The record-union., 1893-01-11
THIRD PARTY MEN.
Their Love Feast at Changers Hall
Last Night.
Speeches by Judge Thompson and
Some of the ''Solid Eight'' Mem
bers of the Legislature.

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Peoples party. J. E. Camp, President
Of the county Farmers Alliance, pre-
sided.
Judge Thompson, editor of the Peoples
Press, first addressed the meeting. He
paid tribute to the beautiful State in
which we live and asked, Where are the
people Of California to-day? Are they
rich?" No, they are like the man who
starts in business, carries it on for years,
all the time making money, as he thinks,
and wakes up to find himself bankrupt
The results are out of the control of the
people, on account of wrong political
management. This nation was rising to
prosperity after the civil war, when evil
hands grasped national affairs and ma
tional finances, and have ever since,
through both parties, throttled the pros
perity of the nation.
This is the reason for the genesis OF the
Farmers Alliance and of the Peoples
party. This is the great force which has
defeated the Republican party and started
the Democratic party to its death.
Neither of these parties understand the
reason OF the revulsiOn, but those who
are behind the movement do. 1t is just
as sure to destroy the Democratic party
as the fact is sure that it has destroyed
the Republican party, for it is not simply
its defeat but its destruction that has
been accomplished.
The great abuses that have grown up
could not have been without the aid OF
parties, and the plutOcratic party owned
both the others. The contraction OF the
currency was the first step in plling up
the debt and interest that burdens the
Nation. The sentiment in favor of the
Peoples party, he continued, IS steadily
growing and the next election in the
state Of California would have neither OF
the old parties.
lie alluded to the Panama Canal and
the scandal connected with it. The
consideration by Congress of the pres
ent canal scheme, he said, concerned
the most important proposition that had
ever been advanced. When the former
treaty was under consideration Grover
Cleveland spirited it away from the
United States Senate and killed it, to the
lasting injury OF the country, as the con-
troll of The canal would have been by the
United States. Under the Sherman bill
II is impossible for the Government to
own or control the canal. In the Associ-
ated Press dispatches the lie is boldly told
that tho Government is to have half OF
the Directors. In fact, the bill provides
that one-half the promoters should be
chosen as Directors, and the Govern
ments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica
should each have one, so that the United
states could never have one-half the Di-
rectors.
The interests of the promoters aud of
the Government are Numerically op-
posed. The idea was promulgated that
the use of the canal was to be as free as
that of the Mississippi River; but in fact,
the company has a scheme of tolls for
everything under the sun. The war YES
sells of Nicaragua and Costa Rica can pass
through free, but not those of the United
States. How is 1t, then, that the United
States can control it? All vessels of war
can pass through the canal unless belong
ing to nations at war with Nicaragua or
Costa Kica. Any nation at war with us
could send ships through, but we could
not, without permission of Nicaragua.
They want Congress to lend them the
credit of the country and help them to
build it, that they may own it; to lend
them our name for hundred millions,
when they only need siNty-two millions.
A new treaty will be made by the new
party, giving a Nicaragua Canal, built
owned and controlled by the United
States Government.
The mission Of the Peoples party is to
do the peoples will. What have you, he
asked, as a rallying point? You must
have something to educate you in the
issues of the day. The press, when fair
and independent, will do this; and the
press that is devoted to this cause must
have their support.
AsSEMBLYMAN VANN
Then addressed the audience. He said he
was a "hayseed" !" sent from the banner
Democratic county of Colusa. If he read
history correctly, about hundred years
ago the signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence had declared their intention to
be free. They had handed down to us
free country, and it is our duty to pre-
serve it so. The great question Of to-day
is the financial question. Great Britain
was the moving power, not only in the
Revolution, but in the Civil War, and at
the close of the war, seeing she could not
defeat us IN any other way, she set out to
destroy us through our financial system.
Jefferson introduced into our tinan-
cial policy the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and it was until of late
years equal in value to gold, dollar for
dollar Did any convention of any
party ask Congress to demonetiZe
silver in 1873? The prominent men
of both parties at that time assert that
they were then ignorant OF the fact that
the bill demonetized silver. We compete
with our wheat productions with silver
using India. England buys our silver
dollars to use against US, and get our
wheat 80 per cent. cheaper than if we had
Tree coinage. The party that opposes
the principles we advance" said he,
must get out Of the way"
]. L. GILBERT,
President of the State Farmers Alliance.
spoke next. 1t had been said that the
/ tarmers' Alliance was dead in this State.
but it was very lively corpse. Letters
from all over the State showed that the
farmers and laboring men were founding
an organization that had come to stay.
our cause was holy One-spruno
from the best feelings Of our nature,
our duty to our homes and children.
We are, he said, sinking into povery, and
IL is our only hopes. He had been called
crank Tor years and rather enioyed it.
He had decided that there was something
wrong around him. The laws We're
framed SO as TO take from him and others
the products of their labors and give it 10
others. 1t was better to leave his children
a system of laws that would protect them
than to leave them farm. England is
conquering America through her fnan-
cial system.
After the war everything was prosper
Gus until English agents induced Con-
gress to burn up Sl,Z01, 100000 and con-
tract our currency. England had said to
America, Burn up your money and
come over and borrow ours and pay in
terest on it." and we did so.
Ali great financial schemes are started
presumably in the interest of the people,
put SOLheElON Luty dINdyS turn out 10 the
advantage Of the capitalist. There is not
gold and silver enough combined in the
world to pay the debts OF the Nation.
He had the utmost confidence in the
rank and file OF both the old parties. but
tie leaders of both were at the nod and
beck of Wall street. They would not
dare TO do anything for the relief of the
people. The question OF to-day is shall the
United States be ruled by the almighty
dollar, or shall it be ruled by the al
mighty man? The Government had
loaned its money to the banker at l or ,
nor cont and dauia1 10 tho f,-,,,o,.