People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-14
WEAVER AND FIELD.
ACCEPT THE NOMINATION OF THE
PEOPLES PARTY. "
Declaring that they Stand Squarely
Upon the Platform Adopted at
the Omaha Convention.

the Peoples party candidates for
President and Vice President, have
issued the following address:
To the People of the United States :;
Having been nominated respective
ly for the offices Of President and
Vice-President of the United States
by the National Convention of the
Peoples party, which assembled at
Omaha July 4, 1892, we take this
method of formally notifying the
public of our acceptance of the nom
NATION and of our appreciation of the
honor conferred upon us by the &C
ton of the convention.
We are heartily in accord with the
platform of principles adopted by that
convention, and, if elected, will en-
deavor to faithfully carry out the de-
mands in letter and spirit.
We have been requested by the
National Committee to visit the vari-
Gus States Of the Union so far as it
shall be within our power, and to ad-
dress the people upon the political
situation and the issues presented in
the platform. We are now in the
discharge of that duty, having al
ready one or both of US visited fif-
teen States IN the Northwest and
South, and if health and strength are
spared we intend to continue the
work until the campaign is closed.
We have been received with marked
cordiality. The enthusiasm every
where is without parallel, and ex-
tends to every part of the Union we
have visited. BY contact with the
people we have become acquainted
with their wants and sufferings, and
have been brought face to face with
the manifold perils which so serious
ly threaten our civilization and the
overthrow of popular government.
We wish to express our Judgment
freely aid without reserve in order
that we stand acquitted before our
fellow-men and our own conscience
touching the whole matter.
SUBSTANCE OF THE PEOPLE De
vOURED.
The people are in poverty. Their
substance is being devoured by heart
less monopolists, trusts, pools and
money sharks. Labor is largely I'M
employed, and where work is obtain
able the wages paid are for the most
part unremunerative, and the pro-
ducts of labor not paying the cost of
production. This is matter of Sc
rious concern to the whole people.
The leaders of the heretofore domi-
nant. SGyties are everywhere CON
troll " the great monopoly and
mon eenters, and manifest utter
disrd d for the wants and wishes
of q kople. The pa es are hos
: 2~rangod u soctiona1
lines and the present bitterness and
crueltles of the past; every four
years discussing the issues of the late
war which should long since have
been allowed to pass from the politi-
cal discussions Of the day. Not
withstanding the bitterness existing
between the old parties they vie
with each other in their subservience
to capitalistic and corporate greed.
They are incapable of dealing sin
cerely with the vast problem evolved
by the growth of the last quarter of
a century. Upon the general Geo.
nomic questions of the age they are
practically in harmony, differing just
enough to enable them to carry on a
sham battle, while the work of rob
berry and spoliation proceeds una
bated. In the meantime the farmers
and planters, North and South, and
the wage earners everywhere are
prescribed, maltreated, brought into
competition with convict labor, and
in many instances shot down by
hired mercenaries acting under orders
of arrogant corporations, which have
unblushingIy usurped the functions
of Government and presumed to act
in its stead. These corporations
dominate the daily press and control
the lines of a daily communication
with the people.
A still greater peril-we hold that
the rights of a free ballot and a fair
count are rights preservative Of all
lights, and upon their inviolability
rests the perpetuity of free instita-
tons and representative government.
We are panied to discover in the
public mind of the Southern States
through which we have passed q
widespread loss of confidence on the
part of the people in the integrity of
the Judges of elections in receiving
the ballots of the people and count
ing them for the candidates of their
choice. We think that this evil must
be corrected by the intelligence and
integrity of the people of the coun-
Try; otherwise scenes Of violence,
and perhaps bloodshed, may follow
these efforts of parties in charge Of
the ballot boxes to defraud the will
Of the voter. They will lead to a
serious collision, and that quickly.
THE PARrY's GROWTH IN THE
SOUTH.
After consultation with the peo-
pie we believe it to be true beyond