The representative., 1900-04-12
WHO ARE POPuLIsTss

WHO ARE POPULISTSs
Indiana Is state with very large
Populist vote. N. H. Motsinger, the
Vincent family, Col Norton, Jas. II.
Ferris and the Representative have
spread thick slices Of Populist gospel
all over that state.
The state Is permeated with Populism
and will be largely in evidence at Gin
cinnati.
In that state the old-time Populists
are still in control of the machinery.
The weeding-out process has not
brought blight upon the whole crop.
The old oaks were permitted to stand
while the younger and greener shoots
were permitted to grow up
around them. Fusion moved on to
Nebraska, leaving the field to such az
Motsinger, Walter and this man. ]. w.
Clark, who wrote the following able
letter:
Editor Populist Journal If you will be
SO kind as to allow US space in your val
uaDle paper We would like to make a few
we have heard so often propounded.
We regard a man Peoples Party man
so long as he indorses and votes for the
principles laid down in the Populist plat
FORMS Show us a man that indorses q
plat1orm or accepts nomination in a party
tnat advocates the intrinsic value theory
OF money and we will show you a man
that is not a Populist. Show us a man
tnat 1ndorses platform or accepts a NOM
1nation at the hands of party that be-
neves IN coin redemption of paper money,
and we will show you q man that is not
Populist: Butler, Weaver. Allen and
others not excepted. Show us a man who
lndorses platform or accepts a nomina-
tlon at the hands of party that proposes
TO control by law all lines Of communica-
tion and transportation in the interest Of
the whole people and still leave the owner
ship In the hands of individuals and cor
poratfons, and We will show you a man that
is not POpulist. Show us q man who
lndorses platform or accepts a nomina-
ton In party that does not object to the
monopollzlng of the land, whether by for
elgn or native land pirates, so as to make
1t possible for our children and coming
generations to have standing room upon the
earth only by the consent of some land
lord, and we will show you a man that
Is not Populist. Show us a man that
lnaorses platform or accepts a nomi-
natlon In party that does not adyo-
cate the initiative, referendum and i'm.
peratlve mandate system of making and ex-
ecuting laws, by which we can compel our
representatives to respect the will of the
people, and we will show you a man that
is not full 1edged Populist.
Populists are people who do not be-
heve that they can get such legislation
as they desire through either of the two
Ola parties, and to fool with either of them
is to fool with an old political machine
that the money power keeps in running or
00 a.
other and only serves to weaken and re-
tard reform. Populists are people who be-
lleve that the credit of all the people is
better than that of any banking corpora
tion, 1t matters not how well secured and
guarded; and object to standing security
for their circulation, and pay them all the
way from to AZ per cent for the privi-
lege. We are aware that the bankers
notes are based on the bonds but what is
the bond based on? Simply the people, Pop
ullsts are men who say that il this gov
ernment Is good enough to base a bond
on. that 1t is good enough to base a dol
lar on. And we say shame on any American
citizen that will deliberately walk up to
the ballot box and vote upon his familyl
and his fellow countrymen that kind Of
bondage. We can understand why the man
who Is benefited by such chicanery will do
so but for the man that has to help foot
the bill to do SO is mystery
Populists are people who, as a rule have
but very little money, but always stand
ready to give 80 cents at least for any legal
tender American dollar that comes along;
and we care not whether it is good in
Europe or not, or II it hasn't more than
cents worth of intrinsic value in it or not
And we are willing to stand by the offer
until We are busted, or bust some one
else, even II this country goes to the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and silver
at the present ratio of 16 to 1. So bring
on your As and 50-cent dollars, but don't
bring them too fast, until we get our old
horse sold and We will show the people Of
this country one of the biggest bull and
bear fights that they ever witnessed.
And now, Mr.. Editor, we wish to say
in conclusion, that while we are a little
disRgured down here in old Daviess, nev-
ertheless we are still in the ring We
have had an awful scrap. We have been
struck below the belt time and again; we
have had right handed, honorable fusion
lick, and a left-handed honorable union
blow, and Mark Hanan and ]. X. Jones only
know what kind Of an honorable punch will
come next, but there is one thing you
can rest assured of-the same old thing
will happen, and that Is. when the votes
are counted next November Daviess county
will stand at the head Of the Populist COL
umn in Indiana, for on the 8th of this month
we had well-attended meeting, put up
ticket, and we think you might examine
it with gold-standard spyglass from top
to bottom and you would not find a parti-
Gle of fusion in it. And you will see US in
May in Cincinnati and hear from us in
November, even IL we haven't got But
Ter. j. w. CLARK