Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-29
MEDICINE ELODGE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY JULY % 1895

tltude whom we would have liberated.
though cruclfied in return for our
kindness, yet through it all we have
steadily confided in the righteousness
OF our cause and the final good sense
OF the people. We still believe that
this nation has mission to perform
which bad men will not be permitted
TO destroy, and recent events indicate
that the nineteenth century is not.
after all, to close with the friends of
freedom respondent in the Western
hemisphere.
For Ono Silver Ticket
From the very beginning our or
ganization has made party fealty sub
ordinate to principle. We will not
here reverse ourselves and refuse to
accept victory now SO easily within
our reach. We will not refuse the
proffered assistance Of at least 3, ,OOO,-
Ooo free silver Democrats and not less
than 100000 free silver Republicans
simply because they have shown the
good sense to come with an organized
army fully equipped and armed for
battle. Let them have their own di.
visions and army corps. Let them
manifest their own esprit de corps.
The field of glory is open to all com
petitors who are figh ting for the same
principle.
The Popullsts have already shown
their prowess in many engagements
during twenty years of struggle. If
our allies can strike sturdier blows at
plutocracy than can we, If thew can
scale the battlements of the gold
power more gallantly than our old
veterans, and are able to plant their
colors one foot nearer the citadel of
the enemy than we can ourselves, let
every Populist cheer and support
them In their heroic work. We will
march under the same flag, keep step
TO the same music, face the same foe,
snare In and shout over the same tri-
umph.
1.-The silver Democrats have lined up
as an organization. Now let the Pop
uiists, free silver Republicans and the
american Silver party do likewise.
Form an embattled square impene-
trable to the assaults of the confeder-
ated gold power
After due consideration in which l
have fully canvassed every possible
phase OF the subject, l have failed to
lind a single good reason to justify us
in placing third ticket in the field.
The exigencies of the hour impera-
lively demand that there shall be but
one. l would not indorse the distin-
gulshed gentlemen named at the Chi
cago convention. l would nominate
them outright and make them our
own and then share justly and right
fully in their election. The situation
is striking verifcation of the old
adage that The path of dutv is the
Toly
and all opposition will practi-
cally disappear in the Southern
and Western states, and we can
then turn our attention to other parts
OF the field. Take any other and you
endanger the entire situation and
strengthen the arm of our common
adversary. If you allow the pl esent
happy 1uncture to pass, all the heroic
work OF twenty years will be thrown
to the winds. Our guiding hand will
disappear in the momentous conflict
just when it should be stretched forth
to steady the ark of our covenant.
We would prove to the world that we
are 7oid OF capacity to grasp great
opportunities, and lacking in strength
to grapple with prodigious emergen-
cies-
Bryan a Gallant Champion.
d
pion in the field, who is leading a re-
volt against the plutocracy of Christ
endom- Every oppressor, every plu-
tocrat, in two hemispheres has turned
his guns upon him. The subsidized
organs have openly proclaimed that
he must be crushed by any means and
at whatever cost. The confederated
monopolies have lain aside their par
ties and their politics and are march
ing In hot haste against him. Let US
signal to him to hold the fort-that
we are COM. .Ig-and then hasten to
his relief. Gentlemen, want to
say to you in all earnestness that as
sailed as is this gallant knight bv the
sleuth-hounds of the money power of
the world, you may deliberate here as
long as you please, but you cannot
prevent people from rushing to the
support of their recognized defender
and leader. If you will not say the
word, they will break over all re-
straints and go themselves, leaders or
no leaders, and may God bless them
for so doing.
Therefore, in obedience of nv
highest conceptions to duty, with a
solemn conviction that l am right. I
place in nomination for the Presi-
dency of the United States a distin-
guished gentleman, who, let it be re-
membered, mas already been three
times indorsed by the Populist party
OF his own state-once for representa-
tive In Congress, once for United
States senator, and only last week for
the Presidency. l name that match
less champion of the people, that in
trepid foe of the corporate greed. that
splendid young statesman, William J.
Bryan of Nebraska