Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-11-05
VOTES FOR NO POPULISTS.
Hon. G. Fl. Warner Says it Would
Be Un-DemOcratic


mo; contrary to my usual custom. |
am not taking an active interest in
politics this year" said Hon. C. H.
warner, In answer to newspaper ques-
toner yesterday, 'Only so far as our
county is concerned, where we have a
democratic party and part OF demo
cratic ticket. In the state there are but
two parties-republican and popuiist.
There will appear on the official ballot
OF the state but two names-the republi.
can and pOpulist; yet there are those who
say, If you vote the republican ticket.
you will be counted as a republican
"lf that is true, then the converse il
equally SO. Those who vote the populist
ticket must, then, henceforth be counted
as populists.
81 know that our leaders say that We
should keep up our organization and
follow its advice; but for one, | cannot
see the necessity of maintaining an or
ganization simply to adopt the popuIist
platform and resolve to vote the popu-
list ticket. All who so desire can vote
that ticket without any such resOve-at
least | suppose they can.
How any democrat, though can find
similarity between the pOpulist plat
form and the national democratic plat
form, except i'll one or two instances, il
more than | can tell The populist plat
form declares Tor government money
without any redemption clause; ft de-
clares Tor the initiative and referendum,
which, If adopted, destroys our cOnstitu-
ton, for majority vote then on any
question would be the law-the minority
would have no protection, as they have
now under our constitution.
Where is the democrat who has not
always been taught to hold the cOnstitu-
ton as the most sacred Of all documents
in which the liberty OF the individual
citizen is guaranteed?
The pOpulst platform demands the
submission to the people OF the state Of
a constitutional amendment that will
permit OF the exemption OF personal
property and improvements on land; or
IN other words, single taxation.
Il ask, Is this democratic? Ii so,
have read the history Of my party in
vain; Tor all democratic teaching is that
the burden of government shall rest up-
on the citizen in proportion to the wealth
and property he Owns-hence democrats
teach equal and just taxation.
Believing these principles to be dan
SOAOhS lhnOfdtlOnH III our form OF gov
eminent, cannot, AMI be honest with
myself vote for those who are pledged
by their platform to use every effort to
put them in force.
When the democratic party ceases to
flrt with other parties, or ceases to be
willing to trade off for office the name
and the standard around which so many
have gathered for more than a hundred
years, and fought to maintain those
which we believe to be essen
tai TO perpetuatiOn of free government.
then again | will love the party with
which | have been connected for more
than thirty years, and whose principles
nave fought so earnestly for.
Until then | shall remain passive. az
cept IN this county, where we have again
raised the true standard Of democracy.
and on its folds inscribed-nOt 'Populist
but the good old word Democracy
That standard | shall support: bnt
where we have no candidates shall vote
as my Judgment dictates-as [ expect
every democrat to dO--after carefully
the platforms.
III 1T makes me less Il democrat to
vote for republicans in my county where
we have no candidates, then it makes
Ill who vote for populists less demo
rats