Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-14
A POPULIST TRIUMPH
The Peoples Party Claims One at
Chicago.
4 MANIFESTO ISSUED TODAY
Secretary Turner Says His Party Has
Captured Democracy.
MR.. BRYAN'S PRINCIPLES

]. H Turner, secretary of the national
committee Of the peoples party and one of
its most prominent officials, today issued
a manifesto advising the populists to rat
ify the nomination of Bryan at ST. Louis.
Mr.. Turner's headquarters are here. Up
to now he has taken no part In the polit.
cal fight His conversion to Bryan Will
have weight at St Louis. There now
seems little doubt that the populists will
indorse Bryan next week Mr. Turner
says:
THE result of the late national democratic
convention at Chicago is undoubtedly the
triumph of populism. A large portion
OF the voters in the popElist party in the
south and west were originally democrats
and left the old party because 1t was dom
mated In every national convention by the
eastern democrats, who represented Wall
street and the monopolis:s OF New York
and New England. 1t became quite ap-
parent to every thinking man that as long
as New York was allowed to make the
platform and name the candidate Of the
democratic party the great plain peo-
PIE would have no show. and that their
rights and wishes would always he ignored
Believing this the thinking men among the
rank and file determined to QUIT the old
party and organize a new party. Hence
the existence of the oopuIist rarty They
formulated their demands and declared II
to be true democracy. Within the las.
hVe years more than two thousand news
papers have sprung up. and the questions
or monetary reform and true democracy
have been agitated from one end of the
country TO the other by the popuIsts The
sentiment growing out of this became so
strong that 1t could be no longer resisted
and when the Chicago convention met 1t
was made manifest.
The PurEed Democracy.
The democratic PARTY at Chicago simplv
purged itself. reorganized itself and came
out for true democracy, and, to all intents
and purposes, substituted the populist plat
form for the old platforms that the party
has been using for years, and which were
dictated and foisted upon the people by the
gold bugs OF the east. Mr.. Bryan the
nominee OF that convention, is man who
fts the platform 1 have personally watch
ed his Course for number of years and
Know that his every Impulse has been
against the oppressors of the people and in
behalf of the great masses. For more than
two years he has acted with the populists
OF his own state, who have been satisfied
WIN @ ms principles and with his advocacy
OF them, AMI were willing to make him
Their representative Ia the United States
Senate. Every gold bug in the whole coun-
try has undoubtedly analyzed the situation; ;
and they also denounce the platform as
populist doctrine from beginning to end.
Captured the Party.
1T carnot be successfully denied that
to- principles advocated by the popuist
party have captured the democratic party,
and have driven out of its ranks that ee-
ment which has always been opposed to
true democracy. and which from the be-
ginning has been affiliated with the re-
publican party, its natural home. All pop
ulists IN these United States should rejoice
that their principles have taken such a
hold upon the American people that one Of
the great political parties of the nation has
been compelled TO adopt those principles
and nominate a ticket pledged to carry
them into execution. For what greater vic
tory could We ask? The time has come
when every man must give reason for the
faith that is In him. If the populists think
more of their principles than they do Of
mere party organization. they will be COM
PEELED to unite with the forces going in
the same direction, and thereby rescue our
country from all the dire caiamities which
We have predicted would befall 1t should
the gold standard be permanently fastened
upon us.
Of the peoples party for the last four
years. i have labored in season and out OF
season for the upbuilding of our party.
love the associations which / have formed
In its ranks; but, while these are dear to
me. the principles Of the populist party are
much dearer. l feel that would be one Of
the worst enemies of the people party and
of its principles should not take the step
at this time that / believe Will culminate
in the complete triumph Of every demand
made by the party. We have advocated a
union of the south and west in order that
We might bring about the necessary finan-
cal reforms. Now we have a chance of
bringing all our hopes and desires to a
grand consummation. 1t is evident that II
he rtlfa do rnN q utt, fs,,,
and unite with the true democrats of this
country In the election of Mr.. Bryan, and
should put another ticket in the field
the election of Mckinley would be assured
trtotism enough in our ranks to see the
point and avoid the danger and calamities
that await US II we are instrumental in the
election of William Mckinley and the per-
nanent establishment of the single gold
standard In this country? Shall we have
1t said that the popul-sts Of this country
of Mckinley? Shall the future pages of
history record the fact that the men In the
pcpulist party. who had advocated none
tary reforms and other reforms. were the
almost sole cause of the triumph Of plu-
tCcracy in the election Of Mr.. Mckinley?
Bryan or Mckinley.
The truth Of 1t Is that the only point the
populists now have to decide Is whether or
not they will take Mr.. Bryan. whom every
gold bug in the country has denounced as
populist, for our next President Of the
United States, or whether they will take
Mr.. Mckinley. who represents everything
that the populists have denounced and just
the opposite Of everything that they have
advocated since they have been q party
Locking at 1t from this standpoint and
feeling that In the election of Mr. Bryan
popultsm has triumphed: and when I say
popultm mean the great common people
Of the United States. the masses, have tri-
rmphed against the classes; and should
Mr.. Mckinley be elected the classes have
triuDphed, the English gold standard has
been permanently fastened upon the lines
OF industry in this country. and there will
be nothing left for us but serfdom that will
undoubtedly bring a bloody revolution
In the near future. With these facts be-
fore me. there is but one course left, and
that Is to support William ]. Bryan for
President of the United States; and l be-
neve that when the rank and file Of the
peoples party come to look at II as I do
they will Join me in this determination.
lSigneO ~. H. TURNER,
Sec. National Com, P. Pr
One Pardon Granted.
W.