Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-03

scrupulous and unprincipled bosses
may be enthroned?
The latter are far the more danger
GUS. They arc the ones, who. mas
~querading as reformers. are betrayin.
us ana should be effectually and per-
manenay turned down.
nave SO often pointed out, and chal-
ienged REPUTATION. that the Democratic
party IS not a reform party, that /. Is
not necessary to repeat further than to
again assert that the Democratic party
did not at it's last national convention
adopt a single principle OF the People's
party. NOT ONE. Free coinage III
silver was merely an incident of one
OF our principles. and on their adoption
OF that, was based the whole excuse for
fusion. Even that incident they are
repudiating, and have ~repudiated il in
most Of the North Atlantic states and
even in such western states as Wiscon-
sin. and such rock-ribbed southern
Dmocratic states as Texas. That the
next national convention will ignore or
repudiate 1t in 1900 is as certain as any
thtag in politics we'll can be.
Even Senator Butler, national chair
man. ardent fusionist that nc Is, has
been forced to SO admit. Sn August
Is last at G~reenville, Texas. he adj
dressed a Populist oncampment and on
this point | quote from his speech as
published in his own paper, The eau
cGssian of date September 1. THE re-
cent Democratic convention in nv
state passed resolutions and declared
fnY NJ pr,ynn and f.1n .;l-~~
uaughter.) That convention was con-
trollcd by Clevelandites, Mckinley
Democrats. goldbugs and railway attor-
neys. The gold element in the Demo-
cratic party controls the party in my
state today. That element Is gaining
the control of the party the country
over, in pursuance of the deep laid
plans of the money power and It will
dominate the next national convention
of the party. Why right here in your
state, Ii is today in the hands of the
gold bugs and railway attorneys and
other elements not in sympathy with
the great masses OF the people. That
same condition of affairs exists all over
the country, and thai same element to
distate the Democratic nominee for
EONSIMDT III lSNdS WILL DlIi "A Il u
THE NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT IN
1900" He made can extended argu-
ment to show that in reality nc differ
ence existed between the machine Dem
ocratic and Republican parties in ma
tsrial respects. and further that both
were wholly dominated, or sought to
be dominated by tho money power. He
CHARGED THAT TO-DAY THAT AN
ORGANIZED EFFORT WAS ON
FOOT AND BEING CARRIED TO A
SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION BY AD-
HERENTS OF THE GOLD STAND
ARD TO CONTROL THE NEXT Ma
T,ONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVEN-
TON.
"He charged that the money power
was gaining control of Democracy n
that at tho next national convention
Bryan would be oblitrated as COM
nlctely as Dewey wiped out the Span
iards at Manila and Schley that of Ger
vera al Santiago"
Butler sees now what prcdicted
more than a year ago, viz: that the
gold standard element would control
the Democratic party just when they
wanted to-.
II must not be forgotten that the
Democratic party gave us the existing
gold standard and TINT when in power
they have always voted down free coin
age of silver bills. Then so far as free
coinage of silver is a factor, there is no
choice as between the Democratic ana
Republican parties. In this state now
ever the Republicans have declared for
n much more important financial re-
form than fro coinage. viz: Postal say
incs Banks. In an editorial in Rural
lei March srd last VIC said on his 20 NJ
"0f the two we are inclined to think
that postal savings banks would prove
the greater boon to the producers OF
the nation So far as this STATE -
concerned on tho financial Question We
can well afford to give the Republican
partv the preference.
What evidence have we OF me eTnu-
enoe of the Peoples party since ehe
blight OF fusion struck 1t? In the ttar-
alist Of April 2Sth, last, we gave y
following figures as taken from oHlcla'
sources and which have not been re
futed. They were before and ai'cr iu
sion:
pom vote before. Pop vote after.