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listing among intelligent and obseryant
people. Political division alone creates
an obstacle to unity of purpose and har-
nlony of action between them. The duty
of every patriot is to remove this OBJ
stacle so far as it can be by honorable
confessions and reasonable sacrifices.
These do not contemplate even the
thought of merging our party into any
other. or the slightest Impairment of its
efficiency; but, alone for the sake OF
humanity, and TO avert, II possible, the
disasters which the supremacy of the
money power now SO menacingly for
BODIES, to secure the union of good citi-
zens who think alike upon the impor-
tant issues of financial reform, in be-
half of the election of a President,
who, in spirit, is antagonistic TO one OF
the fundamental principles of our party.
has openly engaged in the most sturdy
avocation Of our chiefest measures.
Measures must be gained or de-
feated through men. After all, the
chief problem in this crisis is to find a
man upon whom patriots can unite.
whose life is witness that if intrusted
with authority over nauonal legislation
and its enforcement he will defy every
ailurement of wealth and every menace
of power, standing unfiinchingly by the
cause of the people in the fierce strug-
gle inseparably connected with the en-
actment of our proposed financial re-
forms
we see In the private and official life
of Henry Nj. Teller a beacon burning
brightly, warning the people off the
threatening shores of dissenson. He
has but now publicly abandoned the
Republican party, with which he has
been associated since its first organiza-
ton, entering it when led by conscience
TO strive for the overthrow of human
bondage, and leaving it when Lincoln's
teachings and humanity were swaI-
lowed up in the greed and cruelty of
the money kings. For twenty years he
has been commanding figure in the
nations life, a Cabinet officer and SEN
ator of the United States. Nominally a
republican, he has many times openly
def1ed his party when it's members
sought to make it an instrument of in
justice and oppression.
For twenty years he has stood has a
bulwark against the tyrannical en-
cfoachments of the national banks He
has never hesitated to declare that
they should be deprived of all author
ity to issue money and to control its
volume. He is an unflinching advocate
of the duty of the Government to main
tain and exercise exclusively for the
people the sovereign power of emitting
all money-gold, silver and paper. He
holds that to issue bonds in time of
peace is a stupendous wrong to the
people and the country.
When to this official record are
united an unsullied private life, a char
aoter without blot or stain, a grateful
ana generous nature, a patriotism that
knows neither State nor section, we feel
we are but performing a duty to our
beloved country in thus calling atten-
tlon to Mr. Teller's merits and avaiIa-
bllIy as a candidate for President; as
one upon whom all Populists may con-
slstently unite, while they strenuously
preserve and strengthen their organiza-
ton.
The necessity and wisdom of a dis
passionate consideration of his claims
upon the support of the American peo-
pie have become the more apparent
since the patriotic Republican leaders
who abandoned their party under his
inspiration have announced him as
their nominee for President of the
United States
we beg our fellow Populists to calm
~ consider the suggestions we have
made. 1t is our fervent hope that the
PATRIOTISM OF our motives will, in their
judgment, justify the course of com
munlcatlon we have taken. Let us so
act that, II in the wisdom of an in
scrutable Providence the union which
We may tender and of which our suffer-
ing country stands in such trying need.
may not be effected, we can at least de-
clare in the presence of God and our
country we did our duty as patriots.
ana the fault of failure does not lie AFT
our door"
(Signed), H. E. Taubeneck. Illinois.
j. II. Davis, Texas: NJ. C. Rankin. In.
diana; T. NJ. Patterson, Colorado. n
Hugh Mcdowell, Tennessee; John p
STEELE, Illinois; Thomas Fletcher Ar
kansas; Howard S. Taylor, Illinois. Ho-
mer Prince, Arkansas; J. w. Dollison
Arkansas; M. r. Coffman, Arkansas. T
A. Edgarton, Nebraska; r. A. Sankev.
Kansas; Charles e. Palmer, Illinois: F..
D. Eager, Nebraskas j. d. Hess. IL
linols; A. l.. Maxwell, Illinois; George
M- jackson, Arkansas; S. j. Wright
IeXas; ). Z. V. Arnold, Illinois; Eugene
smith, Illinois; w. J. Quick, Missouri.
Gavin X. Reifsnider, Missouri; Frank
Il. R1chey. Missouri; W. J. Platt. Ten
nessee; Horace c. Clark. Colorado.