The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-07-26
THE CAMPAIGN ELSEWHERE.

THE CAMPAIGN ELSEW HENEs a
We feel very much encouraged as to
the success of our ticket by reading the
letters which appear in the Missouri
World, Paul ]. Dixon, editor. They are
from every part of the country and all
breathe the same spirit. AS the World
says:
| the last ten days than during any like per-
| iod for a year, II not for four years. We
are encouraged.
There is a revolution stirring in Kan
sas among the unorganized Populists.
Read the following:
Editor Missouri World: Well, the great
Democratic national convention for 1900 at
Kansas City Is over, and the dear fusion
Pops are Just where they deserve to be-in
the soup-this Is just what we have been
looking for and. 1t Is just right. Now let
the fusion Pops think for a moment and it
should not take any longer: Shall we get
into the Democratic party and call ourselves
Democrats, or shall we continue to call our
selves Populists. and vote the Democratic
ticket after such a slap in the face as was
given In Kansas City? The honorable way
| to do would be to either call ourselves DEM
ocrats and hereafter be known as Demo-
Gratis, or come out f1at-footed and resent the
way we were snubbed at Kansas City by or
ganizing all over the state Barker and Don
nelly clubs and work like beavers from now
until election to redeem our state and party
from the foul stains of fusion. Let this be
done at once. and Kansas Populists will
again come to the front, which is where
they naturally belong. Brothers, we have
been wallowing for the last four years in the
slough OF fusion. has not the Kansas City
convention opened our eyes? Arouse, shake
OF this slothful do-nothing feeling that OPP
presses you, scrape off the mud and slime Of
fusion and say with old Hickory, by the
eternal Then let us go to work at once
to again take up the exalted position we oc-
cupied prior to 1895 when we fell from our
high position. We must not censure the
Democrats. We. for one, say they treated us
Just as well as we deserved. and Just as we
expected they would. The time for talk is
and vim until the polls close on next cleo
ton day, and you may be surprised at the
result 8 pT.ACK
Manhattan. Kas., July 10, 1900
The Missouri World has this novel
proposition to make:
All our patrons and all who read this who
voted for Bryan in '96, and who intend
to vote for Barker and Donnelly please
write US to that effect 80 as to show re-
in Israel. Ye editors start the bali to
rolling. We voted for Bryan in 80 and
Will vote for Barker and Donnelly in 1900.
Must say though that we voted for Bryan
IN 96 because there was no Pop candidate
III the neld, and our convention, against
our earnest protest. fixed matters SO we
could not we'll do otherwise than vote for
Bryan But things are different now We
can vote our principles, and will do so
as freely and as cheerfully as though we
knew our votes would elect our man. Let
us hear from all of you Tell the Pen
DOVS a ko tho
Tor Bryan but will vote for Barker to write
us few words on the subject for publi-
cation.
Then here is another letter from the
same source.
EHJah Brown, Chanute, Kan.-I guess
Will not go to the election this fall, as they
nave no straight ticket to VOTE 1 voted
lor Bryan once and have been ashamed of
1t ever since. 1 wish was in a white mans
country, I could vote for Barker and
Donnelly. indorse the whole middle of
! the road platform.-Missouri World.
(From the number of letters we are get
ting from the boys in the trenches in Kan
sas; expressing desire to vote for Barker
and Donnelly, we believe they will have a
Barker and Donnelly ticket in the field in
that state. Ed. World
From that able paper the Faribault
Jeffersonian, we copy two important
items:
FERNEY, S. D.. July g. 19O0-Editor
Ruralist We who left the Mid Road on &C.
count of principle, being willing to remove
party prejudice for the welfare of the re-
form movement because we thought W. J.
Bryan represented the new Democratic party
and that we would get reform through them,
find ourselves up a tree. Bryan barely
saved the 16 to plank, and his party will
never allow him to carry it out. Our enc
mics have prophesied rightly. and 1 for
one stand corrected. If Bryan could die
tate the Is to l why could he not dictate
shown our willingness to sacrifice all for
principle. Now let see II our Brown
county Democrats are willing to do as
much. A POP.-Ruralist
TO this is appended the following
comment from the pen of the editor of
the Jeffersonian:
We copy the above from the Dakota Ru-
ralist, owned and edited by w. E. Kidd. the
chairman of the POpulist state central COM
mittee. 1t is from the issue of July IL and
not one word in it about the Democrat ma
t1onal convention neither Auditory or con-
demnatory. Fusion Pops do feel sick in
The second extract to which we refer
is as follows:
The Nonconformist Of Omaha finds it hard
70 swallow the dose prepared for the fusion
Pops by the Democrats at Kansas City. as
the following clipping from last weeks issue
OF that paper will show:
The Democrats acted as mean as thew
knew how when they turned down Towne
at Kansas City, and those fellows know
how to be awful mean when they give their
whole minds to it. The compromising Dem
ocrats in that convention who would rather
have two-bt Office than home in heaven
got SO mad when they had to declare for
IL to l that for revenge they slapped the
silver men in the face by rejecting their
alliance and turning down their candidate
for vice-president. They did this thing
with every possible indignity towards their
allies The Democratic body snatchers went
into the Illinois graveyard, dug up corpse,
breathed into it the breath Of life and made
1t into candidate for vice-president
stevenson is a beautiful candidate to be
offered to reformers. He stood with Grover
Cleveland in his whole fight to degrade
silver by repeating the Sherman law He
stood with Cleveland in every measure of
his administration and was considered as
good a gold bug there was in the bunch
until the Democratic party abandoned Cleve-
land, and then he deserted his ancient
friend and hurried to catch on to the coat
tail of the departing Democracy.
I'VE asked the Democrats for a live man
and they gave us corpse-we asked for a
friend OF the people, and
asked for fish and they gave us a serpent
we asked for genuine Jeffersonian Demo-
crat and they gave us suit of Grover
Cleveland's cast off clothing"
The Custer County Independent, published
at Galloway, Neb., declines to longer sup
port Bryan and puts up the names of Bar
ker and Donnelly. In making this change