Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-04-20

name for as shakespeare SAYS:
whats in name: That which we
call rose, by any other name would
smell as sweet" However, much of
this prejudice against the name was
removed by the action of the Popu-
lists in the late campaign.
1t is not to be expected that the
Bimetalic Union will allow itself to
be swallowed by the Populist party,
or that it will unqualifiedly endorse
all the Populist demands, but as has
been suggested by c. H. Baker, let
the Union maintain its organization,
met with the idea of running a full
ticket in all elections, but merely to
hold the forces together and throw
them to whatever candidates of other
reform party which is likely to grant
our demands"
A state ticket, made up of such
men as U'Ren, Barkley, Bilyeu
and supported in this way would
sweep the state.
WARD SwoPE.
PoPULIST'S VIEW.
Chas. P. Rutherford, Drewsey, Har-
ney county, writes April6:
In my humble opinion the first duty
of the reform parties in this state, is
to unite on some plan, whereby Ore
gOn can be redeemed in '9S by electing
two congressman and a legislature
that are not tools of the gold standard
party. Possibly the time has not
come to organize new party But
we should hold ourselves in readiness
to adapt ourselves to the changes that
time is sure to bring.
There must be a union of forces if
we are to accomplish anything and
those who oppose it are either in the
pay of Mark Hanna or blinded by
party prejudice. Standing in the
middle of the road or squarely on the
platform Of our party, might be all
right for party in power, but
minority party will have to make some
concessions, at least history does not
show that any party has gained power
without so doing. Politics is like
farming.
Theory is we'll enough, but we must
do some practical work. Will each of
the reform parties place full ticket
in the field in 1898 and 1900 with GER
tain defeat awaiting them? do not
believe they will, but if we listen to
some of the cranks and would.be lead
ers, we will. The Peoples party has
;own the seed of financial reform.
Now portion, and hope small one
refuses to accept the help they must
nave to reap the harvest. And why?
Because this help does not believe in
all the reforms advocated by them.
The Peoples party took an advanced |
position on the money question from |
the first and have done as much or |
more than all Others. They make it the
most important issue before the peo-
pie today. Their campaign of education
the Democratic party to
adopt a platform and nominate
candidate that was decidedly Popu-
Iistic and disrupted the Republican
party.
And now where thousand and mill
lions of voters are ready to help them
to victory there are would-be leaders
with their dog in manger policy who
would say then nay Political issues are
made by circumstances and conditions
that we have failed to CONTROL and
the actions of any political party will
not change them. The Peoples party
has advocated money, land and trans
portation with the result, that the
money question has become para
mount and the land and transporta-
tion plants, however much we may re-
gret it, has become of secondary inn
portance and the party that has the
best chance to succeed, that adopts the
money question as the issue, will re-
ceive the support of the rank and hle
of all other reform parties, whether
the leaders so will it or not. Some
say that the Peoples party would be
robbed of the credit justly due them
by union with other parties. This
do not believe, but better.than con-
demnation for indirectly helping to
fastsn the financial policy of England
on the people of this country.
1 firmly believe that the Peoples
party is the best calculated to carry
out financial reform, for the reason
that they are the best educated on the
subject and more fully committed
to it than any other party, but we
must have voters, and it must be
remembered that vinegar never
catches flies TO any great extent,