Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1897-01-11
AN ADDRESS TO POPULISTS.
MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE SEES CAUSE FOR HOPE.
COnErntulates the Party on Its Growth
and Insists That Full Legal Ten
der Paper Money Is to Be
the Issue In the Future.

Boston. Mass, Jan. 10.-George F. Wash-
burn. member of the Peoples party ma
tional executive committee to-day issued
an address to the Populists of the United
States. In part the address is as follows:
I'VE are TO be congratulated upon the
growth of our party and the fact that in
the recent election nearly half of the voters
of the Union indorsed much OF our plat
form. No party ever achieved more brill
liant success in so brief a time. Although
handicapped in the last campaign, Wa
emerge from the contest stronger than
ever. Our party alone has IL voting force
larger than that which elected Lincoln
and an able, effective reform press OF
nearly 1900 papers. We elected several
governors. as well as hundreds of other
state and county and town officials, We
hold the balance of power in the United
States senate and have four times as many
congressman as ever before.
I'VE united with the silver forces in their
campaign-not because We believed fres
coinage of silver is the solution OF the
financial problem, but because it would
better existing. conditions. would meet
with the least resistance and would be-
come the entering wedge for our main
issue, viz: Full legal tender paper money.
issued and regulated bxs the government
alone Having proved our loyalty at the
POLLS, we are free to act separately on ad-
Vdnced lines ana 10 empnaSlze ine Tcdt
Issues our party was born TO advocate.
We cannot in honor lay down our arms
and cease our activity until the war Tor
which we are enlisted has ended in victory
for our cause.
THE Democratic party proposes to con-
tinue the silver fight. Two parties cannot
exist on the same issue. The greater ABB
serbs the smaller. Therefore, il We re-
main mere camp followers of another
party, disintegration will result. Our
party success alone forced the Democrats
to adopt the Chicago platform and nomi-
made by party regularity cannot be trusted
with the reforms of the future.
I'VE are not Democrats. and cannot be
claSSed as such. We simply united for u
siugle campaign. The Democratic party Is
but the rear guard OF our own. We do not
stand for redemption money. but for a
scientific dollar kept invariable by proper
regulation of the money value. Then why
should a high school graduate re-enter the
intermediate grade2 Our grandeSt achieve
monts,a are in the future.
THE proposed retirement of the green
backs and the discussion of the Pacific
railroad question will bring before con-
gress the two strongest measures OF our
platform; and whatever issues the other
parties may adopt, the logic of events Will
soou force upon both congress and the peo-
pie 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.
II suggest that a national conference of
party leaders and workers be held as soon
as practicable. that we may have full
our future work We hope, therefore. that
the reform press will give the fullest pos
sibe exposition of their views on this i'm
pUrtant subject: and our friends are in
man, expressing their ideas on the indie
pendent party action herein proposed.