Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-01
THE POPULTSTS ISSUE A
MANIFESTO IN HIS
BEHALF.
Leaders Urge the Party to Support
Him for President Chairman H. E.
TaubeneCk Heads the List of Sign
erS Conferred with the St.
Louis Boilers.

tees appointed by the seeding silver
men of the recent republican national
convention, and committee composed
of prominent populists, an address was
issued Saturday night from the head
quarters of the peoples party national
committee in this city, advising popu-
lists throughout the country to make
Henry NJ Teller, of Colorado, their ma
t1onal standard bearer Immediately
after the silver men walked out of the
convention they appointed a commit
tee, of which Charles S. Hartman, of
Montana, Senator r. F. Pettigrew, of
South Dakota, Sena tor Fred T. Dubois,
of Idaho, were members. to confer with
similar committee of populists. That
evening at the Planters hotel they met
II. r. Taubneck, of Illinois, chairman:
DR.. Howard S. Taylor, of Chicago, and
Thomas NJ. Patterson. of Denver. of the
national populist committee, and a
result Of that and subsequent confer
ences, the address was issued.
Chairman Taubeneck ii an interview
said Saturday night:
THE seeding silver men of the re-
publican party, and the populists, have
as the result of our conferences, come
TO a perfect agreement az to the future,
and hencefoIth we viii work along the
same lines"
THE ADDRESS.
The address, in part, is as follows:
Expressly disclaiming any purpose
or right to bind any party. or person by
the views herein set forth, we but yield
to an oVerpowering sense of duty in
saying what we do to members of the
peoples party, and to all other good
citizens, who, apprehending the APP
proach of a momentous crisis in our
country's life. are willing to avert it by
acts of exalted patriotism.
I'VE came TO st. Louis as citizen
members of the peoples party, to be
present at the meeting of the national
republican convention, that we might
determine more definitely for ourselves
the true i'm of that orga nization in the
present struggle.
Here we have seen the boss in poll
tics more securely enthroned, more Sc
verely obeyed and more dictatorial as
to candidates and policy than has ever
been witnessed in the field of national
politics.
"One man, the perfection of his type,
representing the millionaires, 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 nomi-
nation of William Mckinley and shaped
the platform of his party.
GRINDING TYRANNY.
This convention, slavishly respond
ing to the Will of the money power, has
| forced an issue which must be met. 1t
| is challenge to the yoemen of the land,
If it is declared, or if it shall succeed,
the letters of a tyranny more grinding
| than that of the czars and emperors
will be riveted upon the plain people OF
this country, fehters which must be in
| definitely worn with the contemplate
spirit inseparable from willing serfs, or
in the end broken with the irresistible
power of mighty revolution.
THAT issue is formulated in the de-
mands that the existing gold standard
must be preserved and for the enact
ment of all measures designed to main
tain inviolably the obligations of the
United States and ali our money-either
coin or paper-at the present standard.
This means that silver shall be per-
manently degraded into mere money
of coinage and deprived of its legal ten
der quality except for some paltry sum,
and that the national banks shall be
swollen into power of triple their pres
ent ability to contract the volume of
money, to absorb the earnings of indus
try and to grip the throat of all indus
trial and commercial life while from
time to time it terrorizes the voters into
choosing it's tools for all legislative,
| judicial and administrative positions.
MONEY CAN BUY.
THE money power has forced this is
sue now, because in its judgment those
whom its policy would enslave are
divided into hostile political families
which cannot be united in time to resist
Its onset. 1t regards as impossible
that harmonious action can be secured
between the different organizations that
favor monetary reform and resistance
to their insatiate greed. With popu-
lists, silver democrats and independent
bfmetallist supporting different nomin-
ees for president and the national con-
greSs, 1t feels assured of victory and il
has determined to press now and with.
out abatement the advantage which
this apparently lamentable condition
raises up before it.
I'm this, the most threatening crise:
that has menaced the country since tn,
civil war, though Simple citizen mem
bers of the peoples party, we ventur,
to make these momentous suggestions
20 you, our brethren. In doing this
we have neither desire nor thought II
impair in the least degree the efficienc,
of our noble organization, charged as
is, with the liberties of present and flu
ture generations, and whose integrit,
and growth are essential to the perpetu
, alton of our free institutions. Our con
S>ant aim will be to defend 1t from foe
within and without and preserve it
power consecrated forever to the de
Tense of humanity's dearest rights upo
the American continent
ALL SHOULD UNITE.
I'm view of the shameless submfssio
by the republican convention, to tn
most extreme demands ever made mo
Americans by the money power. eve,
thought and effort of American ma,
!, hood, should from this hour. tend I,
ward creating and cementine a un;r
between those who would resist the col
epiracy of wholesale robbery and grin,
ing oppression.
Measures must be gained or defeate
through men, After ell, the chief pro
lem IN this crisis is to find a man upc
whom patriots can u-ttc. whose life
witness that. entrusted with our n
tional legislation and its enforcement
s he will defy every allurement of veal
= and every menace of power, srand:r
: unf1inchingly by the cause of the peop