Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-21
Taubeneek's Committee Issues a
Lengthy Address
HANNA is PUT ON THE SPIT
And Turned Before the Fires of Their Wrath.
Terrific Arrangement OF the Republic
can Party

AhCilN 10 SlSHSo ny lWtHly -SlA lSddlIS
populists from six western and southern
states. 1t says:
Expressly dselaiming any purpose or
right to bind any party or person by the
views here set forth, we but yield to an
overpowering sense of duty in saying
what we do to members of the peoples
party and to all other good citizens who,
experimenting the approach of momen-
tous crisis in our countrys life, are Will
ing to avert it by acts of exalted patriot
ism, we came to st. Louis as citizens,
members of the peoples party, to be
present at the meetings of the republican
national committee that we might de-
termine more definitely for ourselves the
true aim of that organization for the
present struggle.
Here we have seen the boss" in poll
tics more securely enthroned, more SER
vilely obeyed and more dictatorial as to
candidates and policy than has ever be-
fore been witnessed in the field Of poll
ties. One man, the perfection of his type,
representing the mllionaires, the banks,
the corporations, the trusts and every
other remorseless and plutocratic ele-
ment in our country'S life has, through
the power of money, dictated the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Mckinley and shaped the
platform of his party
We have witnessed a convention mag
nihcent in numbers, pretending to repre-
sent free American constituencies NOV
ing FOR three days as If a hand of terror
was above them, whose might they dare
not tempt and whose imperious pointings
it was impossible to disobey.
This convention, slavishly responding
to the will of the money power, has fore
ed an issue which must be met 1t is a
challenge to the yeomen of the land. II
1t is declined, or If it shall succeed the
letters of tyranny more grinding than
that OF czars and emperors will be driven
upon the plain people of the countryside
tiers which must be indefinitely worn
with the contemplate spirit inseparable
from willing 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 inviolably
the obligations of the United States and
all our money-either coin or paper-at
the present standard.
That the greenback and all other forms
of government paper money shall be re-
deemed and destroyed
That the national banks shall be swoll-
EN- into 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 industrial and
commercial life, while from time to time
1T terrorzes the voters into a choice of it's
tools for all legisla tive, judicial and ad-
ministrative positions.
1t will require that all of our present
national bonded debt be refunded and
new bonds be issued running for half
/ century and made expressly payable in
"the present standard" of money-gold.
All other forms of debt-private, COR
porate, state and municipal-Will ulti-
mately be made payable in the same yell
low money or its equivalent
With these measures eleeted-the gold
plutocracy triumphant--the condition of
the people will be no better than was that
of the recently emancpated black slaves.
Their right will be to go to the end OF the
chain that binds them-a freedom of ire
movable debt, of grinding poverty, of a
black and cheerless future.
The money power has forced this issue
now because, In its judgment, those whom
its policy would enslave are divided into
hostile political families which cannot be
united In time to resist it's onset. 1t re-
CARDS it as impossible that harmonious
action can be secured between the differ
ent organizations that favor monetary
reform and resistance to their insatiate
greed.
With populists, silver democrats and
Independent bimetalllsts supporting diff
ferent nominees for president and the ma
tiona1 congress, 1t feels assured of victory,
and it has determined to press now and
without abatement the advantage which
this apparently lamentable condition
raises up before It,
In this, the most threatening crisis
that has menaced the country since the
civil war, though simply citizen men,
bers of the peoples party, we venture to
make momentous suggestions to you,
our brethren.
In doing this we have neither desire
nor thought to impair in the least de-
gree the efficiency of our noble organi-
cation, charged, as 1t is, with the liber-
ties of present and future generations,
bnd whose integrity and growth is es-
sential to the perpetuatlon of our free in
situations. Our constant aim will be to
defend 1t from foes within and without,
and to preserve 1t as power consecrat-
ed forever to the defense of humanity's
dearest rights upon the American CONT
nent.
In view Of the STAINLESS submission by
the republican convention to the most
extreme demands ever made upon Amer
leans by the money power. every
thought and effort of American man
hood should from this hour tend towards
creating and cementing union between
those who would resist the conspiracy
of wholesale robbery and grinding OPP
preston A coincidence of fear, of hope,
of conviction already exists among in
telligent, observant people. Political
division alone creates an obstacle to
unity of purpose and harmony of action
between them The duty of every pa
triOt Is to remove tnlS CDSIacle so Iar as
1t can be by honorable concessions and
reasonable sacrifices. These do not con-
template even the thought Of merging
our party into any other, or the slight
est impairment of it's efficiency, but,
alone for the sake of humanity and to
avert, if possible, the disasters which
the supremacy of the money power now
50 menacingly forebodes, to secure the
union of good citizens who think alike
upon the important issues of financial re-
form, In behalf of the election of pres
ident. who in spirit Is antagonistic to
none of the fundamental principles of
our party and openly engaged In the
most sturdy advocacy of our chiefest
measures.
Measures must be gained or defeated
through men. After all, 1.-The chief prob
lem in this crisis is to find a man upon
whom patriots can unite, whose life is
witness that If entrusted with authority
over national legislation and its enforce
ment: he will defy every allurement of
wealth and every menace of power.
standing unfiachingiy by the cause of
the people in the fercest struggle. in
separately connected with the enactment
of our proposed financial reforms.
The address then ma mes Henry M