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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE:
j. A. Temple, minneapolis
BRYAN'S TWO-FACEDNESs.

The following is copied word for word
from statement made by Charles A.
Towne. chairman National Silver Republi-
can party. and nominee of the fusion Pops
for vice-president The statement appeared
In the Kansas City Daily Times of July 4,
the morning the Kansas City convention as
eembled. The Times Is a Democratic pa
Per and favored Bryan's nomination. so that
there Is no doubt of the correctness Of the
report
into the Democratic party had 1T not been
for the advice Of and request Of Mr.. Bryan
and Senator Jones that aid in forming the
Silver Republican party and maintain my
relation with it. with the view Of ulti-
mately leading 1t into the Democratic party
1t was their opinion that 1 could thereby
best aid the Democratic party. They be-
Iieved that many Silver Republicans would
60 back into the Republican party or to the
Populists unless took that course"
What Charley Towne did at the request OF
Bryan and Jones. Maj. Bowler. Owen Aus
are doing for the Democratic push In thi.
state. 1t is their purpose. plan and inten-
tion to ultimately lead the Populists OF the
state into the Democratic party. An Office
for each Is to be the consideration. Part oil
them have been paid-The Jeffersonian.
They are struggling to pay the debt
already incurred, not the debt hereafter
to become due.
There will be none. Think of Owen
Austin and Hotchkiss being elected by
the popular vote to any Office higher
than rat-killer!
Oh. Lord!
Bowler depends upon q man stronger
than himself. He will not ask for the
votes OF the multitude. He will "hide
his naked frailities that suffer by ex.
posture" behind John Lind. But s. M
Owen! And Austin!! And Hotchkiss!!
Away with them. /. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16
DEFENDS BOXERS.

Rev. Thomas Marshall, field secretary OF
the Presbyterian board of foreign missions.
also spoke at the Bible institute. He said
the boxers are the patriots Of China, and
considered a manly thing in any other
country. defending their homes. He said:
spheres OF influence and concessions
are the things which have tended to bring
matters in China to the present crisis Had
the nations OF the world treated the Chinese
IN a proper spirit. and not attempted to
rob them OF their ALL this trouble would
not have risen. Newspapers In every ma
ton have discussed the question OF the
partition Of China, and have selected the
choice spots which their respective govern
ments ought to acquire until the Chinese
began to believe that the dismemberment of
their empire was imminent We can hard
~ blame them If, under the circumstances,
they saw an enemy in every foreigner Now
they are trying to rid their country OF
these foreign devils
The missionaries suffer simp.y as an
incident. They suffer because they are
foreigners. I am proud that the United
States has refused to join in any cowardly
war OF aggression. No matter what we
may think Of the geographical limits OF our
country, every Christian should be an ex-
pansionist as far as the distribution of re-
ligion goes.
The Chinese did quite right to defend
themselves. 1t is just that these nations
which have despoiled China should feel the
wrath of the incensed Chinese RAILWAYS
have been run through their grsyeyards.
and foreigners have done everything they
could to intensity the feeling against their
race. fear for the Chinese in our cities
when the dark veil lifts in China. 1 saw
more Chinese killed in one day in one of
our Western cities than all the foreigners
killedsb by the Chinese until the beginning of
the present trouble. Who, then, can we
truly call the barbarians? '-Record. July Is.
Here Is another man who sees the in
justice OF the war now being forced up
on China. Mr.. Marshall, being himself
an American, naturally thinks the
Americans can do no wrong and If they
should do wrong he would never think
the wrong premeditated. He, like other
Americans. will In time learn that the
American public is being systematically
lied to about the situation in China and
the truth Is being carefully concealed.
American and English troops are in the
van of the march upon Pekin and when
our ministers are safe and in communi-
cation with their governments the
march of invasion still proceeds. Our
administration intends cooperation
with England for the overthrow of the
Chinese empire, while daily denying
such intent to the public here at home.
E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16


The Chinese horror tales that have been
printed in the great daflies are a disgrace
to civilization. They have been numerous
and of every shade ana degree OF horror.
The particulars Of the masacre of the Rus
Sian minister and Of the fortunes OF his
wife and children werss given with many
details But the Russian minister and his
family are stin alive. The way that Ad-
miral Seymour dispatched elis wounded to
keep them from falling into the hands Of
the Chinese was nne piece OF imaginative
writing: but Admiral Seymour came In
with all his wounded. r., There has been
columns OF this sort OF stuh--always fol-
lowed with denunciati6hA Of the Chinese
liars, who were declareA4 tetbe the greatest
absurdity, apparent toshny one who had
read the dispatchs fromvtha' European cor
respondents. Back OF, all this there was
some design. The corraspondents never all
took to lying 1t once like mat that. It 10
probable that most Of these reports were
coneocted in the foreign office OF the
powers' for the purpose Of inducing the
people to sanction their plan for the siic-
ing up Of China.-Neb. independently
The Independent has caught .
glimpse Of the real truth. Many Asso-
ciated Press items are too silly to be
considered seriously for a moment by
any man who thinks for himself
The Associated Press and cable serv-
Ice - In the hands of private British
and American capitalists. The Amsri-
can people have reostyed very little re-
liable information through these chan
nels about the war and tituation in the
Philippines. Nearly allshhe truth given
to the public has come from the pub
lieation In local papers .sof letters writ
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16
SILENT ON SILVER.

In his long acceptance speech at In
dfanapolis, Mr.. Bryan has not a word
to say about the silver question. The
word silver" was used but once in his
whole harangue. and then in an incou-
sequential way.
1t was not so four years ago. Then
everything turned on the safety of the
white metal. 1t was the crown of gold
that was pressed down on the brow of
labor that threatened the life OF the
nation.
Why was this? 1t was because the
East stood listening to his talk. If he
could not be true to silver, under such
circumstances, how far could he be
trusted? ID.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16
A London View Of DonneI1v


The English are just little slow in
nnding out some things that happen in
this country, says the New York Com
mercial Advertiser. Thus the Academy
announces to it's readers, with an nm
complimentary disregard of Mr.. Towne.
that 1gnatius Donnelly is the Populist
candidate for vice-president of the
United States. The Illustrated London
News, not to be more enterprising or
better Informed than it's contemporary.
has just learned that Mr.. Donnelly has
found support for his Baconian theory
IN the inscription on Shakespeare's
tomb. However, what is said in the
News on the subject is so we'll put that
we think it well worth quoting:
"He (Mr. Donnelly) applies to the
rhymes that served 80 well to frighten
illicit bone disturbers the test of what
he calls Bacon's secret cipher. This
produces the disclosure that Francis
Bacon wrote the Marlowe, Greene and
Shakespeare plays Mr.. Dom
AASAAJ AA00S AovO OAROCtSO WOT0 LQau
this. II in the intervals of writing the
works that bear his illustrious name.
and Of discharging the duties Of a some
what laborious Office in the state, Ba-
con could find time to write Shake
speare. Marlowe and Greene, 1 see no
reason why he should not have written
Ben johnson. Beaumont and Fletcher
In short, the whole Elizabethian drama.
Nothing In the shape Of toll Is impos-
sible to such a prodigy. Not only did
he pile Pelion on Ossa by writing
Shakespeare. but with sheer wanton riot
Of intellect he introduced the cryptic
gram into the plays for the Populist
candidate to find out. While his imagi-
nation was in the throes of Lear, Ham
let and what not. his historical con-
science was penning veracious MARIA
tive Of the life and times of Elizabeth,
and Intervening 1t with the blank
verse. The Baconian theorists say it Is
incredible that q man Of Shakespeare's
education could have written his poetry,
but they offer Us in their imaginary
Bacon the most astounding miracle in
human hlstory.s
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16
Orator OF the Platte. -


Orator OF the Platte. - ~
Happily the campaign comm1ttee had taken
one precaution against aAn, absolute fasco.
They selected for Mr.. fBrNn's notification
the y, same name day day that the improved Order Of
oils. Had the encampmenA been held at
Kalamazoo or Kankakee on that date, Mr..
Bryan would have been notified at Kalama-
300 or Kankakee-the latterprefered If rail-
way rates could have besn. arranged to suit.
1t is shrewd guess that IL Bryan at
tracted 5000 persons to Indianapolis last
Tuesday. the Improved, Order of Red Men
attracted the other 10, 900.
But even in this carefully prepared
and written out speech, there was not
one word about silver.
He talked Of everything else under
the sun but there was a taboo on silver.
I. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16
PoPULIsTs BALK AT STEVENSON


The most important question that
confronts the Bryanites at this time is
not will the German-American Demo-
Gratis swallow the rotten money plank, -
but will the Populists swallow Steven
son? There are abundant reasons for
believing that Stevenson is a bitter pill
for the Populists. His political career
does not disclose the slightest sympathy
for anything in the talAmity creed Of
Populist faith. The nearest he can get
to subscription to lthadtenets Of Pop
ulism is his formal assent to the rear
platform position of tha silver plank in
the Kansas City dedhraaion.
The disappointment Of the Populists
over the failure of tha Bryan convention
to name Towne for vice-president is too
great for ooncealment ,or Cancellation.
There is balm for Popu]ist grief in the
oily utterances Of Mrs Townes declina-
ton. They are disgEun5}ed and indig-
nant and nothing Ms,, Towne can say
about the exceptionally keen political
judgment" of the. Populist leaders will
mollify their bitterness. Neither does
it reconcile them to their disappoint-
ment to assure them that Mr.. Steven
sons career has long, been an exempli-
fcation of Populist principles.
There is no doubt now that the Popu-
lists received assurances from Mr.. Bry-
khok I'D OF
the Sioux Falls convention for vice
president he would be Endorsed by the
Bryan convention at Kansas City. No
one doubts that Mr.. Bryan desired to
carry out this pledge in good. faith. but
the convention at Kansas City decided
that in Mr.. Bryan Populists had an able
representative and advocate of their
principles and that the man who WELD
ed the ak under the second Cleveland
administration was needed to give the
ticket the flavor of old-fashioned con-
servative Democracy.
For these reasons the Bryan and Pop
ulist leaders are going to have trouble
in carrying out their plans Of fusion.
Mr.. Towne has performed his part of
the program cleverly and skillfully. He
has declined the nomination given him
at Sioux Falls and has made a most
eloquent plea for harmonious support of
Bryan and Stevenson. But no matter
what plans the leaders may formulate
for effecting fusion it seems certainty
that the Populist vote cannot be deliv-
cred to Bryan and Stevenson as 1t would
have been to Bryan and Towne, and
without the Populist vote it is needless
to say that there could be no hope of
carrying a Western state for Bryan and
Stevenson.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16

Gen. Joseph Wheeler Poiats Out the
Need of Being Ready for War.
CHICAGO, Aug. 12-Gen. Joseph Wheeler
made strong plea for the standing army
In his convocation address at the University
of Chicago.
He declared that the most certain way to
avoid the desolation and the horrors of war
was to be constantly ready with men and
arms for. every emergency; that the only
security for peace was to be always pre-
pared and ready to engage in war.
At the close Of the address Gen. Wheeler
was cheered by the students. many Of whom
are from the Southern states. and when the
university band struck up the tune of
Dixie" the enthusiasm rose to a high
pitch.
Gen. Wheeler is soldier by profess
sion. He is educated for war as other
men are educated for the ministry or
for the legal profession. Abolish war
and it would seriously interfere with his
business. His salary would be in great
danger Of being cut OF unless he could
work some canned beef racket and get
retired on full pay la Eagan.
OF course, Wheeler believes in war
and as for its desolation and horrors,
these are experienced and realized on
the firing line by the $13 per month
men. In the hour of battle the shoulder
straps marking the high rank of gen
eral are usually found on some emf
nence at the rear with field glasses in
stead of rifle.
1t is very natural for an officer of
high rank and big salary. viewing the
landscape and movement Of troops
through field glasses from some safe
height in the rear. to hold Gen. Wheel
er's views about war. Possibly in war
distance lends enchantment to the
view
We do not believe the great mass of
folling poor, subject to draft, and who
make up the ranks Of privates, will ever
become: very much enchanted over the
certainty of compulsory service in a
large standing army.
When Americans are called upon to
fight for their country large percent
age of the soldiers are willing vol
nuteers. When they are called upon to
wage war of conquest and criminal az
gression In foreign lands the sentiment
Is different. Such wars must resort to
the draft: No one cried imperialism in
the wars of 1776, 1872 or 1861 because
patriotism was fighting for liberty and
for home.
The difference between those wars
and the wars of today lies in the mo-
tives behind the wars,
Our former wars were prompted nv
patriotism and love of liberty and Of
home
Present wars rest upon greed, desire
for conquest and reckless determination
10 loot, and our own working people
Will be the final victims. e. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16

Democratic Press Against the Ticket
The New York World has been care
fully watching the columns of the lead
Ing Democratic and Independent jour-
nails since the Kansas City convention
and gives the following summary of its
observations:
"The first significant fact which sup
ports the desire of the overborne ma
jority Of the national convention to
shelve 16 to l, is that not a single
Democratic journal of any consequence
In the entire East or in the Central
West, so far as we have observed, de-
tends the free coinage plank, while even
In the South several of the ablest Dem
ocratic journals condemn it."
The Charlotte IN. CO. Observer an in
fluential daily paper, squarely bolts the
ticket, saying:
'The reafflrmation of the Chicago
platform in general terms would have
been bad enough, but it's two most noxi-
GUS features were singled out and en-
phasized when free silver and govern
ment by Injunction were specifically in
dorsed."
The Richmond Times says that this
substitution of Bryan's personal views
for the principles of the Democratic
party dissolves the bands of the Demo-
cratic party in a way that they have
never been dissolved before"
The Galveston News, the Chattanoo-
70 Times, the Knoxville Banner, the
Baltimore Sun and the News, and other
Southern Democratic journals of a
character and ability base their refusal
to support the ticket puon the same
grounds.
In the Northwest, the st. Paul Globe.
the leading Democratic paper of Mime
sofa, says under the head of "A Crime
Repeated" that I'm 1896 the party went
blindly to its fate; it goes now openly
and because Of It's domination by one
man." The Indianapolis News, the
Burlington Gazette. the Detroit Free
Press and other strong Western pa
pers refuse to support the ticket. the
latter saying, Strong and effective in
many planks. the Democratic party is
cursed by one with q curse that silence
in the campaign will not overcome"
In New England, the Hartford Times
and the New Haven Register
last says: Zone can almost believe
that the election is already over" Tho
Manchester Union and the Providencei
Journal and Boston Herald, indepena-
emit, repudiate the ucket-the latter pa
Per actively supporting Mckinley.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16

THE GATHERING TO GREET BRYAN.
nomination, and he selected Indian
apolis as the place. The whole people
of the United States knew he was nomi-
mated weeks before, but that was not
enough. He must be told over again.
A Chicago paper thus tells the tale:
Mr.. Bryan's home is in Nebraska. and the
proper place to notify him was on the
porch of his pretty little villa in Lincoln.
But that did not suit Mr.. Bryan's notions
Of the importance OF the event. The rail-
way facilities to Lincoln were not adequate
to accommodate the multitudes that he i'm
agined would gather at indianapolis to be
spellbound by his speech Of acceptance Be-
sides. in Lincoln Mr.. BryAn's voice is 60
familiar no one will go around the cor
ner to listen to 1t. Political capital was to
be coined from the tremendous outpouring
Of the voters Of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan,
Illinois and Wisconsin. Mr.. Bryan was ex-
pected to bag the electoral vote Of five
sovereign states by one blast upon his Inn
perial hugls horn. just as he captured the
Chicago convention upon q silver one four
years ago. =.
So his campaign managers reasoned, and
they made all their preparations according
~. and billed Bryan's coming like q cir
GUS. They bulldo1ed the railways center
ing at Indianapolis into granting half rates
for the week Of Mr.. Bryan's appearance
When the railway passenger agents de-
INJURED. they threatened to carry 1.-The
greatest show on cath" to some rival town
Everything was done on a scale Of 60 ,o0a
outside visitors, and the Western states
we're drummed with the slogan, Secure
your rooms early, or you will have to sleep
on the streets" .
Notification day came, and with It Bryan
and Stevenson. one marching club from
Cincinnati and one from Chicago-but the
crowd Of ENTHUSIASTIC Bfyanftes, where wa
It? ''s, -
It is estimated that there were Is oos
strangers In Indianapolis Tuesday-14.oo(
OF whom awaited themselves of cheap fares
to see the 900 crowd that didn't turn up
at the Military park. where the notification
ceremonies were held, less than 1000 per
sons assembled to hear an S,0O0-wor essay
on bugaboo. And the matchless leader 81
Lincoln read his speech to ears that Ian
tu1shod foe ne c1arion hlAsk OF the r..
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16

NEW PLANS FOR BEATING CHINESE.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug 8-Jules
Tantove, of this city, has invented power
full sun-glass, by means Of which he says
warships can be melted at a distance of
nine miles, and soldiers can be roasted to
death before being able to get within cannon
shot of their enemy. With his device Mr.
Tantove believes 1t would be an easy matter
for 40 or so American soldiers to defeat the
entire Chinese army.
A very pretty plan, indeed. But how
about the Chinese attacking the COM
bination at night?
They would utterly destroy the whole
thing before sun up Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16
POPULIsTs IN SESSION.

CHICAGO. Aug. 9.-The Populist national
executive committee held two sessions here
today. but contrary to expectations, Senator
Marion Butler. Of North Carolina. the chair
man OF tho national committee. was not
present. and NO one seemed to know whether
he would come to Chicago for the meeting,
Harry Tracy. Of Texas. was the only mem
Der Of the committee who was not preseut,
The committee ;anno0nced informally OF
Charles "A. Towne's withdrawal as Populist
candidate for vice president. but the mem
beers did not tx upon q date for the callins
together Of the entire national COMMITTEES.
The executive committee has no power to
MI the vacancy. This must be done by the
national committee, and 1t Is apparently ex-
pccted that It will meet before long and
select Adiai e. Stevenson ~ the Populist
candidate for vice president. There seemed
to be good deal az apprehension among the
members Of the committee In regard ia
the attitude Of Senator Butler on the ytce
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-16

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