Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-09-05


0 and POLICIES for which you are con
, tending in reference to which l en-
- tircly agree with you, ,urh as the
- election of United state, senators by
p popular vote, and the establishment
of postal savings banks. you are not
! permitted, under this Democratic
2 proposition, to ba even a respectable
z tail to the great Democratic comet of
= 1896. On the contrary, you are given
to understand that you must be con-
tent with being but part, and that,
too. the lesser part of the forked tail
of this Democratic kite. In other
words, the situation, as il presents it,
self to my mind is about this: The
Democratic party, tattered and tern +,
discredited at home and abroad, fin l.
ing that as a party they were about
to be swept from existence for all
time, have seized upon the great car
dinal principles of independent
bimetallist, and then demand that
you surrender your organization and
aid in continuing them in power.
wEEPs OVER THEIR FATE.
"Can you, my Populist friends, you
| mean who have been for years voting
in the organization Of that party, who
, Tor years have been advocating its
principles on every stump 10 this state,
can you in view of the antagonism
heretofore existing between your party
and the Democratic party, and in
view of your recent declarations in
your platform at st. Louis, give your
self content to surrender everything
to that party against whose malad-
ministratiOns you Tebelled and upon
whose prostitution of principles, as
you believe, you founded your new
party? Read what your party at its
recent national convention in st.
Louis has to say in regard to the Dem
cratic party. By this plank the ma
tional Populist party declares that |
this country has reached crisis in |
its national life through the malad-
Of the Democratic party, |
through the maladministration of |
administrations, and yet
the leaders of your party, who pre-
pared the platform, turn about and
not Populist, not men,
Der of your own organization, but, on
the contrary, Democrat, already
as the candidate of the
Democratic party of the nation, and
who publicly states he does not en-
dorse all of your platform, and you
are asked to turn your backs on your
party organization, and on your lead
ers, and give your votes to continue
in power the Democratic party.
TO THE SILVER REPUBLICANS.
"And now, fellow.citizens, l desire
IN all sincerity, to address those of
you, my silver Repu blican friends,
who until this time have been Repub-
leans who have voted and
acted with that party, who
lave upheld its principles, and
who have believed and still be
ieVe,as truSt,in its policies, and who
now, by reason of the declaration in
jhe Democratic platform in favor of
Independent bimetallism, are hesitat- '
ng and contemplating perhaps, some !
If you, severing your connection with I
he Republican party. beg you >
'auSe and consider well the contem-
'lated step and the consequence to
ou and your country involved in such {
course. And in making this appeal '
o you l do not come asking you to a
bandon any we'll considered and well /
ettled views you may have upon the :
nancial question, This shall leave il
o Others. l do not, in asking your =
id to the Republican ticket, ask you Y
o cruelty any convictions you may
ave upon the subject OF silver. l
hink there are other, ,and-as | believe
oming from me-more consistent and L
ogent reasons, why you should sup =
ort the Republican standard bearers, e
Notwithstanding these precOnceiyed s
Jews or convictions upon the subject it
/ bimetallism.