People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-03-14

than the mine owners DO In year. By
Senator Jones estimate, the wheat
growers lost slOO,OOO,OOO n year, the
cotton planters s25OOOO,0OO and the
wage workers, since 1873, enough money
to build and equip all the railroads in
the United States. We will continue
the battle for the free coinage Of gold
and silver at the ratio Of 16 TO 1, with
out the consent Of any Jew or GENTLE
or foreign nation on earth, and we e1-
tend fraternal greetings and the warm
hand OF fellowship to all who advocate
the vital doctrines Of the Peoples Party |
on the money question, and invite them |
to join with us in this great struggle,
with the full assurance that the Peo-
pies Party letters the conscience Of no
human being, that we are simply NOV
ing on educational lines until we can
all meet in 1896 and prepare a line Of !
battle to meet the enemy. There is no |
hope from either Of the old parties; the
Peoples Party polled the second high
est vote in % states. The democratic |
party is dead in the West. It is reek-
ing with fraud and odious with ballot |
box stufing, and If we had an honest |
election 1t could not cary Southern !
state. 1t deserves to die, and both It |
and the republican party, as represent
ed by their leaders, are in the grasp
Of the money power, and each want to
preserve the clutch Of the banks over
the nation. If 1000 national banks
were not fighting silver, the battle
would soon be won. Their power to
issue money must be destroyed, and on
this line, that the government shall
issue the money, we will wage the bat
tie, inviting all the forces who favor
this doctrine to unite with us.
All the attempts made to change our
platform are premature and unw!se;
no new or old party was ever called on
to change its platform between conven-
tons. Each state, at its convention,
can formulate their ideas, and when
we meet in 1896, God will give us wis
dom to agree on Some sound principles
that will unite all the reform forces
and lead the people to victory. No
conference, no self-constituted dicta-
tors, or imaginary statesmen or would
be political bosses have any right to
assume the power to obliterate the
grand document that has marshaled
100000 voters in line, and l resent the
dictum, that because a man stands by
the platform he is traitor to the Peo-
pies Party.
When l left the republican party l
burned the bridges behind me, and l
never will be sold or delivered to the
democratic party, whether it has labeled |
silver, gold, nickel or brass, and if our
so-called leaders will stand firm we will
gather in all the reform elements and
elect the next President. All we have
to do is to hold the fort, educate the |
masses, open our doors, North, South,
East and West, and wait for the Com
ing of the Lord"
Every plan submitted in Congress by |
the money power is ten times more
dangerous to the people than conta-
gious disease. Every one of them has
all the vital principles denounced and |
ridiculed in the sub-treasury plan.
Every one Of them is class legislation |
of the vilest kind, and the leaders of |
the republican party have endorsed the |
fraudulent issues of bonds and both the |
old parties seek to load the nation with
bonded Indebtedness, payable in gold |
for generation to come. Cleveland |
and Carlisle should be impeached and |
hurled from power. No more rotten |
and corrupt men ever ruled over ma
ton. They usurp more power than any
king or car; they override Congress,
defy the people and trample law and |
constitution under foot. The Roths-
childs' bond trasaction is the most |
shameful page of our history. General
Banks once said: THE treasury de- |
partment is British ground" So it is
to-day, and under this administration
the pawn-broker's sign should be add
ed. There is not an anarchist or COM
mu=ist in the Peoples Party; not a
bomb throwor in our line; the men who
rob and plumber the people, who evade
the law, who purchase and bride anG
steal the livery Of Heaven to servo the
devil in" are the real anarchists and
have brought horde Of that class from
across the sea. More than 80 per cent |
OF our voters were born on American |
soil, and those who were born abroad |
are the very best element in our nation.
The rank and file of the Peoples Party,
though poor in purse, mortgeged and |
many of them destitute and out of en-
ployment, are honest, patient, law-abid-
ing people, and of the thousands Of let
tiers received at my Office, there were
not 100 in all that contained misspelled
words or illiterate or incendiary ex-
pressions
We polled our largest vote in the
West, where the Union soldiers are tho
most numerous, and we have great
army with banners Of the men that
wore the blue marching with US. Tho
gun holder is waging war on tie bond
holder, who robbed him Of his pay dur
ing the war, and who has assailed the
pension roll ever since. We have an
other army that wore the gray. They
have shaken off the manacies of bour-
bon democracy; they stand for fair
ballot and an honest count, for equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none" They bury the past, and with
the Stars and Stripes waving over
Id 10. |