The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-18

Weaver and General Field. the Peoples
party candidates for president and vice
president, have issued en- address to the
people of the United States, formally &C.
cepting the nominations for president and
vice president. respectively, at the hands
OF the national Peoples party convention.
accord with the platform adopted by the
convention, and that if elected, they will
endeavor faithfully to carry out its de-
mands. The address says that they con-
template carrying on a campaign in every
state in the Union and have already visit
ed fifteen states, where they have been re-
ceived with marked cordiaiity. The en-
thusiasm everywhere, says the address,
has been marked. By contact with the
people they have become more thoroughly
acquainted with their wants and suffer-
ings, and have been brought face to face
with the manifold perils which so seri-
ously threaten our civilization and the
overthrow Of popular government. Con-
tinuing, the address says:
1.-The people are in poverty. Their sub
stance is being devoured by heartless
monopolists, trusts, pools and money
sharks. Labor is largely unemployed,
anil where work is obtainable the wages
paid are for the most part unremunerative
and the products of labor are not paying
the cost of production. This is a matter
OF serious concern to the whole people.
The leaders of the heretofore dominant
parties are everywhere controlled by the
great monopoly and money centers, and
manifest an utter disregard for the wants
and wishes of the people. The parties are
hostile camps, arranged on sectional lines,
for years discussing the issues of the late
war, which should long since have been al
lowed to pass from the political discussions
Of the day. Notwithstanding the bitter
ness existing between the old parties, they
vie with each other in their subservience
to capitalistic and corporate greed. They
are incapable of dealing sincerely with the
vast problems evolved by the growth of
the last quarter of a century. Upon the
great economic questions of the age they
are practically one in purpose, differing
just enough to enable them to carry on a
sham battle while the work of robbery and
spoliation proceeds unabated. In the
meantime the farmers and wage earners
are prescribed, maltreated, brought into
competition with convict labor, and in
many instances shot down by hired merce-
naries acting under the orders of arrogant
coporations. who have presumed to act in
the governments stead. These corpora
tloiS uoliudlo Iue OAiiy press anu cOuITOl
the lines of daily communication with the
people.
There is still greater peril. We hold
that the right of a free ballot and fair
count are rights preservative of all rights,
and that upon their inviolability rests the
perpetuity of free institutions and repre-
sentative government. We are panied to
discover in the public mind of the south
ern states through which we have passed,
q wild pc n ha
part of the people in the integrity Of judges
Of elections. We think this evil must be
corrected by the intelligence and integrity
OF the people of the country; otherwise,
scenes of violence and perhaps bloodshed
may follow these efforts of the parties in
charge of the ballot boxes to defeat the
will of the voter. They will lead to
serious collision, and that quickly. After
consultation with the people we believe
that, beyond reasonable question, a
majority of the white voters are with the
Peoples party in every southern state"
Continuing, the address states that the
Peoples party was cheated out of the
governor in the recenG election in Ala
bama, Captain Koib having received a
clear majority of at least $1,000 votes,
while the Democratic candidate was
counted in by 10000 majority. In the
recent election in Arkansas at least 600
voters were disqualified. and the will of
the legally authorized voters has been de-
feated. This deplorable condition Of
affairs, says the address, cannot be
remedied from without. The solution
must come from within the states them
selves, supported by high public sentl
ment everywhere. After an experiment
of many years it has become evident that
neither the Republican nor the Democratic
party can or will accomplish the restora-
tion OF the ballot 10 q fair and honest
basis in the states of the Union. The Peo.
pies party, says the address, alone can
secure the desired end.
In conclusion the address appeals for
support from all those who desire reviv-
al of business, who wish for a return OF
prosperity, who desire to relieve depressed
industries aud the wage workers. who de-
sire an adequate Increase OF our currency
and the free coinage of silver. who desire
the abolition of banks of issue and the con-
stitutional control Of the great instruments
of commerce by the government OF the
United States, who desire that the
laws OF taxation shall be equItably adjust
ed, w no desire that the pubic domain shall
be sacredly held n trust for the people.
who desire that the highways between
t!.e states shall be rendered suoservlent to
the popular good, and, finally, ali who
desire the restoration OF fraternity among
the people and the ooliterStion OF sectional
anlmoSltleS.
PAWNEE FUSlONlSTS.