River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-06-25
TELLER FOR PRESIDENT.
Prominent Populists Incorse the Silver
ties Candidacy.

. series Oh conferences between COM
mittees appointed BY Ike seeding sill
YER men of the recent national repub-
lican convention and committee COM
posed of prominent populists an adj
dress was Issued Saturday night from
the headquarters of the peoples party
national committec in this city advis-
ing populists throughout the country
to make Henry NJ. Teller. of Colorado.
their national standard bearer. Imme-
diately after the silver men walked out
Of the convention they appointed COM
mittee. of which Charles II. Hartman.
Of Montana; Senator r. T. 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
nj the Planters hotel they met Fl. f.
Taubeneck. of Illinois. chairman: DR..
Howard s. Taylor. of Chicago. and
Thomas M. Patterson. of Denver. of the
national populist committee. and as a
result of that and subsequent confer
ences the following address was issued:
Expressly discIsiming any purpose or
RIGHT 10 bind nnv party or person by the
views here set forth. we but yield to an
overuowering sense of duty In saying what
we do to members of the peoples party and
to all other good citizens who. apprehend-
Ing the approach of a momentous crisis in
our country's life. are willing 10 avert IL
by acts OF exalted patriotism We came to
ST. Louis as citizens. members of the peo-
pies party. 70 be present at the meetings
Of the national republican convention. that
We might determine more definitely for
ourselves the true aim of that organization
I'm the present struggle Here we have
seen the boss I'm politics more securely en-
throned. more servilely obeyed and more
dictatorial as to candidates and policy
than was ever witnessed before In the field
Of national politics. One man. the perfe -
ton OF his type, representing the million
aires. the banks, the corporations. the
trusts and every other remorsejess ana
plufocratic element In our country lie.
has, through the power of money. dictated
the nomination of Mr.. Mckinley and
shaped the platform of his party.
This convention. slavishly responding
TO the will of the money power. has forced
an issue which must he met IL Is chal-
lenge to the yeomen of the land. III IL Is
declined, or II II shall succeed. the letters
of tyranny more grinding than that OF
the czers and emperors will be riven upon
the plain people of the country, letters
which must be indefinitely worn with the
contemplate 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 demand
that the existing gold standard must be
preserved and for the enactment OF all
measures designed to maintain invfol9bly
the obligations of the United States and
all our money-either coin or paper-at the
present standard
This means that silver shall be per-
manentIy degraded into mere money of
change, and that II be deprived OF its 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 of
industry and to grip the throat OF all In
dustrial and commercial life. while from
time to time IL terrorizes the voters into
choice of its tools for all legislative. ju-
diciai and administrative positions.
THE money power has forced this issue
now. because. in It's judgment. those whom
its policy viii enslave are divided into
hostile political families which cannot be
united In time to resist its onset. IL re-
CARDS as Impossible that harmonious
action can be secured between the differ :
ent organiza lions that favor monetary re
form and resistance TO their insatiate
greed. With populists, silver democrats
and Independent bimetatlists supporting
different nominees for president and the
national congress II feels assured of vic
tosg, and II has determined TO press now
and without abatement the advantage
which this apparently lamentabie con-
dition raises before II In this. the most
threatening crisis that has menaced the
country since the civil war.
Though simply citizen members of the
peoples perty, we venture to make mo-
mentous suggestions to you. our brethren.
In doing this we have neither desire nor
thought to impair I'm the least degree the
efficiency of our noble organization.
charged as II ~ with the liberties of pres
ent and future generations, and whose in
tegrity and growth is essential to the per
petuation of our free Institutions. Our con-
etant aim will lie to defend II from foes
within and without and TO preserve II as q
power consecra led forever to the defense
of bumanity's dearest rights upon he
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 ma n
hood should. from this hour. tend toward
creating and cementing 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
patriots can unite. whose life Is witness
that IL intrusted with authority over ma
tionaI legislation and enforcement he Will
defy every allurement OF wealth and every
menace OF power. standing unflincbingly
by the cause of the people In the fierce
struggle inseparably connected with the
enactment of our proposed financial re-
forms.
I'VE see I'm the private and official life of
Henry NJ. Teller beacon. burning bright
ly, 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 unsuliied private life.
a character without blot or stain. a CRATE
full, generous nature, a patriotism that
knows neither state nor section, We feel
that we are but performing a duty TO our
beloved country In thus calling atten-
tion to Mr.. Teller's merits and availability
as a candidate for president; as one upon
whom all populists may consistently unite,
while they strenuously preserve and
strengthen their organfza tion- The neces-
sity and wisdom of dispassionate 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
nominee for president Of the United