Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-10
Views of Three of the Leaders on the
Elections.
THEY HAVE DOUBLED THEIR Vote
Have Effected a Breakup in the
Solid South.
TIL EIR HOPES FOR 1896

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national peoples party. the executive COM
mittee having rooms in the Colonization
building on Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
The telegraphic reports Of the election have
very clearly indicated that the populsts had
been lost in the political avalanche Of Tues
day. but Mr.. II. e. Taubeneck, chairman
of their national committee. does not look
at 1t that way To Star reporter who
visited him at his office this morning Mr..
Taubeneck said: THE result of this cleo
ton is the greatest victory the people S
party has ever received In all the states
west of the Mississippi river, which have
formerly been republican, except Iowa and
California, our party is second in the race,
and the democratic party is wiped out of
existence. This leaves but two parties in
that entire section. But the greatest VIC
tory of all is the fact that we have broken
the solid south. North Carolina and Texas
are In the populist column to stay. We
would have met with the same result in
Georgia, Alabama and in many congress
sional districts in other southern states
II we could have secured a fair election and
an honest count.
1.-The silver element in the democratic
party is dead. and will have no voice in it's
councils In the future. 1t leaves the peo-
pies party as the only friend of silver in
name as well as In fact. The success Of
the republican ticket in all the western
states is due to the goldbug element in the
democratic party voting with the republi-
cans, while the silver elem ant in that party
coming from the laboring and agricultural
classes voted their straight dummy ticket,
nominated for them by the goldbugs, thus
dividing the friends of silver.
The Next Congress VIII BE n Disap-
pOintmcnt
''The Fifty-fourth Congress will be a
can be expected from the next Congress
so far as financial legislation in the in
terest of the people is concerned, than
from the last. The peoples party from
now on will be the second party in the
nation. 1t Is only question of time until
the democratic party of the south will be
compelled to merge into our organizat ton
in that section. well as in the west
where they have already taken that step
This election has made one thing plain
above everything else, and that is that the
south and west must unite; and in order to
do that the west must step out of the re-
publican party and meet the south half
way, and the south must step out of the
democratic party and meet the west half
way, which will bring both into the peoples
party, as the only common ground which
they can occupy. We shall go to work i'm
medi2tely and organize for the conflict Of
36. 1t Is more than likely that our ma
tional committee, together with the repre-
sentatives of our party press and leaders in
our party, will hold a conference and map
out policy for educational campaign
up to the meeting of the next national con-
vention. We shall, more than likely, con-
fine ourselves to the money question in the
future, and make that the test of party
fealty."
MIR. Turner's Views.
In reply to request for his views as to
the effect of the elections On the people,
Mr.. j. II. Turner of Georgia, secretary of
the national committee, said: "rhe election
has settled nothing. The conditions that
have impoverished the nation and made
tramps and beggars Of millions of our peo-
pie are yet with us, and are no nearer a
settlement than they would have been had
the democrats retained control. However,
there is great consolation to the true
former in the fact that the breakup has
come, and the American people nave shown
themselves capable of Furnishing treachery
and treason. 1t is not so mucn tf a re-
publican victory, for they have increased
their total vote but very little, as 1t is an
uprising of the people, with An avowed de-
termination to hit the democratic rarty the
hardest blow possible, and thereby empha-
size their preference for decenCy above in
decency, honesty above dishonesty aid
patriotism above treason.
when the retlSns are all III, and the
whole matter is summed up, it will be
found that, taking the results whole,
the populists have won a greater AMI far
more permanent victory than have the
pubicans The daily papers have made
every effort to make it appear that the pop
uitStS have been completely wiped off the
political checker board, and for The first
two days would only concede the election
of one lone populist member of Congress.
Now they admit we have elected fourteen,
and there are several doubtful districts yet
to hear from. We shall also have not less
than seven United States Senators.
Increased Their Vote 100 Per Cent.
"Our defeat in Kansas and Colorado was
due TO q combination of the democratic and
republican forces against us. In both those
states we formerly had the assistance of
the democrats. The returns show that
while we have lost both those states,
party has not lost single vote in either
state. The democrats simply transferred
their assistance to the republicans this
time. We have lost some good men from
the west, but others equally as good and
true will take their places in Congress from
the south. We have taken North Carolina
and Texas from the democratic column,
and 1 have no doubt carried both Georgia
and Alabama, but by frauds at the ballot
box and the most perniciouS corruption
the victory in those two states has been
stolen from us. Our total vote has in
creased something over 100 per cent over
that cast In 1892 reaching this year little
more than 2,OOO.O0O. There are one hun
dred congressional districts in which we
lack only from ) to 20 per cent of a ma
jority OF the votes cast, and 1896 will find
them in the populst column. In North
Carolina, with the aid of the republicans,
we have secured five populist Congressman,
elected the legislature. and will have from
there two United States Senator'S In
Texas, that stronghold Of democracy we
have elected the governor and legislature
and four members of Congress. Our other
members, so far as positively known, are
one from Alabama, one from Colorado one
from Kansas, one from Nebraska, and one
from Minnesota, making fourteen In ALL
This number may be increased to twenty
We are certain of holding the balance of
power in the Senate, and will thus be able
to secure some needed legislation.
1T was a great victory for the popuists
We now have secure foundation laid for
the building of a great national party God
and the right are on our side, and we are
sure of an ultimate triumphant success"
What N. A. Dunning Thinks.
Mr.. N. A. Dunning of Michigan. editor of
the peoples party national organ, The Ma
tional Watchman published in this city,
was found busily preparing copy for his
paper.
What do think Of the result?' he re-
peated as The Star man asked the question