People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-25

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old Dana, of the Sun, who had been
abusing him for years. The World
was Modified; and even Burke
Cochran was induced to carry his fat
figure and somewhat clumsy elo-
quence on the stump.
The platform Mr.. Cleveland ran
on was all things to all men.
To Tom johnson and Henry
George it meant free trade.
To German, Whitney, Brice and
the other Democratic protectionists
it meant ''high duties carefully re-
adjusted"
ooh, amt that sweetD
To the Democratic manufacturers
it meant free raw materials with sub
stantially the same protection on the
manufactured article.
Nowhere In Cleveland's letter of
acceptance does he make any pledge
in favor of tariff reduction. Remsm-
Der this. His letter of acceptance is
distinct back down from his tariff
reform message Of 1888. Nowhere
does he pledge himself to any reform
of any sort. More especially does
he fail to say word against the
special privileges now enjoyed by
certain classes under our financial
laWs.
Now, what resulted? The bust
ness world saw that there was no
difference between Cleveland and
Harrison. On all questions touching
commercial, agricultural and finan-
cial issues the attitude of the two can,
didates was the same. Behind Cleve-
land was Whitney, representing I'M
limited campaign Doodle to help out a
united party which was flushed with
the victory of 1890. Behind Harri-
son was broken machine, disrupted
party and the defeat of 1890.
Between the two was the protest
of the industrial classes represented
by Weaver and the Peoples party
with no money, no machinery and
with all the odds against them.
They had a platform of principles
which the old parties did not have.
The great revolt against the Re-
publican party, assisted by want Of
cohesion within the party, was still
sufficient to elect Cleveland over
Harrison. But at the same time the
Democrats lost heavily in the con-
gressional elections. Somewhere be-
tween forty and sixty Democratic
congressman lose the seats they won
in 1890. This circumstance alone is
sufficient to show how preoarious is
the Democratic hold npon public
confidence. oa
When Congress met one year ago
there was no such thing as a real,
organized Peoples party. An effort
to organize at Cincinnati had seemed
to be premature. Eleven congress
men, elected by Alliance votes,
agreed to stand outside the caucus of
the old parties. They did SO, and
thus was formed the first distinctive
political body known as the Peoples
party. Their influence grew. They
commanded the confidence of re-
formers everywhere by deserving it.
They hewed squarely to the line on
all questions, independent Of old
party affiliations. So favorably was
the new movement received that we
got popular vote at the recent cleo
ton which, so far, the Democratic
newspapers have been afraid to pub
lish. We more than doubled our
delegation in Congress. We elected
nine Governors. We. elected hun
dreds Of members of legislatures.
We cut down the Democratic ma
jority in Georgia to 10000 by their
own figures. All this we did in
spite Of every kind Of fraud known
to political rascality.
What party ever carried SO many
States into the electoral college on
the first trial? At the first dash we
have carried at least six States for
our Presidential candidate, besides
carrying a popular vote in the South
and West and in the Middle States
which is so large that to escape it
the returns had to be suppressed by
the wholesale!
Ours is the only party which con-
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