The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1891-06-12
SOME THIRD PARTY HISTORY.

There is nothing, as yet appears. in
the Peoples movement inaugurated in
Cincinnati to stir leaf or bend a twig
in the forest of federal politics.
ON Feb. ~, 1873, in the city of Toledo,
o. (Frank w. Hughes of Pennsylvania
presiding, the far famed National Peo-
pies party of that year was ushered
into existence with as much clamor and
tumult as accompanied the birth of the
Peoples party at the other end of the
Buckeye state on May 20, thirteen years
later.
The editor of The REPUBLICAN, at
that time connected with the daily
press of Toledo, reported that conven-
tion, in which s'Brick" Pomeroy, Dick
Trevellick, Jesse Harper, Sam Cary,
solon Chase, Bob schilling and the
glib-tongued Beaumont were the mov-
ing spirits, and all of whom except Pom
eroy and Cary have come to the sur
face again in this later movement for
the emancipation of ''the people, That
convention was more nearly represen-
tative one of the country at large than
the recent Cincinnati hullabaloo, was
far more deliberative in it's methods.
and had behind it o discomfort and an
unrest growing out of the stringency of
the times following the panic of 1873
and leading up to the resumption of
specie payment on January 1st. 1879.
The very same arguments were ad-
vanced as now mark the third party
movement, and in fact, the spouters of
the latter have borrowed these old
speeches and redressed them in not
half SO telling or attractive fashion.
The platform of that convention reads
|singularly like the recent deliverance
at Cincinnati, though perhaps more
moderate in tone and therefore better
calculated to appeal to the reason of
men, rather than to their prejudices.
1t was as follows, after the preamble
reciting the name and purposes of the
new party:
1t is the exclusive function of the gen
eral government to coin and create
money and regulate its value. All bank
issues designed to circulate as money
should be suppressed. The circulating
medium, whether of metal or paper,
shall be issued by the government and
made a full legal tender for all debts,
duties and taxes in the United States at
its stamped value.
The coinage of silver shall be placed
on the same footing as that of gold.
The government should by general
enactments, encourage the development
of our agricultural, mineral, mechan-
ical, manufacturing and commercial re-
fully employed.
AS educated labor has devised means
for multiplying production by inven-
tions and discoveries, and as their use
requires exercise of mind as we'll as
body, such legislation should be had
that the number of hours of daily toll
will be reduced, giving to the working
class more leisure for mental improve
ment and their several enjoyments and
saving them from premature decay and
death.
The adoption of an American none
harmonic all differences in regard to
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equalize the cost of transportation by
joint earnings of capital and labor, Sc
suits of their labor and skill, and mus
ter out of service the vast army of idlers
who, under the existing system, grow
every man and woman may, by their
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that overgrOwn fortunes and extreme
poverty will be seldom found within the
limits of our republic.
A National and State committees were
organized and the campaign started of
with far greater eclat than is the case
in the present instance To quote fur.
ther from the Sun:
What followed is easily told. In
twelve of the thirty-eight states the
National Peoples party ran candidates
selecting, of course, those states in
which the groundswell of the move
ment was the strongest. Six of these
states were already Republican. AL
though the new party was established
by former Republicans, held its conyen
tion in the West, and appealed chiefly
to Republican, farmers, ali six states re
manned, Notwithstanding, Republican
OF the six Democratic states in which
hostilities were opened, three missouri
Democratic despite the new movement
but New York, Connecticut and Ohio
went over to the Republican column
These were the figures:
i Peo Party Rep Dem.
Il vote. majority maj'ty
Pennsylvania. 81,756 22,353 .....,
New York. 1913 34,661 .....
Michigan. ........ 1913 44,777 ......
Missouri. ........ 81, ,167 ...... SS, III
Maine. ....... Al, ,4Q Is, ll5 ......
Indiana. ...... 80. AIS ...... II, IL:
Ohio. 1892 3,l54 ......
Kansas ...... 27,O57 36,Sl2 .....
Wisconsin. ...... 26,616 8;273 ......
J. New Jersey..... 24,6O9 ...... 14,O3;
Connecticut. 8,3l4 2,482 .....,
New Hampshire. 6,5O7 7,O4O .....,
Tn other words. the National PEOPLES