The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-19

hundred congressional districts, less than 900
votes will determine whether a friend of labor
| and the people, or the tool of monopoly shall
| have a seat in Congress Let us organize, there
fore, in every district to see to it that no man
goes to Congress from any district who is not
with us and of us; strong enough in moral recti-
tude to stand for the rights of the people s'un-
awed by power and unbought by gain
Again, In balanced States make an alliance
with whichever of the other parties will choose
| so to do. Minorities naturally gravitate toward
| each other. Give them some State officers and
1 take others to yourselves upon agreement
that both parties shallvote the same ticket Be
particular to see to it that your own friends are
sent to the State Legislatures There are many
! States where laws are needed for the protection
! of the workingmen, the farmer and the mer-
| chant against oppressors and monopolies. and if
/ these will stand together, they get that pro-
lection in spite of the monopolist For exam
| pie, in the State of New York as elsewhere, the
producers and traders and consumers need cheap
transportation and competition between water
borne freight and the railroade. The laborlng
mon and telling women want a hye-cent-faFe law
for the elevated railroad. The mechanics need
| good lien law. Ali need a law to limit the
hours of labor, whether a woman toiling in
mill or standing behind a counter, or conduc-
! tor or driver standing on a car.
1t any body tells you that this is class legisla-
ton, reply to him, Eyes, we know it; we are
legislating for our class little while for it is the
first time we have hadan opportunity. The other
class has had legislation enough to last them for
a hundred years"
/ To the Greenback Labor party and the Anti Monop
olist organization, and to the laboring men:
had accepted the selection of your conven-
| lions as candidate for President. Anxious for
! the success of the principles which you repre-
sent, in which, as you know, 1 so heartily con
| Cured, presented, as you have learned, as your
representative, your platforms to the Democratic
convention, in the hope, if it possible, that
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party, which should be composed of your friends
and allies
For reasons that have made apparent, your
| principles We're rejected and your alliance
spurned. Personally | have no grievance with
the convention. | was treated with every
| courtesy and consideration by its officers and
members, for which | take pleasure here and
now to express obligations. But for you have
a grievance. The Democracy has left you to
fight the battle against the oppressors of the PEG
| pie alone We will fight the battle of the people
together in the best manner we can; and pledge
| to you all that have of remaining strength IN
declining years to do all that in me lies in behalf
of the principles that you and | hold dear and
without the early prevalence and adoption OF
which this government cannot stand.
You will have one advantage in your candidate,
| you will have to spend no time in defending him.
/ His doings have been known to the country for
more than quarter of century. Every act of
1 his life has been under microscope lighted by
| the lurid fires of hate and SANDER He is yet
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policy to recant, and no just charge to explain
for what he has done either in peace or war.
OF personal advantage to myself nothing can
accrue. am too old to make selfish plans for
the future yet hope, my last political act, if
| it so be, to do some service to the people and
mankind in calling back the government to the
! purpose for which it was framed by our fathers
Ia government of the people, a government by
the many, and not by the few, nor for the inter
ests of the few.
To the Democratic Party of Massachusetts,
AS your representative carried the principles
which you have twice over enuncated as your
i platform in your State conventions, and asked
| that they be adopted by the national convention.
That they acceptable to the people know,
4 for they sustained you to victory once in FORM
| and again to victory in fact, by larger vote
than Massachusetts, ever gave any defeated can
| didate for chief magistrate-38 600 more than
| our choice for President General Hancock got
! two years before. | had hoped to see the party
of the people. which should be the true inter
4 probation of the word democracy, adopt that
/ platform and go on to victory under it, and
i carry out its benefcent professions in behalf of
the weak and lowly who need protection at the
hands of a true democratic government
To withdraw as much as possible all personal
considerations from interfering with my duties
as your representative in upholding your cause
and carrying forward your principles / did not
] permit my name to come before the convention
in candidature, although 1 am instructed that
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unanimous choice of the Democratic people of
! our State.
! The convention, for reasons and under circum-
stances that have hereinbefore stated, rejected
i your principles, spurned your plantform and,
] instead of taking any statesman of the Democra-
/ cy nominated as your candidate gentleman
whom, two years ago, there were not forty voters
! in your ranks knew lived on earth. / cannot be
bound by the~action of such convention so re-
gardless of the interests OF the people and of
1 Democratic usages, and so told that body.
i Party allegiance carried Ito such extent is
1 neither Democratic nor useful / SHALL there
fore, unite myself with the laboring men and the
/ true Democracy of the country to do my en-
deavor with them to bring back the government
i into control of the people, and / invite every
good citizen, of whatever political faith, to join
| the Peoples party, to purify and reform the
administration and redress the wrongs done by
oppressive legislation
There are some who call themselves Demo
Gratis that | would little rather would not come
with us; they are not of US. To the honest and
4 fairminded Democrats who have acted with me,
but now believe their duty lies in an opposite di-
rection bid kindly political farewell until
their conscientious patriotism shall bring them
back, in the near future, to labor with me again
in the peoples cause admitting that if | saw not
too wisely, saw better than they did the neces
sity for change from party to country
LOWELL, Mass, Aug IL, 1884
GNoTE-I have issued this address at an earlier day
than had intended at the desire of many trusted and
valued friends, but somewhat against my own judy
/ ment, because l think that the peoples campaign
should be short sharp and decisive one and should
not be begun in fact, except perhaps skrmsh or
two, until thirty days later; and had hoped
to have had the advantage Of distinct statement of