Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-02
PENNoYER-wEAvER-CLovER.

A very prominent man before the con
vention, if not active in it, will be Gov
ernor Sylvester Pennoyer, Of Oregon,
who was reelected in 1890 by a majority
of 10000, though the state is Republican.
He is spoken of as the new partys can
didate for president, for though elected
governor as Democrat, he is now in
full sympathy with the third party men.
Still another active spirit will be ex-
Senator Charles Henry Van Wyck. of
Nebraska. His career has been singu-
larly picturesque. Born in Poughkeep-
sic, N. Y, in 1924, he entered congress
in 1859 and left it for the army. He
came out brevet brigadier, was again
elected to congress, removed to Nebraska
in 1874 and became United States sena-
tor in 1881. He made fierce onslaught
on the railroads, was denied a re-elec-
ton in consequence and, as a further
consequence, has no love for big corpo-
rations.
Numerically, however, these will be
swallowed up by an army of new, or COM
paratively new recruits, such as Senators
Kyle, of South Dakota, and PETER, of
Kansas; Congressman VIM and Wat
son, of Georgia; Jerry Simpson, B. II.
Clover, John Davis and William Baker,
of Kansas; Kittel Halverson, of Mime
sofa, and William Arthur McKeighan,
of the second Nebraska district, whose
phenomenal majority in 1890 astonished
the country and convinced the old poll
ticians that the people had 'taken the
bit in their teeth" And now the all
absorbing question is, Was the vote Of
1890 a mere "spurt," or, as our English
friends say, a 'beastly fluke," or did il
indicate a permanent strength?
1t is common and a cheap and easy
explanation to say the Peoples party il
: ''the successor of the old Greenbacl
party" but this is only part Of the
} truth. The greenback has evidently
, come to stay, and the national banks, a!
/ Senator Sherman recently pointed out
/, must soon be wound up by the paymen
Of the bonds, but the whole field of cap
ital and labor, the concentration o
; wealth and increase of poverty, and es
o pecially the great puzzle known as tn
: depression of agriculture" lies open +
Q the new party. The alternating move
y ments of new parties since the war pre-
q sent curious study, each leaving some
q thing to the next.
a In all the seventy-two years OF the ns
= TONS existence before the war ther
% were not as many strikes and labor riot
as in two months of the single year G
d 1877, and though many labor organizf
r tons were formed, there was no genera
s. political party based on them. 1t is que
l. toned also if there were in the Unite
g. States in 1860 a score of millionaire
, now there are LOO in New York cit
alone, and believed to be 5000 in tf
nation. New parties were therefore il
evitable as soon as the war issues wei
settled, and the first to affect local ele'
N lions was probably the Eight Hot
st league. In 1866 this and kindred o
ID CARNATIONS grew into a party, and c
1T Aug. 20 the first national labor COZ
NJ gress met in Baltimore.
= In 1870 the Labor party affected ele
= lions considerably in many places, al
~ soon after the famous Changers ro
y rapidly to great importance. The pan
'n of 1873 resulted in tremendous poll
IN cal revolution-the change of votes b
IS tween 1872 and 1874 amounted to near
a 1, 100, 000-and soon after the raging ell
ments of discomfort found expression
On the Greenback party. Its first distin
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