People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-09-21
TOM WATSON AGAIN.
Democracy's Future Is Doomed to
Failure.
Peoples Party Paper. |


cause principles never die, but the
party is going TO die. Why? 1t has
gone into the republican camp au1
there can't DE two republican parties.
Here is the philosophy of human ma
ture. 1t is as old as the rocks; as old
as the mountains and the seas. In
every government there will always
be two parties, one to represent the
grasping, the ambitious, the concen-
trated wealth class privileges, vested
advantage. Whatever name you give
it there will always be some party to
represent those principles, class priv.
ileges, class legislation. To-day the
republican party represents that
policy; to-day the dem cratic party
has got away from its principles, and
it stands for the same identical prin-
ciples the republican party stands for.
The republican party stands for
class interests, concentrated wealth,
special privileges; those special ex-
emptions which make an ar stocracv.
Don't they do il? Can't you see it in
the republi, ans? Cries OF That i,
right Can't you see it in the demo.
Gratis 100? 1t is six OF one and half
dozen of the other.
Then what? In every country there
has always been another party, the
party which represents the great
laborlng people; the party that repre-.
sents the great producing people, the
party which sian S for the great mid
die class; the party which stands for
equal rights to all men and special
privileges &c none. Where is that
party to-day; it is the Peoples party
and you will find it no where else
Then which party will you join; which
party will you work with? They
say the democratic party has not
done all that it promised but
you must not turn them out because a
few men have gone wrong. That
would be a good argument if their
arithmetic was sound. If only few
democratic leaders had gone wrong
we would not be holding the party re-
sponsible for those few. But where
are the leaders who have not gone
wrong? it is the few who didn't 90
wrong; it is the many who did go
wrong. The majority OF your party
went against the people. You know
they said tina: Sodom could have been
saved by the finding of five pure men
in the city. They could not be found
nor can you find the five spotless
leaders in the democratic party who
have stood ever and always by their
principles and with the people. There.
fore, what? Sodom must 60. 1t is
bound to 60.
They say we will elect new men.
What new men are we gong to elect?
Give us their names. They have in
dorsed every one of them SO far. They
Endorsed those who voted for free sill
yer; they Endorsed those who voted
against it.. They Endorsed those who
voted for the sugar bounty; they in
dorsed those who voted against it.
They Endorsed those who voted for
tie income tax; they Endorsed those
who voted against it Nothing they
can't swallow. They are the out-in-
dorsingist crowd | ever struck. Who
have they turned out of the church?
Nobody. Why? Because you can't
turn them out You don't know where
the majority is. The majority in one
church is for free silver; the majority
in another is against it, and you dare
not take a vote. You just indorse
everything and go right ahead. In
some Of the districts in Georgia they
Endorsed the congressman who
fight Cleveland and turn around
and indorse Mr.. Cleveland. Why
you can't find them; you can't draw a
bead on them. 1t is like shooting a
didapper, you can never draw your
aim. The time you think you have
got him spotted he dives and comes
up at another place and you have got
to do it over again. Now in the dem
ocratic meeting house, if the preacher
takes a free silver text the house is
for free silver; if he takes gold bug
text they are f. the single gold stand
ard; If he Ii es out an income tax
hymn they all sing it; if he lines out
a high tariff hymn they all sing that;
If he prays for monopoly they all say
amen; II he pronounces the benedic-
ton in favor Of national banks they
all bow their heads and 20 away
happy; if the benediction is against
national banks they clap their hands
and cry "Hozannah. Just put a
democratic tag on it and it don make
any difference what sort of dog it is.
Now that congress has adjourned
and gone home there ought to besome
restoration OF confidence throughout