The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-06-25

- VI ~ 'Nh's' ~ va
veution, if not active in it, will be Gov
ernor Sylvester Pennoyer, of Oregon,
WHO vas reelected in 1890 by II majority
Of 10000. though the state is Republican.
He is spoken of as the new party's can
didate for president, for though elected
governor as Il 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. Eorn in Poughkeep-
sic, \. T.. III 1924, he entered congress
in 1853 and left it for the army. He
came ont "A lTevet brigaaicr, was again
elected 10 congress. removed to Nebraska
in 1874 and became United States sena-
tor in 1881. He made Il fierce onslaught
on the railroads. was denied IA ~re-elcc-
ton in consequence and, as Il further
consequence, has no love for big corpo-
rations.
Numerically, however, these vii. be
swallowed up by an army ofnew. or com
paratively Few recruits. such as Senators
Kyle. of South Dakota. and PETER. of
Kansas; Congressman Vim u Wat
son, Of Georgia; Jerry Simpson, b. II.
Clover, John Davis and William Baker.
of Kansas: kittel Halvers0n, of Mime
sofa, and William Arthur Mckeighan,
of the second Nebraska district. whose
phenomenal majority in 1890 astonished
the country ana 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 squirt" OF, as II English
friends say, Il ''beastly fuke," or did it
Indicate II permanent strength:
1t is Il common and IA cheap and easy
explanation to say the Peoples party i,
the successor Of the old Greenback
party" but this is only II part of the
truth. The g%reenback has evidently
coma 20 stay. and the national banks. as
Senate Sherman recently pointed ont.
must soon be wound up by the payment
Of the bonds. but the whole field of cap
ital and labor, the concentration of
wealth and increase of poverty, and es-
pecially the great puzzle known AS the
depression of agriculture lies open to
the new party. The alternating move
ments of new parties since the war pre-
sent a curious study, each leaving
thing to the next.
In all the seventy-two years of the ma
tons existence before the war there
were not as many strikes and labor riots
as in two months Of the single year of
1877, and though many labor ~organiza-
tons were formed, there was no general
political party based on them. 1t is ques-
toned also if there were in the United
States in 1860 a score of m~illionaires;
now there are loo III New York city
alone. and believed to be 5000 i'm the
nation. New parties We're therefore in
evitable as soon rs the war issues were
settled, and the first to affect local cleo
tons was probably the Eight Hour
league. In 1866 this and kindred or
CARNATIONS grew into IA party, and on
Aug. 20 the first national labor con-
gress met III Baltimore.
In 1870 the Labor party affected cleo
tons considerably in many places, and
O after the famous Changers rose
rapidly to great Importance. The panic
of 1878 resulted in a tremendous politi-
cal revolution-the change of votes be-
tween 1872 and 1874 amounted to nearly
l, 100, OO0--and soon after the raging ele-
ments of discomfort found expression in
the Greenback party. Its first distinc-