The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-03
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
BALLOT LAWS MAKES A NEW
PARTY, IMPOSSIBLE NEXT
YEAR.

i ucSlE0 W Gall Uuc dGG0QLlO0 OF our
people to the fact that it will be ut
terly impossible for the so. called
American bimetallic party to gain a
standing before the country under
the ballot laws of many states suff1-
Gent to even give them place on the
ticket in 1896. In Mr.. Sibley's own
state it would be impossible. There
is no election this year that will en-
able them to poll the percentage Of
votes required. under these ballot
laws. Last fall the chairman of the
Illinois state committee of our party
had to have petitions prepared in
over half the counties in Illinois.
The Peoples Party has overcome
all these obstacles. It has taken
them five years to do so. They are
now regular recognized national
party under the ballot laws of all our
states.
Hence If a real honest 16 to l silver
man wants to vote for free silver he
must vote with the Peoples Party. A
Republican president, Senate and
House of Representatives demone-
tiled silver. Republican senates Re-
publican congresses refused to restore
it,. A Democratic president, Senate
and House of Representative repealed
the Sherman act, and a Congress
elected by 100 majority for free coin
age repealed the last act in its favor
and refused to restore free coinage at
is to /, II to l, l8 to l, 10 to or 20
to /.
Any man, woman or child that will
trust the two old parties after their
coinage Of silver deserves to be en-
shaved for all their lives.
1t being conceded that the Ameri-
can bime tallic party cannot get legal
ly before the people under our ballot
laws in time for the election of 1896,
and it, in my mind, being clear that
its underground managers know that,
what was it organized for.
Twelve men furnished a platform,
kindly named the candidate for presi-
| dent, and later have designated the
vice-president, and gravely invite all
the parties to disband and come into
their camp.
In my Judgment the American BIZ
metallic party. the Democratic silver
proclamation, and the St. Louis con-
| ference, which it was intended should
also declare in favor of the same plat
form, were and are all parts of a
scheme to disrupt and destroy the
Peoples Party and deliver it bound
| hand and foot to the Dem ocratic party
| in 1896, whose convention will declare
for silver, and whose congressman
will sell out silver as they did in 1893
and 1894, and all along the line since
1873.
II the Peoples Party at st. Louis
| had agreed to the same platform pro-
| mulgated by the bimetallic party and
silver Democratic congressman, we
would have been out of job as par
ty All these Democratic state con-
ventions and legislatures would have
declared for that platform. free silver
and a little of the money question,
and then the howl would have gone
up for the immediate dissolution OF
our party. The whole thing is trick.
The effort is to revive and resurrect
the dead and damned Democracy, and
it behooves the Peoples Party every.
iZe the Legion at once in every pre-.
| CluCU, duu SuOW Oil ullcSc ollVci COII-
verts that the only sure way to win is
to come into the Peoples Party and
vote for the only platform that de-
clares in favor Of the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver at Is to l.
If you want to be destroyed, run
over, betrayed and sold; just lie dor.
mant and you will be delivered. II
| you are men determined to be free
| and crush both the old parties and
knock out traitors from your own
| ranks begin at once and get ready fol
| business. PAUL VANDERvOORT.