The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-09-19

accept the same in a formal manner.
Your nomination By the Peoples Party
swas not, therefore, made with any
Thought that you were Populist or chat
you accepted all the doctrines declared
Eby the St. Louis platform. 1t was due
largely to the fact that the money question
is the vershadowing political issue OF the
| age, and because you have, at all times,
been an answering, able and fearless
advocate of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold on terms Of equality at
| the minis of the United States at the
| ratio OF 16 to 1.
It was thought also that the observance
of patriotic duty required a. union OF all
| reform forces, and the convention took
| the liberty, without soliciting or consult
| ing you, of placing your name before the
people as it's standard bearer. The con-
yention was, in doing so, guided by deep
| soIicitutle for the common welfare, and,
acting on it's own motion, prompted alone
| by a. desire to bring about the best at
! tainable results. So much has been said
respecting the rehabilitation Of silver, by
again placing it in our coinage acts in
the position it occupied when stealthily
! demonetized by the act Of 1873, that it
would be idle for us to discuss the Ques~
ton. You will observe by the closing
language of the ST. Louis platform that
the convention recognized
THE MONEY QUESTION
as the great issue Of the day and because
Populists believe that you are in accord
with them on this question you will re-
ceive their ballots in November.
1t has at no time been expected, or is it
now, that you will abandon your adhesion
to the Chicago platform, nor that you
will accept all that is declared In the
Peoples Party platform, however graft
flying the latter would he to all Populists.
1t must he understood that the party does
| not abate one iota or title of loyalty to its
principles. We have declared ourselves
in favor Of many important reforms Id
our judgment. essential to The liberation
of the peopleNfronl present unjust and
! ubiquitous industrial bondage. In &C
cordance with precedent Of our party we
! take this method of notifying you of your
nomination. We shall not send COM
! mittee according to old party custom.
| In sending this letter of notification OF the
great. honor that has so justly been con-
| ferred on you by our party, it is needless
! for us to assure YOU that You have the
|.confidence and esteem of all.
IOIf SplellutQ iB1llLiES, XIII" II llteSI4 \
| ty, competency and eminent fitness for
the position justly entitle you to high
| rank among the great statesmen of the
nation. We feel that in the event Of your
election, which now seems certain, that
| you will carry into the executive the
principles of monetary reform to the end
that people will enjoy better industrial
! conditions. 1t is not anticipated that this
can be done with undue haste or SO sud
denly as to wrench or disjCint the bust
| ness interests Of the country, but that it
will be done gradually and in a way to
| infuse confidence and hope Of better con-
ditions to ALL The Peoples party will
exact of you no promises farther than
those made in your public utterances and
exemplified in a life devoted to the well
! fare of the race, nor will it ask you to
abandon the party of which you are an
| honored member.
PATRIOTS, NOT PARTISANS.
In your nomination our party has risen
above mere partisan surroundings, adopt
ing a high plane of patriotism, believing
that a division of forces would result in
the election Of William Mckinley, the
foremost advocate of a deeply burden
some and unnatural taxation and the
criminal policy Of the single gold stand
manner checked in the complete destruc-
ton and disintegration of our form of
government. Your elevation to the chief
magistracy of the nation would be re-
| yarded as a vindication Of the right OF
The people to govern and We entertain no
doubt that you will prove q worthy sue
cessor of the immortal Jefferson and Lin
coin, and that your public life, like theirs:
will Illustrate the purity and ioftiness OF
f! American staLssmanship.
! Your extensive and intimate knowledge
of public affairs, gained i'll a life that
| has been devoted to lpholding the cause
| of the people, as we'll as your keen insight
| into the condition of our country, i'll our
! judgment highly qualities you TO bring
about change in way that Will work
| injury to none and justice to all, thus
| making our government in fact, as it is
| now in form only, a government "of, by
and for the people" We have the honor
to be your most obedient servlnts.
WILLIAM VINCENT ALLEN,
Chairman.
! The signatures of the other members of
] the notification committee are also .ap-
| pended.
/ Washington, D. c., Sept, 15.--'The fol-
| lowing is the letter sent by Senator But
Ter, of North Carolina, the chairman OF the
| Pcpulist executive committee, to Hon
| Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, notifying
him of his nomination as candidate for vice
president by the Populist national conven-
ton:
HEADQUARTERS PEOPLES PARTY
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMIT
TEE.
Washington, D. c., Sept. Is, 1S96.-Hon.
Thomas E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Such is our form of govern
ment that the citizens of the United States
must shape it's course for good or evil
through the agency of political parties.
When there is no political party that re-
presents the principles of good government,
nc party that stands for the right and ;nte-
rest of the laborer, wealth producer and all
who strive to make an honest living by fair
and legitimate means, then it is impossible
for the majority of the voters to express
their will at the ballot box.
When all the political parties stand for
| the selfish interest and personal greed of
money changers, corporations, trusts and
monopolies AS does the Republican party
under the leadership of John Sherman, and
the Democratic party under the leadership
of Grover Cleveland, great producing
masses are victims without the alternative.
| To withhold their votes will furnish them
| no relief while to cast their votes for
either party is to sanction their own spoil
alton and to strengthen the power that op-
presses them.