The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-05-10
gold standard was q mere act Of cleye-

gold standard was q mere act Of Cleye-
lands will.
He knew that congress was too
cowardly and too corrupt to inter-
fere-and he usurped an authority
which didznat belong to him by law.
1t is not too late to restore bi-met-
allism.
But act promptly. He who dallies
now is twice a bastard, he who doubts
is trebly damned.
We cannot afford to trust a party
which does not know it own mind;
which is rent into factions; which is
controlled by the privileged classes,
which has sold us into bondage to
England and the Rothschilds; which
has increased III taxes; which has
made our debts and taxes harder to
pay, brought down our cotton to 5
cents, beggared our farmers, pauper-
lied our laborers, and bankrupted our
merchants party which keeps no
campaign contract-Which breaches
Tom Jefferson and practices Tom
Reed, to whose stump speeches in
favor of free silver an exhibit is at
tached in the shape of a brand-new
silver dollar stamped 1894, and to
whose votes in congress the smile of
John Sherman goes by way of chrome
and illustration; whose economy loads
us with bonds; whose tariff reform is
sold at so much per yard to the trusts
and combines; whose states rights
mean an empty mail sack on a freight
car, with the United States army by
the side of it, to pilot it through a local
riot; whose free silver means no silver
at all; whose love of the people means
unlimited concessions to the privileged
interests, and whose rabid appetites
offensive way was never so fully illus
trated as when congress violated the
Sabbath in order to put the finishing
touches to their unholy schemes of
spoliation, of legalized robbery of the
helpless taxpayer.
| love my country want to serve
her. l have no enmities to nurse, no,
hatreds to crafty. Always and every
where my voice has been for peace
and shall ever be!
L accept the nomination, and shall
endeayor to carry your standard, as
usual, to victory. And this time I hope
to be allowed to receive the commits
sion which I have twice won.
This district has nothing to fear
from me-unless my intense desire to
be of service to it be a danger.
1t has nothing to hate me for, I'M
less my loyalty to the principles of
Jefferson and Jackson and Stephens
be a cause for hostility.
No greater harm can be done to this
people, this state, this section, than
the eternal continuance of political
crime, which defies the will of the ma
jority as expressed at the ballot box.
Every a n man in the district knows
the Populists are in the majority.
They have the right to be repre-
sented.
They choose me, and with an hon
est election, there is no doubt Of my
success in the campaign.
1t is the ambition of my life to be of
service to my people, to help purify Jul
politics, to reassert the doctrines of
good government, from which we have
gone astray.
1t is not my purpose to tear down,
but to build up-and to build upon the
foundations of right.
It is not my purpose to perpetu-
ate strife among our people, but to
shown them that the interest of one
the interest of all, and to try to har-
monte them upon the principles nee
essary to the salvation of the south.
Give M a fair election; treat me
justly; commission me to fight your
battles, and so far as in me lies, the
result shall be good for you, and good
for my country.