People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-22
81 All A POPULIST."
SO says Senator Stewart of Nevada.

The following letter from Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, is taken from
the Denver Nc,Os of the 18th.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1l.-Senator
William NJ. Stewart of Nevada has
written the following letter to DR..
c. c. Nelson of Grove City, Ohio:
UNITED STATES SENATE, WASHING.
TON, SEPT. 13.-Dr. c. c. Nelson,
Grove City, OhiO,-Dear Sir: Your
favorof the 7th instant is received.
You inquire if l am a Populist.
My answer is that | am. There is
no other party in which a true friend
OF the people can be useful. The
Democrtic and Republican parties
have both been betrayed by their
leaders. became thoroughly con-
yinced that Mr.. Harrison and Cleye-
land were both Nominated by the
money power as soon as those nOmi-
nations were made and their plat
forms published.
| was candidate for reelection to
the senate Of the United States from
the state of Nevada. | could not
afford to deceive the people, who had
hOnored me so much by asking a re-
election as a Republican. On my re-
turn home frCm Washington, | in
formed my constituents that | could
not support the Republican nominee
for president and that the Demo-
cratic nominee was no better than
the Republican; that they both be-
lOnged to and were representatives
of the bondhOlding gold monopoly of
London and New York and that if
either of them were elected the power
of his administration would be used
to aid concentrated capital to absorb
the earnings of the people, augment
the power Of the oligarchy Of wealth
and reduce the masses to dependence
and want.
| canyassed the state of Nevada and
advised the people to vote for Wea-
yer and Field, the nominees Of the
Omaha convention, as the only true
representatives Of the peoples rights.
The platform of the Omaha cOnyen-
tion demanded the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver, and the dele
gates who composed that convention
were honest, earnest men, and meant
what they said. The people of Ne
vada, without regard to former poll
tic&l affiliations, believed as | did,
and cast more than twO-thirdS Of
their votes for Weaver and Field, and
elected Francis G. NewlandS, the free
coinage candidate for congress, by a
still larger majority. They also elect
cd every member of both houses Of
the legislature pledged to the reStora-
tiOn of silver. When the legislature
met | was reelected to the senate of
the United States by an unanimous
vote in each house.
My statement that whichever was
elected, Mr.. Harrison or Mr. Cleve-
land, he would use the patronage of
the presidential Office to destroy
One-half of the metallic money of the
world, was vehemently denied by the
friends of both. TIE truth of my
statement has been verified. The
president united with the banks and
bondh0lders to alarm the people as to
the SoundneSS of the money of the
government, and created panic.
They falsely proclaimed that the ad-
dition of Sl5O,OO0,OOO of legal tender
money to the circulation of the cOun-
try was the cause of the panic they
had themselves created.
The president then declared that
an extraordinary emergency had aris-
en-, and called congress together to
repeal the Sherman act, and nothing
else. The call increased the alarm
and intensified the panic. The sub
Sidized press of all the commercial
centers was made to declare that the
people demanded the immediate re-
peal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act.
Silver was clandeStinely demone-
tized by the mint of 1873, since which
time an overwhelming majority of
the people of the United States have
been in favor of the restoration OF
the white metal to the place it had
occupied for thousands of years as a
money metal previous to the crime
OflS73. No party, state or national,
dare 60 before the people soliciting
their suffrages upon a declaration
justifying, or even palliating, that
crime, but all parties claimed to bt
bimetalliStS and in favor of the ust
of silver equally with gold.
Some recognition of silver was OBJ
tanned by the legislation of congreS:
against vetoes, federal patronage and
the influence of money. The Blanc