The Butler weekly times., 1896-10-22
W|THORAWS.
The Populist Candidate for
Governor Puts Patriotism
Above Party.
SIpntiens Endorsed and Gold
Bugs Denounced.


Missouri: The following consldera-
tions have determined me to file my
official resiguatioa as the candidate
of our party for Governor of this
State:
THIS las been, and each develop
ment stamps 1t as it proceeds, re
mar kabe campaign. As MIR Bry
an has said. every body and
everything are against Us but
the people. The banks. the rail
roads, life and fire insurance com
papies, the trusts and combines. and
at last the higher paid clergy com
menced to add their opposition. The
issue is world wide; it involves more
than the questions OF bimetaliism
and the free coinage Of silver. As
the campaign progresses, it becomes
clear that the Peoples party is the
only one that has grasped the issue
in all its vast importance. The Re
publican party demands 1.-The exist
ing geld standard being maintained. I"
The gold standard is not an end; it
is only a means or system to &C
complish an end That end and pur-
pose is to make the legal tender
mouey of the country sffiicted by it
so scarce and dear the people can
only purchase sufficient of it by their
labor "nd its products to pay the an
nual interest and taxes and entail
the ;rincipal of debts, public and
private. [. ia no use to deny the
fac!; it is contest between the
usur,.pra"ticing and income taking
classes, the world over, against the
producing classes-the masses OF the
peop'e.
A new political alignment is COM
ing; must come on this issue. By
the action of the Peoples party
STATE Convention a union On State
Electors was secured that has taken
US cut of the column of doubtful
States. We should remember, toe,
that the Republican State Conven-
ton of this State was the first and
almost solitary Western one that de-
clared absolntely for the gold stand
ard prior to the National Conven
tion. And that it was the Missouri
State Democratic Convention, a:
Peltle Springs, that took the initia
tive and lead OF all the States in the
party in declaring for positive and
Effective opposition Since union on
electors makes the success of the
gold standard impossible Oh nation
al issues, the united gold standard
influence in our State is now used to
capture our State government This
grows more and more apparent each
day as the campaign comes to q
close The division of forces that
imperiled the state on national issues
remaining gives some hope for that
result
1t has come to pass that the Bryan
Democracy is the only ally of the
Peoples party and vice versa; it de-
velops day by day that the forces of
the gold standard are united where
any measure. state or national, can
be subserved by their union. For
twenty years they have had no part;
san politics that affects them above
the pocket, and now it is anything to
defeat us and our only ally. It is
true that thus far the Democracy as
a party, neither national nor state,
has been q chivalric or generous one.
1t las been our foresight. patriotism
and generosity, national and state,
az must now be conceded, that
makes the election Of Mr. Bryan
possible and We believe probable
In this state we made the offer for
union on electors. that. although re
jected at first, was finally on better
council accepted. We have also
stood ready for honorable recogni
ton and union as an ally on the
state ticket But our offers have
been neglected,
1t is but just to say that this is
not. IN my OPINION. the sense OF the
wisest and best, nor Of maiorit, of
the party. But for this campaign
the littleness OF party prejudice and
greed for place will shape the party
policy. As often happens, the result
Of such policy endangers the success
OF a great cause. It makes possible
the result of putting our state gov
ernment, with all vast power, in the
hands and under the influence of one
of the most ungenerous. unscrupu
lous and ultra gold standard organi
cations and parties in the United
States The possibilities of this has
caused appeals to come to me from
good, conscientious Populists and
Democrats to do all in my power to
avert it. 1t has pressed on my mind
with increasing force. If the prime,
Piles of our platform are ever to be
accepted and enacted into law it will
not be with the consent OF the gold