The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-22
Issue an Address Endorsing
Him FOB President.
TAUBENECK HEADS 1T
Teller Described as a ssBeacOn
Brightly Burning.
Ask That the PopOlist COnven-
ton Name Him.

st. Louis. June pas a result Of a
series Of conferences between the. com
mittee appointed by the seeding silver
men of the recent Republican conven-
tion and a committee composed of
prominent Populists. an address has
been issued from the headquarters Of
the Peoples party national committee
IN this city. advising Populists through
out the country to make Henry NJ Tel
Ter of Colorado. their national standard
bearer. Immediately after the silver
men walked out of the convention they
appointed a committee, Of which Chas-
r. Hartman of Montana Senator r. +.
Pettigrew of South Dakota. c. f. Can
non of Utah. and Senator Fred Dubois
OF Idaho, We're members to confer with
a similar committee of PopulstsA That
evening at the Planters hotel they met
II. j. Tauberneck of Illinois, chairman;
DR.. Howard S. Taylor of Chicago, and
Thos. M. Paterson of Denver. of the ma
ti0nal Popuhst committee and as re-
suit of that subsequent conference, the
address was issued.
Chairman Tauberneck inn an inter
view said The seeding sill
yer men of the Republican party, and
the PCpulists have, as the result Of our
conferences come to perfect agree
ment as to the future, and hencefOrth
we win work along the same lines"
He predicted victory for ticket with
Teller IS its leader.
The address in part Is as follows:
Expressly disclaiming any purpose
OF right TO bind any party or person by
the views here set forth. we but yield
TO an overpowering sense of duty in
saying what we do to most of the Peo-
pies party and to all other good citi-
zens. who apprehending the approach
of a momentous crisis in our country's
life. are willing to avert it by acts of
exalted patriotism
1--WE came to ST. Louis as citizens,
members of the Peoples party to be
present at the meeting of the national
Republican convention that we might
determine more definitely for ourselves
the true aim of that organization in
the present struggle Here we have
seen the boss in politics more securely
enthroned, more servilely obeyed and
more EDITORIAL as to candidates and poll
icy, than has ever been witnessed in
the field of politics
cone man, the perfection of his type,
representing the millionaires, tie
banks. the corporations. the trusts and
every other remorse1ess and pluto
cratic element in our country's
life. has through the power of money
dictated the nomination of Mr.. MeKin-
icy ana shaped the platform of his
party.
This convention. slavishly respond
ing to the evil of the money power, has
forced an issue which must be met. 1t
Isl g challenge to the yeomen of the
land. Ii Il is declined or if it has
Eucceeded the letters of a tyranny more
grinding than that of the cars and enn-
perOrs viii be riven on the plain peo-
pie of the country. the letters which
must be indefinitely worn with the con-
ling serfs. or in the end be broken with
the irresistible power Of a mighty revo-
luton.
That issue is formulated in the de-
mands that The existing gold stand
ard must be preserved and for the en-
actmeut of all measures designed to
maintain inviolably the obligations OF
the United States and all our money
either coin or paper-at the present
standard
This means that silver shall be per-
manently degraded into mere money
Of change and that I'd be deprived OF
Ats legal tender quality except for some
paltry sum.
That the national banks shall be
swollen into power of triple their
present ability to contract the vol
ume of money to absorb the earnings
Of industry and to grip the throat Of
an industrial and commercial life
while from time to time it terrorizes
all legislative, judicial and admins
tratiVe positions
''The money power has forced this
issue now because. in its fudement
those whom its policy would enslave
are divided into hostile political fam
lies which cannot be united in time to
resist its onset 1t regards It as i'm
posi- Die tnat harmonious action can be
secured between the different organf-
cations that favor monetary reform
and resistance to their insatiate greed
EOuLIlsrS. Democrats
Independent bimetallists supporting
olnerent nominees for president and
the national congress it feels assured
OF victory ana II has determined to
press now and without abatement the
advantage which this apparently la
uentable condition raises mp before it,
In this. the most threatening crisis
that has memaced the country since
the civil war. though simply citizen
members Of the Peoples Party. we
venture To make moment0us sugges-
lions to- YOU. cur brethren. In doing
this we have neither desire nor
thought TO impair in the least degree.
the efficiency of our notable organiza-
tions charged as it is with the liberties
Of present and future generations and
whose integrity and growth is essen
tai to the perpetuation of our free i'm
situations. our constant aim will be to
defend it from foes within and without
and 10 preserve it as a power conse-
Grated forever to the defense Of hui
NANNY S dearest rights upon the
American continent
In view of the shameless submits
sion by the Republican convention to
the most extreme demand ever made
upon Americans by the money power
every thought and effort of American
manhood should from this hour tend
toward creating and cementing q un-
ion between those who would resist
the conspiracy Of wholesale robbery
and grinding oppression
Measures must be gained or de-
feated through men. after an the
cnleI problem in this crisis is to ind