we can hold the elec-
trio light Of truth so the poor, suffering
millions can see to swim ashore some
dark, blizzardy night.
If this plan of thinking how to vote
does not restore justice, it is hard to
tell what will. Whether you folks win
or not, your names are blessed.
With respect,
T. R. MORGAN,
II county organizers will send to us
this week information as to what names
are preferred or are running ahead In
the referendum balloting they are TAX
ing for the different Offices, with the re-