The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-08-28
WHOLE NUMBER 1902.

under which men may earn for themselves and
their families a wholesome subsistence and =
fair competence.
Every convention Of either party Is prevent
nounccd friend Of tho laboring man or anti.
inon0polist to high Office. Witness the fate Of
Mr.. Thurman. the most accomplished Demo
cratic statesman OF all, In the convention call
Ing itself Democratic. at Chicago
What, then, II tho remedy for these 40 mon-
strous evilsy How can the people, the true de-
ment. to make laws to protect their own inter-
csts, and TO redress these great wrongs. and TO
cause the plunderers to dlsgorge their robber-
The cry has gone forth: II tho people put .
third candidate In the field those who vote for
him will throw away their votes. Dc II 80.
The voter will do worse than throw away his
vote II he votes for either candidate Of the mo-
nopolists. Such vote thereby perpetuatcs the
rnle Of his oppressors without protest, II by his
vote he puts or keeps either In power
The same argument was used In 1913 to the
Abolitionists, that they should not vote for Van
Burcn to establish free soil. Aud again the same
cry went out in 1852 when the Whig and Demo-
cratic parties made the same platform on the
slavery question to crush out the Abolition party
forever. But the trne-heartcd Free -sOilers stood
Arm, and appeared, II YOU please, to throw away
their candidate with only four States In oppose
tion. yet In 1856 the Free -soilers. the despised
third party, elected Fremont, who was counted
ont by the returning boards Of that day, bnt
the Whig party was destroyed. And in 1860, by
the third party Of 1882. Lincoln WAS elected and
the Democratic party was worse than DESTROYED:
rebellion. left Il then to serve the country as
now do.
Fear not The people will not have to wait eight
years for their triumph Eyerytning including
railroads and tclcgraphs to distribute intel
ligcnce.
u politics y in else there T.
must sow and he cant reap when he ought TO
be sowing. and the Presidential crop IL harvest
ed only once In four years.
In framing your electoral ticket, make fu-
sion In all the States with the supposed minor
ity. and make II upon this theory not that you
are going to vote for the electors of any candi-
date opposed TO your interests, not that the
friends Of the other candidate are going to vote
for yours. but agree that YOU will run the same
electoral ticket provided the electors who COM
who will he bound by their honorable under
takings. which In all there In that binds the
electoral college to vote In any direction: and
then have II agreed that tho electoral vote of the
State shall be divided In the electoral college
according To the number OF votes thrown for
the other candidate on the Same ticket. The
number OF votes which each candidate gets will
be known with substantial accuracy long be-
fore the official count Is made Therefore you
will have every incentive to vote for your candi-
cast the more electoral votes viii your candidate
get, and the less will the other have. And those
who are voting for the same electors with
YOU will throw as many votes as they can for
their candidate IN order that he shall have as
large share Of the electoral vote Of the State a.
possible, neither In fact voting for the candidate
Of the other. Thus you will show your strength
and hold the balance OF power.
Organize In every state. and present at the
polls an electoral ticket. and support It with
your votes.
springs to the mind the political machines which
have been created. cancnses, conventions. and
delegates who can De bought and sold IN the
market like sheep: the contrivanccs by which
the peoples enemies have conspred to take
away their rights.
Ry that word mean nothing OF that sort. Or
ganiTe In your workshop; agree to vote together
for one ticket. There need to be no great and
expensive meetings. You can vote together
without brass band just rs well as you can
tion Of your enemies to deceive you into follow
ing their banner and marching to their music.
and into not voting for your own interests, and
'f s5e peope stand and
vote together, and sow the seeds of great and
victorious party, II not at this election. ut the
next. y yon do not no s SOW now, you will mot no, reap M
not been already sown, and will fructify by yonr
votes into substantial II not complete victory
ut this election
The producers, the workingmen. the Green
back men. and Anti MonopotstS are already or
sanizea. and II men will but vote their convic-
tons. irrespective Of deluding party cries. the
people can achieve victory now, and there Is
no power on earth that can prevent 1t. Let US,
then, organize Peoples party" representing
every shade VI political belief that true DEM
loyal TO her tree Institutions, wishing for her
prosperity and glory, which alone can he had
when tho people are prosperous. when the Ia
division Of the i production Of enterprise and
labor, can or ought to hold.
II seems to me certain that at the worst, even
II ths infancy q our .h We a oan oa
ties, so thai, II We Tan not wholly prevent bad
anu unjust legislation, we can force them to
band together to enact II, and thus show them
selves In form, ~ they arc In fact, contcdcratcd
against the people.
In many States, II we exert our strength.
We already hold tho balance Of power. In
quite one hundred Congressional districts less
than 1000 votes will determine whether friend
Of labor and the people or the tool Of monopoly
shall have seat In Congress- Let us organize
therefore In every district to see tot that no
man goes to Congress from any district who IL
not with us and OF US, strong enough In moral
rectitnde to stand for the rights OF the people.
-unawed by power, unboucht by gain.
Again. In balanced States make al alliance
with whichever OF the other parties will choose
50 TO do Minortties naturally Hravitatc toward
take others to yourselves upon an agreement
that both parties shall vote the same ticket De
particular to see to II that your own friends are
sent 10 tho 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 monopoiics, and Il
these will stand together, they can get that pro-
lection In spite Of the monopolies For example,
In the State Of New York as elsewhere, tho pro-
duccrs, and traders, and consumers need cheap
transportation and competition between water
! borne freight and the railroads. The laborins
men and toiling women want a 5-cent-fare law
for the Elevated Railroad The mechanics need
= good lien law. All need Law to limit the
hours of labor. whether woman toiling in
mill or standing behind counter, or conduo-
tor or driver standing on car.
III anybody tells YOU that this Ii class legsla
tiun, reply IL him, Yes, we know II; are leg
islating for our class little while. for il is the
| first time we have had an opportunity. The
other class have had legislation enough to last
them for loo years.