The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-06-25
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TELLER FOR PRESIDENT.
Prominent Ropulists Indorse tho 6Ilves-
ties Candidacy.

ST. Louis, June 22.-As the result OF
a series Of conferences between com.
mittees appointed by the seeding sill
YER men of the recent national repub-
lican convention and committee com-
posed Of prominent populiets an adj
dress was issued Saturday night from
the headquarters of the peoples party
national committee in this city advts-
ing populists throughout the country
to make Henry NJ. Teller, Of Colorado,
their national standard bearer. 1mmc-
diately after the silver men walked ont
of the convention they appointed com
mittee, Of which Charles H. Hartman.
of Montana; Senator r. F. Pettigrew. Of
South Dakota; C. F. Cannon, of Utah,
and Senator Fred T. Dubois, OF Idaho,
were members, to confer with similar
committee of populists. That evening
Mt the Planters hotel they met H. r.
Taubeneck, of Illinois, chairman; DR..
Howard s. Taylor, Of Chicago. and
Thomas M. Patterson, Of Denver. OF the
national populist committee. and as
result of that and subsequent confer
ences the following address was issued:
'Expreasly disclaiming any purpose or
right to bind any party or person by tho
views here set forth. we but yield to an
overpowering sense Of duty In saying what
we do to members Of the peoples party ana
to all other good citizens VINO. apprenena-
ing the approach Of a momentous crisis IN
our country's life. are willing to avert tt
nv acts of exalted patriotism. We came to
at, Louis as citizens. members OF the peo-
PIES party, ia be present at the meetnRs
Of the national republican convention. that
A>k> e(v4 6AAn{t0VV
ourselves the true aim Of that organization
in the present struggle. Here We nave
seen tho boss in politics more securely en-
throned. more servflelv nheyed and more
dictatorial as to candidates and policy
than was ever witnessed before IN the field
Of national politics. One man. the perfec-
ton Of his type. representing the million,
aires. the banks. the corporations. the
trusts and every other remorseless end
rlutocratic element in our country'e life.
has. through the power Of money. dictated
the nomination Of Mr.. Mckinley and
shar the platform Of his party.
''This convention. slavishly responding
70 the will Of the money power. has FORCED
an issue which must he met: It Is z chai-
lenRe to the yeomen Of the land. IT IT Is
declined or II 1t shall succeed: the letters
Of a tyranny more grinding than that OF
the GEARS and emperors will be riven upon
the plain people Of the country. letters
which must be Indefinitely worn with tho
rontemptible spirit inseparable from WILL
Ing serfs or in the end be broken with the
irresistible power Of a mighty revolution.
That issue Is formulated In the demands
that the existing gold standard must BE-
preserved' and for the enactment OF all
measures designed to maintain inviolahly
the obliea lions Of the United States and
all our monev-etther coin or paper-at the
present standard,
'~rhis means that silver shall be per-
manentlv DEGRADED into mere money OF
change. and that It be deprived Of fts legal
tender quality except for some paltry sum:
that the greenback and all other forms OF
government PAPER money shall be re-
deemed and destroyed: that the national
banks shall be swollen into a power Of
triple their present ability to contract the
volume Of money, to absorb the earnings 1t
industry and to grip the throat OF all In
dustrial and commercial life. while from
time to time It terrorizea the voters Into
choice Of ita tools for all legislative. ju-
dicial and administrative positions.
1.-THE money power has forced this Issue
now, because. in its Judgment. those whom
its policy will enslave are divided into
hostile political families which cannot be
united in time to resist its onset. It re-
action can he secured between the 9iner-
ent organizations that favor monetary re-.
form and resistance to their insatiate
greed. With populists silver democrats
and Independent bimetallists supporting
different nominees for president and the
tory. and 1t has determined to press now
and without abatement the advantage
which this apparently lamentable con-
dition raises before 1t in this. the most
threatening crisis that has menaced the
country since the civil war.
Though simply citizen members Of the
peoples party. we venture to make mo-
mentous suggestions to you. our brethren.
In doing this we have neither desire nor
thought to impair in the least degree the
efficiency of our noble organization.
charged as It is with the liberties OF pres-
cnt and future generations. and whose in
tegrity and growth is essential to the per-
petuation Of our free institutions. Our con-
slant aim will be to defend It from foes
within and without and to preserve 1t as a
power consecrated forever to the defense
of humanity's dearest rights upon The
American continent In view Of the shame
less submission by the republican conven-
ton to the most extreme demands ever
made upon Americans by the money power.
every thought and effort Of American man.
hood should. from this hour. tend toward
creating and cementfng a union between
those who would resist the conspiracy OF
wholesale robbery and grinding oppres-
sion. Measures must be gained or defeated
through men. After all, the chief problem
in this crisis is to find a man upon whom
that II intrusted with authority over ma
tional legislation and enforcement he will
defy every allurement Of wealth and every
menace Of power, standing unflinchingly
by the cause Of the people In the fierce
struggle inseparably connected with the
enactment of our proposed financial re-
forms.
1--WE see in the private and official life Of
Henry NJ. Teller a beacon, burning bright
", warning the people of Of the threaten
ing shores Of dissension. He has but now
publicly abandoned the republican party.
with which he has been associated since
its first organization. When to his official
record are united an unsullied private life.
a character without blot or stain, q CRATE
full, generous nature, q patriotism that
knows neither state nor section. we feel
that we are but performing q duty to our
beloved country, in thus calling .atten-
ton to Mr.. ,Teller's merits and availability
as a candidate for president: As one upon
whom all populists may consistently unite,
while they streruously preserve and
strengthen their orEa MIA ton. Tho neces-
atty and wisdom ofaSdtspassionate consid-,
Grafton of his claims upon !the-support OF
American people have become the more ap-
Parent since the, patriotic republican lead
ers who abandoned their party under his
Inspiration. have announced him As their