The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12

on account of the overwhelming de.
defeat it sustained last fall and the
financial depression that has recent
~ fallen upon the country. More.
over the democratic party of the
state declares that if the coming
state convention endorses the policy
OF President Cleveland they will nc
longer vote the democratic ticket
My correspondence is very extensive
and comes from every state of the
Union, and the testimony in regard
/ to the
GROWTH OF THE THIRD PARTY
is universal. Virginia is in a state
of great political excitement. The
republican party has disbanded
there and given it's adherence to the
peoples party. From North Caro-
lima and Alabama also the reports
are very encouraging. There is a
complete revolution in Texas. A
blaze of enthusiasm is sweeping
from one end of the state to the
other, and the excitement is as great
as at any period during the war.
They declare that there is only 80
cents per capita in circulation, and
that is the condition nearly every
where. Why should it not be, when
it is conceded everywhere by the
best financierS that the business of
the country has been carried on for
years on 90 per cent of credit and
per cent of cash? The credit has
dropped out, and there is not money
enough in circulation to transact
the business of the country"
After recounting the financial his
tory of the United States from 1865
to 1893, he added: ''Is it a wonder
that the people are aroused? Those
party leaders and editors of news
papers who sanction the policy do
not know what is going on among
the people. They are not in touch
with those who produce the wealth
of this country, and | want to say to
them that they are sleeping on po-
lltlcal vOlcanO-a volcano which has
already begun it's eruptions and will
never stop until it has blown into
atoms those who are rObbing the
people from one end of the country
to the other. (Applause.) Great
Britain has just struck cOwardly
blow at the fiscal policy of the Unit
ed States, but she is not alone in the
crime. 1t is the result of an inter-
national conspiracy. The present
administration with it's abettors is
in the conspiracy to force the Amer
leans to single gold standard.
They require us to use one kind of
money, and that is the kind we can
not get. Laughter.) We threw off
the political yoke of England in 1776.
+ We should throw Of it's financial
yoke now (Cheers.) On the lst of
August there will be great gather
ing of the
BIMETALLIC LEAGUE
in Chicago. The call is broad enough
to include all the labor and indus
trial organizations in America. At
that meeting we intend to make a
second declaration of American in
dependence against British oppres-
sion. This is not time for delay.
There is no question as to what the
administration intend to do. The
HendersOn-Carlisle letter foreshad-
Ows the administrations plan, and
we must be prepared for the very
worst. There is no question that
the present conspiracy includes the
retirement Of every greenback in
circulation, the melting of one-half
of our silver dollars, the sale of the
other half for gold, the stoppage of
the purchase of silver under the
Sherman act and the supplement-
ing of the national bank system by
the wild cat system, under which we
shall have fOurty-fOur different va
rieties of currency which cannot be
legal currency under the constitu-
tiOn."
Gen. Weaver concluded his re-
marks by saying that he had a
few things to say to his hearers in
private, and shortly afterward the
meeting went into executive session.
He had barely concluded his secref
counsel when Senator Pfeffer app9N
ed upon the scene The exec4tFe
session was brought to an end, and
after he had been introduced indi-
vidually to every one present the
senator was requested to give his
views upon the timely topics of the
day. In responding, he said:
II can only stay with you mo-
ment, but | will say to you what
say to the boys everywhere, that this
administration is an intensely parti-
san one. am compelled to spend a
great deal OF my time at headQuar-
ters, where | feel keenly the partisan
spirit of the political atmosphere,
and the effect Of that partisan spirit
is to bring the whole democratic par
ty into line upon the issues that you
and are opposed to. We are now
forced to face the money question
from the Wall street standpoint.
They have forced the issue upon us,
and there appears to me to be moth
ing else on this side of the political
horizon this year or next year.
come to you authOritatively with
this message. / think that you in
Minnesota and we in Kansas, and in
fact, that populists all through the
country will in the future rally to
our standard thousands upon thous-
ands of voters that have never been
with us b: fore. We speak definitely
and earne ,tly upon this money ques-
tiOn. It the great question. 1t is
the only 4 lestiOn Of the time. This
is all h; re to say to you. We have
got to fight this question stubbornly
and we have got to fight it with all
the means at our disposal"