People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-06


President, Congress and all the gov
erning power refuse to right these
wrongs, it is time to band together
in an organization whose onward
march will be irresistible.
The defeat of the Republican
party shows that political revolu-
ton is pending. The tremendous
vote polled by the Peoples party,
aggregating over million, makes a
nucleus of men trained in the fight,
who will be a band of missionaries
carrying the loren of truth and
preaching the gospel of deliver
ance to all the people. want to
warn all that glad host who cast
their ballots of hope that they must
be cautious in their work. We can
not reform the world all at once.
Our departed friend, Col. Polk, wrote
me letter after letter before the
Omaha convention, saying in words
of burning eloquence that read like
prophecy to-day, owe can win this
fight and redeem our enslaved peO-
pie if we make the battle on the
money question asone." Had he
lived he would have made a strong
fight in the convention on that issue.
Our progress has been retarded and
our successors prevented in several
States by men who think they can
furnish a remedy for all the ills Of
life. I can name States we lost on
account Of little things in our plat
form, and the foolish remedies pro-
posed by some of our speakers and
writer's. Our educational work
should be done strictly on the lines
laid down and the cardinal princi
pies adopted by delegates repre-
senting all our societies and accred-
tied by every State in the Union.
On these doctrines, modified in the
light Of our experience in the last
campaign, we should make our fight
and invite into our ranks all who
will battle with us without regard to
race, color, condition or creed. We
should receive accessions to our
numbers with open arms, and spurn
no one believing in government Of
and for the people and wishing to
perpetuste the same.
If it was understood that our
party dawned on the nation in 1890
and was first nationally organized at
Omaha, and was not a party that
fought its battle, accomplished its
mission and died when the Supreme
Court Of the United States declared
the greenback was money, it would
relieve a great source of dissension
and trouble. Many of those who
claim they have been in this party
many years, look with suspicion on
all new converts. They hamper
them in their work and if not al
ways placed in the lead sulk in
misery and woe in the wigwam of
discomfort or drift away altogether.
Others trade and traffic with the
enemy, fuse and confuse until the
radiant sunlight of principle is lost in
struggle for place. We must stand
for truth if we would redeem the
people. Our cause IS too sacred to
be bartered away in a mad struggle
for office we should not "sell our
bTthright for mess of pottage."
1 am opposed to all fusion with
either branch of the enemy. We
have nothing in common with the
controlling leaders Of either party.
Our conflict for the next four years
will be with the party in power.
They will not keep their pledges and
will be weighed in the balance and
found wanting" by the thousands
who voted the Democratic ticket
hoping for relief. The Republican
party is crushed in the dust. II has
accomplished its mission and we
must rise on the ruins of the Demo
cratic party. Where our people hold
the balance of power as in California,
Montana and elsewhere they should
stand like our grand hero, Taube-
neck, through ali the storm, and
never surrendering his trust, but cast
his last ballot alone and went out Of
the contest in the Illinois Legislature
like the mail-clad knight of old, with
honor untarnished. Only thus, by
cInging to principle, can we main
tain the honor and glory of our
party and insure it's final victory.
We should stand for the rights of
all Americans with longing desire
to preserve popular government, ad-
ministered by the hands of the plain
people to all our posterity. We
should stand for the freedom of our
race from the despotism of European
money sharks and hoist the banner
of emancipation from foreign rule so
high that all mankind may read the
words. The disgraceful spectacle in
the monetary conference lately in ses-
sion, the speech of an American del
egate who announced that we were
so " wedded to Europe that we would
turn our backs on Mexico, Asia and
all the South American republics"
and bow before the money monarchs
of Europe and go bound with letters
and our chains clanking in the sight
of the world for all orr DAVIS. The