The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-21
POPULISTS OUT IN A PLEA.
REFORMERS URGED TO UNITE FOR
TELLER AND SILVER.


Victory Would Mean slavery for
the Masses, According to the Pop
ulistic Idea.
st. Louis. No. June 20.-The result OF
the populist conference here was made
public this afternoon. 1t is a circular ad-
dressed particularly TO populists. and
generally to voters OF every party. The
document is signed by twenty-six leading
poDulists from six western and southern
states.
Il says: Expressly disclaimlng 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
by saying what we do 10 members Of the
people party and to all other good ciu-
zens, who. apprehending the approach OF
a momentous crisis in our country's life,
are willing to avert 1t by acts of exalted
patriotism.
I'VE came to st. Louis as citizens, mem-
bers OF the peoples party to be present
at the meetings OF the republican national
convention. that we might determine more
definitely for ourselves the true aim of
that organization in the present struggle.
Here. we have seen the boss in poli-
tics, more securely enthroned, more SER
vilely Obeyed and more dictatorial as TO
candidates and policy than has ever be-
fore 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 rcmorseless and plutOcratic
element in our country's life, has through
the power of money dictated the nominal
ton of Mr. Mckinley and shaped the plat
form Of his party We have witnessed
convention, magnificent in numbers. pre-
tending TO represent free American con-
stituencies, moving for three days as AZ a
hand of terror was above them, whose
might they dare not tempt and whose inn
perious pointings 1t was impossible to dis
obey
"rhis convention, slavishly responding
to the will Of the money power, has forced
an issue which must be met. 1t is a chal-
lenge to the yoOmen of the land. If it is
declined, or II IL shall succeed, the fetters
OF tyranny more grinding than that of
czars or emperors, Will be driven upon
which must be indefinitely worn with the
contemplate spirit inseparable from will
ing serts or, IN the end, be broken with
tion.
"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 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 pal
try sum.
That the greenback and all other
forms Of government paper money shall
be redeemed and destroyed.
THAT the national banks shall be swol-
len into power Of triple their. present
ability to contract the volume OF money,
to absorb the earnings of industry and TO
grip the throat of all Industrial and COM
mercial life, while from time to time It
fnTTnTiZRa phntna
tools for all legislative, judicial and ad-
ministratiVe positions
1T win require that all OF our present
national bonded debt be refunded and new
bonds be issued running for half century
and made expressly payable In the pres
ent standard" of money-gOld.
"All other forms Of debt, private, corpo-
rate, state and municipal, will ultimately
be made payable in the same yellow mon
ey, or Its equivalent.
with these measures, elected, the gold
plutOcracy triumphant-tne condition of
the people will be no better than was that
Of the recently emancipated black slaves /
Their right will be to 80 to the end Of the
chain that binds them-a freedom Of ire
movable debt Of grinding poverty of
black and cheerless future.
THE money power has forced this issue
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 It's onset.
1T regards il as impossible that harmo-
NOUS action can be secured between the
tary reform ana resistance to their insa-
tiate greed. With pOpulists silver dem
ocrats and Independent bi-metallists, sup
porting different nominees for President, /
and the national congress, ii feels as
sured Of victory, and it has determined
to press now, and without abatement, the
advantage which this apparently lament
able condition raises up before it,
In this the most threatening crisis
that has menaced 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 desire nor thought to impair in
the least degree the efficiency of our
noble organization, charged as 1t is with
the liberties Of the present and future
generations, and whose integrity and
growth is ESSENTIAL TO the perpetuation
of our free institutions. Our constant
aim will be to defend 1t and to preserve
II as a power consecrated forever to the
defense Of humanity's dearest rights
upon the American continent.
"In view of the shameless submission
by the republican convention to The
most extreme demands ever made upon
Americans by the money power, every
thought and effort Of American manhood !
should, from this hour. tend towards
creating and cementing union between |
those who would resist the conspiracy
Of wholesale robbery and grinding on
preston. coincidence of feaR of hope
of conviction already exists among intel !
ligent observant people. Political division |
alone creates an obstacle to unity
Of purpose and harmony Of action between |
them. The duty of every patriot is to |
remove this obstacle 50 far as IL can
be by honorable concessions and reasona-
BILE sacrifices. These do not contemplate
even the thought of merging our party
into any other or the slightest tnpafr- /
ment Of it's efficiency; but alone. for the |
sake Of humanity, and TO avert. If possi- |
BILE, the disasters which the supremacy
Of the money power now so menacinglv |
forebodes, to secure the union of good |
citizens who think alike upon the I'm
portant issues of financial reform In be- |
half of the election Of a President who. in |
spirit, Is antagonistic to none Of the
fundamental principles Of our party and |
has openly engaged in the most sturdy |
advocacy of our chiefest measures.
Measures must be gained or defeat |
ed through men, After all. the chief /
problem in this crisis is to find a man /
upon whom patriots can unite, whose life /
Is witness that II entrusted with author |
ity over national legislation and its en- |
forcement, he viii defy every allurenent /
Of wealth and every menace of power /
standing unhinchingly by the cause OF /
the people in the fiercest struggle in /
separably connected with the enactment |
Of our proposed financial reforms"
The address then names Henry NJ Tel |
Ter as the man Of the occasion and de- l
votes a number of para graphs to describ- |