Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-24
BATTLE CRY OF THE ST. LOUIS
CONVENTION BOLTERS,
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE,
Ehe Country Appealed To to Indorse
Their ActIOn-BImetalIIsm m Declared
the Great Political Panacea and
the Colorado Senator Landed
as It's Best Champion
Fusion Proposed.

Sr. Louis, Mo-, June 2O-United
states Senators Fred Il Dubois of
Idaho, X. +. Pettigrew of South Da-
kota, Frank j. Cannon of Utah, Con-
gresham Charles II. Hartman of
Montana and Ben E. Rich, Clarence E.
Allen, A. 5. Robertson, A. G. Cleve-
land, Willis Sweet, Amasa B. Camp
bell, Archie NJ. Stevenson, Enoch
Strother, James NJ. Downing, Charles
H. Brickenstein, Thomas Kearns, c. j.
Hart, Littleton Price, Jacob j. Elliott,
y. j. Salisbury, j. b. Overton, Frank
c. Goudy, John L. Vivian, J. w. Rookie
fellow, Robert w. Boynge, John M.
Williams and l.. NJ. Earl, the free sill
yer delegates who walked out of the
national convention, signed this morn
ing a declaration of independence
which set forth their principles and
recommended that all parties and
organizations opposed to the gold
standard unite in supporting Senator
Teller for President. A strong effort
is being made to get delegates from
silver states who did not Withdrew
from the convention to sign this
declaration.
been consulted from the far West that
there will not be successful Rennb-
hcan elector in the West outside of
Iowa and possibly Minnesota. They
further believe that there will not De
a Republican elected South of the
Potomac and the Ohio rivers mem
Der OF the Montana delegation suO-
gested that the Sbattle ground would
be in illinois and Indiana, and that
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota,
Michigan, West Virginia, MARYLAND,
Delaware, New Jersey and Connecti-
cut were doubtful states and the Re-
publican party would have to carry
all of them in order TO succeed
GENERAL FUSION FIGURED ON.
There have been conferences with
leading representatives of the Popu
lists and of the Bimetallic league to
induce them to work for the indorse-
ment of Teller, and have such a strong
fusion against the gold standard as to
induce the Democratic national con-
vention also to indorse Teller as the
fusion candidate for President Thev
also conferred with Ex-Governor Fran
els of Missouri and Democratic free
silver advocates, and were invited to
send representatives to the Demo-
cratic national convention at Chicago
next month to confer with the party.
The silver men say that Senator
Teller is the man in their opinion on
whom all the anti-gold men could
unite, but that they are willing to CO.
operate wherever they can consist
emily do so to defeat the gold stand
ard, and they are not seeking to press
Senator Teller so much as they are to
from hn Df h.
gold men.
They have issued the following ad-
dress:
PLEA TO THE PEOPLE
"To the People of the United States:
Obeying the call of duty and justified
by the common citizenship of this re-
public, we address this commuuica-
tIon to the people and the forthcom-
ing conventions of the United States.
In doing SO we claim no authority or
right other than that which belongs
to every man to express personal con-
victions; but we respectfully solicit
the cooperation of all who believe
that the time has come for return
to the simpler and more direct method
of naming men for national service
than has obtained in recent years
necessary, because without it the indi-
vidual voter is dumb, but the party is
only the means, not the end. 1t is the
voice and not the sense. AS the world
advances in this wonderful epoch of
intellectual development and physical
improvement, there is constant re-
quirement for better things. The in
dividual feels that requirement and
heeds it, or fails in llfe's endeavors.
Parties must also obey the same law.
1t follows, therefore, that the moment
party shall choose to stand still or
retrogress, it is also inefficient to
achieve the end to which the people
are necessarily destined. There is no
sanctity in mere party name, and the
mark of decay is set on individual
strength in nation when the absolute
rule of political organization coerces
men from the truth for the sake of ex-
pediency and establishes insincere
submission to partisan rule for the
sake of power.
INDEPENDENTS IN POLITICS.
Recognizing the value and the
splendid achievements of political par
ties in this country, as elsewhere, we
are yet constrained to believe that for
more than twenty years no one of
them has been entirely sufficient for
the needs of the people. The great
trend to better things resting in the
heart and purpose of all men, has
been stayed during the latter part of
this generation by the failure of par
ties to express in their achievements
the highest hope and aspiration of the
mass of the people who constitute the
parties And there has been growing
In this country with each
recurrence of national election "A
great mass of independent thinkers
and voters, which falling within itself
to control, has gravitated between the
two great parties Since 1879 Except
ing possibly the election of 1870. the
pendulum has swung from side to side
with each four years In 1872 the Re-
publican party elected the President;
In 1876 the Democracy claimed the
election; In 1880 the Republican party
elected; in 1884 the Democrats elected;
in 1883 the Republicans elected; in 1892
the Damnarnts elaoted: in 1894 fnntn