The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-06-26
A POPULIST CHOICE
The Party Advised to Support
Teller for President.
ADDRESS THE COUNTRY.
Committees Have Issued a
Lengthy Manifesto.
ADDRESS THE COUNTRY.


sued from the headquarters of the peoples
party national committee in st. Louis,
advising populists throughout the country
to make Henry M. Teller, Of Colorado,
their mali ,nal standard-bearer.
immediately after the silver men
walked out of the convention, they APP
pointed committee, Of which Charles
HI. Hartman, of Montana; Senator r. f.
Pettigyew, Of South Dakota; Senator
Cannon, of Utah, and Senator Fred T.
Dubois, of Idaho, were members, to con-
fer with committee Of populists. That
evening, at the Planters hotel, they met
Fl. F. Taubeneck, of Illinois: Howard s.
Taylor, of Chicago, and 7, M. Patterson,
OF Denver, OF the national popdlist COM
mittee, and as result of that and subse-
quent conferences, the address was
issued
Chairman Taubeneck, in an interview,
said tonight:
"The seeding silver men OF the repuo.
lican party and the populists have, as
the result of our conference, come to
perfect agreement as to the future, and
we will work along the same lines"
He predicted victory for ticket with
Teller as its leader. The address, in
part, is as follows:
Expressly disclaiming any purpose or
right to bind any party or person by it's
views here set forth, We but yield to an
overpowering sense OF duty, in saying
what we do to the members Of the
peoples party, and to all other good citi-
zens, who, apprehending the approach OF
a momentous crisis in our country's life,
are willing to avert it by acts of exalted
patriotism.
1--WE came to st. Louis as citizens,
members of the peoples party, TO be
present at the meeting of the national
republican convention, that we might de-
termine more definitely for ourselves the
true aim of that organization in the pres
ent struggle. We have seen the boss
in politics more securely enthroned, more
servilely obeyed and more dictatorial as
to candidates and policy than has ever
been witnessed in the field OF national
politics.
Zone man, the perfection OF his type,
representing the millionaires, the banks,
the corporations, the trusts and every
other remorseless and plutocratic element
In our country's life, has, through the
power of money, dictated the nomination
Of Mr.. Mckinley, and has shaped the
platform of his party.
"Tnis convention, slRvishly responding
to the will OF the money power, has
forced an issue which must be met. 1t
10 challenge to the yeomen of the land
II it shall succeed, the letters of a tyranny
more grinding than that Of the czars and
emperors, will be rlveued upon the plain
people OF the country, fetters which must
be indefinitely worn with the contempt
ible spirit inseparaDle from willing serfs,
or in the end be broken with the ire
sistible power OF mighty revolution.
THAT issue is formulated in the de-
mand that the existing gold standard
must be preserved and for the enact
ment of 'all measures designated to main
tain, inviolably the obligations of the
United States and all our money-either
coin or paper-at the present standard :
"This means that silver shall be per-
manently degraded into mere money of
change, and that 1t be deprived of its
legal-tender quality, except for some
paltry sum that the national banks shall
be swollen into power of triple their
present ability to contract the volume OF
money, TO absorb the earnings of indus
try, and to grip the throat of all industrial
and commercial life, while from time to
time it terrorizes the voters into choice of
its ools for ali legislative, judicial and
administrative positions.
"The money power has forced this is
sue now, because, in its judgment, those
those whom its policy would ensave are
divided into hostile political families,
which caunot be united in time TO resist
its onset. IT regards it as impossible
that harmonious action can be secured
between the different organizations that
favor money reform and resistance to its
insatiate greed. With populiste, silver
democrats and independent bimetalliets
supporting different nominees for presi
dent and the national congress, it feels
assured of victory, and it has determined
to press, without abatement, the advant-
age which this apparently lamentable
condition raises up before you.
''In this, the most threatening crisis
that has mensced the country since the
civil war, though simply citizen members
OF the peoples party, We venture to
make momentous suggestions to you, our
brethren. In doing this we have neither
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degree, the efficiency Of our noble organ
ization, charged as it is with the liberties
of prefent and future generations, and
whose integrity and growth is essential
to the perpetuation Of our free institu-
| tiona. Our constant aim viii be to defend
it from foes within and without, and to
preserve it as power consecrsted forever
TO the defense of humanity's dearest
rights upon the American continent.
tIn view Of this submisson by the re-
| publican convention Of the most extreme
demands ever made upon Americans by
the money power, every thought OF
American manhood, should from this
hour, tend toward creating and cementing
q union between those who would resist
the conspiracy Of wholesale robbery and
| grinding oppression.
Measures must be gained or defeated
through men. After ell, the chief prob
| lem in this crisis is to find a man upon
| whom patriots can unite, whose life is q
witness that. if entrusted with authority
over national action and its enforcement