The Progress., 1895-01-12
THE PEOPLES PARTY.
HOW TIE FREE SILVER LEAGUE TRIED
TO ABSORB IT AND WAS FOILED.
What the Popufists Are Committed to on
the Money Question-Coxey and
Browne to Lecture Here in
February.
From the Dallas News,

From the Dallas News,
Mr.. Milton Park, q member Of the
national executive committee Of the
Peoples party, arrived home yester-
day from Chicago, to which he paid
a visit after attending the national
conference Of his party at st. Lonis.
"Chicago,' he observed to a News re-
porter, us very dull. Thousands of
people who were drawn to that city
t.y the worlds fair were unable to
get away and they are wrecks upon
the strand of a sea of hnman activity,
in which the big fish cat up the little
fish. On every street corner | met
educated men who ask mo for 10 cents
or a quarter with which to get some
thing TO eat. These educated lazza-
roni must be honest, for were they
evildoers they woald not be begging.
But this is not all. was pointed to
tenement houses in Chicago, many
of the inmates of which were driven
by starvation to sacrifice what was
dearest to them to get food. People
cast away at sea have been driven by
the pangs of hunger to devom one
another, but the place l speak Of is
not ia mid ocean; it il in a christian
city, where men kneel and pray and
where churches are nowhere a stones
throw part. Horrible ycu will say.
The heart feels it, the lips utter it.
Yes, it is horrible, but it does not
seem to our statesmen to be worth q
remedy. What criticism?" ....
I Changing the subject Mr. Park
said: AT orr national conference the
silver league endeavored to capture
the meeting and from silver party
by absorbing the Peoples party, but
the effort proved q failure. The BIZ
metallic league was there, but we
thwarted them and preserved harmo.
ny by calling for the states to tell
/ how the people of each stood as be-
tween the Omaha platform and the
silver question. Out of thirty-nine
states thirty-eight stood by the Oma-
la platform first, last and all the
time. aud one was for silver. Wea-
yer and Taubeneck were the leaders
Of the silver league aud their little
play has settled their case"
Mr.. Park says that the silver men
tried to work the rabbits foot on the
Populists through the committee on
addresses, which was appointed by
the president and which embraced q
strong element of silver men. This
committee, appointed Friday morn
ing, did not report until Saturday
evening at 4 o'clock Itappears that
two reports would be submitted in
order to indicate q division on the
silver question that design was STAY
ed of by Mr.. Park, Mr.. Brown OF
Massachusetts, and others appearing
/! before the committee and telling
thea that il they did not report with
1 ia su hour the conference would it.
self prepare the address. With this
assurance the committee reporter re-
ported the address that has been pub
/ lished
/ The Peoples party" said Mr..
Park. lis for transferring the control
! of money from corporation to the
government, and they care not wheth-
er the money is gold, silver Or paper.
The question of our candidate for
( president was not discussed nor was
it thought advisable to enter Into it,
as the campaign is yet far Oft and we
4 do not know what our &C cessions will
! he between now and then. In the
/ crowds of voters that are daily flock
ing to our standard you find unset
! fish statesmen like sJudge Lyman
/ Irumbull, philosophers in the study
of human government, who, disre-
garlipg the matter of office, are only
miniful OFF what is adapted to the
REGULAR wants. conditions and cir
carnstanees Of the country, and SO it
would be ihtilnely to discuss the
questions Of Il standard bearer before
we know the quantity and quality OF
timber that may be available. In
] irving times like the present men tie-
sa,cp who are fully equal e tue