Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-29
AN APPEAL FOR VOTES
The Peoples Party Of Allegheny
County Issues an address,
OFFERS TO RIGHT ALL WRONGS
Anxious for An Opportunity to Iegislate
Away Poverty.
MANY THINGS THE PARTY OPPOSES.

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The Peoples Party of Allegheny county
has constructed its platform. It embodied
In an address to the voters of the county
prepared by j. H. Stevenson, Henry Graus,
T. j. Mcconnell, C. A. Burrows and Alex.
Wood The address asserts that the Peo.
Piles Party is rapidly advancing from third
to first place in the affections of the citizens
of the country; declares that there is toe
much class Legislation, much of which
should be repealed, and argues that business
men, mechanics and labor are alike ad-
versely affected by many bad laws 1t con-
cludes with an appeal in the name of the
late, Thomas A. Armstrong to the organized
labor Of Allegheny county.
Mr. j. H. Stevenson, a member of the
committee that prepared the address, stated
yesterday that he had great faith in the
future Of the People's party. He said;
General Weaver, our candidate for Presi-
dent, tells me that we will carry many of
the Western States. Of course, that will
be largely due to our position on the silver
question. The party is rapidly growing in
the East, however, and while we may not
elect our ticket this year, four years from
now we ought to carry the country"
The Peoples Party Appeal.
The text of the address, as given out yes
terday, is as follows:
The Peoples party is not a new one. In
the great W est and in many OF the Southern
States this party has advanced steadily for
the past two or three years, and can be
called in many places the first instead of
third party. Our deliberate Judgment causes
us to break away from our old political
associates and to cast our political lots with
this new party, which is originated solely to
reform long abuses in the conduct of affairs
of our State and Nation. We believe and
now declare that the Republican and Demo-
cratic party leaders have by false pretences
played upon our sYmpathfes, our prejudices
and our past political associations, and we
have blindly followed them in dangerous
places, thus approving of acts the most
vicious, believing them harmless. Under
pretense of working for our good they have
been molding policies that have and Will
continue to result in the most villianous
robbery.
Criticising O:d Party Policies.
They have planned policies that have op-
Grated to tmpoverish our people, through
laws deliberately made for such purpose.
They have nodded finance policies that
ruined millions of happy, prosperous and
industrious farmers, artisans and laborers,
and they have prof1ted by this ruins They
have kept the wealth producers of this
country, the year round, struggling under O
heavy weight of usury. They have con-
spired to form policies that give the rich an
overpowering mastery over a less favored
class; they have made laws to favor the
rich and powerful, to the hurt OF at least 80
per cent of our people. The working and
business class are made to suffer the year
round either at hard ana poorly paid for
toll or Ill idleness for want of work. They
have legislated wealth to be the master OF
humanity. They have legislated so that
rich mans $500 will annually produce for
him, without labor, more cash than the
can clear by the hardest kind OF toll.
Their great aim has been to grow rich and
richer at the expense of the Industrious por-
tion of our people. They have invented
laws to do this.\ We say that laws that op-
press the needy should be wiped out.
Bad Laws Should be Repealed.
We ask you people of Allegheny county to
reflect on the great social and political prob
lens now being discussed. We ask you to
reflect that by legislation most of our ills
can be remedied. and we will not point out
to you any other remedy. Repeal bad
laws.
To the people no question rises above the
question of wages, to all who work for wages,
and to merchants, farmers, ETC., n question
to them is greater than the question of
profits or earnings. That workmen should
have good wages and the other classes good
profits, certainly is or sufficient importance
to occupy part of the time of our lawmakers.
Proper laws can be and should be enacted.
Lawmakers have avoided these industrial
issues as long as possible. Nothing Will
force them to do their plain duty but vote
against them. Voting for them only ap-
proves of their conduct. You may petition
for laws VS. from rom, year tic to y year and million
a resolution of single national bank against
any proposed financial measure. Your petit
tions are thrown aside and treated with con-
tempt. Wall street governs and their will
is made law, while yours is treated with con-
tempt by men you vote for as your repre-
sentatives.
Object to the Silver BiIl's Defeat.
In defeating the silver bill few weeks
ago in Congress the two representatives
from this county voted with Wall street and
against the interest of 80 per cent of the men
who voted for them. They supported the
money power and the usurer. They wanted
money to be kept scarce, for they belong to |
the rich class. They again ask you to send |
them back to Congress. 1t is in your power |
to do so OF to refuse to do so. You must |
choose, but if you do SO, henceforth never |
of hard times; never complain OF |
poor pay, no work or poor business. Ii you |
are a merchant, never again complain of |
dull trade. If you arc a farmer, never again |
open your mouth to complain of hard times. |
Make your choice before November, 1892 |
Drop all that foolish idea of "being on the |
side" You never win. To you 1t is |
a positive loss to be winner with either the |
party or its associate, the Demo
cratic party. Nuke your record this year so
that your children after you will with pride |
say: "My father thought of me when he |
voted. My father, in 1892, refused to vote for |
a party that wanted to put heavy burdens
on h children" Vote this year for your
sell and family. Stand up in your dignified
manhood and be counted on the side that is
battling for you and yours.
Giving Credit 10 Old Party Leaders,
Do not harbor the idea that we of the Peo-
De done and what should be left undone or
relates to lawmaking. We give old party
eaders credit for knowing full well what
ought to be done, they are masters of the
subject, but as before stated they act for the
upper ten" class alone. On, yes, they do
know what to do, and having known this
md refused to do their duty from year to
year, it is time all of them should be retired
20 private life. The men who lead the old
parties areas OF
trary. So were the old shareholders of the
south before the slave was freed. Then
personally, were among the
rood, but they upheld vicious policy for
;he sake OF making more out OF it. The in
titution they upheld was bad, and even the
Shurch, the Constitution and all things
,f, Ior and by the people was then in power.
Slavery OF the black man went down. May
We not hope for the slavery to the mOnopo-
ist, the usurer, and such like, may also go
lown or be pIt down by the people.
What the Peoples Party Offers.
Study well the Omaha platform, the docu-
nent that tersely sots forth our platform of