People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-12-16
THEY BEGIN TO SEE IT.
A Texas Paper Writes Of the Growth ant
Trend Of the Peoples Party.

A Texas Paper Writes of the Growth and
Trend Of the Peoples Party.
Gen. James G. Field, who was second
to Cen Weaver on the peoples party
ticket has written letter to Gen.
Weaver, in which he says:
Mr.. Cleveland owes his election TO our pres
ence in the field which enabled him TO secure
electoral votes by plurslities north Of the Ohio
which he could never have secured by major
! tiles in a contest narrowed TO the republicans
! on the one side and the democrats on the other
Take from Mr.. Cleveland the electoral votes
north Of the Ohio which he got by virtue OF
pluralities and he fails OF an election by some
twelve or fifteen electoral votes. Our party OF
the south will watch with interest for the lead
| of the moro powerful west and northwest and
l hope you will maintain your position in the
front and give US all the advantage Of the more
compact organizations OF the two grand sec
tons Mr.. Cleveland's administration, l hope
viii meet the promises Of his friends and the
Just expectations Of the people will be fully
realized in national prosperity. II so, well
| II not then the wrongs Of the people viii cry
aloud for redress through our party.
While the peoples party was over
whelmed in Georgia and Arkansas,
there is no way of concealing the fact
that it has alarmed both the old parties
in other portions of the country. II
will prove interesting at any rate to
use Gen. Fields figures and ascertain
just how many electoral votes the peo
pies party has enabled Mr. Cleveland
to secure. Calculating as to the states
and dynamics of the populist element
may seem fun for democratic mathe.
maticians just now, but if they neglect
the great current opportunity of life
time such calculation is likely to be-
come decidedly serious within the ensu.
ing four years. The peoples party vote
of Alabama, Texas, Kansas and Cali.
fornia will preponderate in those states
four years hence if it continues to in
crease as it has increased for four years
past. The revolution in the politics OF
the country portended in such increase
challenges the earnest attention of the
best craftsmanship and the most
enlightened thought of the period.
Read the platform of the peoples party
and consider the radical changes pro
posed therein. 1t means the abo
lition of national banks; the establish.
ment of sub-treasuries, which shall
issue money to the people at not ex.
ceeding per cent interest on non-per-
ishable farm products and upon real
estate; the increase Of circulating me-
dunn to at least $50 per capita; anti
option laws: free and unlimited coin
age of silver: prohibition of alien own
ership of land; graduated income tax;
state and national government control
and supervision of the means of public
communication and transportation, and
if this control and supervision do not
prove satisfactory, the government
ownership of such means of communi-
cation and transportation. There are
some exceedingly radical changes pro-
posed in all this, and if Gen. Fields
figures are correct these changes are
apparently not very far ahead of us I'M
less the democratic party shall use the
precarious term of power given it so
wisely and so well for reform and edu-
cational purposes as generally to allay
popular discomfort and turn the general
drift of the popular mind sharply away
from dangerous train of political and
economic fallacies
The determination of the peoples
party executive committee to perpetu-
ate the state organization was expected.
A vote of lOj, 900 in triangular contest
developing an aggregate of $4,000 is a
signal encouragement on its face. Judge
Nugent, the populist leader, is con-
WINGED that he would have been elected
if the prospects of Judge ClarlSs cleo
ton had not appeared brightand his
people had not consequently given con-
siderable support to Gov. Hogg. Wheth-
er this is correct or not the populists
have reason to be proud of
their strength, which a has in
creased, according TO the returns,
from less than $4,000 four years
ago to los, 900 stable and $1,000 sympa.
thetic at present There is that about
this populist vote which commands re-
spect. 1t is thoroughly free from empty
sentiment In the main it comes from
the democratic party and to that extent
is composed of those who cherish the
general principles of democracy so far
as they are applicable to present prob
lens, but do not hesitate to ignore
democratic traditions in seeking rem
edies for modern ills. Perhaps the bet
ter way to put it is to say they take the
ground that democracy is whatever the
people will, and that it is the part of
democracy to solve present problems
with present means. They measure
public policies not by party standards,
but by the peoples needs Dallas
TEX News.