The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-12
THIRD PARTY ACCOMPLISHMENT.

THIRD PARTY ACCOMPLISHMENT.
New York Sun: The proclaimed es-
Enlistment of new third party in
Oincinnatiste days ago has had an en-
livening effect upon many detected and
ISdebilitated retired statesmen. It has
had on the other hand, the effect of
making apprehensive of the future
some few of the SNUG warriors who sit
close to the council fire in the demo-
cratic and republican camps. They
have sounded sad alarm. Yet there
is nothing, as yet appears, in the peo-
Piles movement inaugurated in Cincin-
natl to stir leaf or bend a twig in the
forest of federal politics.
On February %, 1878, in the city of
Toledo, Frank W. Hughes, of Penn
sylvania, presiding), the far-famed
national peoples 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 Goth.
thirteen years later. These were the
things which the national peoples
party of 1878 set itself out to sustain,
strive for, and if possible, achieve. We
quote from its declaration of principles:
I'VE assemble in national convention,
make declaration of our principles,
and invite all patriotic citizens to unite
in an effort to secure financial reform
and financial emancipation. The Or
ganization shall be known as the Ma
tionai party, and under this name we
will perfect. without delay, national,
state and local associations to secure the
election to Office of such men only as
will pledge themselves to do all in their
power to establish the following princi-
pies:
1T is the exclusive function of the
general government to coin and create
money and regulate its value. All
bank issues designed to circulate as
money should be suppressed. The cir
culating medium, whether OF metal or
paper, shall be issued by the govern
ment and made 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.
1.-THE government should, by general
enactments, encourage the development
of our agricultural, mineral, mechani-
cal. manufacturing and commercial re-
sources, to the end that labor may be
fully employed.
LAS educated labor has devised means
for multiplying production by inven-
lions and discoveries. and as their use
requires exercise of mind as well as
body, such legislation should be had
that the number of hours of daily toll
will be reduced. giving to the working
classes more leisure for mental i'm
provement and their several enjoy
ments, and saving them from prema-
ture decay and death.
The adoption of an American none
tary system. as proposed herein, will
harmonic all differences in regard to
tariff and federal taxation, reduce and
equalize the cost of transportation by
land and water. distribute equitably
the joint earnings of capital and labor,
secure to the producers of wealth the
results of their labor and skill, and
muster out of service the vast army of
idlers who, under the existing system.
grow rich upon the earnings of others,
that every man and woman may, by
their own efforts, secure competence,
so that overgrOwn fortunes and extreme
poverty will be seldom found within
the limits of our republic"
These were valiant words. suggestive
of great deeds and Of prodigiOus eco
nomic and administrative changes, and
when the new party, ten weeks after
the adjournment of the convention, had
established an executive council for
work in this city, the expec-
tations of all observers were raised to a |
high pitch.
What followed is easily told. In
twelve of the thirty-eight states the
national peoples party ran candidates,
of course, those states in |
which the groundswell of the move
ment was strongest. Six of these |
states were already republican. Al
though the new party was established |
by former republicans, held its conven-
ton in the west, and appealed chiefly |
to republican farmers, all six states re-
Notwithstanding, republican.
Of the six democratic states in which |
lostilities were opened, three (NIississ-
ppi, New Jersey, and Indiana) re-
NAMED democratic despite the new
but New York. Connecticut,
md Ohio, went over to the republican
column. These were the figures:
Peoples Party Rep. Dem.