The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-03-13
ITS H PROGRAM.
50 THINKS A EN- o CRATIC
NEWSPAPER.
Says that Grover Cleveland and John
Sherman Will Support the Same Candi
date This Year-Next President Will
Be a Populist.
From the Chicago Opinion.)

National politics have been taking
such shape for the past few months
that the tariff question promises to be
largely eliminated from the coming
presidential campaign, through be-
ing SO completely overshadowed by
the financial issue e%mbodying the re-
monetization of silver at 16 to / and the
abolition of the national banks.
Many indications point to a general
smashing of party lines and the union
of men from all parties, who think alike
on the financial question, under a new
party banner. That the gold standard
leaders will control both the republic
an and democratic national conventions
does not permit of a doubt, and while
as usual by a straddle, those old meth
DDS will no longer be effective, and
when the lines are fairly drawn it is
not improbable that Grover Cleveland
and John Sherman will be found stand
ing upon the same platform and sup
porting Governor Morton of New York
for president, who is now reasonably
ou1O ~ 4CSCINO III 1OpuO11SoA
ton at the demand of Wall street, while
the democratic party is liable to be alb
sorbed in the extreme west and u
by the populist party. Since the meet
ing, Jan. %, at Washington, Of the sill
yer men matters have made rapid prog
ress toward the fusion of all h ele-
ments who believe in a genuine double
-Ilor5 orS nrnnco q cyyrron 6ar 0f this
country to English domination in our
financial management under the popu-
list banner. It was there decided to call
a national convention to meet June ~,
at the same time the populist party is to
onven to select a presidential candi-
date. when it is expected that confer
ence committees will arrange a plat
form and candidates that will easily
satisfy those two bodies and also all the
republicans and democrats, who will be
virtually driven out of their respective
national conventions, which will al
ready have made nominations and
adopted a gold platform in the face Of
strong and bitter opposition. All west
ern republicans and democrats also
southern democrats, who are opposed
to reduction in value of the silver dol
lar will have no place to go but to the
new party, and in most cases will con-
troll the party machinery west of he
Mississippi; and south of Mason and
Dixon's line. Consequently, in those
states both of the old parties will be
placed in the attitude of bolters and
the populists assured of every electoral
vote in all of those states, thus making
it incumbent upon them only to carry
Indiana and Michigan in order to win
the election, both of which states have
always retained a strong greenback SEN
timent. Republican and democratic
aid in those states will accomplish that
much. In Michigan Mayor Pingree, of
Detroit. an ardent free-silver man, will
undoubtedly secure the republican
nomination for governor, and the gold
standard republicans will be compelled
to bolt. A fusion of the Pingree men,
silver democrats and populists for cleo
tors is assured, which means their cleo
ton. In Indiana the democrats will
nlace themselves squarely upon the sill
yer platform, and a fusion with the pop
ulists and silver republicans assure q
large majority in the state. In Illinois
the populists will hold their convention
first, and the program is now to nomi-
nate Governor Altgeld and Attorney
General Moloney, with perhaps Hin
richsen, thus paving the way for a fu-
sion of all the free silver men in the
state upon one ticket. The candidates
who are to lead this formidable party