People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
GEN. JAMES B. WEAVER.

Our neighb)r across the way is
nearly beside himself because the
Peoples party has nominated General
James B. Weaver as its standard bear
er, and in his rage dishes up half
column Of the usual billingsgate, call
him a ''hOary chestnut" blackburn
ber," ''Office-Seeker," unstable
goods" etc. Considering that Wea-
yer has thrice been to congress on is
sues cOnfeSsedly unpopular, carrying
each time his own home county by
large majOrities, does not argue him
to be so terribly ''unsalabler after
all.
In one respect he was absolutely
unstable" Wall street has utterly
failed to get him-and when she fails
silence will be encouraged in Satan's
household.
Gen. Weaver run for president in
1880, but did not expect to be elected.
and as this is about the only hopeless
race he ever ran, he is not such a pOlit-
lcal failure after all. The Mn tor
cOnfeSSeS that the principles for
which Weaver stood then are the
the same as now, although in the
same article it characterizeS them as
the various yagarieS and iSmS. :"
Weaver has truly been consistent
through all the ups and downs of
third party efforts and whether under
this or that party name, whether the
prospect was dark or bright. he has
SteadfaStly borne alOft with all the
yigor of his physical strength and
giant intellect the great principles
which make gold-bug mOnOpoliSts
tremble. While other men have been
wandering off after the golden calf.
selling the confidence imposed in them
by their constituents and dragging
their government down into the
sleeps of infamy and depths of de-
Spair, General James B. Weaver has
been the one bright star in the pOlit-
ical universe. Nobody has ever had
to inquire where Jim Weaver stood
on the present live issues agitating
the people. He was fixed as firm as
the rock of Gibraltar.
GreenbackiSm, did you say? Well,
If there is any one in the PEOPLES
party who thinks otherwise it is time
he was getting his eyes open. The war
iOuS yagarieS and ismS" mentioned by
the Monitor mean nothing more than
the great principles of 'greenbackiSm"
supported by reforms suggested and
made imperative by the progress of
the gold standard and corporation
period through which we have been
travelling for the past twenty-five
years. We have now arrived at the
period when it is necessary tO,demand
government Owership of the national
highways, restoration in alien land
holdings, income tax, etc. The tssu-
ance of money by the government d.
rect to the people has always been a
tenet of reform parties. The move
ment for these principles has been
ebbing and flowing like the ocean
tide since the war, each succeeding
flow lnnd!ng largely increased nun.
6erS OF American freemcn on the
shores of truth. The present flGw
Dlus ldlr 10 lnundate the land and If
the people can only be induced to
avail themselves of the full privileges
of the invention of printing the food
will be upon us and humanity will
have taken bigger stride toward
true freedom than We have ever
dreamed of.
Because Gen. Weaver has stood for
these principles through thick and
thin as immOvable as the pyramids of
Egypt, he is reprOached as an office
seeker. The VOICE would doff its
hat to Gen. James B. Weaver as the
greatest philanthrOpic hero of the
nineteenth century. Hurrah for Gen.
James B. Weaver.