The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-21
ANOTHER ADDRESS
To SILVER MEN
Issued by a G 0mmittee OF Prom
inent Popullsts.
TELLER FOR PRESlDEN !
The Policy of the Republican
Party Denounced.
THE TOOL OF THE MONEY POWER
Financial Plank a Challenge to
Yeomen of the Land.
COMBINED ACTION NECESSARY
Populists and Silver Democrats and In
dependent Bimetaliists Appealed
toto Unite to Preserve the
Dearest Rights of fAmer-
ican Manhood.


ST. Louis. June 20.-As the result oil
a, series of conferences between com
mittees appointed by the seeding
silver men of the recent Republlcan
convention and committee composed
of prominent Populists, an address
was issued tonight from the head
quarters of the Peoples Party Ma
tional committee, in this city, advis-
ing Populists throughout the country
to make Henry NJ. Teller, of Colorado,
their National standard bearer.
Immediately after the silver men
walked out of the convention they ap-
pointed a committee of which Chas. >.
Hartman, of Montana; Senator X. E.
Pettigrew, of South Dakota; Z. r.
Cannon, of Utah, and Senator Fred. L..
Dubois, of Idaho, We're members TO
confer with a similar committee OF
Populists. That evening at the Plan
ters Hotel they met III. A. Taubeneck,
of Illinois, chairman; DR.. Howard s..
Taylor, of Chicago, and Thos. NJ. Pat
terson, Of Denver, of the National
Populist committee, and as a result
of that and subsequent conferences
AN address was issued.
Chairman Taubeneck, in an inter-
view, said tonight:
..The seeding silver men of the Re-
publican party and the Populists have.
as the result of our conference, come
TO perfect agreement as to the future
and henceforth we will work along
the same lines
He predicted victory for ticket
with Teller as its leader.
The address in part is as follows:
Expressly disclaiming any purpose
or right to bind any party or person
by the views here set forth, we but
yield to an overpoweTing 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 a momentous crisis in our
country's life, are willing to avert it
by acts of exalted patriotism.
'sWe came to st. Louis as citizen
members of the Peoples Party to be
present at the meetings of the National
Republican convention that we might
determine more definitely for our
selves the true aim of that party in
the present struggle. Here we have
seen the boss in politics more
securely enthroned, more servilely
obeyed and more dictatorial as to can
didates and policy than has ever be-
tional politics.
"One man, the perfection of his
type, representing the millionaires,
the banks, the corporations, the trusts,
and every other remorseless and plu-
tocratic element in ourscountry's life,
has, through the power of money. die
tated the nomination of Mckinley and
shaped the platform of his party.
This convention, slayishly respond
ing to the will of the money power,
has forced an issue which must be met
1t is challenge to the yoeman of the
land. If it is declined or if it shall sue
ceed, the fetters of a tyranny, more
grinding than that of the Cars or
Emperors, will be driven upon the
plain people of the country, fetters
which must be indefinitely worn with
the contemplate spirit inseparable
from willing serfs, or in the end be
broken with the irresistible power
of mighty revolution.
THAT is formulated in the demands
that the existing gold standard must
be preserved and for the enactment
OF all measures designed to maintain
lnyiolable all obligations of the United
States and all our money, either coin
or paper, at the present standard
This means that silver shall be
permanently degraded into mere
money of change, and that it be
deprived of its legal tender quail
ties except for some paltry sum;
that greenbacks and all other
forms of government paper money
shall be redeemed and destroyed; that
the National banks shall be swollen
into 8 power Of triple their present
ability to contract the volume of mon
ey, TO absorb the earnings of industry
and to grip the throat of all industria
and commercial life. while from time
TO time it terrorizes the voters intt
choice of its tools for all Legislative
judicial and administrative positions
The money power has forced this is
sue now, because in it's Judgment, thos
whom its policy win enslaye, are divid
ed into hostile political families whiel
cannot he united in time to resist it
onset. 1t regards it as impossible tina
harmonious action can be secured be
tween the different organizations tha
favor monetary reform and resistanc
to their iRsatiate greed. With Popu
fists, silver Democrats and independen
binetallist supporting different non
- inees for President and the Natione
congress, it feels assured of victor
hd it has determined to press no'
nd without abatement the advantag
Which this apparently lamentable cor
dition raises up before it,
sIn this most threatening crisis tha
has menaced the country since the ci'
il war, though simply citizen membel
of the Peoples party, we venture
make momentous suggestions to yo1
our brethren In doing this we ba7
neither desire nor thought 10 impa
in the least degree the efficiency I