People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-13
Kansas Marching Forward.
MEDICINE LODGE, KAN,
April 20, 1892.

marching forward. Nothing gives
us more encouragement than good
news from our brethren in the south.
That is why your paper is acquiring
so large circulation here.
Our remaining democrats here are
rapidly realizing their situation. One
Of them, friend of mine. puts it
this way:
"Some of my friends have pro-
tested with me for leaving the good
old democratic party. But want
to ask, what is the democratic party !?
Is it a name? Is it Tammany
machine? Or is it set of self-con-
stituted, would-be political leaders?
| wish to say that I have never wor-
shipped any name [ was never tied
to any machine, and never sold my
self to any clique Of leaders. II by
democracy you mean certain indy
ing principles, then I am democrat
as sincerely as I ever was before.
II believe in the democracy Of
Jefferson, when he said, 'The right
to land is in usufruct,' or when he
said, Bank paper must be sup
pressed and the circulation restored
to the government-to the people to
whom it belongs: paper money pos
sesses many advantages over gold
and silver
"I believe in the democracy of
Jackson, when he said, 'But if con-
gress have other power to regulate
the currency, it was conferred to be
exercised by themselves and not to
be transferred to corporations. If
the bank be chartered for that pur-
pose, with a charter unalterable
without It's consent, congress have
parted with their. power for a term
of years, during which the constltu-
ton is a dead letter. 1t is neither
necessary nor proper to transfer its
legislative powers to such bank,
and therefore unconstitutional
II believe in the democracy of
Calhoun, when he said, No doubt
but the credid of the government is
better than that Of any bank-more
stable and safe. I now undertake to
affirm, and without the least fear
that | can be answered, that the pa
per money issued by the govern
ment, with the simple promise of the
government to receive it for all dues,
would form perfect circulation,
which would not be abused by the
government, that it would be uni
form with the metals themselves
81 believe in the democracy of
Thomas Benton, when he said, The
bank is in the field, enlisted for the
war, battering- ram, not to beat
down the walls of hOstilities, but to
beat down the citadel of American
liberty; to command the elections
and elect bank president by direct
use of bank power. The bank is in the
field, a combatant, and fearful and
tremendous one in the presidential
election. If she succeeds, there is
an end Of American liberty-an end
Of the republic. The president of
the bank and the president of the
United States will be cousins in the
royal sense of the word /; they will
elect each other; they will transmit
their thrones to their descendents.'
81 believe in the democratic plat
} form of $50, which stood opposed to
! tariff, opposed to national banks, and
in favor of paper circulation.
II believe in the democracy of
. Reagan, when he says, History will
write. it down that the policy of the
government from 1869 to now, so far
as the executive is concerned, and so
} far as the laws were concerned, up
to 1873 has been distinctly policy
in the interest of the money lords of
this country and of Europe; a policy
distictively at war with the best in
terests of the country. know that
the present administration has taken
up and maintained the policy Of its
: republican predecessors Or when
he says, NO set of institutions that
have Cu0h T1Ovyov ~ ovnap1 or 0Op