The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-18
A GOOD ADDRESS.

To the Populists of Illinois:
The election OF 1896 has passed into
history. When we look on the face of
the returns, 1t is an apparant defeat;
but, in reality, it is victory.
In 1892, the Peoples Party effected
its first organization. Within four
months, we polled one million votes.
Two years later, we increased that
vote to nearly two million: and, 1895
finds US with more than six million,
true, honest unpurchaseable men in
line for our principles. Every vote
cast for Bryan was vote in favor OF
financial and other reforms demanded
by our platform. Almost without ex-
ceptiOn, that vote will, in the future,
be found standing firmly where it has
planted itself in this campaign-on
the battlements of integrity, fidelity
to the country, and true regard for
humanity. BY our earnest work and
efforts, these men have been led out
into the broad field OF true economics,
never to return to the barren rocks of
unseltishness and ignorance. 1t is
true, we are one million votes in the
minority; yet, In that, we see nothing
discouraging for the future. 1t re-
Quires the education Of but five hun
dred thousand voters to change the
minority into majority. Liberty is
not lost; the star Of our republic has
not gone down; the people will yet be
triumphant; labor will nave its due,
and all men will be free and equal in
fact as we'll as fiction. We have been
abused and reviled; paid falsifers
have .slandered Us; the power Of
money through subsidized press and
fD ra6 fSnv hos \
to check our onward march; yet, our
principles have flourished and grown
in the minds and hearts of the peo-
pie, and we certainly have nothing to
discourage us.
A large portion Of the Republican
vote was from an element, which, like
the Democrats four years ago, were
desirous Of giving the party one more
chance. They too are diSSa tSted, but
have within them hope. faint
though it be, that the "Grand Old
Party will do something to bring re-
lief, yet feeling, what we know to be
true, that Trusts and Combines have
that party in their power. Within
four years, thousands and hundreds
OF thousands Of Republicans like mil
lions of honest democrats who voted
Cleveland in 1892. will ask hemselves,
why did we vote for Mckinley? He is
an ideal represe entative Of the Trusts,
Combines and Money power. He owes
his election to them, and, cCnseQuent-
~, is compelled, to serve them as
Cleveland has done, and therefore
will disappoint the wealth producers,
who voted for him in 1896, as Grover
Cleveland did in 1892. The landslide
which carried him to the White.
House this year, will turn the Repub-
lican party out in 1898 and 1900.
There should, in the future, be per-
feet accord between the reform forces
that have cO-operated in this cam
paign. We earnestly recommend that
the work of education aud organiza-
tion be pushed forward during the
coming winter County and local
committees ought to see that papers
supporting our principles are literally
supported, and that reform literature
be distributed among the voters in
their respective localities. Lecture
bureaus should be established and
kept up at-once and speakers secured
from abroad il desired. We ask one
and all to begin the campaign of 1898,
and begin it now. Educate the voters,
and the next election is ours.
To the Reform Press, we desire to
say, that, while our people and our
Press have all been united as to the end
to be attained, yet, many Of us have
differed as to the means by which
that end should be accomplished We
have been unit in our demands and
our fealty to the organization. The
difference Of methods produced more
or less friction between our people
previous to the state and natioual
conventions. But we can congratu-
late ourselves that the minority
bowed to the will of the majority and
worked as sihc crely and honestly for
the election of our candidates as they
did in previous campaigns. Let us re-
member that the means is not SO
much an object as the end to be at
tained. The great work done by the
Reform Press during the past year
must not be permitted to be lost.
We therefore urge upon each editor,
not only in Illinois. but elsewhere, to
take up the fight now and continue
the education, SO that in 1900, which
is not far distant, as the life Of Ma
tlons 90, we may have sufficient
number of voters educated to carry
out the reforms our party SO earnestly
advocates.
II. E. Taubencck, chairman; Chas.
E. Palmer, secretary; Howard S. Tay-
lor. w. G. Blair. VIM. Bryant, Fl. E.
Bald win, S. P. V. Arnold.
Springfield, ILL.,, Nov. Z.
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