People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-25

adherentS IN the House OF RepreSen-
tatives, secured control of a number
of State governments, hold the bal
ance of power in majority of the
States in the Union, and have sue
ceeded in arousing a spirit Of politi-
cal independence among the people
of the Northwest which cannot be
disregarded in the future. Not be-
ing formed on sectional lines, our
party In single campaign has gained
large and influential following in
every State in the South. This gives
promise of good government in that
section of the Union, thing that
the Republican party has failed to do
after thirty years of almost uninter-
rupted rule, and gives promise, too,
Of correcting wrongs, which may
exist through the people of the re-
spective States, instead Of attempt
il 8 to do so by influence from with
out.
We have awakened fraternal feel
ings IN all sections, and as an earnest
of our good will toward the South,
the grand people of Kansas, State
containing more Union soldiers than
any other, elected an ex- Confederate
soldier Of the Peoples party to rep
resent the State at 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 and Overthrown by
the people, and their organization
we'll nigh annihilated. This leaves
the former adherents of that party
free to align themselves with the
great anti-monopoly and industrial
movement.
The accession of the other party
to power is the result of violent re-
action and not, | am sure, of the
deliberate judgment of the American
people. The battle leaders of the
triumphant party are without any
we'll 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 admins
tration will ignore the great conten-
tons 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 is to be
disdainfully ignored, and new OBJ
stacles will, doubtless, be interposed
to further restrict the use Of the
white metal In contempt of the
doctrine of Andrew Jackson, Euro
pean aristocrats are to be permitted
to dictate our financial policy.
One of the most valuable results
of the late war, that of uniform
legal-tender currency, issued by the
government, is to be sacrificed and
abandoned, and serious attempts will
be made to force the people to return
to the fraudulent system Of State
bank issues, which existed prior to
the war, and which periodically
swindled the industrial classes Of the
fruits of their toll. This is to be
sprung upon the people by a sudden
stroke of policy by dealers who
carefully kept their motives con-
cealed from the public. This crime
is to be enacted into law between
elections and before the people can
have time to pass upon the question
by the selection of representatives
chosen for the purpose. That this
is the deliberate plan Is shown by
the clause in the Democratic plat
form which calls for the repeal Of
the law imposing a tax upon the cir
culation of State banks. 1t is con-
frmed by the fact that Mr.. Coe,
chairman of the executive committee
of the American bankers, associated
together with a large number of
New York bankers, publicly gave in
their support to the Democratic
ticket only few days before the
election. The situation gives an ad-
ditional Importance to the great
question which a few have compre-
hended for score of years, namely :
Shall the currency of the country be
a legal.tender issue and its value
controlled by the government, or
shall it be non-legal tender Issued
and controlled by banking corpora
tons?
The issues pressing for solution are
simply tremendous, and the situation
portentious. Our party has not made
its advent too soon. Its mission Is
to restore to our government It's
original and only legitimate function,
which has been well nigh lost by non
use. that of assuring to all its citizens
the weak as well as the mighty
the uumolested enjoyment OF their
inalienable rights. This cannot be
accomplished until the relations be-
tween labor and its creature, capital,
are so adjusted as to cause each to
respect the domain of the other.
These important forces are now upon
a war footing, whereas, under hu-
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