Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-07-21
WEAVER AND FIELDS.
THEY ARE THE STANDARD BEARERS
OF THE PEOPLES PARTY.

for Actual Settlers.
The nomination of General James p.
Weaver for president of the United
States by the Omaha convention was
natural, for General Weaver has been
the foremost man connected with the
movement. His reputation is national,
for he has been before the country as
the peoples champion for over ten years.
His memorable agitation for cheap
money while the nominee of the Green
back party in 1880 will be recalled by
every voter.
His remarkable record in congress,
where, single handed, he compelled the
two parties in control of the lower house
to recognize his principles, and his val
liant and successful attack on the Public
Land Strip is known to all who have fol-
lowed the actions of congress for the
past twelve years.
His national canvas in 1880 demon
strated that he is a speaker and writer
of very high order.
General Weavers strong point is that
he places principle above party disci-
pline: that is the reason why he ap-
peared in congress first as Republican,
later as Democrat and for the third
time as third party or Greenback ad
vOcate.
General Weaver was born fifty-six
years ago in Dayton, o., where he was
educated in the public schools. He was
graduated in 1854 from the law school
of the University of Ohio at Cincinnati.
He practiced law after being admitted
to the bar until the breaking out of the
civil war in 1861, when he enlisted as
private in the Second Iowa infantry.
having removed from Ohio soon after
his admission to the bar of his native
state.
Successive promotions for gallant con-
duct found him in 1864 brevetted b1iga-
der general. Since the war he has
drifted into journalism and is at present
editor Of the Iowa Tribune in Des
Moines.
General Weaver first held Office in
1865, when he was elected district attor-
ney of the Second judicial district of the
state The next year he was appointed
to the revenue service by President
johnson.
His national career began in the For
ty-sixth congress, to which he was elect
ed after a brilliant campaign. He re-
appeared in the Forty-ninth congress,
and was reelected to the Fiftieth cou-
gress. It was in the latter body, in the
year 1887, that General Weaver held the
house in his famous deadlock.
His superior qualities made it easy for
him to compel a hearing such as would
have taken lesser man many terms to
gain. Every device was resorted to by
the congressional uphOlders of the power
to suppress the member from Iowa, but
his resources were limitless, and discus
sions upon finance resulted which at
tracted the attention of the whole ma
ton and opened the eyes of hundreds of
thousands of voters to the viciousness of
the existing financial system. It must
not be forgotten that General Weaver
left a lucrative and growing practice at
the bar to engage in the unremunerative
pioneer work of reform. He has never
tagged in his course and stands today
the champion of new order of things.
The dominant desire of his life is to
assist in creating conditions under which
the struggle for existence for the major
ity may be lightened. He is a respected
and admired authority on various prob
lens Of Industrial reform, and has writ
ten several books that are standard in
their treatment of these vital subjects.
His unquestioned popularity makes
him formidable candidate for the |
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