The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-09-13

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to inspire a new organization with en-
thusiasm aud the zeal which follows it.
1t is we'll known that in 1899 the
party polled 1000, 900 votes. In 1894,
two years later, the volume was swelled
TO 900, 900 III round numbers, If the
organization had been wisely guided, it
would have polled 1000, coo votes, for
the Democracy throughout the land was
in rebellion against their leaders, and
Republicans were none too enthusiastic
for theirs. Three millions of Democrats,
influenced by their adherence Of Cleye-
landism, refrained from voting, and
1,O00,000 Republicans, from disgust
with the gold standard attitude which
their party has boldly taken, kept their
stay ct home Democratic brethren com
pany. 1t was precisely the situation
which should have swelIed the ranks Of
8 new and vigorous party into a victori-
GUS host; but, regret the fact as we may,
the Populist party received little. if any,
advantage from the disOrganized and
disgruntled condition Of their opponents
There must be a cause for this. The
problem is to find it, and the task TO re-
move it and make the conditions which
will lead to victory in tho future.
The Populist party is Il necessity TO
the country. 1t is the threat which its
existence implies that drives the Demo
cratic party in Democratic states to the
championship Of financial reform, the
chief measure of which, for the present,
is the restoration of silver to its former
status Of primary money with equal
privileges for it at the minis with gold.
It embodies the sympathies Of the hu-
man heart for the oppressed masses, the
return Of the government to its ancient
simplicity in form and methods, the sub
lection of judicial aggressions and tyr
amy Of the Legislative will, the control
Of corporations with an iron hand, and
in general the uplifting Of labor to a
pedestal Of dignity and power which
will in the end secure to its yotaries
more Just aud generous compensation
for their toll, If it did not exist, and no
other party, inspired with It's aims, occu-
pied the arena, both the old parties
would listen to the siren song Of capital
and permit the country to sink into the
degradation Of an empire Or an oil
garchy,
The arrest of the growth of the Popu-
list party in the south is the result of
the determined stand which the Demo
cratic leaders have made for free bime-
talliC coinage A careful analysis Of the
problems of the 1899 campaign shows
very clearly that it was the silver ques-
tion which brought to its candidates
more than One-half of the 1000, 600
votes they received. Colorado is a strik-
ing example Of this. 1t is DO exaggera-
tion to say that if the Chicago Demo
cratic convention had adopted an un-
equivOCal free coinage plank and nomi-
mated candidates i'll sympathy with it the
Democratic party would have carried
the state by an overwhelming majority,
and the POpulist party would have con-
tiRued to occupy the numerical insig-
nihcance to which the Democratic party
was reduced.
If the Democratic leaders in the south
and in Illinois, Missouri. Nebraska and
many of them i'll Iowa, Indiana Ohio,
Michigan, Minnesota, the Dakotas and
elsewhere had not moved as boldly and
cOuEageOusly for silver as they have; if
the Memphis convention had not been
held, and if the late Democratic confer
ence at Washington had not sent out its
admirable plea for silver and announced
an organized and determined struggle to
give the silver cause victory in the DEM
OOratic convention, that party would
now be in hopeless disintegration in ev-
cry one of these states, and some other
party than it and the Republican would
be growing and flourishing as the pro-
verbal green bay tree. 1t might be the
Populist party, but the probabilities are
it would be a new aud perhaps distinc-
lively silver party, but that is mere con-
lecture which it is now Improbable to
indulge in,
The lesson from all this is that the
financial question is the one from which
the POpuhsts have derived the greatest
strength, and the one which it must
chiefly foster for the present if it would
become a controlling factor in the gov
eminent through the addition of ), O00,-
Oe0 voters to its electoral strength.
The News quite comedies with the
views of Hon. q. A. Power, whose pa
tri0tic and powerful address is printed
il today's issue, about the changed con-
ditions since 1892, aud what the new
and present situation requires. The
money question in its entirety, he says,
includes nine-tenths of every other
question named in the Omaha plat
form. 1t embraces the abolition or
cnrtaiiment of the veto power of the
president A single man in league with
the enemies Of the republic Gun by inter
position Of the veto overcome the soy
eTeignty Of the people and keep them IN
subsection TO these enemies.
The national bankers aud bond syndi-
Gates, with a president on their side, can
bid defiance to the will of an oyerwhelsn-
ing majority of the American people
and hold them chained to the wheels Of
Molnch' 5 chariot.
Il embraces new lines along which
che Judiciary must fravel-iines laid
down BY Che peoples legislatures,
sad not the creatures Of their own
ideas 81 emergency. In 1894 .tew
federal judges ruled the country
ky injunDticn. abolished the right of
tEiai By jury and imprisoned citizens
wbo bad violated 90 statute, under the
docfrius Of constructive contempt. The
sepeente court of tils UaitRd States up
held taelsl--Etle same supreme court
which q fey months later reversed the
Ee-.tf.r ~ thai slfia ss0stlit s,sitis.i1 ftss1