The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-18
PEOPLES PARTY JEREMIAH.
Generals Weaver and Field See Nothing BIZ
Poverty and Suffering.

Generals weaver and Field Sec Nothing but
Poverty and Suffering.
PENSACOLA. Fla. Sept. II. - 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, which, they
announce, is their joint letter of accept
ance. The address says:
BY contact with the people we have become
acquainted with their wants and sufferings, and
fold perils which SO seriously threaten our civ
ilizalion and the overthrow of popular govern
ment; We o, wish to express our
in order that We may stand acquit.
ted before our fellow-men and our conscience
touching the whole matter. The people are in
poverty. Their substance ia being devoured by
heartless monopolists, trusts, pools and money
sharks. Labor 10 largely unemployed, and
where work 10 obtainable the wages paid are.
for the most part. unremunerative, and the
products OF labor not paying the cost OF procuc-
lion.
The address proceeds In the above tenor
at length, and then touches the subject of
especially where a Peoples party ticket Is
in che field. The closing paragraph is as
follows:
With the aggressions Of capital ON the one
hand, and the overthrow By fraud OF free cleo
tons on the other. how Ia 1t possible for our civil
ization to lasti The new party has its face turned
10 the glorious ~fuuture; It's sublime mission is to
usher in an era Of fraternity and justice
among men. In the presence or such oppor-
tunity TO enancipate our country from mis- rule
OF every kind let party lines be forgotten and
let the generous flame OF a common patriotism
nerve every heart and move every soul.
A of Abandonment.
NEW YORK. Sept 1.-THE reception at
the Union League Club, OF Brooklyn, to-
night, to Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, was the
event of tho Republican campaign thus
far. Previous TO the reception
Mr.. Reid reviewed q parade containing
SIX thousand uniformed Republicans.
Then, after shaking hands with the gentle
men in the clubhouse. Mr.. Reid addressed
the assembiage. He said:
Thus far the Democratic campaign is one of
abandonment. They have abandoned the tariff
principles ar Jefferson and OF jackson, because
the democracy now oppose protection to
American wages as Unconstitutional, and
insists upon the English notion of a
tariff ior revenue only. They have abandoned
the denunciaucn OF the billion-dollar Congress.
mere than q billion-dOllar Congress.
They have abandoned their argu-
that hat has been found q good ut and they
have abandoned the white House ice cart"
because it Is mcsins. and they see. that like the
abandoning the force bill, because there ia
not any such thing. aud because a
highly respectable part OF their own recent
member hip in their own stronghold down
South has been Whispering ever since IL was
counted ont In Alabama that there ought to be u
fierce bill. They are about abandoning the story
that the Mckinley bill robs the working classes
and that 10 protective tarif increases wages,
because OF n man named Peek. appointed by
their own candidate. Mr.. Cleveland. and because
az another man named Charles NJ. Preston. The
first of these Democratic officers sets forth I'm
his regular Official report that during the
last Year. under the Mckinley tariff,
wages have Increased. while tie other shows
that In consequence, during the saule< iejiod,
the deposits OF the wording classokin tie saw
incs banks have also increased. Next, stin an1
other Democratic IOdy, the State Board
OF Equalization. reports that during the
blighting effects of this Mckinley bill there oc-
Cured the largest annual increase known in re-
cent years In both The real and personal prop
erty OF tho State. And now the state
printing olice has just been burned down.
with every one OF the Democratic State
reports mat yet remained To be iss,ted. The
Democratic managers can at last breathe a lit
tie easier. They now know the worst, for the
reports OF the rest OF their officers are IN ashes
and can never see the light. Yet some OF them
seem To think they do not YET know the worst.
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