Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-18
P0PUL|ST PROCLAMATION.
Weaver and Fields Letter
of Acceptance.
A Caustic Arraignment Of the
Old Parties.
All the Virtues Embraced in the
Peoples Platform.
The Two Tourist Candidates Claim to
The Two Tourist Candidates Claim to
Be Able to Carry the South
on FREQ Ballot and
Fair Count.
By the Associated Press.l

BY the Associated Press.l
PENSACOLA, Fla, Sept. 17.-General
Weaver and General Field. the Peoples
party candidates for president and vice
president, have issued an address to the
people of the United States. In part
they say:
We take this method of formally noti-
flying the public Of our acceptance of the
nominations, and our appreciation of
the honor conferred upon us. We are
heartily in accord with the platform of
principles adopted by the Peoples party
convention, and, if elected, will endeavor
to faithfully carry out the demands in
letter and spirit.
We were requested by the national
committee to visit the various states OF
the union. Already one or both of us
have visited Is states, and if health and
strength is spared, we intend to con-
tinue the work until the campaign is
closed. We are received with marked
cordiality, and the enthusiasm every
where is without a parallel, and extends
to every part of the union we visited.
By contact with the people, we become
acquainted with their wants and suffer-
ings, and are brought face to face with
the manifold perils which go seriously
threaten our civilization and the over
throw of popular government.
The people are in poverty. Their cub
stance is being devoured by heartess
monopolists, trusts, pool and money
sharks. Labor is largely unemployed,
and where work is obtainable, the
wages paid are for the most part unre-
munerative, and the products of labor
are not paying the cost of production.
The leaders of the heretofore domi-
nant parties are everywhere controlled
by the great monopolies and money
centres, and manifest an utter disregard
for the wants and wishes of the people.
They are hostile camps arranged on sec
tional lines, but vie with each other in
subservience to capitalistic and corpor-
ATE greed. Upon general economy sand
the questions of the age they are practi-
cally the same in purpose, differing just
enough to enable them to carry on a
sham battle. The whole work of rob-
berry and spoliation proceeds unabated.
We hold the right of free ballot and
free count, the right preservative of
all rights, and upon its inviolability
rests the perpetuity of free institutions
and representative government. We
are panied to discover in the public
mind of the southern states q
widespread loss OF confidence on the
part of the people in the integrity
of the judges of elections in receiving
the ballots of the people and counting
them for the candidates of their choice
We think evils must be corrected by the
intelligence and integrity of the people.
Otherwise scenes of violence, and per-
haps bloodshed, may follow these efforts
of the parties in charge of the ballot
boxes to defraud the will of the voter.
After consultation with the people,
we believe it to be true, beyond reasona-
BILE question, that the majority of the
white voters are with the Peoples party
in every southern state thus far visited,
and our information leads as to believe
the same thing is true in other
states also. We are informed
that in the recent state election in
Alabama, Captain Kolb was chosen gov
ernor by over 10000 majority, and yet
his opponent was counted in by a
majority OF over 10000. County tickets
throughout the state were counted out,
and others counted in, by the same un-
blushing methods.
We are informed that in the state
election in Arkansas, on the 18th of
September, at least $4,000 qualified
voters of the state were deprived of their
right of suffrage. The returns
are inaccurate. The Peoples party
was denied representation in the
appointment OF judges and com.
missioners. The only thing oul
friends in the state have to guide
them in, is few counties where they
were able to force an honest count. In
every one OF these counties our vote ran
fully up to the expectations. In some
populous white counties, the Peoples
party hold an immense vote, the ticket
leading the Republican largely, and
ebout equal with the Democratic
We believe fair couI
would show similar condition through
| out the state. These frauds and irregu
larities, though local, are yet matters
worthy of the serious consideration o
the whole United States. 1t is apparent
that neither the Republican party OF
the Democratic party can. or will &C
complish the restoration Of the ballot to
a fair and honest basis. The Peoples
party alone can secure the desired end
| All who desire q revival OF business
all who wish for return of prosperity
all who desire to relieve the depressed
industries and wage workers of oul
common country all who desire ar
adequate increase of our currency anG
free coinage of silver; all who
desire the abolition OF banks
of issue and constitutional control of th'
| great instruments of commerce by the
government of the United States; al
who desire that the laws for taxation
shall be equitably adjusted to propert,
of the country; all who desire that thu
public domain shall be sacredly held il
trust for the people; all who desire tina
the highways between the states shall
be rendered subservient to the popula
good, and, finally, all who de
sire the restoration of fraternit.
among the people and the obliteratiol
of sectional animosities, should at ono
regard it conscientious duty to aligl
themselves under the banner of thi
great industrial and fraternal move
ment.
1t seems to us quite impossible tina
| the liberty and justice-loving people 9