The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-23
A RINGING ADDRESS!
Peoples Party Senators Issue a
Ringing Address TO the
Populist Voters.

1OpQl1SU NOU0TS.
VICTORY is NOW IN SIGHT.
Stand By the Principles of the
Peoples Party.-Glorious Tri-
umph in 1900.
Washington, D. c., April 20 -
The following address was issued by
the joint caucus of Populist senators
and congressman today:
70 the Peoples Party of the Nation:
Never in the history of our party
has there been such cause for hope
on the part of those who are seeking
reforms along financial and indus
trial lines as at the present time.
Our progress, considering the oppo-
sition that the party has met, has
been marked; and, Notwithstanding
we have not yet realized our full ex-
pectations, we now begin TO see
potent evidences Of the good work
we have done, with very encourag-
ing signs for the future.
The peoples party has won the
confidence and respect of all intel]i-
gent and liberty-loving citizens Of
our country. It's record OF unselfsh
devotion to the interests of the plain
people is in striking con trast to that
of the two old parties that for thirty
years have overlooked the interests
OF the masses in their competition
for favors at the hands of the money
power, corporations and trusts.
The unselfish devotion to principle
exemplified by the Peoples Party in
the campaign of 1896 is without a
parallel in the history of political
parties. The robust integrity of the
party enabled it to rise to meet the
occasion when subjected to the Sc
verest test to which loyalty to truth
can ever be put. The peoples party
recognized the voice and hand of the
plain people in the Chicago conven-
tion. The platform enunciated and
the candidate nominated evidenced
beyond question that the masses of
the Democratic party in spite of the
hitherto dominant element of that
party, had at last put forward one
partially successful effort in their
own behalf. Therefore, without
abating our distrust of the leader
ship of that party in the past, we
extend the right hand of fellowship
to those voters who must, in the end
find their abiding place in our house
hold.
This action of the Peoples Party
was in no sense an Endorsement of
the past record of the democratic
party. But it was an act of fidelity
to our own platform and teachings,
q part Of which found utterance In
the Chicago platform, and nearly if
not quite all, in the person of W..
J. Bryan, the candidate there nomi-
mated. -
To the Peoples Party is due the
credit for the bolt in the Republi-
can convention at St. Louis, and for
the revolt in the democratic party
that rescued the Chicago convention
from the clutches of the bondholdinp
and banking combines.
Politicians bow before the powers
that can make or unmake them.
The teachings OF the Peoples party
press and speakers on the money
question had taken such deep root
among the masses of the voters OF
the country that the old party poll.
ticians who had misled the people
could no longer retain their Offices
and give their support to parties
that upheld the gold standard
Those politicians that were unvill
ingly forced to accept our principles
in tn, campaign of 1896 are probably
no more sincere now than they were
when they supported Harrison ano
Cleveland in 1892; and should the
Peoples party relax its efforts ane
cease to apply the whip and spur tc
these politicians, by attracting the
voters to our party, there is nothing
in their past conduct to warrant the
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