The representative., 1895-04-03

ed On these matters send me 25 cents for
years subscription. L. c. LONG
Magnolia, MINI.
FROM COL. BLANTON DUNCAN.
Strong Letter-Not willing to Go OF
After the One-Plnnk Party-His
Reasons.
To the Editor
| see by Press dispatch what you say
on the subject of the silver party. Your
views are perfectly correct. The great
mass of voters, nearly 100000 who sup
ported the Populist platform during the
last year and at the polls will not disband
to take up single subject for future sup
port. In this respect it is unfortunate, as
creating still further division Of the ma
jority, and thus more fully insures Repub-
1ican party leaders the success which they
propose to gain for their own ends, and
not for the benefit of the people. The silver
question is one of vital Importance, but
the Populists have supported it through
thick and thin, and do so still To
base party on a single issue would be
declaring the organization to be merely a
chrysalis, from which butterfly would
issue and then die in the same season. AS
to securing the support of any considerable
number of Republicans, with future office
and plunder staring them in the face, it
would be ridiculous. You might count on
your fingers in every election district the
number Of voters who will leave the grand
old party to affiliate with the silver men
and the Democrats upon this single issue,
various other questions. There are good
men who indorse silver among both the
Republicans and Democrats, but the
masses in both the old parties will retain
their partisanship and continue to vote for
their nominees and in no possible con-
tingency can the silver men carry "a single
electoral vote or poll one-third of the votes
which the Populists cast last year. The
expression of the newspapers indicating
opinion Of the POpulists, is unanimous that
they do not intend to abandon an organ
ization so complete and so rapidly growing
in strength. Some of the leading silver
men in this proposed new party are the
most determined advocates and instruments
OF the great mUnop6lis and corpora tions,
which have breught-the country to such
ruin by their tyranny oppression and per-
secution of thesworking classes and the
farmers. To suppose for instant that
the Populists are ready to give up their
opposition to monopoly and the combined
influences of the corrupt corporations and
plutocrats to enslave the people of this
country, and to follow under the lead of
men who are noted as corpora ton attor-
neys, and men of great wealth who seek
to increase theirswealth by means of mines
without sharing in the least with the feel
ings of the masses On other points, is to
presume that the voters among the Popu-
lists even greater asses than the party
hoe
to he -
There are many things in the Omaha
platform which are susceptible of revision,
as time may indicate impractcablity. But
1T is sure that the great issues before the
people will remain what they are today
aside from the tariff which may be con-
sidered as laid aside for several years
and what the conservative voters will de-
mand is:
l. Free coinage at 16 to 1.
2 No gold bonds. or bonds of any kind.
3. Issue by the government of green
backs, silver and gold, and withdrawal of
national bank notes.
4. Control Of the great railroad, tele-
graph and other mammoth and disturbing
corporations by the government, and re-
moval of strikes by appropriate legislation,
preventing uncontrolled discharge of op-
eratives, by arbitration and otherwise.
5. Amendments to the immigration laws
to prevent the inpotir of anarchists and
communists from foreign countries, and to
prohibit their Introduction by capitalists
to take the places of American workmen
at greatly reduced wages, making vast
fortunes for the employers at the expense
of the workmen and their families in rags,
non-employment and starvation.
These and such other views as the as
sembled delegates in a convention may pre-
sent to the people, will be the platform
upon which the Populists will make their
They will he or t,,r,, I'd
aside by any such attempts as are being
made.
The Democrats will stick to their organi-
zation as a mass. They had nearly six mil
lions of voters in '92. and men are averse
to deserting their own organization except
from causes which appeal more strongly
than single issue. The great majority of
Democrats are firm adherents of silver
and they will declare in their various
state conventions. AS for the gentleman
who is selected in advance by coterie of
excellent friends of silver to be placed be-
fore the people as a candidate for presi-
dent-Mr. Sibley-I can say that he is wor-
thy of the support of any honorable man,
as he was the only man in the house who
stood up for our views in the last congress
from the western boundary of Pennsylva-
mia to the Atlantic, and from the lakes
southwark, including Maryland Delaware
and West Virginia. To him Is due undying
fame, and there is no man whom 1 would
more gladly see presented as the combined
nominee of the Populists, the Democrats
and the silverites. But all of these things
will have to be accomplished regularly by
the people through their chosen representa-
tives, and not as indicated by a self-con-
stituted committee of SO more, no mat
ter how worthy the motive or good char
acter of that coterie.
We will drift on this year, with an abso-
lutte certainty in the. elections that the Re-
publicans will di9istrously defeat the Dem
oerats In all park OF tfe North and North
west, and in mapy Southern localities. If
the Democrats at imfzfed with the patriot
ism and practicaa4sensS which 1 give them
credit for, and in Nhe near future the
doom of this repaaolfc Mom the domination
of a radical olig4rchyX and the formation
OF, a stronger goErrnrHFnt to be succeeded
by despOtism nphe4, by bayonets then
IN tnat case efforts will be successfully
made through thASagacious statesmen from
all states to ma&e 3bmbination to hurl
from power the ~yARdtcal leaders, and save
this Union from Ffvolution, bloodshed and
chaos HI AZ
II InlS is not d0Ae, Were can be but one
conclusion, oceans of fAblood, and the de-
structlon OF hbert& by Me success of either
OF the &erents. You and
Will probably -live34o 81 this, if the people
are so supine toaake Hhe only chance of
safety by wrestling power from those who
will steadily pervert tit for their own ad-
vantage, and support every usurpation by
force. Yourst truly,
BLANToN DUNCAN.
Los Angeles, March 10.
THE GOSPEL. OF POTATOES,