Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-17
THE PEOPLES Party.

General JAMES b. Weaver, the can.
dida,e OF the Peoples party for Presl.
dent Ia this late campaign, has Just
issued u lengthy address 70 the voters Of
that party. II is not IN the terms or the
tone " the documents usually issued
by defeated candidates showing chow
Il was donen and blaming somebody
with all the scolding severity Of which
the author Is capable; but Is rather
generally considered In the line OF u
buglo call for the scattered hosts to
rally and reform their limos. He pre-.
sents the cheerful fact that his party
ran but little behind the party at
present In power as 10 the mum.
Der Of states carried, thinks It will
have tue balance Of power In the
United States Senate and rejoice.
that ii has doubled Its ropresen.
tation In Congress, while n number OF
state governments have been secured.
After declaring the Republican party
almost anuihllsted, lac proceeds 10 cur.
tail las he seems to think to a great
degree the feeling OF Jubilation which
the Democracy ioel over their I'll.
umph, showing that II was the
result OF violent reaction and
not Of tho deliberate Judgment o.;
the American people. In this he
is maniiestly and radically wrong,
as any one not infatuated with parti.
sanship can see; for there was no "vlo.
lence" whatever in the uprising, and
everything before and during the cleo.
ton be,okoned tho greatest dellbera.
tlon, the exercise OF q, calm and col.
lccted Judgment rs ever eli lracterlxs d
any election In the country.
General Weaver proceeds to ctitl.
elsa what the Dem lcrats have done,
are doing and are going to DO, leaving
tho Republicans out OF colsiiera-
tion altogether, perhaps for the reason
that no laid them out 20 early and ef.
fectually Ia the beginning. He de.
clares that the leaders OF the Demo.
cratic party are without any well dc.
fined policy except oontemptuous dis.
regard for every principle Of reform.
This Is simply an extravagant and
polntless use OF words which amount to
nothing "a an argument ami reach
nothing rs a conclusion. He ought TO
remember that the principal plank In
the Democratic platform Is also the
Principal one in that OF his own or.
ganizatio n-tnritf reform-and that
there Is not Democratic leader, scarce
ly Democratic layman la all the land,
but what Is altogether committed to that
principle. The general says, in tone
savoring more OF prophecy than OF
logic, that the new naturalization
will ignore the three great contentious
OF modern times, relating 10 land,
money ana transportation, He can.
not know that this IS the case, even N
he really believes II; because, 10 be-
Just, the record oi President Cleye.
lsnd's first term gives an emphatic
negative 10 such IA statement. The
land question was one that he paid
moro attention to than any other, hold
ing as he did that the puddle dom In
was held IN trust by the government
tor b)Ed Eje settlers, not for huge cor
porations aud private spectators, aud
in carrying out this policy no has In.
CURED the ire Of more people In the
West who looked upon the land as
theiTs to any extent aud for any pur,
pose, than has yet been set down In
nuyhoiy's vocabulary. We don't say
that tue President was ri yht In what
he DID, nor shall 1t he said that no was
wrong, principally because II doesn't
maIteE the point Is, whether 0.