The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-07-03

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The 0eS"' times are % suspicious. Men are every.
where snrrendering their party prejudces and
tiampling under foot old party lines. They are
Westo"What must we do to be saved" Let US
on with the work so nobly begun by our patriot
fathers that the government OF the people. by
from the earth. Accept, gentlemen. our fraternal
regard and may the Great Ruler OF nations guide
your COUNCILS.
The communication was signed by Sena-
tors Peffer and Kyle and Representatives
Davis. Kern, Clover, Winn, Baker. Halver-
son and Ctis.
DoNNELLY TALKS FOR EFFECT.
After the reaoing of these messages,
while awaiting the report of the committee
on credentials Hon. Ignatius Donnelly of
Minnesota, was introduced and spoke at
length on the issues of the Peoples party.
Said he:
My friends am of the opinion that bodies
ike this are intended rather for action than for
speeches hate 10 trespass upon your time and
ecSiTs committee sani s ne Tev assure Oh me- that
pending the report of the committees. nothing
will be done, and they are inclined to think a
ing. tLaughterl That being the case, l viii
,Igspp,s Iregspass on your at attention Tor ,ds few
IN anv words % ,aIa nonaas ,or Tho dSan,
OF the occasion forbids ii, when ] say that no
greater body OF men has ever assembled upon
this continent than those who sit here
to-day since those men met who formu-
lated the immortal Declaration OF Independence.
Ii Is in many respects the most astonishing gath
without single tool or instrument or monopoly
in its midst, a convention whose every man has
paid the expenses of his Journey hither and his
return. or which has been paid by man as poor
as himself. Cheers.
There is not in this gathering single president
OF railroad (cheersl; there is not single repre-
sentative
which are rohbing aud sucking the
life blood out OF the American peo-
Of the astounding contrast this body presents
10 the conventions which have recently met in
Minneapolis and Chieago One little point
be sufficient in itself to show tbs
American people who are its friende.
distant State or California, and they could not
obtain the same railroad concessions that are
granted to the national conventions. They are
here at cost. as l am informed, OF $3.50 &c
each OF them. L am told that there are delegates
here from Wyoming who travelled 300 miles in
farm wagons TO reach the nearest station where
they could take the train for Omaha. (Cries of
"Hurrah for Wyoming"
on Your banner ,pofnting to the Massachu.
setts bannerl see the words spirit or 1916"
This is the spirit that animatcs this august gath
ering we are the lineal representatives OF those
men in homespun and deer skin, those hunters,
fishers and farmers who founded the Nation
a nation without o millionaire and without q
pauper. Loud cheers. One hundred and six
ment of two great parties has given us. accord
ing TO the different estimates, from 5000 10 30,-
600 millionaires and one and half million
tramps while the whole land is blistered with
mortgages, and the whole people are STEPPED 10
the lips In poverty.
Ny friends, every great fight that was
ever made in the past for right and liberty
eliminates in this present gathering. Every
battlefield of the past fought TO make
porous has showered its fruits OF victory upon
this great assemblage lCheers.l What con-
trast TO that Minneapolis convention. The lead
ing man of that body. the man most petted, and
dined, and wined was Chauncey NJ Depew,
Tenty Two eompanies apG rsp
resentative of the vanderbilts' 1900 900 600.
And the members of that convention wriggled
upon their vest buttons. (Cheers. Why, he
could not sneeZe but the Republican papers had
pictures of him in every point OF the process.
Laughter and cheers.
had debate the other day, in Minnesota.
party. and i challenged him 10 point to
man III the convention who could
tso De t IN aO6 one breath with WITH
founded the Republican party. Where is Horace
Greeley, your Charles Sumner, your Wendell
point me out single friend OF labor in
the the poor Single friend ef the ss mechanic.
What was the answerl l was given as an ex-
ample OF the philanthropist, Fred Douglass.
[Cheersl why" Ireplied. "you have had to so
out of your own color to find an example,"
[Cheers And when asked for another name
was given the name OF William Mckinley, Jr .
Llaughter a man who put up the tariff for the
benefit OF the prOtectionist manufacturers 10 in
crease the burdens OF the people. That Is Re-
publican philanthropy. 1t would be- a miracle
If the American people had not by this time ap-
L saw the report OF a debate the other day in
the United States Senate. A Democratic Sena-
tor charged that the man who had just been put
at the head OF the national executive committee
was O tool or monopoly, the attorney for the
great cattle combine, which put into the hands
une by breaking down the price OF cattle from
one end of the land TO the other, while main
tanning the same prices of meat on the
mechanic. What did the Republican say in re-
plyl He said that the chairman of the Demo-
cratic committee was the representative OF the
STANDARD ard oil, on Company bigger rascal
derstoOd that l am not saying anything
against the rank and file of either of these par
ties. Cries OF Good" The whole American
parties, and as the American people are in
my Judgment. the best and noblest people
no not become me to accuse either Of them. but the
leaders, the politics aud the conventions of these
parties are legitimate subjects for ,....,c com,
Of this terrible power OF piutocracy
that has got the whole country by
the throat Upon every bushel of wheat sold in
| by gigantic combinations reaching from Liver
pool TO the Red river valley. In the
south @a learn ,na, at you are oron dns
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| not pay the cost of production. You will find
that the of the depreciation in prices Is 10
| be found in world wide combinations.
This battle in which we are employed Is the
| battle of mankind. lCheers. This continent is
| the last great camping aground of the human
world is looking upon this convention
| TO discover whether the star-spangled banner
| the stars and stripes-shan foat across the
country, steadily rising, generation after gener-
| alton. to higher levels of =. culture
float in solemn mockery above a land
| cursed as Europe is cursed. the middle classes
| driven out of the land. while concentrated in
| the hands of the few is the wealth provided by
| the tiller. ICheers.
Having quoted figures to show that the
| possession of wealth in the hands OF the
| farmer had decreased from five-eighths in
| 1850 TO one fifth in 1890, he declared that no
| man could fail to see the dark and terrible
| future into which they were advancing
| Where were their posterity TO find landf
| The great army of the dispossessed bad al-
| ready reached the Pacific coast. They
| looked over the blue waters of that mighty
| ocean and saw India. China and Japan SO
| densely populated that the loss of a single
| crop brings starvation to millions. Con.
| tlnuing he said:
There but two views before US. One OF
| the great evils which has cursed our
| country has been, sectional differences
| promises to wipe out these differences for
oyer. Loud cheers Have you forgotten that
The two old parties have been holding their con-
ventiOns ever since the war closed, but never
has either OF them dared TO place in nomination
either President Vice president a citizen OF
| aithar of fhnsa Southern States am willing thar