The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-07-17
PoPULISTs EAR FROM.
Teller Is the Only Mar They VIII Endorss
-Against Any Democrat.

-Against Any Democrat.
CHICAGO. July 5 s. The Populist
leaders have issued the following man.
lfesto in behalf of Senator Teller:
Upon the eve Of action by the Democratic
national convention about to ass ,mbls at. this
city of Chica we find the situation such that
we deem it proper to address all friends of free
silver coinage and financial refo N in the
United States. As members OF the Peoples
party. we have occupied the position merely
of careful observation, AMI we have not att
tempted to, nor shall we attempt to, dictate to
the Democra ic national conventions; but, as
large numbers of persons, many of them dele.
gates to that convention, are assuming to ex.
press their opinions that the. Peoples party
and other advocates of fres silver coinage
should accept this nominees of the Democratic
convention and join to elect the same upon a
Democratic platform, we desire to express our
views upon this subject. not as binding upon
the Peoples party, but as expressive of what
we believe to be its sentiment.
-Four years ago, at Omaha. tho People's
party among other reforms. demanded the
free and unlimited coinag, of silver at Is to /.
full legal tender for all debts, il dependsntly
of any other nation. We were then told by
the Democratic and Republican partie, that
this was an economic error. The Peoples.
parry thus became and has remained the logi.
lcal united party for free silver. The Republic
can party has persisted in its policy for a gold
standard, thereby alternating II larg, portion Of
its former adherents The Democratic party
Is divided, with a majority of its delegates
favorlng the Popullst doctrine as to FIRE, silver
tonnage, while a powerful minority, 70 pres ent-
Ing great Democrat C states, absolutely refuses
to consent to such a policy, aad it3 present adj
minis ration. with all its patronage, is in rabid
hostility to the cause of free silver and will ex-
ert its vast power to defeat a free silver candi-
date.
The Democratic party, therefore, meets in
national convention under most extraordinary
circumstances. 1t cannot at,this time be sur
prised to find that a vast humber OF people
look with distrust upon mere platform pro-
fession.
The cause of free silver coinage is the peo-
pies cause. 1t requires for success against
the mighty powers opposing it. the votes of
millions of men who have not acted with the
Democratic party. Ho v. then, can tn at party,
at a time when it is. by hop less division, more
weak and lmpotent than ever before. under
tax this gigantic tase in the narrow spirit of
straight party &C ion? If it exre;t, the CO.
operation of the millions who are outside of its
rank, it Is bound to prove by it's acts now and
here that 1t is sincere, and that it PAGES the
success of its cause above the narrow pl ane Of
a mere partisan effort.
IF the Democratic p,rty expects to over
come the distrust which the pre- emit alminis-
TRITON has earned TO. it, now is the time to
prove its sincerity.
There is a candidate upon whom the votes
of all friends of free silver can be united, if all
those who have thu cause at heart will yield
something Of their extreme partisanship and
place the cause first and complete party sue
cess second. He is a candidate who, having
given more than twenty years to Il devoted
struggle for this cause and for financial reform,
has shown that no can put his devotion to his
principles above all party ties or party success.
Teller the Logical Candidate.
Fl stepped out of his party when it declared
for the single gold standard and, standing, as
he does. by party affiliations and
dev ted to the cause which the Democratic
party now by a majority declares the supreme
quess ion Of the hour, ne above all men becomes
thu logical candidate upon whom all who love
this c 'use can unite. He is able, competent,
tried. true, earnest, reliable, and can be tri-
unphantly elected.
TO nominate a straight Democrat in a di-
vided party, when millions Of honest citizens
stand ready to support a non-partisan candi-
date is a mere reckless experiment, not only an
act of supreme folly in .his hour, but a defiance
of all prudence, and cannot but be con .trued as
meaning that the Democratic party desires to
conjure with the magic of an occasion and
prefers defeat for the cause in a spirit of lar
row partisanship to success by a rational act of
union upon a candidate who can certainly
succeed.
The Peoples party has other principles, and
and it has within the states which are surely
for silver coinage a following as great as that of
the Democratic party when its vote in the gold
states is eliminated.
feel confident that the Peoples pa rty is
willing to opan the path to a un on upon Hon.
Henry M. Teller, and if this rational, patriotic
opportunity be rejected by the Democratic con-
%vention in the determination to seek complete
partisan success, regardless of an open path to
victory. then we call the true friends of the
cause that responsibility rests on those who
reject this opp ortunitv and that it is a conclu-
sive proof that we who championed this cause
for years, who are united for it's support. are
its safe defenders and will CARR it to success.
Whatever may be our individual wishes in
the premises, we ara forced to say, after an
earnest endeavor to inform ourselves about the
sentiment of the Peoples party of the country
ct large, that Hlat party cannot be inluced to
severed his affiliations with the old political
parties
The rronun ciamHnto is s:gaed by: H E,
Iaubenesk, Illinois: J B. Weaver. Iowa: Mar
tin Quinn, Oregon; A j. Str,ator. Illinois;
Edward S. Greece, Michigant A. w. Nichols,
Michigan; Howard S. Taylor, Illinois; Thomas
v. Carter, California: B. o. Flower, Boston,
Mass: A. l. Maxwell. Illinois: y. Nj. Full
weilder, Illinois; Charles f.. Palmer, Illinois,:
y. Nasareil, Illinois: i. j. Mills, Fenton.
La; j. NJ Ewing. Mic higa az; J. G. Roberts,
Illinois; James E Mcbride, Michigan; EdA
ward lay or. Illinois; James Winnie, Mlchi-S
gan Eugene Smith, Illinois; w. w. Weaver.
Illinois: Chris O'Brien. Illinois Herman AL
shuler. Illinois; Robert Bal:. California; NJ.
NJ. Miller, Hin ISL 4. Matthews, Now York;
II u. Anderson. North Dakota: o.. X. Lepham,
Virginia Z. J. Jones. Oklahoma.