Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
The Peonle's PARTY.

whole peOple.-NGttOfl0 Economist.
The Peoples Party.
EDITOR Kansas Fdrnaer:-Will you
pardon word from one on the
retired list" relative to the new
peoples party? This is. movement
OF vast Importance if it can be made
successful. Let the report go out after
election that the vote of Kansas has
been changed from a pluarlity of $4,000
for the h1gh-tax and high-priced money
party to $4,000 majority for the peoples
party, and the effect would be felt not
only at Washington but at the capital
of every civilized government ON the
globe. 1t would be worth more to the
cause of labor and the people than a
thousand strikes and labor riots,
because it would demonstrate the
power of the ballot in righting wrongs.
And the wrongs would be righted.
Such vote would put every congress
man in the entire west and south to
work for the western and southern
interests, instead of Wall street and
Pittsburg. The peoples party would
not have to wait for relief till their own
members took their seats, but they
would find the work well advanced
before March 4, 1891. Such being it's
Importance, no mistakes should be
made. The peoples party should be
no close communion party, but as broad
in it's invitation for voters and
co-workers as the name would imply.
Let all the people be made welcome who
can stand on the platform of the indus
trial classes adopted at st. Louis. One
resolution or expression at the late con-
ventiOn has bad look. 1t is to the
effect that no nominee of the peoples
party should accept the nomination of
any other party. This looks too narrow
for peoples party or for the emer-
gency. If, when Il ticket shall have
been selected of good and true men who
stand erect on the St. Louis platform,
the union labor party chooses TO bring
out it's machine and endorse the ticket,
must the candidates treat them with
discourtesy and reject their nomina-
ton? So of the democratic party. If,
when the democrats find that every
plank Of the st. Louis platform is taken
from Jefferson, jackson, Calhoun, Ben
ton, and the founders of their party,
they should decide to endorse not only
the peoples platform but the ticket also,
and operate their party machinery for
its election, must the nominees repel
them? So of d1saffected members of
the G.. "A. r. If their posts see fit
officially to join in the procession of
the people for the people. must they
be insulted and be ordered out of the
column? Also, there are scores of
republican newspapers that disagree
with the plutocratic, Wall street policy
of congress, and should they, for the
purpose of administering a rebuke, fall
into line, must they be repulsed?
In 1854, congress removed all the bar
riers to the progress of black slavery,
and it started on its march via Kansas
to Bunker Hill monument; and a few
men, in 1854, '55 and '56, concluded
that they would keep it out of Kansas.
These men were of all parties and
shades of opinion. Some we're yankee
and some liberal wings, some bourbon
and some barn-burner democrats, some
were liberty party Or free soil men and
some abolitionists, but all were for a
free state in Kansas. They accepted the
situation and adopted a platform with
only one plank, namely free state. No
questions were asked as to party affilia-
tiOns, and all were equally welcome to
the communion table. So, now, when
Kansas proposes to check the advance
of white slavery, let all who will join
the army of industrial freedom be
welcome in this first and most import
ant encounter. G. ROBINSON.