The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-09-24
GEN. WEAVER
GIN. Field.
Both Formally Accept
These Patriots Score the Republican
Party For lis Hypocrisy.
And Lay Bare Its Treachery to the
American People.

Weaver and Gen. Field, peoples party
candidates for president and vice presi
dent. issued the following address to the
people of the United States. which says:
Having been nominated respectively
for the offices of president and vice presi-
dent of the United States by the national
convention of the peoples party, which
assembled at Omaha, July 4, 1892. we
take this method of formally notifying
the public of u acceptance of the nomi-
nations and of our appreciation of the
honor conferred upon us by the action of
the convention. We are heartily in ac-
cord with the platform of principles
adopted by that national convention and,
If elected, will endeavor to faithfully
carry out its demands in letter and spirit.
we have been requested by the nation
al committee to visit the various states
of the union SO far as it shall be within
our power. and to address the people
upon the political situation and issues
presented in the platform. We are now
in the discharge of that duty, having al
READY, one. or both of us visited tifleen
states in the northwest and southwest.
and if tour health and strength are spared
we intend to continue the work until the
campaign is closed"
They say their reception was enthusi-
astic and then declared that the poor
are becoming poorer, the rich richer. etc.
They say the old parties are subservient
monopolists and carry on a sham battle.
Corporations are d%enounced; a free bal
lot insisted on: fraud charged in the
recent Alabama election and the address
closes as follows:
The peoples party affords the only
solution of these important matters. All
who desire the revival Of business; all
who wish for the return of prosperity to
our country: all who desire to relieve the
depressed industries and ge-workers
OF our common country; all who desire
an adequate increase Of our currency and
free coinage of silver; all who desire the
abolition of banks of issue and con
stitutional control Of the great instru-
ments of commerce by the government
of the United States; all who desire that
the laws of taxation shall be eJualized;
all who desire that the high wages be
tween states shall be rendered subscrv-
lent to the popular good: and finally, all
who desire the restoration of fraternity
among the people, and the ob"literation
of sectional animosities, should at once
regard it as their sacred duty to ally
themselves under the banner of this
great industrial and fraternal movement.
ut seems to us to be quite impossible
that the liberty and justice loving people
of this country should longer cast their
ballots for the corporations and money
changers. 1t would seem impossible
that they should refuse to make common
cause with a fair-minded majority of the
people of the south who have risen up
to a demand for justice and good gov
eminent in their respective states; and
it further seems quite impossible that
the laboring men of the United States
shall deliberately go to the polls in No
vember and cast their votes in harmony
with the corporations and money power
who have Systematically and cruelty
robbed them for so long; vote in
harmony with their despoilers who made
war against their every right to organize
for the protection Of themselves and fam
lilies from the aggressions of capital on
the one hand and the overthrow by
fraud of tree elections on the other. The
new party has its face turned to the glo-
rious future. Its sublime mission is to
usher in an era of fraternity and justice
among men. In the presence of such an
opportunity to emancipate our country
from misrule of every kind let party lines
be forgotten and let the generous flame
of common patriotism nerve every heart
and move every soul.
JAMES b. WEAVER.
JAMES q. FIELD