The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-17
PoPULIsr MANIFESTO.

General Weaver Bra9s About His Party,
Praises It ana Talks About the Future.
DEs MONIES, Ia. Nov. 16.-James B.
Weaver, late Populist candidate for thu
presidency. to-day issued the following
address to his followers through II. z.
Taubeueck, chairman Of the national COM
mittse:
My Dear sir-I wish by this method to briefly
address through you tho friends of reform
throughout the Union. Unaided by money our
grand young party has made an envtable record
We are but little behind the Republican party in
the number Of States carried. As . result or the
late election we Will doubtless hold the balance
OF power In the Senate OF the United States We
have doubled the number OF our adherents In the
House Of Representatives, secured control OF @
number OF State governments, hold the balance
and nave succeeded In arousing q spirit of po-
litical independence among the people OF the
Northwest which cannot be disregarded In the
future.
Not being formed on sectional lines. our party
In single campaign has gained large anc In
huential following in every State in the south:
This gives promise or good government In thae
section Of the Union, q thing the Republican
party has failed to do after thirty years OF al
most uninterrupted rule, and gives promise. too,
of correcting wrongs which may exist through
the people OF the respective States instead of at
tempting to do so by influence from without
We have awakened fraternal feelings In all sec
tons, and as an earnest of our good will toward
the South. the grand people of Kansas, q State
containing more Union soldiers than any other.
elected one armed ex-confederate soldier of the
Peoples party to represent the State az large In
Congress.
The country is to be congratulated upon the fact
that the leaders OF one OF the heretofore great
parties have been abandoned end overthrown
by the people, and their organization well-nigh
annihilated. This leaves the former adherents
OF that party free to align themselves with the
great antimonopoly and Industrial movement
The accession OF the other party 20 power Is the
result OF violent reaction. and not. sn srre. OF
the deliberate Judgment of the American peo-
ple The battle leaders or the triumphant party
are without any well-defined policy. except that
OF contemptuous disregard for every element OF
reform within the ranks OF their own party and
among the people at large.
The new administration viii ignore the great
eontenuons OF modern times relating to land.
money and transportation. and will not attempt
to solve either In fact, the whole force OF the
new regime Will be exercised TO prevent reform
in these important matters. The urgent demand
of the people for the free coinage OF silver il to
be disdainfully ignored, and new obstacles will,
doubtless, be interposed to further restrict the
use OF the white metal. In contempt of the
doctrine OF Andrew jackson. European aristo-
Gratis to be permitted to dictate our financial
policy One OF the most valuable results or the
currency, issued by the government, is 10 be
sacrificed and abandoned, and serious attempts
will be made TO force the people 10 return
issues, which existed prior 70 the war, and
which periodically swindled the industrial
classes OF the fruits of their toll This Is to be
sprung upon the people by sudden stroke of
policy BY leaders who carefully kept their
motives concealed from the public. This crime
IL r. be enacted into law, between elections and
the question by the selection OF representatives
chosen for the purpose. That this is the deiib-
cratic platform which calls for the repeal OF the
law imposing tax upon the circulation OF
state banks. 1t 10 confirmed By the fact that
Mr.. Coe, chairman of the executive committee
AmarlCAn nAnENT6. aQe0n1arR0 fnRSfhap
with a large number OF New York bankers,
publicly gave In their support 70 the Democrats
The situation gives additional Importance
to the great question which few have c0mpre-
hended for score OF years, namely: Shall tho
and its value controlled by the government, or
shall il be non-legal tender. issued aud controlled
by banking corporationsi The issues pressing
uation portentous Our party has not made its
advent too soon. It's mission is TO restore 10 our
government its original and only legitimate
by non-use, that of assuring to all
mighty = the unmolested enjoyment Of
plished until the relations between labor and its
creature. capital, are so adjusted as TO cause
each TO respect the domain OF tho other. These
important forces are now upon war footing.
whereas. under humane laws. they would Lat
urally dwell together In perfect peace.
TIE TIE %rsprs.siye & policy. now now fully inausIrased
years OF the nineteenth century. Ii Is the fatal
blunder of weak leaders, who fail TO comprehend
the spirit of the age and the growth OF indo-
pendence among the people. 1t denies 10 labor
the right 20 organize. relies upon the military
10 sustain corporate pretensions. aud
when labor organizations defend themselves
against armed mercenaries, IL adjudges the
members thereof TO To guilty OF treason Les
those who rob by Law and oppress their fellows
TO CRAFTY their thirst for power beware how they
trfne with awakened people The violent
political storm or 1855 and 1892, which first
swept the Democratic candidate, then the Repub-
lican party from power, In spite OF the weight OF
patronage which they carried, signify a turbu-
lent condition of the political atmosphere which
plainly foreshadows approaching crisis. It
we're better that IL be not FASTENED by the enact
ment OF measures which say0r OF usurpatioI and
the extension of class privileges.
1 sincerely trust that the work or organization
and educatiOn meV now bo Duened with enerrv