Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-21
PEOPLES PARTY ADDRESS.
An Appeal % the Csuntry-A Rresidentiaa
Ticket to Re Named.

diiHiHCt, WHICH, is uOtuiuH out tu0 ioAtkcet WIZ
probably finish its work today. Yesterday the
Farmers Mutual Benefit Association adjourned,
after amending its constitution so as to admit
to membership men and women over eighteen
years Of age. 1t resolved not TO amalgamate
with any other organization until tho February
meeting The F. NJ. B. A. also reelected Treas
urer Haines and the following beard of trustees:
E. NJ. Poe of Missouri T. W. Wilson Of Illinois
W. NJ. Reed of Illinois, J. T. Reed Of Ohio and
!. n Miller Of Indiana.
The delegates to the February meeting were
inst ructed to vote for independents political &C.
ton. The alliance changed its constitution to
admit women.
The anti-subtreasury people, after issuing q
call for convention at Memphis, December
Is. as announced in yesterdays STAR. published
two-coiumn card charging Mr. Maeune with
wrecking the Texas alliance exchange and max
ing big money thereby and with trying to sell
ont the alliance to the old political parties
Most of these charges were made at the Ocaia
meeting.
The Reform Press Association threatens to
bolt the ailiance if the State Agents Associa-
ton carries out its purpose Of making all pur-
chases through the National Union Company.
The people party men are the best satisfied
OF all those who have gathered at Indianapolis
They claim to have secured ali they came for
and ever more. Last night the national execu-
tive committee issued an address TO the people
Of the United States 1t is as follows:
PEOPLES PARTY ADDRESS.
The national committee of the peoples party
of the United States deem it proper to lay
before their constituents at this time some
statement Of the result of the conference held
by them with various representatives Of or
ganized industry In this city during the past
few days. These results have been in every
respect most satisfactory. There is no longer
any doubt that candidates for President and
Vice President will be in the field before June
l, 1892, nominated by the peoples party. It
seems to us very plain that the time has come
when no influence of the old political organixa-
tions and no power Of aggregated scapitd can
prevent the hearty and unanimous coming to-
gether and cooperation of all the labor forces
of the United States, whether employed in the
workshop or in the mine, or on the farm.
This is an important event in the history Of
the nation and of civilized man. There has
been no precedent for it in any of the past
ages The producing classes have hitherto
remained impoverished in the midst Of the
very plenty which they created. Those who
tOiled not have possessed the wealth of the
world, while those who toiled have too often
suffered for the necessaries Of life. But the ad-
vance of civilization and universal education
have flooded the minds of the multitude with
an ecesn of light, and taught them the SUI
preme necessity for cooperation in defense of
the inborn rights OF humanity. The producing
classes OF the United States are the natioh-all
others simply live by the tolls imposed on the
industry Of the workers.
We make no war upon the non-produeers, as
such; some OF them render the people q full
equivalent of services for alt they receive,
others are robbers and plunderers who, through
the imperfection Of our laws, strip toll OF its
possessions and do not 60 to the penitentiary.
The people have beheld with growing alarm
the continual advance of conditions which
every day have carried us farther and farther
from tho principles and traditions OF the
founders of the republic and nearer and nearer
to an abyss in which we can see only the APP
partition of a crushing oligarchy or the dread
full alternative of revolution and anarchy.
1t il for the purpose Of saving free institu-
tiOns by the peaceful instrumentalities Of edu-
cation and the ballot that the peoples party of
the United States has been organized No
honest man can fail to acknowledge the over
whelming necessity which exists for such
movement
We have seen the shadow of plutocracy
spreading steadily over our land. We have
seen the railroad corporations grow from hum
BILE beginnings. the mere servitors of the people,
into a vast and powerful conspiracy. which, for
the protection of it's bogus capitalization, con-
trolls our elections, corrupts our legislatures,
debauches our juries and casts the slime Of its
rottenness over the very judges OF our courts,
the last resort of justice on earth.
We have seen the banking associations, from
being at first mere conveniences for the accom-
mediation of the people, swell into lordly ma
tional confederation, holding all business in
its grip. able to make or wreck, as their own
interests may dictate. the prosperity of all
classes, while not dollar OF currency is able
to find its way to the people from the govern
ment that does not represent q dollar Of debt
to the money-manipulating class.
We have seen the daily newspaper press. in
stead OF being, as it should be In this nine
teenth century and in this free America the
champion and defender OF popular rights
against all corners. coerced by its business ne
cessities into becoming the ready instrument
to bind the shackles of serfdOm on the limbs of
a free people; to confuse their minds by suphis-
try, to fill their with falsehO0ds. to uphold
everything that is destructive 10 public good
and to crush everything that would help the
people.
As a striking illustration of the colossal lies
with which the people are fed and misled We
would point to the vote of the peoples party
this year in the state of Kansas. Nine-te Of
the population of this country. in consequence
OF the gross misrepresentation OF the press,
of 1891 fell of very greatly from their vote in
1890. while the official publication of the vote
taken this year shows that although the total
vote of all parties in Kansas was about &c., 900
less than 1t was year ago, the peoples party
vote was actually increased about IL Il per cent
its vote in 1885, or Al per cent of the entire
vote. The republican majority in South Da-
kota was reduced from 10, 900 in 1880 to 2. 700 in
1891, while in Nebraskn the peoples party came
within 5000 votes Of defeating the combined
power Of both the old parties and elected eleven
district judges. 1: is true that in some judicial
districts of Kansas the peoples party candi-
dates were defeated, but it was only by an m
holy union of the democratic and republican
parties against them.
The hereditary enemies of half century gave
up their sham battiesand under the inspiration
OF the money power rushed into each others
arms in one fond embrace, resolved to forget
protection. reciprocity, the silver question and
everything else if they could only prevent the
oppressed people Of Kansas from obtaining the
governmental reforms which they sought.
In this act they conclusively demonstrated
that they are the two Dromios of plutocracy
and that only the difference of feather dis
tinguishes them from one another. The people
perceive that there is room in this country for
only two political pnrties--a party which repre-
sents the people and party which represents
the plunderers of the people.
Before the close of the election Of 1892 we
expect to see the two old parties, with all their
banners and war cries. marching and hurrahing
together in defense of the iniquities which have
covered the land with mortgages and driven
the republic to the verge OF destruction.
Already the asperities Of the past have ceased
between them, and their campaigns have
become the sweet interchange Of courtesies
between lovers rather than the fierce onslaught
OF warriors contending for opposing principles.
The tender amenities OF this c0urtship will be
followed by the hot embrace Of conjugal love;
but the union will be barren of posterity, for
il will mean the subjugatiuu Of liberty and the
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