The independent., 1903-07-09

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Independent, June A.
Laurie J. Quinby, Omaha, Neb.: 1
believe that the peoples party today
occupies the only rational ground be-
tween the outrages imposed by the re-
publican and gold democratic parties
and the insanity of the socialist par
ty." ("Populist Duty p 3. Indepen-
dent, June A.
F. S. Merrill, S. Post ST., Spokane,
Wash: Il am not much in politics
now. While | am as firm a believer as
ever in the principles advocated by the
populist party, / am OF the opinion that
several generations more fools must
be raised before the people at large
will vote their own welfare and inter-
ests. The populists are not. strong in
this state; I think, to some extent for
the reason that about six years ago
we unfortunately elected a few bad
people to the legislature who through
their action brought the party into
dlsrepute. | take some reform litera-
ture because I feel as though l ought
tc support the movement; but do
not read much along that line as 1t
m makes me mad and interferes with my
reace of mind to see what chumps
people are in whooping i. up for the
old parties-and nothing" C'Wash-
ington Populists,' p. 1, Independent,
June 11.)
Eltweed Pomeroy, East Orange. N.
j.: "There is not any of the populist
party left in New Jersey; it was never
| very large, but l do not believe that a
meeting called at present would bring
| together ten men, and there is no use
! trying to revive 1t at present; it would
| be impossible. The socialist party has
| absorbed the radicals and the demo-
cratic party the conservatives of the
old populist party, and few have
gone republican. OF course l would
be very glad to see it revived, but one
man cannot make public movement.
III think the same is true of all the
! probably also OF. many of them west. :"
t"New Jersey Populists,' p. 4. Inde-
| pendent, June H.
| S. A. Lowrance, Mooresville, N. c.:
81 fear we have no peoples party or
| ganization in this state. :. Ridicule
| has been one of the greatest means
used to put our people back to the
democratic party. AS for myself,
can never go back to it, especially in
this state. The democrats here are
4o Ln Nf
| reform that can see, and not much
| hope in the near future to get fair
election-nothing but revolution can
! do that. | should have said also that
another great cause of disruption in
our party was the division of the lead
ers between leading issues and the
| national ticket" i"North Carolina
Populists," p. 2, Independent, June 1877
S. S. Smith, Ogden Utah: (No
state organization) 1--WE hardly know
as many populists as ever, in fact
about four times as many as there
were prior to the education we gave
the democrats during the campaigns
of 1892 and 1896. Should the demo-
| Gratis declare for the initiative and
referendum and for the government
ownership of railroads. you could not
organize the populists in an indepen-
dent party in Utah, unless the demo-
Gratis were to nominate his royal high
ress. Cleveland, to carry out their de-
mands. ('Utah Populists," p. 2,
Independent, June 1877
T. s. Hogan, Butte, Mont: 'I ad-
n:ire your persistency in adhering to
the party after it's death, but that it
| is dead-too dead to require burial
cannot be denied by any sane man.
AS for myself, while I vote with the
socialists, am taking no public part
in political affairs. Practically all of
the active populists of Montana have
Joined the socialists or withdrawn
from the field and the name of the
peoples party is never mentioned in
any serious discussion of political con-
| ditions. 1t is true that in the past
three years some vigorous trafficking
has been done with the organization,
but even as commercial commodity
it has deprecated to nil. Lamentable
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