The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-17


at st. Louis. 1t is also certain that the
Western delegates will at that time put
forward the name of Senator Tel.er and
recommend him to all men who are op-
posed to the gold standard as suitable
candidate for president on whom the
South and West and partiots from every
where can unite in a common cause. In
short, on that occasion the great West
will hold out it's fraternal hand to the
South and appeal for a union of forces
1 of these two great sections with common
interests, these two great sections that
are now suffering from the same evils
and which are bound to have the same
remedies before they cam prosper. Will
the South accept the invitation?
Mr.. Teller IS not only sound on the finan-
cal question, and opposed to trusts, COM
bines, and mOnopolies, but he is also mod
crate man on the tariff question, and in
defiance OF his party has boldly placed it in
the background until the ShylOcks and the
gold gamblers can be. defeated the people
gwen more money, and good times re-
stored by rising prices. Besides, It was
due to the efforts of Senator Teller and
Senator Stewart that the Infamous force
bill which the Northern Republicans tried
to place on the South was defeated. When
that measure was before congress, Senator
Teller. though it was Republican party
measure, not only refused to vote for 1t,
but denounced It as the most Infamous bill
that ever passed the threshold OF any legis-
lat.ve body in the history OF the world.
WILL THE SILVER DEMOCRATS
HAVE THE PATRIOTISM TO PUT
HUMANITY ABOVE PARTY.
The fact that the Western Republicans
will recommend Teller's name to all voters
who are opposed to the gold standard will
place upon the silver Democrats at Chicago
peculiar and important duty. In short,
1t will test their loyalty to silver and to the
people. If the silver Democrats in their
convention at Chicago refuse to endorse
Teller as the most suitable man upon whom
the South and West can unite, and in fact
the most available man upon whim to unite
all OF the silver forces, 1t will show that
they care more for party name and are
controlled more by party prejudice than
they are by desire to relieve the people
and restore good times. If they should turn
their backs upon the proffered hand of the
West and put up some so-called silver
Democrat simply because ne has the DEM
ocratic label on him, it will be because
they had rather keep the Eastern gold men
in the party with them than to unite the
silver forces Of the country and win great
victory.
It Is no longer secret that the gold men
in the Democl attic party are determined to
hold to the party machinery and to allow
the free silver Democrats to nominate only
the kind Of free silver man that they, the
gold men, may select; and there Is great
danger that number of silver Democratic
leaders, with the hope of keeping the party
together and holding their state machines
in line with the party, will accept these
terms from the gold men rather than to
take bold stand and purge themselves of
the gold element in order to unite all of the
forces opposed to the gold ring. Teller and
his friends have already served notice on
these men that they cannot nominate him
(Teller) as party man or as Democrat.
In this he is wise, because no man can be
elected president in the coming campaign
who wears the Democratic label, and must
bear the odium and the record Of treachery
and broken promises of which that party
has so recently been guilty.
If the silver Democrats should throw
away this opportunity. to redeem the coun-
try from the clutches of the gold combine,
then the Peoples Party and these Western
silver Republicans will join hands, and
while they may not be able to sweep the
country this year, they will poll more cleo
toral votes than the Democratic party can,
and come out second in the race, and in
1900 the Peoples Party will deliver the
country by electing president and con-
gress in thorough accord.
THE PHILLIPS LABOR BILL PASSES
THE HOUSE.
The bill introduced by Congressman
Phillips to provide for a commission Of
three men representative of labor, three
men representative of agriculture, three
men represen tative of manufacturing,
and three men representative of bust
ness, all to be appointed by the president,
to inquire into the cause of the hard
times and the unequal distribution of
wealth has passed the house and is now
before the senate. This bill was opposed by
Congressman Skinner and Congressman
StrOWd (both of North Carolina, and both
POpultsts) in strong and telling speeches.
They showed that this bill would not
only create class of Office holders at an
expense of quarter Of a million of dol
lars, but that it could absolutely do no
good but would be certain to do harm
In the first place, commission appointed
by President Cleveland, it is manifest
would not be one that would correctly
represent these interests, and that such
a commission would be more likely to
smother the real facts and to present the
wrong remedies In fact, it would not be
astonishing if such commission would
recommend that the gold standard was
the cure for all of the ills of the country.
Senator Butler has prepared sew
eral amendments to this bill which
he viii propose in the senate.
One of these amendments provides
that the various farmers and
laborers' organizations shall select the
men to represent them on this commits
sion. If his amendments are not adopt
ed he will fight the bill and try to pre-
vent its passage in the senate. Senator
Butler in an interview, said today that
the best proof that this bill was not in
tended to help the cause Of labor and ag-
riculture was the fact that the house was
willing to pass it. He called attention to
the fact that the present house had not
passed single bill in the interest of the
people, but had killed every one that
had even looked in that direction.
CONTEMPT OF COURT BILL.
Senator Hill reported several weeks
since from the committee on judiciary a
bill containing two classes of contempt
cases. He is now trying to get this bill
to vote. The bill denies to the accused
the right of trial by jury, even in cases
of indirect contempt similar to the Debs
case. Senator Allen and Senator But
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