The herald., 1894-05-25
TIE RIAL LOSER BY THE POPULIST
MovkMENT.

Our esteemed contemporary, the Elk
press, is felicitating itself upon the fact
that the ranks of the Populists are much
more likely to be recruited from the
Democratic rather than from the Re-
publican party. In this case the wish
lie father to the thought. The fact is
that all the parties which have sprung
into being of late have had their origin
in a profound popular belief in the faith
lessness OF the Republican party to its
pledges and to the consciousness that
the leaders of that organization are out
of touch with the popular impulses. To
prove this assertion nothing more Ia
needed than a glance at the states which
were carried by Weaver for president at
the last election. They were Republi-
can, every one OF them. Look at Kansas,
bleeding Kansas" and was ever party
so disrupted as the Republicans in that
state! The long bearded PETER and the
sockless Simpson are monuments OF the
spread of Populist impulses and OF q
Populist propaganda in the once in
vincible Republican party of Kansas.
To come nearer home, and to
20 no farther than the great divide Of
the continent, take the state OF Colo
RADIO, which now rejoices in Populist
governor in the person of the blood
thirsty Waite. This lie that Colorado
in the past to be responsive to the Re-
publican slogan. Coming little farther
west, and Senator William NJ. Stewart,
former Republican, now sits in the
United States senate as a representative
OF the Populists, elected by Populist
votes and openly identifying himself
with the Populist sentiment and move
ment.
Will the Express kindly point out any
Democratic commonwealth that threw
it's vote for Weaver in the late presiden-
tial election. or that has sent Populst
to the senate OF the United States? 1t
is true that peculiar local issue re-
suited in the election of Senator Irby in
South Carolina to the senate of the
United States, but Irby is now solid in
the Democratic ranks; and, after that
peculiar freak, South Carolina threw her
electoral votes for Cleveland
The Repu blicans are naturally losing
to the Democratic and Populist ranks
because they stand for all the enormi-
ties that have oppressed the people, in
Guiding all the contraction aud robber-
les since the war. 1t is true that there
have been some recreant Democrats ON
whole body of the Republican party has
been false to the popular aspirations on
these questions. All one has to do to
realize that the great mass of the Amer
lean people are in favor of the twin
moneys OF the constitution, and of tariff
reform, is to mingle amongst them and
listen to the expression of their views,
irrespective OF party. A significant cir
cumstance in this connection is that all
the Populist members of both houses
ofcongrsss, with the exception of the rec
reant Cannon, Of the unfortunate Sixth
district of California, voted against the
repeal of the purchasing clause OF the
Sherman act. and even that Ventura
curio voted for the Wilson bill. 1t is the
stubborn and determined opposition Of
the Republican party to any suggestion
of reform or tariff revision or bimetal-
ism that really created the Populist
party, and to prove it that organization
has its strongest development today in
former Republican states.
Our esteemed contemporary is today
| in common with most OF the members
OF it's party, lulling itself into false
security. The political situation in Cal
ifornia today is by no means favorable
to the Republican ticket. The ranl
and file of the Republican party is to.
day thoroughly demorslized, and thu
leaders of the "grand old" organization
will awaken to num- Der of disagreeabl,
surprises. The stampede of the dis
satisfied Republicans will be almos
equally great to the Populist and Dem
ocratic parties from now until election
day, with the result of leaving the part!
Of great moral ideas a most dis
gruntled and defeated rump.