Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-09-09
0P|P0S'E FUSION
Middle Road Populists Declare
for Independent Candidates
For All Offices.
Pay Their Respects to Senator
Butler in Terms Too Plain
= to Be Mistaken.
Address Issued Giving the Par
" tvs Position on the Ques-
tions of the Day:
Legal Tender Greenback Favored
as the Ideal Currency of -
the Country.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 1.-The Middle-of.
Their Populists convened their sec.
ond days session Of the national con.
vention at an early hour, when the
temporary organization was made per.
manent and Chairman Ignatius Don.
nelly made another radical speech,
denounoing all those who had CO.
operated with fusion movements, and
strongly advocating tho reorganization
Of the party, not only for an independ.
ent presidential ticket, but for an indie.
pendent candidate for congress, state
Offices, etc. A letter was read from
Ex-Governor David Waite Of Colorado
in which he denounced Senator Butler
as a treacherous chairman and false
leader and advocated the nomination
of straight Populistic tickets for presi.
dent and other Offices.
An elaborate address to the people of
the United States was adopted. It re.
affirms the previous platform Of the
Populists and covers many additional
questions, and in referring to the pres
0nt SITUATION, IL says:
Roast For Senator Butler.
The Peoples party vote in 1894 and 1896
rose to nearly 2,000, 600 and everything in
dicated it's speedy national triumph. In
this emergency the Democratic party saw
that it had no recourse but to steal one of
the principles Of the despised Populists.
In the Chicago convention Of 1896, in
prearranged theatrical scene Of great up
roar and enthusiasm, it moved to the front
as the devoted and lifelong champion of
that which it had always opposed.
Senator Butler, who is the chairman of
our national committee, preached disinte-
grafton and decentralization, just as Ben
edict Arnold stipulated for the scattering
of American forces, that the British
might the more readily overthrow the
young republic.
Mr.. Butler taught our forces that the
first duty Of a soldier was to break ranks
and go over to the enemy. All efforts to
chain the boundless subtilty Of this cum
ming man have been in vain. Our chief
battle is not against the
characterization Of Ono Metal
for the benefit of another, but against
claiming of the worlds progress to the
car wheels OF a prehistoric superstition,
in the shape of both metals. The whole
world today is held in check by system
of gold barter, while enterprise Ian
guishes, industry suffers and the ceme-
teries are populous with the bodies of
bankrupts and suicides. We will end the
tricks of the office seekers by putting our
national ticket in the field at once Our
hearts go out to the wretched and op-
pressed Of the whole world. While we
demand that if either gold Or silver is to
be used, as money, both shall be SO used,
we insist that the best currency this coun-
try ever possessed was the full legal ten
der greenback of the Civil War, and we
look forward with hope to tho day when
gold shall be relegated to the diseased
teeth of the people, and the human fam
lily possess, free of tribute to bankers, a
governmental, full legal tender measure
of values, made of paper, that will ex-
pand side by side with the growth of
wealth and population.