The Louisiana populist., 1898-01-07
VOICES OF PROPHETS.
TWO REPUBLICAN DANIELS At
THE FEAST.
senator Chandler Of New Hampshire
and Governor Pingree Of Michiean
Warn the Hannaites Of the peop,ss
Wrath.

IL 'eAnoH TinRree or Michi1a
8 Warn the Hannaites of the People
o Wrath.
!, Under circumstances which at leas
- prove them to be sincere, two Repub
hcans, high in official position, hay
recently declared that unless the Re
publican party makes radical chang
IN It's policy it is doomed to extinction
! These two Republicans are Gov. Ha
zen s. Pingree of Michigan and Sen
. ator William Z. Chandler of New
Hampshire.
: IN an address delivered before the
, Nineteenth Century club at New Yorl
, HoV' Plngree declared that when he
,, ufgeo the Michigan legislature to en-.
act laws to compel the railroads tc
pay their just share of the states
taxation he was not only opposed by
the railroad lobby, but the power OF
the national administration was
thrown against the measure through
the promise of federal appointments to
those who would aid in It's defeat;
Gov. Pingree concluded his address
as follows:
How long can a government last
Which increases constantly the bur-
uens OF the industrial classes, and
gives to those who prey upon the bone
anu sinew of the nation? Here id
New York 1 fear that my remarks
Will not be we'll received, but believe
tnat self government by the people
ana 1or the people has not reached
.nat stage which all men who love
liberty hope it will eventually reach.
1T is the duty of the government to
project the weak against the strong,
tne poor a,ainst the selfishness of
wealth.. say right here that until
the republican party comes out as
champion of the average man and his
welfare, and unless It ceases to eater
10 syndicates, trusts and nionopoiies,
IL VIII be buried in oblivion. we must
pegln by advocating a municipal
ownership Of natural monopolies and
take away from them the item of
pront and relieve the wage Garner to
that extent"
Gov. Pingree thus finds the present
Republican leadership weighed and
found wanting for Its servitude to
syndicates, trusts and nionopolies.
Senator Chandler, on the other hand
indlcts the party OF which he has been
Tor generation prominent leader
Tor its apparent intention to totally
desert the cause of bimetallism.
In letter to the Washington Post
Senator Chandler says:
Since my letters to the Post of
August II and rs, two important
events have happened % the elections
OF November 2 and (2) the English re-
fusal to now promise to reopen the
Indian mints to the coinage of silver
as an inducement to international hi. |
metallism.
AS to the elections, they prove
with reasonable clearness that II the
Republican party permanently ac-
quiesces in "the existing gold stand
ard" and gives up the struggle for BIZ
metallism, that party will be defeated
IN the congressional elections of 1898
and in the presidential election of 1900
The silver monometallists will then
take possession of all branches of the
national government, and free COIN
age bill, with silver made the tender
for all debts, public and private. do.
mestic and foreign, will pass both
houses of congress and be signed by
President Bryan.
Greater New York city being in
he hands of Tammany Hall, that or
5anization will unite with the nation
u Democracy In the demand for free
'llver coinage, and it is not within the
pounds of possibility that the rural
Republican bimetallists will give
7otes enough upon a single gold .
tandard platform to place the state ,
# New York back in the Democratic |
olumn. There may be infatuated in
lividuals who think, in view Of the
lections of the I'd instant in Iowa
)hio, Kentucky, and Nebraska that
he western Republican states can be !
ept in line If future party platforms {
hall completely yield to gold and give 7
p the effort to remonetize silver. but i
ne wiser and safer view is to assume =
hat with the issue so framed the Re-
ublican party will meet with over
helming political disaster inflicted Fl
solid South and west almost v
did, aided by Tammany Hall and the t
ee silver Democracy Of the Empire 6
ate. This comes very near being q s.
'untry of free voters, and our elec- "
ons come very near being honest r
ansactions, and an intelligent people. >
ith their votes freely cast and hon
tly counted, will never adopt or SUBJ
1t to the permanent demonstration !
silver and the fixed ascendency Of o.
a oiuOIo cold c<ou,a,.d .., O