The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-07

CHICAGO, July 6.-The Populist
leaders today issued the following man
ifesto in behalf of Senator Teller.
Chicago, July 6.-Upon the eve of &C
ton by the Democratic national con-
vention about to assemble at the city
of Chicago, we find the situation such
that we deem it proper to address all
friends of free silver coinage and finan-
cial reform in the United States. AS
members of the peoples party, we have
occupied the position merely of careful
observation, and we have not attempt
ed to, nor shall we attempt to, dictate
to the Democratic national convention
but as large numbers Of persons, many
of them delegates to that convention,
are assuming to
EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS
that the peoples party and other adj
voca.es of free silver coinage should
accept the nominees of the Democratic
convention and join to elect tine same
upon Democratic platform we desire
to express our views upon this subject,
not as binding upon the peoples party
but as expressive of what we believe
to be its sentiment.
Four years ago at Omaha, the peo-
PIE party, aiming OllttI TelOIllS, ue-
manded the free and unlimited coinage
OF silver at 16 to 1. full legal tender
for all debts Independently of any other
nation. We were then told by the
Democratic and Republican parties
that his was an economic error. The
peoples party thus became and has
remained the logical united party for
free silver. The Republican party has
persisted in its
POLICY FOR A GOLD STANDARD
thereby alternating a large portion Of
its former adherents. The Democratic
party is divided, with a majority of it's
delegates favoring the Populist doc
trine as to free silver coinage, while a
powerful minority, representing graf
Democratic states, absolutely refuse to
consent to such a policy and its pres
ent administration with all it's pat
ronage, is in rabid hostility to the
cause Of free silver and will exert it's
vast power to defeat free silver can
didate.
The Democratic party. therefore,
meets in national convention under
most extraordinary circumstances. It
cannot a. this time be surprised to
find that a vast number of the people
look with distrust upon a mere plat
form profession. The cause of free
silver coinage is the peoples cause. 1t
requires, for success
AGAINST THE MIGHTY POWERS
opposing it the votes of millions of
men who have not acted with the Dem
ocratic party. How, then, can that
party, at a time when it is, by hope
less division, more weak and impo-
tent than ever before, undertake this
gigantic task in the narrow spirit of
straight party action?
If it expects the cooperation of mil
lions who are outside of it's ranks, it
is bound to prove by it's acts now and
here that 1t is sincere and that it
places the success Of this cause above
the narrow plane of a mere partisan
effort.
If the Democratic party expects to
overcome the distrust which the pres
ent administration has earned fer it,
now is the time to prove its sincerity.
There is a candidate upon whom the
vote of al. friends Of free silver can
be united, if all those who have
THE CAUSE AT HEART
will yield something of their extreme
partisanship and place the cause first,
and complete party success second. He
is candidate who, having given more
than twenty years to a. devoted strug-
form, has shown that he can put his
devotion to his principles above all
party ties or party success. He stepped
out of his party when it declared for
the single gold standard, and, standing
as he does, untrammelled by party
affiliations, and devoted to the cause
which the Democratic party now, by
a majority declares the supreme ques-
ton of the hour, he above all men be-
1Oc n cJ,.La
all who love this cause can unite He
is able, competent tried, true, ear
nest, reliable and can be triumphantly
eIec.ed.
To nominate a straight Democrat in
a divided party when millions of hon
est citizens stand ready to support a.
candidate, is a mere reck-
less experiment-not only an act of
supreme folly in this hour, but a de-
fiance to all prudence, and cannot but
be construed as meaning that the
Democratic party desires to conjure
with the magic of an occasion and
prefers defeat for the cause, in
A SPIRIT OF NARROW PARTISAN
SHIP,
TO success by a rational act of union
upon a candidate who can certainly
succeed.
Tie Peoples party has other prin-
ciples, and it has within the states
which are surely for silver following
as great as that of the Democratic +,
party, when its vote in the gold states
is eliminated. We feel confident that
the Peoples party is willing to open
the path to union upon Hon. Henry
M. Teller, and if this rational patriotic
opportunity for success be rejected by
hn 10 ~,
termination to seek complete partisan
success. regardless of an open path to
then we call the true friends
Of the cause to witness that RESPONSE
bility rests Oh those who reject this
and that it is conclusive
proof that we who championedl this
cause for years, who are united for it's
support, are its safe defenders and will
carry it to success.
Whatever may be our individual