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THE PLATFORM.
ADOPTED BY THE PEOPLE’S PARTY
ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.
A Declaration of Principles Which Should
Enlist the Hearty Support of Every
American Citizen Who Dores His Coun
try.
The People’s Party, assembled in na
tional convention, reaffirms its allegi
ance to the principles declared by the
founders of the republic, and also to the
fundamental principles of just govern
ment as enunciated in the platform of
the party in 1892. We recognize that
through the connivance of the present
and preceding administrations the coun
try has reached a crisis in its national
life, as predicted in our declaration four
years ago, and that prompt and patriotic
action is the supreme duty of the hour.
We realize that while we have political
independence our financial and indus
trial independence is yet to be attained
by restoring to our country the consti
tutional control and exercise of the
functions necessary to a people’s govern
ment, which functions have been basely
surrendered by our public servants to
corporate monopolies. The influence of
European money changers has been
more potent in shaping legislation than
the voice of the American people. Ex
ecutive power and patronage have been
used to corrupt our legislatures and de
feat the will of the people, and plu
tocracy has thereby been enthroned upon
the ruins of Democracy. To restore the
government intended by the fathers, and
for the welfare and prosperity of this
and future generations, we demand the
establishment of an economic and finan
cial system which shall make us masters
of our own affairs and independent of
European control by the adoption of the
following declaration of principles:
FINANCE.
1. We demand a national money,
safe and sound, issued by the general
government only, without the interven
tion of banks of issue, to be a full legal
tender for all debts, public and private;
a just, equitable and efficient means of
distribution direct to the people and
through the lawful disbursement of the
government.
2. We demand the free and unre
stricted coinage of silver and gold at
the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, with
out waiting for the consent of foreign
nations.
8. We demand the volume of circu
lating medium be speedily increased to
an amount sufficient to meet the de
mands of the business and population of
this country and to restore the just level
of prices of labor and production.
4. We denounce the sale of bonds and
the increase of the public interest bear
ing debt made by the present adminis
tration as unnecessary and without au
thority of law, and that no more bonds
be issued except by specific act of con
gress.
3. We demand such legislation as
will prevent the demonetization of the
lawful money of the United States by
private contract
6. We demand that the government,
in payment of its obligations, shall use
its option as to the kind of lawful mon
ey in which they are to be paid, and we
denounce the present and preceding ad
ministrations for surrendering this op
tion to the holders of government obli
gations.
7. We demand a graduated income
tax, to the end that aggregated wealth
shall bear its just proportion of taxa
tion, and we regard the recent decision
of the supreme court relative to the in
come tax law as a misinterpretation of
the constitution and an invasion of the
rightful powers of congress over the
snbject of taxation.
8. We demand that postal savings
banks be established by the government
for the safe deposit of the savings of the
people and to facilitate exchange.
TRANSPORTATION.
1. Transportation being a means of
exchange and a public necessity, the
government should own and operate the
railroads in the interest of the people
and on a nonpartisan basis, to the end
that all may be accorded the same treat
ment in transportation, and that the
tyranny and political power now exer
cised V the great railroad corporations,
whicu result in the impairment, if not
the destruction, of the political rights
and personal liberties of the citizens,
may be destroyed. Such ownership is
to be accomplished gradually in a man
ner consistent with sound public policy.
2. The interest of the United States
in the public highways built with pub
lic moneys and the proceeds of extensive
grants of land to the Pacific railroads
should never be alienated, mortgaged or
Sold, but guarded and protected for the
general welfare, as provided by the laws
organizing such railroads. The fore
closure of existing liens of the United
States on these roads should at once fol
low default in the payment thereof by
the debtor companies, and at the fore
closure sales of said roads the govern
ment shall purchase the same if it be
comes necessary to protect its interests
therein or if they can be purchased at
a reasonable price, and the government
shall operate said railroads as public
highways for the benefit of the whole
people and not in the interest of the
few, under suitable provisions for pro
tection of life and property, giving to
all transportation interests equal privi
leges and equal rates for fares and
freights.
3 We denounce the present infamous
schemes for refunding these debts and
demand that the laws now applicable
thereto be executed and administered
according to their true intent and spirit.
4. The telegraph, like the postoffice
system, being a necessity for the trans
mission of news, should be owned and
operated by the government in the in
terest of the people.
LAND.
1. The true policy demands that the
national and state legislation shall be
such as will ultimately enable every
prudent and industrious citizen to se
cure a home, and that land should not
be monopolized for speculative purposes.
All lands no ■■ held by railroads and
other companies in excess of their actual
needs should by lawful means be re
claimed by the government and held for
actual settlers, and private land monop
oly, as well as alien ownership, should
be prohibited.
2. We condemn the frauds by which
the land grant Pacific railroad com
panies have, through the connivance of
the interior department, robbed multi
tudes of actual bona fide settlers of their
homes and miners of their claims, and
we demand legislation by congress
which will enforce the exemption of
mineral land from sach grants, after as
well as before patent.
3. We demand that bona fide settlers
on all public lands be granted free
homes, as provided in the national
homestead law, and that no exception
be made in the case of Indian reserva
tions when opened for settlement, and
that all lands not now patented come
under this demand.
DIRECT LEGISLATION.
We favor a system of direct legisla
tion through the initiative and referen
dum under proper constitutional safe
guards.
GENERAL PROPOSITIONS.
1. We demand the election of presi
dent, vice president and United States
senators by a direct vote of the people
2. We tender to the patriotic people
of Cuba our deepest sympathy in their
heroic struggle for political freedom
and independence, and we believe the
time has come when the United States,
the great republic of the tvorld, should
recognize that Cuba is, and of right
ought to be, a free and independent
state.
8. We favor home rule in the terri
tories and the District of Columbia and
the early admission of the territories as
states.
4. All public salaries should be made
to correspond to the price of labor and
its products.
5. In times of great industrial de
pression idle labor should be employed
on public works as far as practicable.
6. The arbitrary course of the courts
in assuming to imprison citizens for in
direct contempt and ruling them by in
junction should be prevented by proper
legislation.
7. We favor just pensions for our dis
abled Union soldiers.
8. Believing that the elective fran
chise and untrammeled ballot are essen
tial to a government for and by the peo
ple, the People’s Party condemns the
wholesale system of disfranchisement
adopted in some of the states as unre
publican and undemocratic, and we de
clare it to be the duty of the several
state legislatures to take such action as
will secure a full, free and fair ballot
and an honest count.
9. While the foregoing propositions
constitute the platform on which our
party stands, and for the vindication of
which its organization will be main
tained, we recognize that the great and
pressing issue of the pending campaign
upon which the present presidential
election will turn is the financial ques
tion, and upon this great and specific
issue between the parties we cordially
invite the aid and co-operation of all or
ganizations and citizens agreeing with
us upon this vital question.
THE NASHViLLECONFERENGE
r-elow will be found tb» address
issued bv the National Conference of
‘he People’s Party which was held at
Yashville, Tenn , July 4, 1897.
address.
TO THE PEOPLE'S PARTY OF THE UNITED
states:
Disclaiming any intention to dictate
to the Populist voters of the United
States, or any feeling of bitterness
towards those who may have honestly
differed from us in the past on matters
of party policy, in the words of the im
mortal Lincoln, ‘ With malice toward
none, with charity for all, with firm
ness in the right as God gives us to see
the right; we submit to every patriotic
citizen the following address:
In 1891 there was organized at Cin
cinnati a great political party, whose
principles were as vast an innovation
upon existing beliefs as were the grand
generalization of Thomas Jefferson in
the Declaration of Independence an ad
vance upon the ideas commonly held
by the world in 1776.
The latter proclaimed the legal
equality of all men, and their right to
liberty and happiness; the former de
clared that government is a mere in
•trumentality, formed by all for the
enforcement of the welfare of all; that
labor of brain and brawn is the sole
parent of prosperity, society and civili
zation, That “wealth belongs to him
who creates it, and that every dollar
taken from industry, without an equiv
alent, is robbery, that if any man will
not work, neither shall he eat; that the
interests of rural and civic labor are
the same, while their enemies are iden
tical.”
These ideas are the natural sequence
and supplement to the Declaration of
Independence. Without them the words
of Jefferson are a mere “brutum ful
men.” The right to “pursue happi
ness” is of no avail if men are prevented
by misgovernment from attaining it
Liberty is but an idle word if the
human family are to be swept through
poverty and suffering in bondage. Life
itself is not worth having ,t the price
of shame and degrade m. The New
World is no better th the Old World
if the condition of people is the
same.
We escaped from England in 1776
We are again her subjects in 1897- We
are not permitted to pass laws neces
sary for our own welfare, without her
consent; and that consent cannot be
had since she thrives by plundering us.
Cheap production in the United States
means cheap supplies for her citizens
Instead of a sovereign people, leading
the world to higher levels of state
craft and development, as the greatest,
most powerful and most thoroughly
educated Commonwealth on earth, we
are dwarfed into mere provincials, toil
ing to ennch our cunning masters,
aide by side with the starving Hindoo,
the wretched Egyptian and the im
poverished Irishman.
The people’s party was born to live
and not to die. It was created not to
put a few men in office, but to give to
all men that happiness guaranteed by
the Constitution of the United States.
The conditions which five y< ars ago
demanded the establishment of our or
ganization, insist today, with ten-fold
force, that it shall live as long as a
single wrong exists an righted on the
face of the earth.
To resist these evils, we organized in
1891. We meet in 1897 to renew the
faith; to proclaim tha' the battle is not
yet over; that it is just beginning, and
that we will continue the good tight as
long as God lets us live.
While we have the largest toleration
for all honest differences of opinion,
and will welcome to our ranks ail pa
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the party ought to d e have no more
place in its ranks than Benedict Arnold
had in the Continental army or Judas
Iscariot in the Christian Church. Fi
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the human race.
While we have nothing but kindly
feelings towards the rank and file of
our late allies, we do not believe that
the question of free silver is in itself a
broad enough platform for a national
party. The remonetization of silver
would, we believe, increase the price of
labor and its productions by increasing
the supply of money, and it is therefore
a matter of the utmost consequence to
all the people of the United States; but
it must not be forgotten that the open
ing of the mints to silver would not de
crease one iota the robberies of the cor
porations, the usurers, the ring’s and
the trusts. It will avail nothing to
add to the value of labor and its pro
ductions if the exactions of plunderers
are permitted to increase in equal or
Greater proportion.
As our Democratic brethren had not
patriotism enough to adopt free silver
until we had popularized it, would they
not slptnp baek to their first wretched
state if the People’s party were to stop
its missionary work?
The democracy may be fit to assist in
handling a single temporary side issue
like free silver, buttlie welfare of man
kind and the interests of all the ages
demand the continued existence of the
People’s party. Free institutions can
not survive its destruction. It has done
more for mankind in five years than
any other party has accomplished in
twenty-five years. All arguments have
ceased against its principles; there is
nothing left but misrepresentat’ n.
It is the only national part in the
United States. It has eliminated the
last lingering bitterness of the civil
war. There is no fraternal blood on
its garments. Its mission is education
and peace.. It wid eventually make us
one people, bound together by liga
ments of mutual esteem and love from
the lakes to the gulf.
We call upon the whole people to
rally to its standard. There is room
for all and a heart big enough for all.
Let dissensions cease. Close up the
gaps and forward to victory. Let every
Populist b-'come a missionary to pros
elyte the unthinking and convert the
mistaken. Let us meet prejudices with
facts, passion with patience and igno
rance with intelligence. The fiat of
God must be repeated—-“ Let there be
light.”
We see our leading men traduced and
libeledb 'cause they will not sell us out.
We must stand by them. We see our
newspapers b‘veotted b‘cause they
will not assist in the destruction of the
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We are engaged in the mo»t desper
ate battle ever waged in the world. It
is the conflict of the few armed with
gigantic powers against the many. It
signifies the exploitation of labor by
the idle rich, so that those “who toil
not, neither do they spin,” shall rob
industry of its reward and leave those
who produce all wealth without homes,
clothes or food. The eight million far
mers who have just perished of starva
tion in Hindostan are not the victims
of drouth alone, but of cruel misgovern
ment also by their English masters,
who so im; overished them that they
had no resources to fall back upon
when a failure of crops occurred. In
their miseries we read our own danger;
in their present we see our future,
unless we possess more than Hindoo
capacity to defend ourselves against
the despoilers of the world.
We ask all who are in deadly earnest
in seeking reform to unites with us.
For the mere pullers of wires and seek
ers of office we have no place or pa
tience When humanity is sinking into
the abyss it is of no moment whether
the duty on calico is a half penny more
or less,
When we are utterly opposed to fu
sion, and know that it has brought
dissension in our ranks, wourecognize
the fact that many who favored it did
so in the sincere belief that it was best
for the country aud for the party, but
while holding these views, we declare
that no convention, caucus or commit
tee of our party, shall ever again bind
us to any fusion agreement with either
the Democratic or Republican party.
We call the attention of the Ameri
can people to the fact that the national
banks under a Republican administra
tion are now fast putting Into circula
tion a vast quantity of national bank
notes, taken out on the 5262,000,000 of
Cleveland bonds, which, though adding
to the burden of debt and reaching cir
culation by high interest, furnishes an
Increased supply of money and a better
pricing opportunity on the American
markets. If prosperity, even tempora
ry, comes to our people, it will be by
this increased money supply—not by
the Dingley tariff or any other tar
measure, as will probably soon be
claimed by the Republican politicians.
We believe that no reliance can be
placed in the promises of those who
control and manipulate the policy and
action of the two old parties. They
have broken every pledge and violated
every trust reposed in them by a con
fiding constituency. With the anti
election promisas in favor of free silver
Will ringing in the people’s ears, the
Democratic Legislatures of five States
defeated bills to prohibit the making
of gold contracts.
With the suffering and dissatisfied
rank and file of those parties, we are
in hearty sympathy and will gladly
welcome them into the People’s party.
We reaffirm the principles enunci
ated in the platforms of our party in
the full belief that when enacted into
law they will produce universal pros
perity.
We reaffirm the previous declarations
of our parti in favor of the initiative
and refereu im and recommend thatthe
People’s pa> y adopt this system in all
party proce> dings, believing that the
direct control of legislation by the peo
ple themselves is the only remedy for
corruption in party management as
well as in the law-making power, by
corporate wealth, now so universal in
this countr -. We look upon this as
the most important question now be
fore the Am rican people, since It in
volves the continuance of free institu
tions.
PLAN.
To the end of forming a more perfect
and compact organization, extending
the work of education, adding recruits
to and preserving the autonomy of the
People’s party, we recommend the
adoption of the following plan;
1. The election by the conference of
a national organization committee to
be composed of three members from
each State here represented, said mem
here to be selected by the severs! State
delegations. In Statesnot represented
at this conference, the national organi
zation committee, here created, may at
their discretion provide for a proper
representation on the committee.
2. The election by this conference of
a/chairman of the national organiza
tion committee, whose duty it will be
to push the work of organization along
strictly Populist lines; and In the inter
est of Populist principles and Populist
candidates; to preside over all meet
ings of the national organization com
mittee and to perform all other duties
usually incumbent upon such officer.
8. The election by this conference of
an executive committee of five mem
bers whom the chairman mar nomi
nate from the members of the national
organization committee, whose duties
shall consist in assisting in the work
of organization and education, and who
shall co-operate with tha chairman La
his efforts to preserve and extend the
organization of the party.
4. The election of a National Secre
tary whose duties shall be sush as are
usually performed by such officer.
6. The election of a Treasurer, who
shall have charge of the funds of the
organization and perform such duties
as are made incumbent upon him by
the Executive committee.
6. The officers of this organization
shall hold their office until the thue of
holding the nsxt national convention.
7. The National Organization Com
mittee hereby created is instructed to
look after the work of organization
and education in each state, to reform
our lines and to co-operate with the
regular organization when in line with
Populist principles.
8. We further recommend that in
each township, county and state, the
committees be looked after by the
members of the National Organization
Committee, and where necessary re
organized by the election of members
who are in harmony with the party
and its principles, and who are in favor
of preserving its autonomy.
9. We urge upon the members of this
party the necessity of more thorough
and vigorous plans of education and
organization than have been in vogue
the past two years. To that end we
heartily recommend the co-operative
and club plans perfected by the com
mittee appointed for that purpose bv
the National Reform Press at Memphis
of wliicu J H. Ferrisa, Joliet, Hl,, is
the “sent Chairman.
10 Ihe National Organization Com
mittee shall provide for the manage
ment of the committee here consti
tuted, the initiative and referendum
and imperative mandate, and we recom
mend that the first national convention
of the People’s party shall adopt the
same as a governing law of the party
in its entire organization.
11. The National Organization Com
mittee of the People’s party, chosen by
this conference, shall have full power
and authority to call a national con
vention of the party, or to submit any
question to the voters of the party on
the referendum plan whenever they
mav determine that the best interests
of the party require the same.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The following were selected as the
Executive. Committee :
Milton Park, President
W S. Morgan, Secretary.
G. B. Crowe, Treasurer.
Gunby, of Louisiana ; Peek, of Geor
gia : I) mnelly, of Minnesota; Stein
berger, of Kansas; Bateman, of Maine.
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We have received a copy of an ad
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Hall, Virginia Military Institute on
Stonewall Jackson. Dr. McGuire was
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emergencies, so thoroughly informed
is he as to Jackson’s plans, methods
and motives, that the reader wishes the
good and most eloquent doctor had de
voted many more pages to his narra
tive. Every young Southerner should
read it, for he presents the heroic at
tributes of Jackson with all possible
authenticity. Dr. McGuire points out
that Jackson’s campaign in the Shen
andoah Valley is used as a model of
strategy in the great European mili
tary colleges, and be tells how he re
cently heard some of the first soldiers
and military students of England de
clare that within the past two hundred
years the English-speaking race had
produced but five soldiers of the first
rank—Marlborough,Washington, Well
ington, Robert Lee and Stonewall Jack
son. Three of these were Virginians.
He finds that Jackson measured fully
up t ' Lord Wolseley's definition of a
great commander, for he had the power
to define the condition and purpose of
the enemy; genius of strategy; the se'f
reliance that takes the risk of decis
ion; the eool judgment unshaken in
emergency; the prevision that cares
for the li-es of the private soldiers and
the personal magnetism that arouses
enthusiasm and affection among the
troops. Dr. McGuire relates many in
eid nts in proof of these qualities. At
the first battle of Manassas, when
President Davis rode uo to the hospital
where Jackson was having his wound
ed ha’d dressed, the former supposing
the day had been lost, cried out: “I am
President Davis —follow me baek to the
field!'’ On hearing this Ja kson cried
out: “We have whipped them—they
ran like sheep. Give me 10,000 men
and I will take Washington City to
morrow.” Could Mr. Davis have done
this no one can now doubt that Jack
son would have been as good as hi«
word. At Malvern Hill, Ewell and
Early roused him from a sound sleep
to tell him that they could make nr
resistance if McClellan attacked them
in the morning, he roused himself long
enough to say: “McClellan and his
army will be gone by daylight.” Dr
McGuire says the generals thought him
mad but the prediction proved true
His methods were aptly suggested by
a federal officer who remarked after
tbe battle Groveton: “Theserebels al
ways put their small numbers in strong
positions and manage to be stronger
where the rub comes ” Jackson held
rnly one council of war. His advice
was resisted, and he yielded. The re
sult was disappointment This hap
pened in 1861 at Winchester. He de
clared then he would never hold an
other and he never did. “Thereafter ”
says Dr. McGuire, ‘he held council in
the secret chambers of his own heart,
and acted. Instantaneous decision, ab
solute. self reliance, every action, every
word diep ayed. His voice displayed it
in b» tie. It was not the peal of the
trumpet, but the sharp crack of the ri
fie —sudden, imperative, resolute.” Dr.
McGuire maintains that Gen. Jackson
committed no errors at Gainesville
Frazier’s Farm or Cedar Run—that he
merely obeyed orders as he was in dut
bound to <fo. Jackion’s coolness wai
.-.hown at the first Manassas when Bei
“xclaimrd: “lhey are driving us
hack!” To which Jackson replied:
“Then, sir, we will give them the bayo
net!” At Chantil'y, when Gen. A P
Hill asked leave to retire because his
ammunition was wet Jaekson sent
this n essage back to him: “Give com
pliments to Gen llill and tell him tnat
the Yankee ammunition is as wet as
hs; to stay where he is.” To this Dr
McGu re adds: “There was always
danger and Wood when he began h s
terse sentences wi h “Give my compli
ments ” The doctor rela es several in
cidents going to »how Jackso” s kind
ness of heart, his readim ss to fo-giv<.
and his profound trust in ‘lv- Almighty.
's to his extraoroi ary intensity and
vigor in ctio n, the following passage
’rom the address, descriptive of Jrck
son’s e< urse at Chancellorsville, where
he received hiir mortal wound, reveals
the whole man.
“Never can I forget the eagerness
and intensity of Jackson on his mareh
to Hooker’s rear. His fa r, e was pale
hia eyes flashing Out from his thin
compressed lips came the terse com
maud. “Press forward, press forward!”
In his eagerness, as he rode, he leaned
over on the neck of his. horse, as if in
that way the march might be hurried
“See that the column is kept closed aud
that there is no straggling,” he more
than once ordered —and “Press on,
press on!” was repeated again and
again. Every man in the ranks knew
hat we were engaged in some great
fbnk movement, and they eagerly re
sponded and pressed on at a rapid gait.
Fitz Lee met us and told Jackson that
he would show him the whole of Hook
er’s army if he went with him to the
top of a hill near by. They went to
gether and Jackson carefully inspected
through his glasses the federal com
mand. He was so wrapped up in his
clans that on his return he passed Fitz
Lee without saluting or thanking him,
and when he reached tbe column he
ordered one aide to go forward and tell
Gen Rodes, who was in the lead, to
cross the plank road and go straight on
to the turnpike, and another aide to
go to the rear of the column and se'
’hat it was kept closed up. and all
along the line he repeatedly said:
“Press on. press right on.” The fierc st
ene’gv possessed tbe man and the fire
of battle fell strong u> on him. When
he. arrived at the plank road he sen’
this, his last message, to Lee: “Tbe
e> emv has made a stand at Chancel
-1 rsville. I hope as soon as practicable
to attack. I trust an ever-kind Provi
donee will b’ess us with success ” And
as t is message went to Lee there was
flashing along the wires—giving brief
j y to the Federal capital Hooker's
message: The enemy must either in
clorioi’sly flv, or e< me outfrom behind
his defense and give us bat'le on ou>
own ground, when certain destrnclior
a'vait-- h'm ”
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