Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-09-07
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. THE Middle.of
the Road 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,
denouncing all those who had CO.
operated with fusion movements, and
strongly advocating the reorganization
Of the party not only for an independ.
emit 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 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.
afirms the previous platform of the
Populists and covers many additional
questions, and in referring to the pres.
SuC SlLuaG1Ous IL says:
Roast For Senator Butler.
The Peoples party vote in 1894 and 1896
rose to nearly 1900, 600 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 ahe Chicago convention Of 1898, in a
prearraRged theatrical scene of great up
roar and enthusiasm, it moved to the front
as The devoted and lifelong champion of
that which 1t had always opposed.
Senator Butler, who is the chairman of
our national COMMITTEES, 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 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 One Metal
for the benefit of another; but against
claiming of the worlds progress to the
.GdE Wn0GlS VI prehistoric superstition,
in the shape of both metals The whole
world today is held in check by a system
of gold barter, while enterprise Ian
guishes industry suffers and the ceme- |
teries are populous with the bodies of I
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 reIegated to the diseased
teeth of the people, and the human fam
lily possess, free of tribute to bankers,
governmental. full legal tender measure
of values. made of paper, that will ex-
pand side by side with the growth of
wealth and population.