The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-10

George r. Washburn Before the Massa-
 chusetts Populist Club-He lEnumeratos What the Allied Hordes of Populists,
 Anarchists and Socialists Secured as a
 Result of the Recent Election. Boston, Dec 9--The Massachusetts state populist club held its annual meeting In this city to-day, when the question of extending and continuing it's organization and educational work were talked over.
 MT. George F. Washburn, member of the populist national executive commit tee, and who had charge of the Chicago headquarters during the campaign, gave 8 detailed account of the work performed and presented an address to the populists Of the state, which he had prepared and which was approved by the meeting. The address says in part:
 As we look back over the road we | have travelled, we find ourselves victors even in defeat. Organized but yester- day, growing in spite Of sneers and 11NASNAGJ 15Aio1 GU VI ny the press. but upheld by the invinciblc power of principle, we are now strong moral force in national politics, a fac- tor the old parties must reckon with and which they dare not leave out of their calculations.
 We have @. fighting force of more than 100000 voters, and reform press of 1000 weekly papers. We have elect ed several governors, besides hundreds of city, county and state officials. We hold the balance of power in the senate, and have four times as many congress- men as ever before. We have turned the attention of the people to the mis- rule of the party in power and the president who was so triumphantly elected four years ago, retires from power belonging to party that failed in the last election to carry a single town.
 During the next four years it is possible that measures may be pro- posed to tempt the democratic party from it's present position and that through some compromise, the old lead-, CTS may regain control of the party machine. Let it be our part to keep political fires burning behind them to cut off their retreat and compel them to advance, just as we forced them to the stand they took in the Chicago con- vention.
 Already there is bitter fight going on within their ranks. The old lead- CTS are strongly opposed to the Chicago platform and will leave nothing undone to annul it and swing the party back into the sheltering fold of monopoly, where the campaign funds are found. In that event, the people will see the folly of trusting old parties with new issues, and turn to us as their only hope. We must, therefore, be united and ready to give a cordial welcome to the millions of honest silverites who would come to us.
 By strictly adhering to our princi- pies, we are certain to win in the end. The republicans will be forced to form- ulate and defend a policy in connec- tion with their promised international agreement which will surely fail to afford the necessary relief and will be repudiated four years hence. Thou sands of free silver republicans voted with their party in the last election to SlNt IL Ollc 1iloIS CldllCC, WlfO VIII uIilI6 with us when they realize how they have been deceived.
 "Our sentinels in congress will be on the alert to expose the defects in the measures proposed by the administra- tion and during the next four years we shall profit more by the blunders of the party in power and our action will be largely determined by the character of their policy.
 And now we appeal to the populists throughout the state to prepare for action. The conditions that called our party into being still exists. The monopolies are richer, more arrogant and careless Of the law than in the past; there is no hope of financial re- lief; larger numbers of people are being swept into the whirlpool of hopeless poverty than ever before. All this must be changed, first by a conviction in the heart of every populist that our cause is too just to fail; next by a solidarity and harmony in our ranks that will permit us to give our whole attentio to foes without, having none within; then by willingness to unite with others on lines that will best further the common cause, preserving in all such unions our own integrity"