Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-19
POPULIST ADDRESS.
Weaver and Field Unite in Writ
ing Letter.
A BLAST AT BOTH OLD PARTIES

With Some Criticisms on the Alabama and
Arkansas Elections-Both States Claimed
to Have Been Carried by Fraud-Steven-
Spends Quiet Sunday mt Wins
ton. n. C.-Cleyeland Replies to IA Letter
from Posten's Brother-Hon. A. G.. POr-
ter Home to Take the Stump-Politica1
Field Notes.
PENSACOLA, Fla, Sept. 10. - Generals
Weaver and Field, the Peoples party can
tiidates for president and vice president,
have issued an address ITO the People of
the United States" After stating that they
are in accord with the Populist platform,
and that by contact with the people they
have "become acquainted with their wants
and sufferings," the address says: 1.-The
people are in poverty. Their substance is
being devoured by heartless monopolists,
trusts, pools, and money sharks. Labor is
largely unemployed, and where work is OBJ
tainable the wages paid are for the most
part unremunerative and the products of
labor not paying the costs of production"
Old Parties Fighting n Sham Battle.
1t then declares that trusts, monopolies,
etc, control the country, and the quadren-
NAL struggle of the two great parties is
only ''sham battle" and proceeds: Upon
the general economic questions of the age
they are practically the same in purpose,
differing just enough to enable them to
carry on a sham battle, while the work of
robbery and spOliation proceeds undated.
In the meantime the farmers and planters
north and south, and wage earners every
where are prescribed, maltreated, brought
into competition with convict labor and in
many instances shot down by hired mer-
cenares acting under orders of arrogant
corporations which have unblushingly
~usurped the functions of government and
Presumed to act in its stead
The Question of Free Ballot.
The document then discusses the alleged
political fraud in the south declaring that
a free ballot and fair count are rights pre-
sentative of all rights, the denial of which
must lead to violence and perhaps blood
shed. 1t says: After consultation with
the people, we believe it to be true beyond
reasonable question that the majority of
white people are with the Peoples party in
every southern state thus far visited, and
our information leads us to believe that the
same thing Is true in the other states
The white people are leaving the old
parties and casting their lots with us, and
our numbers are constantly increasing.
In Alabama and Arkansas.
"We are informed by large number of
intelligent and reputable people that in the
recent state election in Alabama Captain
kolb was chosen governor by over 10000
majority and yet his opponent was counted
in by majority of 10000. County tickets
throughout the state were counted out and
Others counted in. BY the same unblush-
ing methods we are informed that in the
state election which occurred in Arkansas
the 9Th of September at least $4,000 of the
qualified voters of the state were deprived;
of the right of suffrage, that the returns
were inaccurate; that at this election the
Peoples party, party polling large vote,
was denied representation in the appoint
ment of judges and commissioners by whom
the election was to be conducted.
Reform Must Come From Within.
''These frauds and Irregularities in the
state referred to, though local. are yet mat
tiers worthy of the serious consideration OF
the people of the whole United States The
deplorable condition of affairs cannot be
remedied from without. The solution must
come from the people within these states,
supported by healthy public sentiment
everywhere and we believe it to be the duty
of all people without regard to section to
stand by these noble people of the south
who have risen up to demand good gov
eminent and honest elections The adj
dress then says that the only hope for a re-
form of this matter is through the ageI y
of the Populists, neither Democrats nor
Republicans will give relief.
Appeal to the Voters.
The address continues: "All who desire
the revival of business, all who wish for the
return of prosperity to our country, all who
desire to relieve the depressed industries and
wage workers of our common country, all
who desire an adequate increase of our cur
rency and IT, free coinage of silver, all who
desire the abolition of banks of issue and
the constitutional control of the great in
struments of commerce by the government
of the United States, all who desire that
the laws of taxation shall be equitably
adjusted to the property of the country, IL
who desire that the public domain shall he
sacrtlely held in trust for the people, II
who desire that the highways between the
states shall be rendered subservient to the
popular good, and, finally, all who desire
the restoration of fraternity among the peo-
ple. and the obliteration of sectional ami
mosities should at once regard it as their
conscientiou5 duty to align themselves I'M
der the banner of this great industrial and
fraternal movement"
Bets on the Election.
BUFFALO, Sept. 19.-The Commercial says
that c. A Hess, of New York, brother of
Jacob Hess, the noted Republican leader, |
has wagered with Thomas Wayne, of Chi
cago. $500 on Republican success in New
V-s,l- and S5OO ON Indiana and $500 on the |