Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-06-26
R,metaIIists of All Parties support
% ing Diferent Candidates Tor
President Means Deieas, I
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CT Iouis June 2O--As the result OF
ssries of conferences between the eoHi
mittees appointed by the secedlhs s'''e'
men and committee composed OIL pioi
,,ort nonulists an address was lssueu
.on,,bt from the headquarters OF 'he
peoples party committee III tiiis my
advising the populists throughout 'no
country to make Henry M. Teiier 'heii
standard bearer. Immediately ai'e' Inv
silver men walked out of the convention
+hov annointed a committee. OF whlch
Charles II. Hartman of Montana SEN
,tor T. Pettigrew of South Dakota
Senator F.. ]. Cannon of Utah and Sena-
for Fred T. Dubois of Idaho, were heih-
bers, to confer with similar committee
of the populists. That evening at lne
| Planters hotel they met II. Il. Iauoe-
| neck of Illinois, chairman, DIR. Howard
| 8 Taylor of Chicago and Thomas M
Patterson of Denver, of the national pop
ulist committee, ana as result Oh tha'
and subsequent conferences the aoores9
| was issued.
| VIII Work Together.
Chairman Taubeneck in an interview
said tonight:
1.-The seeding silver men of the repuD
lican party and the pouplists have, as
| the results of our conferences, come u
| q perfect agreement as to the future, ana
| henceforth we will work along the same
lines"
He predicted victory for ticket with
| Teller as it's leader. The address, In
part, is as follows:
Expressly disclaiming any purpose
or right to bind any party or person by
the views here set forth, we but yield
to an overpowering sense of duty in say
ing what we do to the members of the
peoples party and to all other good citi-
zens who, apprehending the approach
of a monstrous crisis in our countrys
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 pres
ent at the meeting of the national repub-
lican convention that We might determine
more definitely for ourselves the true aim
of that organization in the present strug
gle. We have seen the boss in politics
more securely enthroned. more servilely
obeyed and more dictatorial as to can
didates and policy than has ever been
witnessed in the field of national poll
tics.
zone man, the perfection of his type.
representing the mllionares, the banks.
the corporations. the trusts and every
other remorSeless and plutocratic ele-
ment in our country's life, has, through
the power of money, dictated the nominal
ton of Mckinley and shaped the plat
form of his party
Slaves of Money Power.
This convention. slavishly responding
to the will of the money power, has
forced an issue which must be met IT
Is challenge TO the yeoman of the land.
If it is declined. or if it shall succeed, the
letters of a tyranny more grinding than
that of the cZars and emperors will be
riveted on the plain people of the coun-
try. letters which must be indefinitely
worn with the contemplate spirit insep-
arabic from willing serfs, or in the end
be broken with the irresistible power OF
mighty revolution
; That issue is formulated in the de-
mands that, that the existing gold
, standard must be preserved. and for the
, enactment of ell measures designed Ia
maintain inviolably the obligations OF
the United States and all our money
either coin or paper at the presen;
standard.
This means that silver shall be per.
manently degraded into mere money CT
change, and that 1t be deprived of its
, legal tender quality except for some nal.
, try sum.
That the national banks shall be
swollen into power of triple their pres.
, ent ability to contract the volume nj
money to absorb the earnings of in,
dustry and to grip the throat of all in.
dustrial and commercial life, while
: from time to time it terrorlzes the yot
ers into a choice of its tools for all leu,
> lsiative, judicial and administrative no
sitions
q The Issue Was Forced.
the money power has forced tn,
e issue now because, in its judgment. tho5,
whom its policy would enslave are Ill
Nlded into hostile political families which
can not be united in time to resist II.
onset. 1t regards it as impossible tina
harmonious action can be secured he
= tween different organizations that favo,
, money reform and resistance TO its in
satiate greed. With the populists sI
YER democrats and Independent bimetal
lists supporting different nominees fo
president and the national congress i
, feeis assured of victory and has deter
; mined to press without abatement tn,
advantage which this apparently lament
able condition raises up before us.
: In these, the most threatening crlsa
! mat nave menaced the country since TN
: civil war, though simply citizen mem
a pers OF the peoples party we venture ?,
make momentous suggestions to vo,
(; our brethren. In doing this we hav
$ neither desire nor thought to impair I,
: the least degree the efficiency of our no
Die organization, charged as it is witt
the liberties of the present and the fut
ure generations and whose integrity an,
: growth is essential to the perpetuatio,
A OF our free institutions. Our constan
: | aim Will be to defend fr,... -.