The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-07-03
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PETER IS HEARD FROM.
rho Kansas senator Urges Union withAh.
Popullsts.
Topeka, Kan, juno 25-United
States Senator PETERS paper, the
Topeka Advocate, the leading Popu.
list newspaper of Kansas, as we'll az
his own personal organ, to-day prints
the following editorial in double leads,
under the title, 1.-THE Situation is Per-
ilous:''
I'm all that is great and grand the
United States has led the nations. It's
history is the model Of the ages. II
required one war to secure our indie.
pendence, another to maintain our
rights at sea, and still another to
make sure that popular government is
not q failure.
I'VE are now confronted with still
greater and graver dangers. The rule
OF the money changers has begun. A
great party, drunk with success, amid
the shouts OF TO- 0 madmen, has Just
named as its candidate for the presi-
dency OF the republic a man pledged
to maintain the present gold standard
with all the consequent evlls-fallinp
prices, loss OF employment, debt and
ruin.
AT last, after forty years of un-
paralleled career, forgetting the
glorious record Of It's early achieve
mcnts, false to Its pledges, and basely
b~etraying the country it saved, tho
Republican party, by an 8 to l vote,
has declared its allegiance to a usurp.
alton OF men whose only interest ia
the country is to rob it.
The situation is perilous. If Dem
ocrats once undertook to destroy tho
government Of the United States, they
now have an opportunity to assist in
saving it. Do they see what Is. i'm
mediately in front of them? Do they
comprehend its meaning? Can they
raise to the level of the occasion? Is
their party nearer and dearer to them
than their country?
"Republican success means perpet-
ual domination of class in this and
the downfall of popular government.
To prevent this dreadful end of FREQ
institutions the Peoples party of the
United States was expressly formed.
We are organized and ready for the
Our success means the rule of the peo-
pie with peace, progress and plenty;
it means the overthrow Of class rule
and the perpetuity Of constitutional
authority.
"iNill silver Democrats unite with
us? If they come silver Republicans
will follow. Together success is in
sight. Divided we shall fritter away
our votes and make it all the more
difficult to rally in the future. Now
is the time for union md victory.
Delay is dangerous. Let us work and
vote together"
Another editorial under the caption.
''Taubencck's Address Untimely," in
the anne issue, says: chairman
T~aubeneck and a number of other
gentlemen who are more or less
prominent in Populist national poll
tics, have issued an address in which
they point out certain lines which
Populists should work along. The
principal feature of the address is an
appeal for the nomination Of Senator
Teller for President. This action is
extremely untimely. II is in reality
the duty of the rank and file to attend
10 the mauter OF naming a PreSlden-
tial candidate. It is very apparent
from the sentimentgenerally expressed
that the Populist party will nomin-
ate for President. q man who
believes in It's entire plat
form. To nominate Senator Teller
at this time would compel a fight
along silver lines only. Populists are
in earnest on the silver question, but
the party believes in other reforms
which it is not yet ready to abandon,
and which it should never abandon.
Mr.. Teller, as a CONSTANT silver man
did a wise thing in leaving the Repub-
lican party. He deserves commenda-
ton for his devotion to principle and
his fidelity and loyalty to his con
st%ituents. The Populist party is not
yet ready to make HIM its Presidential
and Mr.. Taubeneck should
have waited until the masses had had
time to become advised as to Mr.. Tel
ler's action before launching a boom
for his nomination by a party to which
he does not belong"
MISS ROWAN WILL BOX.