The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-12-15
NO BACKWARD STEP.
The Battle for Hum an Righ's VIII Not BE
Subordinated to Bifurcated Metaliism-
<k;S cncIyoy, cry that fh0


Subordinated to Bifurcated Metaliism.
What means this cuckoo cry that the
populists are to be absorbed into some
other party before long and go forth
to battle with only one plank of their
platform? Who is authorized to do
this or even say it? The document
which officially presents the principles
of the peoples party was promulgated
at Omaha and must remain the party
law until revised or changed ~ an as
.cmblage of equal dignity and author
ity. That convention when 1t meets
will represent the more than million
of votes cast for Weaver and the more
than million since converted. Mean
time all talk of absorption into the
wing of some other party with the sole
shibboleth of free silver" is an idle
dream Free silver coinage, it is true,
is part of the populist propaganda,
but not the most important part nor
the objective point. They propose to
remain true to that principle as to all
others. but decline to throw over the
bulk of the cargo of their ship for the
purpose of saving a remnant.
There must be no mistake about this.
No man or set of men is authorized to
speak authorita lively for the peoples
party They will speak in their OWE
behalf and in their own way when the
proper time comes. Meantime they
have an ark of the covenant which
they intend to sacredly guard and de-
fend to the last What shall be put in
the next platform and how much con-
densing or re-arranging shall be done.
| is of course a matter for discussion ana
consultation. But it may as well be-
understood now as later that the men
| in this movement will not consent to
allow their organization to become
| one-idea party, nor will they allow
new engineers to come aboard ana
| switch the train to another track. All
are welcomed to ride or walk with us,
| but it must be as brothers and equals,
not dictators. There are other ques-
| tions besides that of silver that press
| for settlement and which the great or.
| ganization now growing SO rapidly is
| pledged to settle right They will be
| glad to have all either wholly or partly
| in sympathy with them to join hands
in the great coming battles. But they
will not consent to disband and fall in
again shorn of all their prestige and
nearly all of their defensive armor.
They do not propose to willfully throw
away all the costly work of these
wears, which has brought them in
sight of the Delectable Mountains
still far away indeed, but yet known
to overlook the Promised Land.
great political revolution is inn
pending. AS it nears to view the splen'
dor of sunlight may be seen glistening
on the long lines of the populist host
1t is no time for breaking but for clos
ing ranks. Keep steady; stand firm.
In the war chariot of old there were no
supernumeraries: the driver, the fight
er and no more. We want no super
| numeraries now-no men with selfish
schemes to retard our progress through
the ranks of an already too formidable
foe, to be paraded hereafter in the tri-
| umphal chariot as the heroes of a con-
test which they only served to compli-
cate, of victory which they only
helped to retard. We are in no idle
game We fight not as men beating
the air. We are driving the red battle
| car, and not a gilded coach, with room
enough on the footboard for holiday
soldiers and glittering chiefs-of-staff.
This class must get off the caissons, as
horses unaccustomed to the flash OF
steel, the roll of drums, the waving o.
banners and the peal of cannon have
been known to start and shy at un'
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