Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-06-06
A TIMELY WARNING.
RINGING LETTER FROM PAUL
VAN DERVOORT.
No New Party Could BE Organized for
the Campaign of 1896 - Populists
Must Get Move on Them.

I desire to call the attention of our
people to the fact that it will be ut
terly impossible for the so-calleG Amer
lean bimetallic party to gain a stand
ing before the country under tho ballot
laws Of many states suf-
flcient to even give them
a place on the ticket in 1896. In
Mr.. Sibley's own state it would be i'm
possible. There is no election this year
that will enable them to poll the per-
centage of votes required under these
ballot laws. Last fall the chairman Of
the Illinois state committee of our
party had to have petitions prepared in
ever half the counties in Illinois.
The Peoples party have overcome
all these obstacles. 1t has taken them
five years to do so. They now are
regular recognized national party under
the ballot laws in all our states.
Hence If real honest 16 to 1 silver
man wants to vote for free silver he
must vote with the Peoples party. A
republican president, senate and house
Of representatives demonetized silver.
Republican senates and republican con-
crosses refused to restore 1t. A demo-
cratic president, senate and house OF
representatives repealed the Sherman
act, and a congress elected by 100 ma
jorlty for free coinage repealed the last
act in its favor and refused to restore
free coinage at 16 TO l, II to l, 10 to l,
10 to and 20 to 1.
Any man, woman or child that will
trust the two old parties after their
perfidious criminal record on the free
coinage Of silver deserves to be enslaved
for all their lives.
It being conceded that the American
bimetallic party cannot get legally be-
fore the people under our ballot laws
in time for the election of 1896, and 1t,
in my mind, being clear that it's under
ground managers knows that, what was
1t organized for?
Twelve men furnished a platform,
kindly named the candidate for presl-
dent, and later have designated the
vice-president, and gravely invite all
the parties to dlsband and come into
their camp.
In my judgment the American BIZ
metallic party, the democratic silver
proclamation, and the st. Louis con-
ference, which it was intended should
also declare in favor of the same plat
form, were and are all parts Of a
scheme to disrupt and destroy the Peo-
pies party and deliver 1t bound hand
and foot to the democratic party in
1896, whose convention will declare for
silver and whose congressman will sell
out silver as they did in 1898 and 1894,
and all along the line since 1878.
If the Peoples party at st. Louis had
agreed to the same platform promul-
gated by the bimetallic party and silver
democratic congressman, we would
have been out of a job as party. All
these democratic state conventions and
legislatures would have declared for
that platform, free silver and little
Of the money question, and then the
howl would have gone up for the inn
mediate dissolution Of our party. The
whole thing is trick. The effort is to
revive and resurrect dead and damned
democracy and it behooves the Peoples
party everywhere to be on their guard,
to organize the Legion at once in every
precinct, and show all these silver con-
Verts that the only sure way to win is
10 come into the Peoples party and
vote for the only platform that declares
In favor Of the free and unlimited coin
age Of silver at 16 to 1.
II you want to be destroyed, run over
! betrayed and sold Just lie dormant and