Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-07
TBLEGRAPHlC.
POPULIST ADDRESS.
A Manifesto Appealing 10 All Friends
Of Free Coinage.
TINE TO PROVE THEIR SINCERITY
By Unl,ltg a4d Nominating Senator
Htury N. 1tllr f.r h.
Irssldtnty.

CHICAGO, July 6.--The Porsllsl
i,aiers toSsy isauod the following
maniictlo Ia bthslioi Senator TelIei'
CHICAGO, July 0.-Upon the eve Of
tctlon b. the Dsmoctatic national
convention about 10 assemble at the
city Of Chicago, we find the situation
such that wo deem Il proper TO address
all friends oi Tree silver coinage and
financial reform In the United States.
AZ members OF the Peoples party
we have occupied the position merely
NJ careful observation, and We have
not attempted, nor ehhll we attempt 10
dictate to Tue Democratic national
convention; tut as large numbcfs OF
ueraous, many OF them delegates 10
ihat convention, arc assuming TO eH'
presa their opinions TINT tho PeOplo's
Marty aud other advocates Of free silver
coinage should accept the nominees Of
the Democrntic convention and Join 10
rleot tho same upon Democratic plat.
lofm, we desire 10 express our views
upon this subject, not as binding upon
tho Peoples party, hut az expire sive VI
what We believe to he its sentiment.
Four years ago Mt Omaha tho Pco'
ple'a party, hmoug other REFORMS de.
mandod the free aud UNLIMITED coin.
age Of silver nj IL 10 /, making II full
'egal tender for all debta, independent
OF any other nation. We were
non told by the Democratic aud lie.
publican parties that this was an eco'
nomir error. The Peoples party thus
became anu has remained tho logical
inited party Tor free silver The Re-
publican party has persisted In lis
policy tor gold standard, thereby
alternating larRo portion OF ith former
AdhoIenis. The Democratic party 10
divided, with n majority OF III dele
gates fsvofing the PJpulist doctrine ~
10 Tree oliver coinage, while n powerful
minority, representing great Demo
cratic states, absolutely refuse 10 con.
sent 20 such a policy, and Its present
administration, with nll its patronage,
IL Ia rabld hostility to the cause Of free
silver Anu will exert IL vast power 10
defeat iTev silver candidate.
Tho Democratic party, therefore,
meets In national convention under
most extraordinary circumstances. IL
cannot ut this time be surprised to find
that vast number Of tho people look
form profession. Tue cause OF free
silver coinage IL the peoples cnutc.
IL requires, for success against the
mighty powers opposing u. the votes
OF millions OF mon who have not acted
with tho Democratic party. How,
then, can that party, at n tims when II
IL 10y hopeless division more weak anu
impOtent than ever before, undertake
this gigantic task Ia tho narrow spirit
OF straight party aotion7
~ II expects the corporations OF the
millions who are outside OF lis ranks, II
II bound to prove by ilu acts now anu
here that II IL sincere anu that IL
places the success VI this cause above
ihe narrow place Of 4 mere partisan
EFFORT.
Iithe Democratic party expects 10
overcome the dittgust which tho
present GdministTaliJ n has earned for
II, now 10 tho time ~ prove its 1iu-
certify.
There IL candidate upon whom the
vote OF all iTlondh OF iTos silver eau be
united, u nj! tuose who have tile cause
at heart will YIELD something OF their
exlIsne pattisanship ana place the
cause lnt and complete party success
second. lie IN n candidate who, hav-
ing given more than years 10 n de-.
voted Struggle Tor this cause and
for financial reform, has shown
that he can put his devotion 10
his principles above all party ties or
party success. Ho stepped out Of his
party when II declared Tor the single
standard, aud, stnndluv 10 Ice does un.
trAmmeled by party tillllhtions, aud
devoted 10 the cause which tue Demo-