Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-06-26
Seeding SILVER MEN
And Populists Confer--All'
Are Asked to Work To-
gether.
TEXT OF ADDRESS ISSUED.

ST. LOUIS, June 20.-As result OF
a series of conferences between the
committees appointed by the seced-
ing silver men and q committee COM
posed ot prominent populists, an adj
! dress was issued tonight from the
headquarters of the peoples party
committee in this city, advising the
populists throughout the country to
make Henry M. Teller their stand
ard bearer. Immediately after the
silver men walked out of the conven-
ton they appointed committee, of
which Charles H. Hartman of Mon
tana, Senator r. F. Pettigrew of
South Dakota, Senator F. J. Cannon
of Utah, and Senator Fred 7. Dubois
| of Idaho, were members, to confer
with similar committee of the pop
ulists. That evening at the Planters
hotel they met II. E. Tauberneck of
Illinois, chairman, DIR. Howard S.
Taylor OF Chicago, and Thomas M.
Patterson of Denver, of the national
populist committee, and as q result
of that and subsequent conferences
the address was issued.
WILL WORK TOGETHER.
Chairman Tauberneck in an inter
view said tonight:
"The seeding silver men of the
republican party and the populists
have, as result of our conferences,
come to a perfect agreement as to the
future, and hence forth we will work
along the same lines"
He predicted victory for ticket
with Teller as it's leader. The ad-
dress, in part, is as follows
Expressly disclaiming any pur-
pose or right to bind any party or
person by the views here set forth,
we but yield to an overpewering
sense Of duty in saying what we do
to the members of the peoples party
and to all other good citizens who,
| apprehending the approach of mon
strous crisis in our country's life, are
willing to avert it by acts of exalted
| patriotism.
"We came to st. Louis as citizens,
members of the peoples party, to be
present at the meeting of the ma
tional republican convention that we
might determine more definitely for
ourselves the true aim of that organ
ization in the present struggle. We
have seen the boss in politics more
securely enthroned, more servilely
| obeyed and more dictatorial as to
candidates and policy than has ever
been witnessed in the field of ma
tional politics.
Zone man, the perfection of his
| type, representing the millionaires,
the. banks, the corporations, the
trusts, and every other remorseless
and plutocratic element in our coun-
try's life, has, through the power of
money, dictated the nomination of
Mckinley and shaped the platform
of his party.
SLAVES OF MONEY POWER.
"This convention, slavishly re-
spending to the will of the money
| power, has forced an issue which
must be met. 1t is a challenge to
the yeomen of the land. If it is de-
clined, or If it shall succeed, the fet-
tiers of tyranny more grinding than
that of czars and emperors will be
rivited on the plain people of the
country, letters which must be indef-
nitely worn with the contemplate
spirit inseparable from willing serfs,
or in the end be broken with the ir-
resistible power of mighty revolu-
ton.
'That issue is formulated in the
demands. that, that the existing gold
standard must be preserved and for
the enactment of all measures de-
signed to maintain inviolably the OBJ
legations Of the United States and all
other money, either coin or paper, at
the present standard.
This means that silver shall he
F.. permanently degraded into mere
y money OF change, and that it is de-
prived of its legal tender quality ex.
cept 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 earn.
lngs OF industry and to grip the
throat Of all industrial and CONNER
cial life, while from time to time it
terrorizes the voters into choice OF
its tools for all legislative, judicial