People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-25
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Winnemucca. New. Silver State.
A month ago the Silver State gave
notice that Wall street and the other
money powers had become alarmed
at the popular upheaval for the Peo-
ple's party and had determined to
drop Harrison in order to make
Cleveland's election certain If posi-
BILE; that they had concluded that
it had become dangerous to let these
two parties keep up fight between
themselves simply for the offices
while thousands were focking to the
Populists; that Harrison would be
kept in the field to carry these States
where Cleveland had no show, but in
the other States Cleveland was to be
showed to the front and Harrison sac
rlfced that in conformity with this
plan 100000 were sent to Georgia
and large sums to Arkansas and Ala
bama to hold the South solid in the
State elections for the moral effect it
would have in November. Our in
formation has been verified. It is
evident that by an understanding be-
tween the goldbugs and bondholders
and the manipulators of the Republi-
can party, the herders of blocks of
fives, tens and twenties were in
structed to herd them into the Cleve-
land camp ON election day in the
States between the Mississippi river
and the Allegheny mountains north of
the Ohio river. There was a general
desire on the part of the blue bellied
Republicans to see Cleveland elected
rather than the success of the Peo-
ple's party, and desire on the part
of the blaek-strlped Democrats to see
Harrison elected rather than Weaver.
This desire was openly expressed in
this State by both parties and it
seems to have prevailed in an equal
degree east of the Mississippi. 1t was
anything to beat Weaver and silver.
The Peoples party never expected
to do more in this election than to
hold the balance of power in the
electoral college and thereby defeat
both Harrison and Cleveland and
name the next President and thereby
secure free coinage of silver. If the
Republican bosses had not sold out
their party in the interest of Cleve-
land and Wall street the Peoples
party would have accomplished It's
object. But when they threw Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin to
the Democrats, the forty or forty-fve
votes for Weaver are poWerless to
defeat the goldbugs in this contest.
The Weaver States, however, are
monuments of true manhood and
vigorous American policy, around
which the people will rally in the
future for free coinage, for more
money and less misery.
The news this morning still fur
Their confirms our information of a
month ago. Harrison charges his
national committee with treachery,
and the press dispatches intimate
that a public exposure of the inner
workings of the committee will be
made. It was feared by the silver
men that the Harrison electors would
vote for Cleveland in case there
should be no election by the people
at the polls. but they were not pre-
pared to believe that the Repubi-
cans would fuse with the Democrats
in SO many Republican States and
give the election to Cleveland. We
must admit that Wall street and the
Republican managers outgeneraled
the friends of silver by practically
pulling Harrison out of the fight on
the day of election. If the Repubi-
cans had stood up to the rack for
Harrison in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Wisconsin, eonfessedly Republi-
can States, the Peoples party would
hold the balance of power in the
electoral college. But the " ghosts "
haunted them by day and by night,
and the 70~cent dollar put them in
the comatOSe state or "lnnocuous
desuetude," and they were herded
into the free. wool sheep fold by
thousands without knowing where
they were being driven to.
The result of the election has
eliminated all side issues out of
American politics. The great vital
and living issue of free coinage and
more money upon the one side, the
gold standard and continued con-
traction of the currency upon the
other, will be the great question be-
tween the two remaining national
parties, the Peoples party and the
Democratic party. On with the