St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-18
they WILL TAKE IT.
Weaver and Field Unite in a
Joint Letter Of Ac-
ceptance.
The Mission Starts Out With
a Regular Calamity
Howl.
Alleged Frauds in Southern
Elections Receive Much
Attention.
The Salvation of the Country
Docfc np1u With tho
The Salvation of the Country
Rests Only With the
Populists.

PENSACOLA, Fla, Sept. 17.-Gen.
Weaver and Gen. Field. the Peoples
party candidates for president and vice
president, have issued the following
address:
To the people of the United States:
Having been nominated respectively
for the offices of president and vice
president of the United States by the
national convention of the Peoples
party, which assembled at Omaha, July
q. 1892, we take this method of formally
notifying the public of our acceptance
of the nomination and of our apprecia-
ton of the honor conferred upon US by
the action of the convention. We are
heartily in accord with the platform of
principles adopted by that convention,
and, if elected. will endeavor to faith
fully carry out the demands in letter
and spirit.
We have been requested by the ma
tional committee to visit the various
states of the Union. so far as 1t shall be
within our power, and to address the
people upon the political situation and
the issues presented in the platform.
We are now in the discharge OF that
duty, having already, one or both of US,
tls1teG F1ltoen states
In the Northwest and South. and if
health and strength are spared we in
tend TO continue the work until the
campaign is closed. We have been re-
ceived with marked cordially. The en-
thusiasm everywhere is without par
aliel, and extends to every part of the
Union we have visited.
By contact with the people we have
become acquainted with their wants
and sufferingS, and have been brought<
face to face with the manifold perilS
which so seriously threaten our civlliZa-
ton and the overthrow of popular gov
eminent. We wish to express our judy
ment freely, and without reserve, in
order that we may stand acquitted be-
fore our fellow men and our own con-
science touching the whole matter. The
people are in poverty. Their substance
is being devoured by heartless monop-
olistS, trusts, pools and money sharks.
Labor is largely unemployed, and where
work is obtainable the wages are for the
most part unremunerative, and the
products of labor not paying the costs
of production. This is matter of Seri-
Gus concern to the whole people.
The leaders OF the heretofore domi-
nant parties are everywhere controlled
by the great monopoly and money cen
tiers and manifest utter disregard for the
wants and
Wishes of the People.
The parties are hostile camps. ar
ranged on sectional lines and the pres
ent bitterness and cruelues of the past.
Every four years discussing the issues
of the late war, which should long
since have been allowed to pass from
the political discussions of the day.
hTnt,x ton ir1n hi
between the old parties, they vie with
each other in thelr7subservience to cap
italistic and corporate greed. They are
Incapable of dealing sincerely with the
vast problems evolved by the growth of
the last quarter of century. Upon the
general economic questions of the age
they are practically in purpose, differ
ing just enough to enable them to carry
on sham battle, while the work of
robbery and speculation proceeds I'M
Rbated.
In the meantime the farmers and
planters, North and South, and wage
maltreated, brought into competition
with convict labor, and in many in
stances shot down by hired mercenaries
acting under orders of arrogant corpora
tons, which have unblushingly usurped
the functions of government and pre-
sumed to act in its stead. These cor
porations dominate the daily press and
control the lines of daily communication
with the people.
An Old Republican Refrain.
We hold that the right of free ballot
and a fair count are rights preservative
of all rights, and upon their inviolability
tests the perpetu:ty of free institutions
ana representative government. We
IRE panied to discover in the public
mind of the Southern t States
a widespread loss of confidence
on the part of the people
III the integrity of the judges of cleo
ton in receiving the b lots of the peo-
pie and counting them for the candi-
dates of their choice. We think that
this evil must be corrected by the intel
ligence and integrity of the people of
the country. otherwise scenes of vio-
lence and perhaps bloodshed may follow
these efforts of parties in charge of the
ballot boxes to defraud the will of the
voter. They will lead TO a serious col
lision, and that quickly.
After consultation with the people,
we believe it to be true, beyond reason
able doubt, that the majority of the
white voters are with the Peoples
party in every Southern state thus far
visited, and our information leads US TO
believe than the same thing is truer in
the other states also. The white peo-
pie are leaving the old parties and
Casting Their Votes
with us. and our numbers are con-
stantly increasing. We are Informed
by a large number of intelligent and
reputable people that in the recent state
election in Alabama Capt. Kolb was
chosen governor by over 40, 600 majority.
and yet his opponent was counted in by
majority of 10000. County tickets
throughout tie state were counted out
and others counted in. BY the same I'M
blushing methods we are Informed that
In the state election which occurred in
Arkansas OH the 5th of September, at
least $4,000 of the qualified voters of the
state were deprived of the right of
suffrage; that the returns were mac
curate; that at this election the Peoples
party, the number polling large vote,
was denied representation in the ap-
pointment of judges and commissions,
by whom the election was to be con-
Quoted. In consequence of these meth
Dds the will OF the legally authorized
Eoters of the state has been defeated.
The only thing that our friends in
that state have to guide them is in the
few counties where they are strong
enough to force an honest count. In
every one of these counties our vote ran
ION, independence, White, Clark, Ne
vada, Crawford. Sebastian, Scott, pop
ulouS White counties, the Peoples
party hold an immense vote, their ticket
leading the Republican largely, anc