The representative., 1895-04-03
DON'T GIVE Up THE SHIP.
The New Party Can Only Divide and
Destroy Us.

Destroy Us.
To the Editor.
l promise not to weary you with a long
effusion, and will not chide you in case
you consider brevity the chief qualification
of my epistles. In fact, there are so many
excellent letters in the Representative from
week to week that, feeling I cannot add
anything thereto, 1 may hinder the good
work. But if you will bear with me this
time l will not burden your generous read
ers in the future. My object is to supple
ment what that able and sterling Populist
L. c. Long, stated in your last issue rela-
tive to the new party just launched upon
the political sea, with a thought or two
All he said meets my hearty approval, and
that of all with whom have conversed 1t
is strange move at this time 1 cannot
see the point. The reinstatement of silver
to the niche it occupied up to 1873 is and
has been one of the cardinal planks in our
platform. But this is not isolated We
have others of national significance, all
making splendid whole, and efficient
enough to meet the demands of a success
full government. Now, here comes a hand
full of men with single issue, a single ele-
ment and tell us they intend to win
Mr.. Editor, it is not unreasona BILE to pre-
sumo that sensible men have motives for
their action. With such men, thought pre-
cedeS action. Now, have the movers of this
scheme cast about and come to the con-
clusiOn that by appealing to the avarice of
few silver-bearing states they can win
here, and thus secure representation for
themselves and friends in the national leg
islature. 1 may be terribly wicked, but for
the life of me l fail to see anything else in
it. If this presumption is honest, then what
cherish the hope of founding a national
party on so narrow a basis as this when
there is already a strong and vigorous or
ganization, and growing every day, as de-
termined as they can be, even in regard
to the single issue they present.
l do not hesitate to express the belief
that Nevada, Colorado, or even Idaho or
Montana, could be carried by this single
issue, and thus send silver representative
to congress. But sta atesmanship of this
character ought not to be encouraged in
this country. The Peoples party platform
is broad enough for ALL and 1 should DIS
like to see single Popuist step from this
to that. L candidly believe it will have
mushroom existence, and prove itself the
greatest political abortion ever spawned
upon the political world. 1t can have no
other effect than to divide forces, per-
haps for time, and thus postpone the ac-
complishment of our object; and it does
seem to me that these men ought to see it
in this light.
We have been struggling long for the
triumph of great, grand principles, to the
end that good, honest government might
subvert the terrible conditions that have
draped this once happy and prosperous
country in the habiliments of black despair
by starvation, suicides and crime on the
largest scale ever heard of. And just on
the eve of success we met by a new or
ganizatiOn of similar nature that can
have no other object than as stated or
else to aid plutocracy. 1 sincerely hope
these men will see the mischief of division
and return to the party that alone promises
any hope to a long distressed and impov-
erished people. Shylock is strongly in
trenched, and will never, never relax his
grip on the people until they rise in their
might, and either through the ballot or
the bullet reclaim what has been ruthlessly
wrested from them. l shall stay with the
Peoples party till victory, and 1 want all
Populists to stay with me.
E. w. B. HARVEY
(Mr. Harvey need not apologize. His let
ters will never weary the readers Of the
Representatives or it's editor.-Ed. Rep)