The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26


This declaration of principles and plan Of
action is so broad and comprehensive that
no mistake can be made to what a cam
didate must comply with before the BIZ
metallic League can recognize him as a
true and loyal friend to silver It
means nothing less than that a candidate.
of either the Republican or Democratic
party, must take pledge to remain out OF
the caucus, In the election of speaker and
the organization Of the house, and the cleo
ton of president in 96 in the event that
the election will so to the house Of repre-
sentatives. The Bmetallc League at it's
Des Mones meeting, March u and 90, 1894,
reafhrmed the declaration adopted at it's
previous meeting, and added two more res
olutions follows:
F1rSt-That the doctrine herein SET
forth has been made cardinal principle
IN all the platforms of the PEOPLES party
that wherever this party is strong enough,
independently, to elect members of con-
gress, it should put forth every effort to
do so.
Second-In all Republican and Democratic
districts, the people are urged to nominate
and vote for only free coinage candidates
Tor congress, or for members of the Iegis-
latures of their respective states, and to
require all candidates, both in nominating
conventions and in their canvass before the
people, to pledge answering devotion to
the cause of free coinage of both gold and
silver, as herein recommended, and to vote
for no other candidates.
From this 1t will be seen that the conven.
ton at Des Moines went one ster, ia rthar
and declared in the first resolution that It
is not necessary for a candidate of the Peo-
pies party to take any pledge whatever as
the league is perfectly willing to trust the
representatives of that party on the silver
question without any pledge.
The second resolution declares that no
Republican Democratic candidate for
congress or state legislature can be trusted
unless he will sign the pledge adopted at
the silver conference Dec Is and 49, 1888
Thus we have plain Geclara ton of the BIZ
metallic League, what it defines as a true
friend to bimetallsn.
Doubtless hundreds of Democrats and
Republicans in the South and West will
claim from every stump, that they are as
loyal to silver as the Peoples party but
the declaration of the Bimetallic League
says: Unless they willing to subscribe
to this pledge they are not The BIZ
metallic League at it's recent meeting held
in Washington, d. c., Aug is and II. 1894
reaffirmed the declarations of the two pre-
vious meetings. Therefore it is very. inn
portant that the Populists on the stump
and through the press should define the
position of the Bimetallic League on the
silver question. The Peoples party is
perfectly willing to accept the definition of
the league, and will honestly execute the
same. One hundred per cent of the rep
resentatives elected by the Peoples party
have always stood by and voted for the
free coinage of silver at the alto of 16 to
L. and this will be the position OF the
Populists in the future. While the Re-
publican and Democratic parties, in almost
every state convention, equivocated in re-
gard to the ratio, and use the word parity.
Any party candidate that will use the
word parity is not true friend to silver
and cannot be trusted
Politically, silver has but one friend in
the world, and that is the Peoples party,
regardless what the Republican and Demo-
cratic press and speakers may say.
Chairman of the National Committee Of
the Peoples Party. -