The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-01-17
OUR FRIENDS.

We have resumed Our editorial work
upon the Representative, after only q
brief rest, Influenced largely by the re-
quests of our many friends, the wishes
Of our state central committee expressed
at their meeting held in this office Dec.
&c, and expressions from friends of the
reform press In recent Issue of the
Kentucky Tribune, our national chair
man, 10 A. Parker, says:
e. A. Twitchell associate editor of the
Representative, Ignatius Donnely's paper,
has resigned. and quit the editorial tripod
for the present. A good, brave and
to the great regret of all who have been
both pleased and edited by his writings.
The kindest wishes of all the true Popu-'
lists will go with Mr. Twitchell, the ''E. A.
T." of the Representative and they will
bid him "Godspeed" in any new under
taking. When such true and tried men
Frank Burkitt and E. A. Twitchell quit the
editorial chair it fills us with regrets, and
makes us feel like:
lone who treads alone, some banquet hall
deserted;
Whose lights are fed. whose garlands dead,
and all but few departed
Kentucky Tribune.
At about the same date we found in
the editorial columns of the Madison
Lake. New Era the following friendly
notice:
EA Twitchell. who has been the assist
ant editor of the Representative, has re-
signed his position He has held it for
over three years, and not one issue during
that period has been tame or common place.
e. A. T." at the end of articles was as
familiar as the famous Il. d. Mr.. witch
ell as a writer and an author has we'll
earned fame with Representative and
form readers generally. The New Era
wishes him unbounded success in whatever
line of work he may take up.
Such expressions have not been con-
fined entirely to the reform press. The
Minneapolis Journal, in it's issue of Jan.
5, speaks in similar strain. 1t says:
Up to the day of his death 1gnatius
Donnelly was the editor of the Representa-
tie, the misnamed advocate of the doctrine
of direct legislation and organ of the Mid
road, simon pure. no half breed Popui1st
party. Associated with him was E. A. witch
ell, who in fact has done large part of
the work on the paper for some time. 1t
would seem, therefore, as if Twitchell were
the logical successor of the sage. Twitcheil
sat at the feet of Donnelly, learned OF
him. sympathized with him and is no doubt
better prepared than almost any one who
could be chosen to carry on the Donnelly
idea.
Later, after Mr. Donnelly's DEATH we
clip from J. r. loves paper another
brief comment, under caption following:
FUTURE OF THE REPRESENTATIVE
The name of Donnelly and the Represen-
tative has been intimately interviewer for
about 10 years, but since he has gone to
his reward it must have new editor and
publisher or cease to exist. We cannot con-
ceive how there can be any doubt in the
minds of the friends of the paper as to who
ought to succeed to that most responsible
position. Mr.. Twitchell has had practical
charge of affairs for three and a half years,
and is a writer of force and in complete
harmony with the reform movement and
the principles the Representative was Great
ed to champion. We, therefore, most earn
estly hope that Mr.. E. A. Twitchell may
succeed to the editorship and business of
this great national reform newspaper
We are grateful for the kind wishes
and sentiments of these friends and it Is
an inspiration to renewed effort, as we
again take up the burdens and the pleas
ures as we'll of editing reform paper.
We frankly confess that when we as
sumo the whole duty of editing this pa
per acceptably to those who have for
over eight years weekly read the words
of one of Americas greatest writer's. we
feel like approaching the task with
head bowed in reverence to the genius
that has preceded us.
We can only promise to do the best
We can to rake after the great garnerer
of reform truths who has gone before,
and to the readers of the paper humbly
submit the fruits of our best effort.
E. A. T.