People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09


confusion. eff Tennessee has any
dirty linen to wash, let her do it out,
side. We have come here to attend to
business and let us do it."
The Conference then adjourned to 9
o'clock Tuesday.
AT night Hon. Ignatius Donnelly
spoke to large and appreciative audi
ence. General Coxey followed in a
short speech.
Nashville, Tenn, July 6.-The die
is cast The reorganization of the
Peoples Party nationally, has been eff
fected by the unanimous and over
whelming solid vote of the Conference
which adjourned tonight after practi-
cally solid 4S hours session. Not a
moment has been lost, but constant dis
cussion free and full has united every
shade of difference among the dele
gates representing by their 355 votes,
the great army of straight middle-of-
the-roaders.
After five hours of thorough discus
sion, at the hour of this evening,
Chairman Bradley called for the vote
Amid deafening applause the unani-
nous vote was announced. Every one
accepted it in good faith and all look
forward to the new day for the Peo-
pies Party-a day of continued useful
ness and warfare against corruption
and wrong. Here is the address and
plan:
ADDRESS.
TO THE PEOPLES PARTY OF THE UNITED
STATES:
Disclaiming any intention to dictate
to the Populist voters of the United
States, or any feeling of bitterness
towards those who may have honestly
differed from us in the past on matters
of party policy, in the words of the i'm
mortal Lincoln, with malice toward
none, with charity for all, with firm
ness in the right as God gives us to see
the right; we su bmit to every patriotic
citizen the following address:
In 1891 there was organized at Gin
cinnati great political party, whose
principles were as vast an innovation
upon existing beliefs as were the grand
generalization of Thomas Jefferson in
the Declaration of independence an ad
vance upon the ideas commonly held
by the world in 1776,
The latter proclaimed the legal
equality of all men, and their right to
liberty and happiness; the former de-
clared that government is a mere in
strumentality, formed by all. for the
enforcement of the welfare of all; that
labor of brain and Drawn is the sole
parent of prosperity, society and civil
cation, That wealth belongs to him
who creates it, and that every dollar
taken from industry, without an equiv
alent, is robbery, that if any man will
not work, neither shall he eat; that the
interests of rural and civic labor are
the same, while their enemies are iden-
teal"
These ideas are the natural sequence
and supplement to the Declaration of
Independence. Without them the words
of Jefferson are mere "brutum full
men" The right to pursue happi-
ness is of no avail if men are prevented
by misgovernment from attaining it.
Liberty is but an idle word if the
human family are to be swept through
poverty and suffering in bondage. Life
itself is not worth having at the price
World is no better than the Old World
if the condition of the people is the
same.
We escaped from England in 1776
We are again her subjects in 1897. We
are not permitted to pass laws neces-
sary for our own welfare, without her
consent; and that consent cannot be
had since she thrives by plundering us.
Cheap production in the United States
means cheap supplies for her citizens
Instead of a sovereign people, leading
the world to higher levels of state
craft and development, as the greatest,
most powerful and most thoroughly
educated Commonwealth on earth, we
are dwarfed into mere provincials, toll
ing to enrich our cunning masters,
side by side with the starving Hindoo,
the wretched Egyptian and the i'm
poverished Irishman.
The peoples party was born to live
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put few men in office, but to give to
all men that happiness guaranteed by
the Constitution of the United States.
The conditions which five years ago
demanded the esta blishment of our or
ganization, insist today, with ten-fold
force, that it shall live as long as a
single wrong exists unrighted on the
face of the earth.
To resist these evils, we organized in
1891. We meet in 1897 to renew the
faith; to proclaim that the battle is not
yet over; that it is just beginning, and
that we will continue the good fight as
long as God lets us live.
While we have the largest liberation
for all honest differences of opinion,
and will welcome to our ranks all pa
triots, we declare that those who think
the party ought to die have no more
place in its ranks than Benedict Arnold
had in the Continental army or Judas
Iscariot in the Christian Church. FL
deity to principle is above all other
considerations, since such fidelity
means the greatness and happiness of
the human race.
While we have nothing but kindly
feelings towards the rank and file of
our late allies, we do not believe that
the question of free silver is in itself a