Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-09-09
TWO YEARS. AHEAD n
Mlddlo-of-the-Road Populist
Convention Names a Ma
tional Ticket.
Wharton earker for President,
lgnatius Donnelly for
Vice President. ~
IT IS DONE TO AVOID FUSION
An Address to the People OF
the United States 10
Adopted. =
Senator Butler Scored for Al
legged Treason to Party
Principles.
IT IS DONE TO AVOID FUSION

CINCINNATI, Sept. 7.-The middle'of.
the.road Populists reorgauized the
Peoples party during the day, re-
newed its former declaration OF prln'
oiples and nominated its national
ticket two years and two months In
advance of the date for the election.
The olj'ct Of this early action was to
head OF any such fusion as that of
1895. While the radicals controlled the
convention they could not carry out
their programme without bolt
from northern delegates. The western
and southern delegates nominated
Wharton Barker Of Pennsylvania for
presidents and Ignatius Donnslly OF
Minnesota for vice president aud de-
olared the princip pies OF the reorganissd
party. The Eastern states wera not
represented. ~:
Before making the nominations an
elaborate address to tho people of the
United States was adopted. In refer.
ring to the present situation 1t says:
R..nnt For SENATOR Butler.
The Peoples party vote In 1894 and 1925
rose to nearly 1000, 900 and everything in
Dictated 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 1885, In a
prearranged theatrical scene Of great up
rom and enthusiasm, it moved to the front
a. <ho .7n.-.%od on1 -lonp m ,,3nn "Of
that which it had always opposed. IT,
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 Gun
ming man have been In vain. Our chief
battle is not against the
Dsm"nst. 1xtion Of Ono Metal
for the benefit of another, but against
claiming of the worlds progress to the
car wheels If prehistoric superstition,
in the shape Of both metals. The whole
world today is held In check by system
of goli barter, while enterprise Ian
guishes, industry suffers and the GENE
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 OPP
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 the day when
gold shall be relegated to the diseased
teeth of the people, and the human FAM
lily possess, free of tribute to bankers, q
governmental, full legal tender measure
Of values, made Of paper, that will ex-
pand side by side with the growth of
wealth and population.