The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-01-16
POPULISTSTOG GCITALONE.
Call Issued Tor & Severance OF Ties
with Den Eorrss:s-

with Democrats.
Boston, Mass. january 10
George r. Washbuln. member OF the
Peoples party National Executive
Committee. to-day issued an address
10 the Populists OF the United States
in part the address is as follows:
We are 10 be congratulated upon
the growth Of our party, and the fact
that in the recent election nearly half
OF the voters of the Union indersed
much of our platform. No party ever
achieved more brilliant success in so
brief Il time. Although handicapped
in the late campaign. we emerge from
the contest stronger than ever. Our
party alone has voting force larger
than that which elected Lincoln. and
an able, effective reform press of near
ly 1000 newspapers We elected sew
eral Governors. as we'll as hundreds
of other State, county and town Of
| flcials. We hold the balance OF power
in the United States Senate. and have
four times as many Gcngressmen as
ever before.
I'VE united with the silver forces in
the recent campaign, not because We
believe free coinage OF silver is the
solution of the financial problem. but
because il woBld better existing con-
ditions- would meet with the least re-
sistance and would become the enter
ing wedge for our main issue, viz:
Full legal tender paper money, issued
and regulated by the Government
alone.
Having proved our loyalty at the
polls. we are free TO act separately on
advanced lines, and to emphasize the
real issues our party was born to ad
vocate. We can not. in honor. lay
down our arms and cease our activity
until the war for which we are enlisted
has ended in victory for our cause.
The Democratic party proposes TO
continue the silver fight. Two parties
can not exist On the same issue. The
greater absorbs the smaller. There
fore, if We remain mere camp follow
ers of another party disintegration
will result. Our party success alone
forced the Democrats to adopt the
Chicago platform and nominated Pop
ocrat for President. Converts made
by party regularity can not be trusted
with the reforms of the future. We are
not Democrats, and can not be classed
as such. We simply united for sin
gle campaign. The Democratic party
is but the rear guard of our own. We
do not stand for redemption money,
but for scientific dollar, kept in
variable by proper regulation of the
money volume. Then. why should
high school graduate re-enter the in
termediate grade? Our grandest
achievements are in the future.
The proposed retirement OF the
greenbacks and the discussion of the
Pacific Railroad question will bring
DClOTc lIlc jHo SlIOHStet
measures of our platform: and what
ever issues the other parties may
adopt, the logic of events viii so force
upon both Congress and the people
the consideration of these measures as
to overshadOw all others, and win to
our ranks thousands of voters from
both the Republican and Democratic
parties.
Il suggest thata nationalconference
Of party leaders and workers be held
as soon as practicable, that we may
have a full and free expression of
opinion regarding our future work.
We hope, therefore. that the reform
press will give the fullest possible eX-
position of their views on this import
ant subject: and our friends are invited
to write me or our Natioanal Chair
man. expressing their ideas on the
independent party action herein pro-
posed