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■‘INS1DE--THE-PARTY”
NO HOPE EXCEPT THROUGH
THE PARTY.
Ad<lrens of Senator Jon(*». Harris and
Turpi©—Preliminary 8tc*p» In the
Grand Ilolt to the; People's Party—
The Only Course.
Memphis, Tenn., June 26.--Imroedi
ateiy after the -adjournment of the re
cent silver convention in this city a
number of prominent Democrats who
attended that gathering met, and plans
were outlined for an organization of
free silver men within the Democratic
party for the purpose of carrying on
the silver campaign within party lines.
As a res,Ht of this meeting the follow
iriK address has been sent, to Democratic
leaders throughout, the country:
"Soon after the adjournment of the
silver convention, held in this city on
the 12th and 13th inst., many Demo¬
crats, representing several states of the
union, held a meeting here for the pur¬
pose of considering the best method of
securing the free and unlimited coin
age of both silver and gold into full le
gal tender money of ultimate redemp
tion, at the ratio of 1C to 1, without re¬
gard to the financial policy of other
countries, and it was unanimously
agreed as the confident opinion of that
conference* .
"1. That 'the onlv hope of securing
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at 16 to 1, is through the action of the
Democratic party.
"2. That a large majority of the Dem
erratic party of the country and a very
large majority of the people of the
United Stales Irrespective of party fa
vor such coinage.
“3. That the success of the Demo
cratic party in the campaign of 1896
largely. If not wholly, depends on the
earnest and active advocacy of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver.
"4. That a thorough organization of
the Democrats of (he several states who
favor the free and unlimited coinage of
both silver and gold, on terms of equal¬
ity at 16 to 1, is necessary, and there
should be proper means of controlling
tho action of the National Democratic
convention of 1896 upon this vital and
Important question.
”6. That in order to avoid friction
and tlie complaint of such Democrats
as oppose the free coinage of silver, we
will not invoke the action of the regu¬
lar machinery of the party, whose duty
it Is to act for the whole party without
regard to differences of opinion upon a
single question. *
“Therefore, we, the undersigned,
wore appointed a committee to take
such steps as may be necessary to a
thorough national organization of sil¬
ver Democrats, and, for that purpose,
wo respectfully Invite you to meet us
ut Washington, I). C„ on the 14th day
of August, 1895, in order that we, may
confer and co-operate in establishing
such organization, and you are request¬
ed to bring with you such Democratic
friends as are in full sympathy with
this purpose, it. is important that a
Democrat acceptable to the Democracy
of your stale and willing to represent
it on a National executive committee
should attend this conference.
"An early answer, addressed to Hon.
Casey Young, Memphis, Tenn., will
greatly oblige, respectfully.
“lslinin G, Harris, J. K. Jones, David
Turple."
NOTES AND COMMENT.
Carl Brown and Mamie Coxoy, both
of Commonweal fame, signed a mar¬
riage contract on the steps of tlie Na¬
tional Capitol on the morning of July
4th. Brown was chief of Coxey’s army
In its memorable march to Washington,
and Miss Mamie Coxoy is the is-year
old daughter of J. S. Coxoy, of non-in¬
terest-bearing bond and good-roads
fame. Tho couple will return to Cali¬
fornia, Brown’s former home, from
whence Carl says he will return to
Washington as a congressman.
*
Valuable information in regard to tho
English telegraph system is to be fonud
In an official letter of Henry Martin,
United States consular clerk at South
Hampton. England, which is printed in
the Consular Reports, No. 147, Vol. 47.
The British government took posses
sion of the telegraph lines by purchase
in 1870, paying a total price of $53,526
000 . Great extensions of the servioe
were immediately made, more than 15.
000 miles of new wire being put in op
eration the first year. The service has
been improved in punctuality. As for
charges, the English rate is 12 cents for
12 words; wlnle in this country, with
private ownership and presumably free
competition, we must pay 20 cents to
send 10 words, and as distance in
creases, a proportionately larger rate.
The adoption of a postal telegraph has
been recommended by several postmas
tor-generals, anil is growing rapidly in
public favor. It is one of the demands
o f the Omaha platform, and another
clement of its strength.
General Pan) Van Dervoort has re
’centiv perfected a plan for raising
money for the campaign of 1896. He
has had designed and printed a beau
fill certifieat of membership in the
People's party and Industrial Legion.
He ,i ,-es this with a lot of reform I it -
cr till ' and sends it all out for $1 In
til tv he hopes to be able to raise a
“5 dllum dollars for the ca
If 1 . the Populists who voted it 'J
VT 1 We ver in 1 or one-third C
th who vc y iokot in 1SV*4, will
sc ^ n. rvoort$1 h.
re elvm U. "t
n
p; n fund that CUE 11
the nemy out c e
tip tho earth wit:
big earn to some peepk
pared with what we are paying aa trib¬
ute to the trusts and combine* every
year, it is not a drop in the bucket. As
a souvenir the certificate will be
prized by generations yet unborn, as
evidence of unflinching and self-sacri¬
ficing patriotism, and none of us will
ever regret the investment. Don’t de¬
lay sending at once, for the money is
needed now in pushing the work of or¬
ganization. Address General Paul
Van Dervoort, Omaha, Nebraska.
The recent speech of Justice Brown
before the students of Yale college, in
which he openely advocated the ad
lability and practicability of t -
government ownership of public utln
together with the general trend of
P«Mlc opinion in our cities towards
municipal ownership of the water and
»*»>tlng privileges, shows that this
particular feature is gaining public fa
vor, and will ere Jong press for public
action. On this question, as on the all
ver issue, the People's party has done
more to educate the public mind that
ail other forces put together, Thai
plank Is one of the bulwarks of the
platform, and call it "socialism,” “pa¬
ternalism,” what you please, the day is
not far distant, if it is not already at
hand, when it will be one of the great¬
est elements of strength in the plat
form.
* *
^hose «*»?. truMng. goody-goody . .
Democrats who want free silver, and,
fro "' the way they talk, want
ought to , be able to see by this
that hey have no possible show
in the world to win in that way. lo
. , ™ ,, the Democratic .. party . for ,
fl '« : «»*« «» equivalent to a complete
“"'render to the gold bugs The free
‘ was turned down bodily
in the Kentucky convention, and are
now subjected to the humiliation of
running their candidate for governor
on a gold-standard platform. In Ohio,
under the leadership of the younger
Thurman, son of the Old Roman, they
fought tho machine inch by inch, but
1,,8t ™‘ry now curled up
on the floor. In Indiana the machine
won t he battle over the people, and in
Missouri, while the people succeeded in
fore jug a convention, it will amount to
nothing, except to add to the evidence
already existing, that tho men who
want free silver "inside the party” will
lie made monkeys of next year.
The Democratic voters have been
sold, and the first installment was de¬
livered at the state convention in Ken¬
tucky. The delivery in other states
will take place from time to time within
the next twelve months. Some of the
states are holding conventions and go¬
ing through the motions of protesting,
but the general agreement is that they
will permit themselves to be delivered
according to the contract, provided it
«o decreod by the national conven
tion next year. It is not known what
price the leaders get, but it Is the
general understanding that the masses,
the high privates in the party, will re
coive nothing but the privilege of
shouting and yelling for the grand old
party, and the consolation of saying,
‘ they never scratched a ticket.”
* * *
Wo are pleased to note that the num¬
ber of preachers espousing the cause
of the poor is rapidly increasing. We
have long been of the opinion that the
church must get on the side of the
masses or perish. One of the strongest
criticisms we have read on tho income
tax decision of the Supreme court of
the United States is from Rev. J. A .11
Wilson of the Eighteenth Street Metho¬
dist church, New York city. He said;
“After tlie passage of tills law it war,
shown in one of the newspapers that
there were many families in this city
whose income (ax at 2 per cent would
amount from $75,000 to $136,000 per
year, and that there were hundreds
whose incomes tax would reach $10,000
and more.
“It did really appear as though the
government had found out that it was
for, by and of tlie people, when it went
back and readopted a method of tho
Lincoln administration to lay the bur
den of public expense upon tlie surplus.
rather than wholly upon the necessities
of the people. Hut to let the burden
fall upon the shoulders that can most
easily bear is not the way of the class
that was to be affected. Nobody for
one moment supposed that they would
quietly and gracefully submit.
"The great legal pettifogging contest
is over; the lawyers have retired cov
(rod with victory and their pockets
lined with plunder. The tax-dodgers
now button up their pockets, knowing
that they will not have to pay toll. The
amount lost from an untaxed surplus
will simply be , redistributed ,, by some
tariff iniquity upon the necessities
of the peoie, to increase the strug
glc of the workingmen and the pov
erty of the poor, while the money
saved from just taxation will be spent
in revelry and luxury, as before, or go
to swell the surplus of private individu
als and families. Back of this discarded
income tax was the call of the work
man for a living wage and the cry of the
poor for bread.
"Think of the spectacle of our groat
jurists and legal thinkers degrading
; ho high intellectual gifts of God to the
service of Mammon. The courtesan of
the street who sells herself for the price
of sin is a vestal virgin compared
the men who for a price set their great
abilities to perpetuate poverty and re
Keve riches of a righteous return to the
government which protects them.
Thcse nun have taken the load from
th : wealth which bore it
rz n in d laid it on the break
’x - oks of the oppressed.
The national banks are increasing
their circulation, and Carlisle is hold
irrr the greenbacks in the treasury.
r.ex: thing in order will be the de
.ruction of greenbacks.
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The Gold Mon of Both Parties May Make Cleveland Their Candidate in 1896 —Eastern Paper.
AN ELOQUENT PLEA.
UNION OF FORCES WILL WIN A
VICTORY.
lilauton Duncan Hopeful of ai“ A .»an«« -
Hetween Populists. Democrats stul Re¬
publicans on the Omaha Platform —
Karly Convention Wanted.
General Paul Van Dervoort, Comman
der-in-Chief, Omaha, Neb.;
My Dear Sir—Is this republic to be
destroyed; its flag to be torn into tat
ters; its constitution to be obliterated,
and the states blotted out? That is
virtually the question now before its
people, the decision of which is to shape
the destiny of the Union for succeeding
generations. Partisanship everywhere
crushing down patriotism. The, most
insulting of all propositions that can
be made to any self-respecting man is,
that certain leaders shall control com
ing movements inside of their old party
lines, and that every factor, every voter
shall trail in behind them. There are
such men among the Democrats, the
Republicans, the Populists, the Bimet
allist League. And some of these very
men in the Democratic party, though
professing to be now so zealous in be
half of free coinage, have been in other
days and upon other issues the most
veritable mossbacks in America. The
leaders in the Republican ranks say
the masses must follow them and fight
the silver issue inside of party lines—to
yield to the will eventually of the ma¬
jority, which we know in advance is
controlled by Sherman and his adher¬
ents—as Senator Hansborough—a type
—“declaring that he will abide by his
party’s decision, made in convention.”
This is not a day for bosses, if the coun¬
try is to be saved. When some free
ooinage Democrats talk about fighting
for the question inside of party lines
alone, they demonstrate at once their
non-appreciation of the situation, and
the folly of patriotic Democrats follow¬
ing them in an ignis fatuus chase. It is
not desirable to break up the machinery
in thp various states> which indorses
true Jeffersonian Democracy—but that
the true men shall capture it, wherever
possible, and strengthen it and organize
for the great coming contest. In the
same manner the Populists, the silver
Republicans, the bimetallists should or¬
ganize in full and energetic manner,
under their own selected leaders, and
go on to the decisive battle, which de
termines the continuance or destruc
tion of the Union. After we have a
coun t r y, ’f a republic, then will be time
en0U gh or factions or parties to ad
V ance the diverse antagonistic policies
which we may vote upon in successive
elections.
j n b 0t }j yi e Republican and the Dem
oora ji c parties, the masses have blindly
followed leaders, who have deceived
lhem in their individual interests,
brinffin g t jj e presen t situation of ruin,
^ogi-aja^on an( i destitution, to be sup
pj emente< | th 8 treasonable con
;p j racy t0 ma k e a despotism for the am
bition and greed of those piratical
bosses. If the spirit of party is still to
prevail, and that citizens are to yield
their obedience to a machine, instead
0 f following their own instincts and in
teiligence, there $eed be> no further
struggle at the but then will come
the abject surrender of millions, or a
bloody struggle. It has been said that
God Is generally on the side which has
the heaviest artillery and wields the
greatest number of regiments. In the
battle at the polls it may be conceded
I\S>y< if bosses and partisanship prevail,
the result is declared in' ad*-f e». J.u
the last election the Populists did not
carry a state—Holcombe, in Nebraska,
being only an incident—and the Re¬
publicans taking everything else. In
the whole Union the Republicans car
ried every northern state, with De!a
ware, Maryland (2,696), West Virgina
(13,359), Kentucky on congress, Demo
cratic, 160,382; Republican, 166,190;
Missouri, 3,044; Tennessee on congress,
governor, 748; Evans counted out.
(tnd yet some former Democratic bosses
stand up and prate about “fighting it
out in party lines,” well knowing what
Cleveland and his adherents will do;
and that in a contest with the Repub¬
licans they could not have a chance for
a northern state, and that the Popu¬
lists would wrest more than half the
South from them in a party contest. We
who struggle for the safety of the
Union have no heart for such a contest,
brought upon vis by the imbecility and
the arrogance of Democratic bosses
but we appeal to the masses to think
once for themselves, and to act in uni
son for themselves and for their fam
ilies. It is only by mutual concessions
in the days of grave emergencies that
victory can be won against apparently
hopeless odds. As in the 30 years’ war,
which was waged against vastly great¬
er strength by Gustavus Adolphus with
the petty jealousies constantly cropping
up among his 30 or more generals, and
so losing victories, which should have
otherwise been won—and all finally sue
cessful through the great warrior’s sa
gacity and conciliation, his life given
on the battlefield to crown the prin
ciples for which he had struggled, so
too, in our revolution there was self
abnegation and surrender of person
ality on the altar of patriotism. Where
would our forefathers have found them
selves—swung on gibbets—if each sep
arate state had demanded the right of
fighting under its own banner and fol
lowing its boss? Or if the French had
insisted on fighting battles at their
pleasure, and not under the command
of Washington? What would be the re
sult of deadly danger to all Christen
dom, if the hordes of paganism, from
Turkey, India, China, Africa and else
where should assemble their thousand
millions — requiring perfect discipline
and harmony to prevent destruction of
the allied Christians—if Protestants
should demand from Catholics and
Greeks the yielding of their rites, their
worship, their church government, or
the others would not train with them?
Or that other denominations should re
quire the Baptists to surrender immer
sion? Could there be but one result—
entire, utter destruction of the divided
camp?
We have magnificent patriotic dem
onstrations from along the line already
showing wise and appreciative knowl
edge of the situation. Especially do we
find this in that grand journal, the
cinnati Enquirer, which boldly says:
“Neither party names nor collateral
issues will prevent them (the people)
from uniting against the common
enemy. When such a time arrives, it
will then be apparent which group of
lien overhanging u ■then It would
make little difference as to the conflict
within party lines of a Democratic con¬
vention, in which there would be an
absolute disruption, and in the forma¬
tion of two fragments, such as emerged
in the Baltimore convention of 1860.
But the issue is as grave to-day, as it
was, followed by our four years’ war,
and all the miseries, loss of life and de
struction of property.
To permit a disruption of the Demo¬
cratic machine to-day, without making
an effort to coalesce all the conserva¬
tives’ Union-protecting elements before
hand would be madness, and would re¬
sult in the same end, though far worse
—a civil war In every hamlet, instead
of what we had in the war carried on
by the states.
The pigmy brains in the Populist
ranks (few, I trust) which assert that
they intend to swing the world by the
tail, and that the Democrats must
come into their camp, with silver Re
publicans, and adopt every line of a
platform, made when there was not a
speck of war visible—are just as useless
i and unprofitable members of the or-
1 ganization, as would be the anarchists,
who would gleefully rush in, to have an
opportunity to still furthe stir up strife
and appear as leaders when the conflict
did actually arise. The man, who will
not look down deep into his soul and
ask sincerely what is his duty now un¬
der such terrible conditions as present
themselves in view, distinct, not shad
owy—the man who has not brains
enough to understand what is coming—
the man who shouts for a machine or
for a special leader—all these need not
be expected to join with us, but will be
found against us when the crisis comes,
either at the polls, or in battle array.
It is a sad, a dreadful, a portentous
picture upon which we must look, if
truth directs our gaze. There can be
! but one path for you to pursue, under
the duties intrusted to you—to orga¬
nize— organize—organize — with the
constant adjuration, “Do not bicker
with your neighbors who agree with
you but are not yet ready, or do not
see the necessity of leaving his party
lines. Harmonize every element. Dis¬
cuss the situation without acrimony or
Yield to the argument of
silver men will constitute the strongest
and best nucleus, around which all may
gather, and if the Democratic party
shall not by that time have gained the
right of leadership, it will be com¬
pelled to make way for those who have.
If it leads, its doors of concession
should be wide open to all the friends
of the ‘sound money’ of the donstita
tion.”
Can there be a grander expression of
sincere and noble brotherhood than
that? Could we say less on our side?
Chairman Farris, of Laclede County
Missouri, calls for a state convention,
the state committee refusing to call
one, after 40 counties had demanded it.
He says, “Will the Democratic party
submit to such domination, and allow
itself to be muzzled by its state com¬
mittee If not, a convention must he
called by a higher power than the state
committee. The masses of the party
must make its platform and direct its
policy; and we must maintain our in¬
dependence, or surrender to the Wall
street crowd. What will we do?” The
convention was called. Ninety out of
110 Democratic editors in Ohio have de¬
clared for free coinage, and the com¬
mittee chairman was forced by public
sentiment to convene the state commit¬
tee on June 25th. Cleveland’s crowd
got a stunning slap on both cheeks.
The Indiana editors have met, and
they, too, will force a convention in
spite of Goldbug Chairman Taggart.
In the battle before us there should
be but one object in view—to go on in
the respective lines, each zealously
teaching to the masses the dangers now
threatening us; and asking for aid mu¬
tually in the assembled conventions,
which will finally be called together at
the same time and placed by the re¬
spective authorities of the several or
ganizations; to agree upon the views
which should be presented through eon
ference committees, and be indorsed
separately by each of the conventions
and similarly the nominees to be agreed
upon, and then hold a mass convention
0 f all delegates to ratify the action,
Life in every respect is a compromise,
Each man could not expect to obtain
all that he believed was true doctrine;
but the will of the majority should be
adopted for the benefit of all in these
days of peril, leaving to each individ
U al a struggle for his own view's there
after, when the signal victory for the
republic and the people had been won.
The Populists cannot win alone; nor
the silver Democrats, nor the silver
leagues. All would be overthrown by
the Republican legions, aided by the
whole power of the administration.
when It is asserted in the newspapers
that Mr. Carlisle and others in the ad
ministration say that they have no
other choice than to support the Re
publicans, in the event of a national
Democratic convention declaring for
free coinage, what are such persons in
any manner different from Sherman
and the gold leaders of that party? It
j S very cool and brassy, to demand con
gjderation and support of their views
under threat of defeating their associ
ates, if the majority chooses to reject
their proposals! If the country was in
prosperous condition and not in ruin;
r peaceful clouds illumined the hori
ZO n; if there was not shown the intent
0 f force and fraud and despotism; if
elections could be held without full
knowledge of the disaster and calami-
those who say they will co-operate
whenever the emergency arises. As
St. Paul says, "Be all things to all
men, and do not irritate and drive off
those who walk In paths which run par¬
allel to ours.” Let us hope that Prov¬
idence has not in store the devastating
cyclone of chaos and brutality, which
the inflamed passions of millions can
so easily precipitate, almost in the
twinkling of an eye. At the appointed
time there will arise, if God is with us,
the chosen man to direct us in safety
over the wilderness and all the threat¬
ened dangers. Switzerland would be a
good model for us now. The man who
aspires to office is disfranchised—tho
man who refuses office is dismissed
from his own canon, as unworthy of
For once iu our^history let
our motto be that “the office shall seel?
the man.” Yours truly,
BLANTON DUNCAN.
Los Angeles, June 15, 1895.
No lionsrer a Republic.
Debs and his fellows xyere denied the
constitutional right of trial by jury and
sent to prison at the command of their
accusers! How would you like to be
charged with a crime by an enemy and
then have that enemy sit in judgment
and send you to-prison, refusing you
any voice or form of a trial? That’s
this case exactly. You may perhaps
think their conviction makes no differ¬
ence, to you. But it does, and a big dif¬
ference, too. If they can be thus treated
as men are treated in Russia, it will ba
your time next. You are never safe, not
even when crawling and cringing at the
beck and call of some monopoly’s hired
wage-slave driver. Denial of trial by
jury upsets all the fundamental law of
liberty this nation ever had. It is no
longer a republic. It is an oligarchy—
a country ruled by wealth—a country
where judges are absolute and no pun¬
ishment can he meted out to them.
Tyranny always creeps on its victims
like a cat. Beware, Americans! The
Rubicon of liberty has been passed.
Men are no longer free to walk the
land or speak as of old. The mailed
hand of the despot is clutching at the
throat of liberty. How can men be im¬
prisoned without trial when this is a
part of the constitution of the United
States
Article 3, section 2, clause 3, consti¬
tution United States—“The trial of all
crimes, except in cases of impeachment,
shall be by a jury, and such trial shall
be held in the state where the said
crime shall have been committed.”
Article 5, amendments—“In all crimi¬
nal prosecutions the accused shall en¬
joy the right to a speedy and a public
trial by an impartial jury of the state
and district wherein the crime shall
have been committed, shall be informed
of the nature and cause of the accusa¬
tion, and be confronted with the wit¬
ness against him.”—Coming Nation.
Good Old Party.
Well, dear old party friend, how do
you feel? Goin’ to whoop’er up for tha
old party again this fall are you?
Goin’ to vot’er straight? Grand old
parties! So pure! Grand in principles!
Great leaders! Grand statesman! Pros¬
perous country! Happy people! No¬
body poor! No tramps! Everybody
employed! No failures! Business on
the rush! Good times everywhere—
what did you say?—“d—d lie,”—tut!
tut! man, you mustn’t swear that way
—“won’t never vote another old party
again” did you say? Why, man, you
are evidently thinking a little for your¬
self, and there is hope for you.—Lima
Sentinel.
Debs is in jail but his spirit is en¬
tering into the bosoms of millions oj
patriotic defenders of liberty.