The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-06-20
followed the Popuiist Senator of North
MAKIoy BTTLRE

This gathering here he said, is
more significant than the one in North
Carolina on May 10th, l7775, which gave
birth to the Mecklenburg Declaration
Of Independence, or the one 1t Phiia-
delphia, On July lth, l776,- At which the
Declaration Of American Independ-
ence was formulated. Never before has
such a gathering, composed as 1t 10 Of
representatives of all political parties.
come together from all parts of the
country TO declare a peaceful revolu-
tion. will We seize the opportunity
and use il to the full measure!
But | need not ask this. for the
people are behind it, and We could
not stop this revolution II We
tried. This is not q politicians move
ment. And if there are any politicians
trying to get anything out Of II at
the expense Of the prosperity and
liberty of the people, they had better
beware. The people have already been
deceived too often. They will not
tolerate it again.
This convention is not only an evil
dence that the people have lost conf
dence in the two old parties, but an
admission that honest financial reform
can not be gotten under such machinery
strous crime that we have met here to
consider occur? 1t was over twenty
two years ago. 1t was when some Of
us were boys under ten years of age.
During all of these long years money
has grown scarcer, prices have fallen,
and debts have piled up higher and
higher while millions of American
freeman have toiled and suffered and
gone down to grave of poverty to
leave their children to a worse and
sadder fate. During this time what
political party has in its national plat
form denounced the crime that has
caused so much disaster and misery!
What party has pledged to right the
wrong by re-establishing the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
of Is to 1? Has the Republican party
done it? No! Has the Democratic party
done it? No! The leaders of these two
parties, the men that you and l have
shouted for and voted for, have told us
for twenty years that the tariff and
other questions of smaller Importance
were the great overshadowing issues,
but they have absolutely kept the finan-
cial question in the back ground and
kept the people ignorant of its magnl-
tude and importance. These men are
as guilty as Grover Cleveland and John
Sherman. 1t was not until the Farmers
Alliance was organized that the people
| began to learn the startling facts for
| themselves. Those who were thus in
formed at once left the old parties in
disgust and organized the Peoples
Party. That party at once made de-
claration not only against the money
power, but in righteous indignation
also declared against the other mono
poles and trusts that are depressing
and bleeding the Americans people
Therefore the Populists have no cause
to leave their party. We have in Oul
national platform plank declaring
for the free and unlimited coinage O.
silver at the ratio of Is to l. We wen
before the country at the last election
on this platform and increased our vOt'
two hundred per cent, and in '96 we viii
make make still larger gain. Our
is the only party that is gaining ant
the only party that has platform tina
will give the people any genuine re
lief. | am thorough POpulist AM
believe in every plank in the Omah
platform. | believe in the government
ownership of the railroads and tn
telegraph, but don't want the govern
ment to own them while the ROths
childs own the government. When tn
people own and run their government
then let the peoples government owl
the great means of transportation an
communication and operate them i
the interest at all the people alik,
Therefore in the next fight the People
F Party will centre its whole effort t
drive the shylOcks out of the Whit
| I'D Of hn hol1 of rnE
at Washington. Every Democrat VIII
believes in the principles of Jefferso
and Jackson, and every Republlca
ham Lincoln should join us in that fl gh
s The Peoples party is sure sooner {
e later to win the fight and redeem tn
Y government. But the people cannt
: stand such hard times and misery niue
longer, therefore every patriot shOul
u now put patriotism above party, an
/. if it should appear that we can g
more patriots together by cO-oper'
d ton between the Peoples party an
t those in both old parties who wal
n financial reform, then | II
one am willing and ready
q corporate with them undo
t any name on platform containing tt
: principles of Lincoln, jackson ar
/, Jefferson. But let it be distinctly I'll
8 derstood that if there are any polit
q clans here trying to use this CONVEX
o ton with the hope of getting any Pc
q ulist to go back to either one of tt
two old monopoly ridden partie
he is on q fools errand. The leade
n of the party of "perfidy and dishOno
e cannot hold the rank and file und
j. the party lash any longer, much lie
n can they fool any Populist to retul
: to such false and treacherOus leade
O ship.
y The great plain people must get t
,e gether.
It There are one hundred people tod
lie suffering from the present fina
|. cial system::for every two who are real
u benefited by it. These hundred pc
e. pie have one hundred votes. The tN
Is shylOcks have but two votes. My Go
why do not these hundred sufferi
r. people throw of the yoke of the sh
: locks and vote themselves free! WI
is the trouble? Fifty of these one hu
bred are on one side and fifty on
s. other. They fight each other the-t'
re shylocks hold the balanceOf power a
er control them all. The people wol
get together if it were not for the p
IN iticians, and the politicians are
r.. r. agents for these two shylocks. Is t
VI not the truth? My cOuntrymen, h
IN much longer will we suffer such
u fling, s., ,obbery, such tyranny!
OF l do, lieve the politicians c
We longer ,Ap the people apart. TT
ie' will CT he together in 1896 under {
lr banner. That banner will not
'ss stained by the hands of the design
ao politicians or the hireling agents
the gold trust. 1t will be the peop
;. banner-it will declare for the abOli
sic ment of national banks. for the g
as eminent issue and control of the c
rency, for the free and unlimited &C
ity age of silver at the ratio of Is to l.,
vas constitutional amendment to o,
ON throw the monstrous decision of
cal Supreme court and for a graduated
come tax. Under this banner the I
md pie will storm the stronghold of
gold trust and will win glorious
md fnrv Tho government will he redee]