Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-06-26
POPS ARE FOR TELLER
SILVER MEN AND POPULIsTs ARE
ASKED TO WORK TOGETHER.
Ing Different Candidates for
President Means Defeat.

advising the populsts throughout the
standard bearer. Immediately after the
silver men walked out of the convention
they appointed committee. of which
Charles II. Hartman of Montana, Sem
ator r. f. Pettigrew of South Dakota.
Senator +. ]. Cannon of Utah and Sena-
tor Fred 7. Dubois of Idaho, were mem
bers. to confer with a similar committee
Of the populists. That evening at the
Planters hotel they met H. Il. Taube-
neck Of Illinois. chairman. DIR. Howard
S. Taylor of Chicago and Thomas NJ
Patterson Of Denver of the national pop
ulist committee, ana as a result of that
and subsequent conferences the address
was issued.
VIII Work Together.
Chairman Taubeneck In an interview
said tonight:
THE seeding silver men of the repub.
lican party and the pouplists have. as
the results Of our conferences, come to
a perfect agreement as to the future, and
henceforth we will work along the same
lines"
He predicted victory for a ticket with
Teller as Its leader. The address, in
part. is as follows;
Expressly disclaimng 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 experimenting the approach
of monstrous crisis in our country's
life are willing to avert 1t by acts of
exalted patriotism
we came to ST. Louis as citizehs,
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.
One man, the perfection of his type,
representing the millonaires, the banks,
the corporations, the trusts and every
other remorseless and plutocratic ele-
ment in our countrys life. has, through
the power of money, dictated the nomlna-
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
II 1t is declined or IL 1t shall succeed the
letters of tyranny more grinding than
that OF the GEARS and emperors will he
rfveted 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 goiI
standard must be preserved. and for the
enactment of ell measures designed to
maintain inviolably tine obligations of
the United States and all our mon ".
either coin or paper at the present
standard.
This means that silver shall be per-
manenty degraded into mere money CT
change, and that 1t be deprived of its
legal tender quality except for some pal-
try sum.
That the national banks shall be
swollen into a power of triple their pres
ent ability to contract the volume of
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 1t terrorizes the yot-
ers into choice of its tools for all Leg
islative. judicial and administrative no
sitions.
The Issue Was Forced
Tine money power has forced this
issue now because, In its judgment those
whom its policy would enslave are III
vided into hostile political families which
can not be united in time to resist its
onset. 1t regards 1t as impossible that
harmonious action can be secured be-
tween different organizations that favor
money reform and resistance to its in
satiate greed. With the populists, sill
yer democrats and Independent bimetal-
lists supporting different nominees for
president and the national congress it
feels assured of victory and has deter
mined to press without abatement th..
advantage which this apparently lament
able condition raises up before us.
IN these, the most threatening crises
that have menaced the country since the
civil war though simply citizen men,
bers of the peoples party, venture 10
make momentous suggestions to you
our brethren. In doing this we have
| neither desire nor thought to impair in
the least degree the efficiency of our no.
BILE organization, charged as IL is with
the liberties of the present and the fut-
ure generations and whose integrity and
growth Is essential to the perpetuation
of our free institutions. Our constant
aim will be to defend 1t from foes with
in and to preserve 1t as a power conse-
Grated forever to the defense of hu-
manity's dearest rights upon the Amer
lean continent.
I'm view of the shameless SUBJ
mission by the republican convention
to the most extreme demands ever made
upon Americans by the money power, or
ever thought Of our manhood should
from this hour tend toward creating AMI
cementing union between those who
would resist the conspiracy of wholesale
| robbery and grinding oppression
Measures must be gained or defeated
through men. After all, the chief prob
lem In this crisis is to find a man upon
whom patriots can unite, whose life is
a witness that If entrusted with author-
ity over national legislation and its en-
| forcement he will defy every alurement
of wealth and every menace of power,
standing unflinchingly by the cause of
the people I'm the fierce strgugle insep-
arably connected with the enactment of
our proposed financial reforms.
Teller for President.
I'VE see in the private and official life
of Henry NJ Teller beacon, burning
brightly. warning the people off of