The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-11-23
THE FIELD IL OURS.
An Able and Enthusiastic Address by
General Weaver.

General Weaver.
Gen. Weaver has sent the following
able and important letter to Chairman
Tsubeneck, Of the Peoples party, it be-
ing really an address to the American
people:
DEs MoNEs, IA, Nov. 16, 1892.
Hon. Fl. II. TGtLbeneck, Chairman National
Committee Peoples Party:
DEAR SIR:--I wish by this method to
briefly address, through you, the friends Of
reform throughout the union. Unsided by
money, our grand young party has made an
enviable record and achieved surprising sue
cess at the polls. We are but little behind
the republican party in the number of states
carried. As result of the late election we
will doubtless hold the balance of power in
the senate Of the United States, have
doubled the number of our adherents in the
house OF representatives, secured control Of
number of state governments, hold the
balance of power in majority Of the states
in the union, and have succeeded in arous-
ing spirit of political independence among
the people Of the northwest which cannot be
disregarded in the future. Not being 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--a thing herepublican
party has failed to do after thirty years Of
almost uninterrupted rule-and gives prom
ise, too, of correcting wrongs which may
exist through the people Of the respective
states, instead Of attempting to do 30 by in
Auences from without. We have awakened
fraternal feelings in all sections, and as an
earnest of our good will towards the south,
the grand people Of Kansas, state contain
ing more union soldiers than any other,
elected an ex-Confederate soldier of the Peo-
ple's party TO represent the state at large in
congress.
The country is to be congratulated upon
the fact that the leaders Of one Of the here
tofore great parties have been abandoned
and overthrown by the people, and their or.
ganization well 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 reaction. and not, am
sure, of the deliberate judgment of the
American people. The national leaders Of
the triumphant party are without any we'll
defined policy, except that of OOntemptuouS
disregard for every element Of reform
within the ranks Of their own party and
among the people at large. The new ad-
ministration will ignore the three great
contentious 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 ex-
erted to prevent reform in these important
matters. The urgent demand Of the people
for the free coinage Of silver Is TO be dis
dainfully ignored, and new obstacles will
doubtless be interposed to further restrict
the use Of the white metal. In contempt Of
the doctrine Of Andrew jackson, European
aristocrAts are to be permitted to dictate our
financial policy.
One of the most valuable results Of the
late civil war-that Of uniform legal ten
der currency issued By the goVernment-is
to be sacrificed and abandoned, and serious
attempt 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 indus
trial classes Of the fruits Of their toll. This
is to be spruDg upon the people by asudden
stroke Of policy By leaders who carefully
kept their motives concealed from the pub
lic. The crime 10 TO be enacted into Law be- |
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