The representative., 1900-03-29
A Convicted KNAvE.
:. Wharton Barker's7 American o1

March II has this to say:
The scene is the United States senate. Mr..
Aldrfch explaining the conference report on
the currency bill. Senator Allen, fresh
from committee meeting in Lincoln Neb,
where straight Populists and fusionists split
asunder once and for all, fresh from his
: part IN calling the Sioux City convention
by Republican. sepatoEs with his allegiance
just voted IN liz 2hate oS' for state s' banI anI
notes. something HAT he could not swal-
low whole, says f3sA4 things-rash fer one
in his position.
'The distinction between the Democratic
party and the PoAplist party he declares
with some heat .is as marked and plain
as the distinction between the sun and the
moon. And, yet Senator Allen declares
himself = Populistt and makes close al
lance with the Democracy-a champion of
the Peoples parry, who makes close al
lance with Its Opposite, the enemy!
No wonder senator, Spooner, is tempted
to pursue the subject asking: "But what is
the difference between them?" And then
comes this response from Senator Allen:
In the first place, the Democratic party,
as l understand, believes in the constant
redeemability Of all forms Of paper money.
I do not believe in that, and my party does
not believe In it In the popular sense
= do not believe itsis necessary to redeem a
limited volume Of full legal tender money
In anything. believe every time it is paid
for debt and every time it is exchanged
for property it 10 redeemed in the full sense
and in that sense believe in redeemability
and IN no other. The Democratic party does
not believe In that. believe in Eovern-
ment, ownership-not control simply. but
government Ownership-of railroads, tele-
graphs. telephones and all natural and ex-
elusive mOnopolies. The Democratic party
. nj
that believe in and In. which my party
believes, in which the Democratic party does
mot believe '@t
And all this is very good, but it te1hpts
US to ask why Senator. Allen does not op-
pose the party that antagonizes these things
In which he believes. 1t would seem that
he believes in the principles of Populism,
but does not believe in being true to his
principles. It Is a. Nllabie position for a
man to place himself in. BY some line of
reasoning he may be able to keep his own
self-respect, but he can hardly expect true
Populists, not convinced by the line 81
reasoning, that it is we'll, excusabiA, aye
comn1endable to sacrifice principle for place
and power, to- continue to respect MIN, to
do other than exeerate his name. - -.
: But to such Senator Allen responds with
abuse-ever the resort of the man who is
in the wrong. Asked by Senator Wolcott,
->of Colorado. "for which branch of the
POpulist party he undertook to speak,
whether for the middle-of- the readers, or
what" he responded with unconcealed ILL
temper, denying that there was a middle
of-the-road branch of the party-in other
words, that there was any part of the Pop
ulist party true to principles and itself,
that the only Peoples party he knew was
true to the Democracy. I'VE have had-to
answer the senator, from Colorado candid
ly"-he continued, "a few Republican
.boodlers who had been sent by the Repub-
ffoy,, tod 70 ho
into our camp to destroy our organization
but, like St. Patrick with the snakes, we
swept them all into the sea the other day
(referring to the lincoln meeting), and
shall have no m6rAei trouble with them
Why was not, s., M. owen there to
whack Senator Allen over the head, and.
insist that there if no difference be-
tween Democracy and Populism?
Where was his banner, I'VE all think
alike?" ..t
The knaves should have convention
and harmonic their lies, or the people
will find them out.
And think of the matchless audacity
of that scoundrel Allen, charging that
the. men who organized the Peoples
party in 1892. and remained in it ever.
since. in poverty and abuse, are Repub-
lican emissaries; while he himself is in
the senate BY Democratic votes, given
to him for laboring to break up the
Peoples party. and turn it's voters over
to the Democratic party with Gas he.
admits) an entirely different set of
principles!! .-
We can imagine the CONSERVATION OF
God and His holy angels in the pres
ence Of this, tremendous. liar. He is
enough to unsettle the lynchpin Of the
universe. I'D.