The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-06-25
POPS ARE FOR TELLER
SILVER MEN AND POPULIsTs ARE
ASKED TO WORK TOGETHER.
BtmetaIlists of All Parties support
ing Different Candidates for
President Means Defeat.

ST. Louis, June 20.--As the result of
series of conferences between the COM
mittees appointed by the seeding silver
men and committee composed of prom
inent populists an address was issued
tonight from the headquarters of ;he
peoples party committee In this city
advising the populists throughout the
country to make Henry M. Teller their
| standard bearer. Immediately after the
silver men walked out of the convention
| they appointed committee. of which
Charles II. Hartman of Montana, Sen
ator r. f. Pettigrew of South Dakota.
Senator +. j. Cannon of Utah and Sena-
tor Fred T. Dubois of Idaho. were MEM
bers, to confer with n similar committee
of the populists. That evening at the
Planters hotel they met II. E. Taube-
neck of Illinois. chairman, DR.. Howard
| S. Taylor of Chicago and Thomas M.
Patterson of Denver. of the national pop
| ulist committee and as 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 ticket with
Teller as it's leader. The address, In
part, is as follows:
Expressly disclaiming 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. apprehending the approach
of monstrous crisis in our country's
life. are willing to avert 1t by acts OF
exalted patriotism
I'VE came to st. Louis as citizens
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 ain
Of that organization In the present strug
gle. We have seen the boss In polite,
more securely enthroned. mors servllel,
obeyed and more dictatorial as to can
didates and policy than has ever beer
, witnessed in the field of national poll
tics.
zone man, the perfection of his type
representing the milionaires, the banks
the corporations. the trusts and ever
other remorseless and plutocratic ee
ment in our country's life, has. throug
0 the power of money dictated the nomina
S ton OF Mckinley and shaped the plat
y form of his party.
= slaves of Money Power.
= This convention slavishly respondln
e to the will of the money power ha
= forced an issue which must be met.
e is a challenge to the yeoman of the lant
If It is declined or If 1t shall succeed, tn
= letters of tyranny more grinding tina
Y that of the czars and emperors will b
e riveted on the plain people of the cour
try, fetters which must be indefnitel
r. worn with the contemplate spirit inseI
arabic from willing serfs or in the en-
n be broken with the irresistible power
= mighty revolution.
s "That issue Is formulated in the Il,
# mands that, that the existing gol
10 standard must be preserved and for til
n enactment of ell measures designed
: maintain inviolably the obligations
the United States ana all our mon
either ccin or paper, at the pressr
=, standard
=, "This means that silver shall be pc
a manently degraded into mere money
n change, and that 1t be deprived of i
- legal tender quality except for some pa
al Try sum.
n THAT the national banks shall |
swollen into a power of triple their pre-
70 cnt ability to contract the volume
money to absorb the earnings of il
n dustry and to grip the throat of all Il
< dustral and commercial life, whi
- from time to time It terrorzes the vo
I, crs into a choice of its tools for all le
:, islative. judicial and administrative D
sitions.
,c The Issue WINS Forced.
'"The money power has forced tn
tc issue now because in its Judgment, tho
whom its policy would ensave are
vided into hostile political families whi
d. can not be united in time to resist
Al onset. 1t regards 1t as impossible tn
u harmonious action can be secured h
- tween different organizations that fav
ia money reform and resistance to its
A. satiate greed With the populists, $
IL yer democrats and Independent blmeti
NJ. lists supporting different nominees {
* president and the national congress
= feels assured of victory and has detC
re mined to press without abatement t
advantage which lHiS apparently ldmei
able condition raises up before us.
.e- I'm these. the most threatening cris
IN that have menaced the country since t
nj civil war. though simply citizen me
's' bers OF the peoples party, we venture
l,,,e make momentous suggestions to y
Ia. our brethren. In doing this we ha
us neither desire nor thought to impair
a. the least degree the efficiency of our
lie BILE organization. charged as 1t is W
IN the liberties of the present and the f
II. ure generations and whose integrity a
in- growth is essential to the perpetual
"a OF our free institutions. Our consti
,s aim will be to defend it from foes wi
"a; in and to preserve IL as a power con
W Grated forever to the defense of
al manitys dearest rights upon the Am
ican continent.
- "In view OF the shameless S
' mission by the republican convent
to the most extreme demands ever mi
IN upon Americans by the money power.
ever thought Of our manhood sho
10 from this hour tend toward creating
cementing a union between those v
would resist the conspiracy OF wholes
Fhe robbery and grinding oppression.
and Measures must be gained or defes
ing through men. After all, the chief pr