The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-24
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as some Alpine traveller treads his way
along yawning chasms. Those who
knew Mr.. Buffers convictions were
amazed at his qualification and cow
ardlce- Those who did not know him
were convinced that he either did not
know anything or was trying to be on
both sides of the vital question 1t is
a hopefuI sign, yet portentOuS of dan
ger 10 the nations oppressors, when
the people become so thoroughly
aroused that they refuse to follow the
tin horn of the willy politician.
The battle royal between the Bryan
ana ana antl-Bryan forces viii begin today,
but Will not end till election, for gold
IS mighty, and the gold traitors are far
seeing and astute. Whenever the peo-
pie become so powerfully organized
that the combined forces of wrong are
pOwerless against them they inoculate
reform with the potent elixir of lucre
and forthwith the aforesaid reformer
adopts the tactics of Philip of Mace
dOnia, and divides the people, that their
enemies may conquer.
" Divide to conquer was the motto
by which Greece was delivered to her
destrOyers. The national chairman of
the Peoples Party took a flying and
much desired to be kept secret trip To
Chicago, conferred with Major Kohl
saat and others, and came back inOcu
lated, but the virus is not spreading q S
rapidly as Mare Hanna might desire.
The trouble is, Taubeneck tried to
lead the national convention into the
camp of the enemy four years ago at
Omaha when he read a telegram pur-
porting to come from w. O. Gresham,
stating that he (Gresham) would ac-
cept the nomination of the Peoples
Party if said nomination were tender
ed him unanimously Elaborate prep
aratiOnS had been made for the de-
nOuement, and tin pail brigadeS, Gen.
Gresham glee clubs and all the para
phernalia of old party methods were
present to enthuse, deceive and STAN
pede the people to a man who would
not accept a nomination at their hands,
and who afterWard accepted a position
in CleVeland'S ca binet as a reward for
his services to the enemies of the peO-
pie.
"A woman prevented the delivery of
the goods Those who attended the
national convention of four years ago
will never forget the chagrin of Taube-
neck and his Chicago fixers when the
scheme was exploded. It is unfOrtu-
nate that the political cOwardice and
apathy of men permitted this incom-
petent to remain in charge of the af-
fairs of a national organization. His
untimely and idiotic manifesto in re
gard to Henry M Teller undoubtedly
killed all that gentleman's chances for
the presidential nomination.
"A union of the forces if formed ir-
respective of party lines, will, beyond
question, result in the overthrow of
the gold aristOcracy of America To
prevent this union of forces is the
shortest, speediest way to defeat the
Taubeneck is declaring loudly that the
Peoples Party organization must be
preserved. No compromise with the
enemy is his watchwOrd.
Think of it. His chief lieutenant in
the political deal this year is the tool
of John NJ. Thurston, a political char
Iatan and nOndescript, who is known in
Nebraska as The soap grease man of
the Union Pacific This loathsOme
creature aspires to a nomination, and
if there must be division it is to be de-
vOutly wished that he will succeed in
his farcical and treacherOus design.
The word Democrat is being used
to brighten the southern men, just as
the word niger was used for the same
purpose by the Republicans; but the
southern people are brainy enough to
know that the reform rebels of De
mocracy captured the Chicago conven-
ton and nominated as their standard
bearer a POpulist, man tried and true
in the halls of congress, in behalf of
the oppressed people. There is no
longer a Democratic or Republican par
ty. and when this convention adjOurns
there will be but two great cOntending
forces-the wealth producers and tax
payers against the bOndhOlders or gold
OWners-American liberty against
English SuDremacV.'