Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-03-13

parties, or trying to create a new one,
and thus divide the silver forces. been
constant hindrance to our progress.
The mass Of our voters are not mine
owners They represent the indus
trial classes, and have lost more in one
day by the demonetization of silver
than the mine owners do in year. By
Senator Jones' estimate, the wheat
growers lost $100,000,000 a year. the
cotton planters $3.50, 0,000,0 900 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 ex-
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-
ple's Party fetters the conscience Of no
human being, that we are simply NOV
ing on educational lines until we can
all meet in 1896 and prepare 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. 1t is reek-
| ing with fraud and odious with ballot
box stuffing, and if we had an honest
election it could not cary a 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 lighting silver, the battle
would soon be won. Their power to
issue money must be destroyed, and on
this line, that the government shall
| tie, inviting all the forces who favor
| this doctrine to unite with us.
All the attempts made to change our
platform are premature and unWise;
no new or old party was ever called on
to change its platform between conven-
| tions. Each state, at it's 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
1000, 900 voters in line, and 1 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
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-
gfous disease. Every one of them has
all the vital principles denounced and
r1diculed 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 a ma
t1on. They usurp more power than any
king or czar: 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 Dawn-broker's sign should be add
ed. There is not an anarchist or COM
munlst in the Peoples Party; not a
bomb thrower in our line; the men who
rob and plunder the people, who evade
the law, who purchase and bribe and
steal the Livery of Heaven to serve tho
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, mortgaged and
many Of them destitute and out of en-
pioyment, are honest, patient, law-abid-
ing people, and of the thousands of let
ters received at my Office, there were
nc 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 the
most numerous, and we have a great
army with banners of the men that
wore the blue marching with us. The
gun holder is waging war on the 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 a 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
every line. they join hands with their
brothers who wore the blue to save the
nation and preserve the flag forever.
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, once
said in speech: THAT this nation
may yet be saved by the 95 per cent of
| American born population who live in
the Sunny South" The greatest event
in this whole political revolution is the
magnificent conflict for the rights OF
the people waged in the South, and in
1896 they will emancipate all their
states and help plant the Peoples Par
| ty candidate in the White House. Let
us all consecrate ourselves anew to the
| holy cause A great orator recently
| said: TT has been demonstrated that
great wrongs may be righted and great
reforms achieved without the sheddinf:
| of one drop of human blood" Let this