Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-12-21

pose of creating a division in the Populist
ranks. 1t is true, too, that the progressive,
true reformers will have in that meeting a suf-
fcient number of representatives to check the
progress of the Populist ship toward the rocks
that threaten it. The Populist, or Peoples,
party is the only free silver party in existence.
Free coinage of silver is one of our cardinal
principles-and we don't stop at the American
product, either. Every Populist convention has
endorsed free silver. Every Populst paper and
every Populist speaker advocates free coinage
The writer hereof was Gin at the bornin' " of
the Peoples party, at Cincinnati, and knows
whereof he speaks when he says free coinage,
at I6 to I, was the unanimous sentiment of the
conference. Every meeting since has endorsed
it. We don't know to whom the Journal refers
when it speaks of "the honest members of the
organization" who say our party does not favor
free silver. There is not a true-blue Populst
who is not an advocate of the free coinage of
silver. The statement that "Populists believe
in but one kind of money, and that is legal
tender paper, issued by the government alone,
is misleading. There may be, and probably
are, Populsts of that kind, but they no more
compose the whole Populist party than do the
free-trade Republicans compose the whole Re-
publican party. The Peoples party, as whole,
advocates larger circulating medium, of all
kinds-gold, silver and paper-but all issued
directly to the people, without the intervention
of banks 1t believes the silver question is an
important one but not the most important A
large and very respectable portion of the men,
bers of the party believe that if silver is to be
demonetized, gold should also be demonetized,
and paper money alone used, with the credit
and faith of the people as basis, instead of
the credit and faith and confidence" of the
banks and Wall street gamblers. Editor Mac
Lehman should let Joe Hudsons whisky-jug
severely alone, and should put in little time
studying the principles of Populism.
INGALLS,, once United States senator from
Kansas, while not friendly to the Peoples party,
does concede that it already amounts to some
thing as shaper of legislation "Populism,"
said Ingalls, in an interview in New York, "Pop-
ulism has made remarkable impression upon
the legislation of congress. The income tax is
absolutely and ndunequivocally Populist measure.
1t was advocated by neither the Republican nor
Democratic party. The Populist platform alone
contained a line of reference to such tax. The
income tax is measure of immense signif-
cance." Speaking further he said 81 do not
regard the election of this year as in any sense
a certificate of unqualified confidence in the Re-
publican party. Democracy met defeat because
it had demonstrated its conspicuous and unequal
ed incapacity to deal rightly with preseut-day
problems The election means simply that the
Republican party has another chance. Which
ever party shall reveal its capacity to deal intel
ligently and successfully with these problems
will hold the reins of government.-Farmer's
Tribune Des Moines, Iowa.
THE Republicans will give an inaugural ball
in the evening after the Inauguration of Gov,
Morrill,. They expect several thousand old SOL
diers to be there. Will some good Christian
brother tell US the difference between an inau-
eural ball and some other kind of ball? If one
is wicked, why isn't the other2
E. H, Snow resigned the Office of state
printer, and was appointed by Governor Level
ling to fill the unexpired term, The purpose OF
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