Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-19
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A very prominent man before the con-
ventlon. II not active II IL. Will DO Gov
ernor Sylvester Pennoyer, OF Oregon,
who was reelected in 1880 by majority
OF 10000 though the state is Republican
tie Is spoken u as the new party's can
eiiate for president, for though elected
governor as a Democrat. be is low in
full sympathy with the third party men
Stil another active spirit viii be ex-
Senator Charles Henry Van Wyck. Of
Nebraska His career has been singu-
larly picturesque. Born in Poughkeep-
sie. y Y. in 1924 he entered congress
IN 1879 and left il for tho army. he
came out a brevet brigadier, was again
elected TO congress, removed to Nebraska
Ii 1874 and became United States sena-
Cor in 1881. He made fierce onslaught
on the railroads. was denied re-elec-
ton in consequence and. as further
consequence, has no love for big corpo-
rations
Numerically, however. these will be
swallowed up by an army Of new, or COM
paratively new recruits, such as Senators
Kyle, Of South Dakota. and PETER. OF
Kansas; Congressman VIM and Wat
con, Of Georgia; Jerry Simpson, B. II.
Clover, John Davis and William Baker,
of Kansas: Kittel Halverson, Of Mime
sofa. and William Arthur McKeighan.
Of the second Nebraska district, whose
phenomenal majority in 1890 astonished
the country and convinced the old poll
ticians that the people had taken the
bit In their teeth" And now the all
Absorbing question is. Was the vote Of
1890 a mere ''spurt," or. as our English
friends say, 'besstly fiuke." or did it
indicate q permanent strength?
It is q common and cheap and easy
explanation TO say the Peoples party is
'.the successor Of the old Greenoack
party" but this Is only part OF the
truth The greenback has evidently
come to stay. and the national banks. a.
senator Sherman recently pointed out.
mast soon BE- wound mp by the payment
OF the bonds. bat the whole field of cup
ital and labor. the concentration Of
wealth and increase Of poverty, and es-
p.cially The great puzzle known as the
depression 81 agriculture. lies open TO
the new party. The alternating move
ments q new parties since the war pre-
sent a curious study. each leaving some
thing 70 the next.
La ST the Ssventy-two years Of the ma
tioa's existence before the war there
ware not as many strikes and labor riots
as N two months of tho single year Of
1877. and though many labor organiza-
tons were formed. there was no general
political party based on them. IL Is gues-
toned also IL there were in the United
States in 1850 score of millionaires;
now there are leo IN New York city
alone. and believed 70 be 5000 in tho
nation. New parties were therefore In
evitsble as soon As the war issues were
settled. and the first 10 affect local cleo
tons WAS probably the Eight Hour
league. Ia 1865 this aud kindred or
carnations grew into a party. and on
Au- 20 tho fi-s. national labor con-
gress met IN Baltimore.
In 1870 the Labor party affected cleo
sions considerably IN many places, and
soon after the famous Changers rose
rapidly TO great Importance. The panic
Of 1873 resulted Ia q tremendous politi-
cal revOlution-tne change Of votes be-
tween 1872 ard 1874 amounted 70 nearly
LIED. 0e0-aud soon after the raging ele-
rnents Of discomfort found expression in
the Greenbaok party. It's first distinc-