The advocate., 1895-03-13

acter is daily exhibited Of the general
disintegration Of both the old parties,
and OF re-slignment Of political forces.
The democratic party is dsmorslizsd
and disrupted, aud their allies, the re-
publicsns, are at ses, unable to deter
mine what this wonderful upheRvRI Of
public sentiment will bring forth. Amid
all the uncertainty which beClouds the
political horizon Of the old parties, the
POpulist party, harmonious in rank and
file, free from Jsslousies and schisms
among itB leaders, united in it's aims
and purposes, invoking the aid Of the
God OF our fathers, unds1utsdly CON
fronts the enemies Of the people and Ia
marching in solid phslsnx, boldly and
resolutely to meet the impending CON.
flict. ManiRestly the purpose Of our ad.
vsrssries in publishing throughout the
country the statement that the Populist
leaders at the national capital were CON.
templRting an abandonment OF the de-
msnds made in the second declaration
OF independence promulgated at Omaha,
July 4, 1892, is one Of their old thread
bare schemes to SOW seeds Of discord.
Though these publications OF the great
democratic and republican journals
under flaming headlines, bore prjinG
facie evidence Of their fslsity, yet in
wise conservatism the National Reform
Press association deemed 1t advisable
that representatives Of that body should
meet face to face our friends at the cap
ital, counsel with them, and as far as
possible, correct the false impressions
made by vsnsl psrtisans, and give our
readers true statement Of existing CON.
ditiona.
Your committee being in full sympR-
thy and accord with the constituents OF
our national reform press that has evsP
kept in touch with the masses, aud after
having rubbed up against the practical
issues OF the day, are extremely graft
fed to DO able to report that Populists
in congress, Populists Of the reform
press, az d the vast army of PJpulists
throughout the country, have the same
aims and purposes-the relief OF the
people from the despotism Of plutoerRey
which we agree can be secured by usipV
the same chart and compsss-"Th0
Omaha Platform" Attestiug this state
ment your committee submits the fol-
loving papers:
We, the undersigned msmbers Of CON.
grsss, desire to say to the COMMITTEES Of
the reform press, that we do not regard
the address Of February IA, 1895, issued
by us as ii any way antaRonistic TO the
Omaha platform, which must govern ths
party until it is changed or amended by
the only proper Ruthority-the party in
delegate convention assembled. Hence
there can be no COZ Atct in our views,
(Slgned) William Baker, w. A. Harris,
John Davis, William V. Allen. w, A,
MeKaiRhan. jerry Simpson, T. J. Hud.
SOD, Il Il B zen, James II. Kyle, Late
Pence, o. M KEN.
We have always held, and still hold,
that the national committee, nor any
other body outside of national con-
vention, has any right to, or can revise
the Omaha platform; but circumstances
have developed conditions that make
1t indispensable for the good of the
party that the money question be made
the paramount issue.
H. E. TAUBENEoK,
j. 81. TURNER.
February %, 1895.
Before concluding this report it is due
the gallant band OF Populist representa-.
tiVes in congress to say that no right
eous cause ever drew to its support