The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-04
THE GREAT BREAK UP
Parties Reforming On New Lines.

| SolHS GITOugH IL; anu the OlrU ana
cookie are being rapidly separated
from the sound, bright wheat. The
motive power that is working the mill
is the money question. Hon. Thos. v.
Gator, of San Francisco, Populist can
didate for U. S. Senator, writes us:
II went to Oregon and made five
speeches, all in Jackson county; a
solid, old Democratic county, where
our vote was not large in 1892. We
swept the county by a handsome ma
Jorlty on the head Of the ticket; elect
ed one senator and two assemblymen,
and the whole county ticket clear
The Cleveland Democrats to the num-
Der OF :, 600 or more voted the Repub-
lican ticket in Oregon. The ne,c aliqn-
naent has been made, and this must 90 ON
IN erery state West; and possibly also in
some eastern states. We could not
win Oregon in 1894; and should not
nave expected it. In 1892, a part of
the vote for the Populist electors was
cast by order of the Democratic COM
mlttee. This year'sivote was the first
test on straight-ouG principle; and &c.
600 is grand showing. The Republi-
cans have reached their greatest pos
sible tension, and lose to us now every
day. The Democrats are practically
| dissolved, and Oregon is absolutely
certain for 1896"
Senator Hill. of New York, is mov-
ing towards the Republicans, and will
be followed by all the Democratic
Money-crats and aristocrats. 1t is not
impossible that he will be the Repub-
llcan nominee for president in 1896
lie is doing all he can now to tear his
own party to pieces. Here is an ex-
tract from his speech, in the U. S. Sen
ate, June 2lst, on the Income Tax.
II. do not wish to drive such men
out OF the Democratic party by our un-
wise legislation in the hope of supply
ing their places with Adullamites.
CoXeyites, socialists and all the rag
tag and bObtail elements of the COM
munity, who will be attracted to us
6,y or proposed rad Upon the ,ceaM of
the country.
This is essentially awar tax. Here
tofore we, as Democrats, have clamor-
ed against it, and others like it. Look
at the spectacle which we now present.
If this is true Democracy, I want none
OF 1T. Ii this is the best leadership
which we can present in this great
crisis, l, for one, must decline to fol-
low 1T: Irepudidte the spurious Denaoc-
'dcy OF these modern esS5estles and prophets,
part Mugwump, part Populists and
the least part Democrats, who seek to
lead us astray after false gods, false
theories and false methods. I object
TO our restoring war tax which the
Republican themselves rejected years
ago: with our appreciation. / protest
oO1r re 80 \
Judgment upon the4part of some pro-
fessed Democrats wsso always seek an
excuse to adopt whatever the Repub-
llcans and people l1aye repudiated.
II cannot folloW such leadership,
which shifts and turns, and tempor-
ICES upon every public questions; which
compromises everyfwell established
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLE
for which the party contended when
out of power; which stands ready to
adopt every expediency and pursues
no consistent course, from one year to
another. If political success of my
party is only to be purchased by such
methods and sacrifices, l prefer defeat
and the preservation of my Self-re-
spect.
''This is a tax the imposition of
which will drive New York, New Jer-
sey and Connecticut, into the Republi-
can column, there to permanently re-
main; tax the individual feature of
which has not been recommended by
any Democratic president or secre-
tary or commissioner of internal
revenue, but a tax suggested, advo-
Gated and now persistently pushed by
a majority which is temporarily in
the saddle, in this Congress, and is
driving the Democratic party with
reckless and headlong speed into the
abyss of political ruin"
Hill speaks in the name of the rich.
He placates the manufacturer by re-
sisting the Democratic demand for
lower tariff rates; he pleases the bank
ers and capitalists generally by oppos-
= ing the Income Tax. He evidently
thinks the Democratic party is in the
jaws of death: that breakup is at
hand; and he proposes to gather his
recruits around him, march into the
Republican camp, and place himself
at the head of the capitalistic class of
this nation.
In the meantime, at the other ex-
tremity of the country, another strik-
ing spectacle presents itself. On the
same day that Hill was making his bid
for the support of the wealthy the
sturdy Democracy of Nebraska were
breaking loose from the eastern wing
of the party. and getting ready to CO.
operate with the Populists.
OMAHA, June 21.-One Thousand
delegates and 5,O0d visitors were pres
ent when the Democratic state silver
conference, for the purpose of organiz-
ing state free coinage league, was
convened at noon by Temporary Chair
man HaZlett, of Beatrice. Many of
the most prominent Democrats in the
state occupied seats as delegates. The
widest cheering followed the reading
of the call declaring for the free and
unlimited coinage of the white metal.
While the committee ON resolutions
was out officers were elected as fol-
lows:
President, J. e. Ong, Fillmore coun-
ty; secretary, T. y. Morgan, Cass cOun-
county, and an executive committee
of nineteen. x
The resolutions committee report
was adopted as follows: We send
greetings to our fellow Democrats of
Nebraska, and invite their earnest CO.
operation and aid in electing dele
gates from: every county in this state
to the Democratic convention of 1894,
pledged to vote for the insertion in
the Democratic state platform of the
following plank: s'We favor the i'm
mediate restoration Of free and un-
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