The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-05-18


mands? Shall he who cannot do much
be for that reason excused if he do moth
ing?"
At Bryan's Old Home
The nineteenth day Of April. 1898!
Let the world know all about it. Let
true reformers everywhere rejoice over
it. Let the Republicans imagine vain
thing when they hear of it. Let the
Democrats rage when they learn of it.
Let the brave be encouraged and the
timid strengthened by it.
The Peoples Party in Marion county,
Illinois, met in county convention.
Everyone will remember this county as
the old home of the meteoric Bryan. On
this occasion the clans were called to-
gether in the very room where the IA
nous orator of the Platte made his first
political speech. Almost every man pre-
ent was personal friend of the late idol
of the Democracy. 1t should also be
| noted that the fusion propaganda was on
hand with it's legion of alluring offers
and multitude of portentious threats.
Under these circumstances it was not a
subject of wonder that the public should
expect surrender of the army, together
with all the hopes reflected by it's in
sigma. On the contrary a disappoint-
Of fhfc
quired a devotion to principle as beauti-
full and abiding as that OF the crusaders
to the cross
The spirit of the crusaders prevailed,
thank heaven! Men were there who
had locked the sunshine in the sheaf and
made the desert blossom as the rose.
Men were there who had added lustre to
the garment of glorw woven in the little
red school house on the hill. Men were
there who had transformed the forests
into the towers of joy that resound with
the songs of Home, sweet home" Men
were there who had baroa ''teir breasts
to the hell of battle tt = flag might
float serenely in a unio - And they
were not there to sure :
The committee on !; : utions an
nounced that it was rec = eport. It
was then that silence e |. Every
delegate for the time b. emed bent
on resolving body, sou spirit into
ears. All day the tried :: true had
contemplated with doubt = fear the
moment that had just trooped upon the
scene. And until the dying hour of each
one present it can never be explained
how such anxiety existed when all
hearts beat as one.
PLATFORM.
The members of the Peoples Party OF
Marion county, ILL.,, in convention as
sembled, the 10Th day of April 1898, vow
their unfaltering opposition to any fur
ther fusion with either the Democratic
or Republican parties, and respectfully
submit for the consideration Of their fell
low citizens the following declarations:
/. We are uncompromisingly opposed
to banks of issue under any name or IT,
tie whatsoever. Both of the old parties
during their entire existence have both
favored and fathered such labor-robbing
institutions.
2. We are opposed to the issuance
of government treasury notes, promises
to pay somebody in coin, because that
somebody ever has been and ever will
be the money changer, vile and useless
creature who under and by means Of
such a system of money has been the
overshadowing curse of all nations in
all ages of the world. Both of the old
parties by virtue of the influences that
control them are eternally pledged to
redeemable currency, the one favoring a
single gold redeemer. the other favoring
two redeemers, silver and gold.
3 We stand unaherably opposed
under any circumstances to the issuance
Of United States bonds. Both of the
old parties are welded to the bond and
bondage method of raising money
We believe it to be the right and
the duty of the people in their govern
mental capacity to issue full legal tender
paper money in such amounts as the in
dustrial and business needs of the coun-
try may from time to time require and
that without any regard whatever to
the will. or wish of a panic making bus
iness paralyzing, labor enslaving and
man degrading money trust composed
of money changers at home or abroad
tire existence have been welded to the
single or double barreled specie basis
system OF money, by means of which
nothing but gold, or gold and silver, can
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