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our day, through the influence of
Bright Eyes—the beautiful and intel
. lectunl Indian wife of Hon. Thomae
H. Tibbles.”
Watson’s “facts” greatly dims the
glory of Jackson’s Indian wais. In
speaking of the Indians, he say®:
“Poor creatures! What chance did
they have to win the tight and keep
their homes? None at all.’’ He sums
up the situation as follows:
“General Claybourne was in the
field with an army; General Floyd
came across the Chattahoochee from
Georgia with an army; and General
Jackson led so many Tennesseean*
and friendly Indians that his biggest
difficulty during the whole Creek war
was the feeding of his men. The hos
tile Indians, it would seem, never did
muster more than 1,000 warriors fur
any one battle, while Jackson’s army
alone —not counting friendly Indians
—ranged from 2,000 to 5,000. In
fact, Jackson’s triumph over the
Creeks does not rank as a military
exploit much above the Manilla bay
affair in which Dewey knocked over
those old Spanish tubs.”—The Inves
tigator.
POPULIST CONFERENCE.
A conference of the national com
mittee of the people’s party will be
held at St. Louis, November 28, 1907,
and to this all members of the par
ty and all friends of the principles
embodied in the Springfield platform
of 1904 are invited. The toiling and
producing classes are especially in
vited—members of labor and farm
organizations, municipal ownership
leagues, the Reform Press association,
national provisional committee, th®
federal people’s party clubs, etc.
Th® purpose of this meeting will
b® to strengthen the reforms repre
sented by the people’s party, plan
for the campaign of 1908, and to
take whatever action may seem need
ful. There are important reasons
why early action should be taken.
While our cause has prospered be
yond expectation, there is much un
finished work that can be advanced
by no other party, for the old parties
do not originate or initiate.
A political party in many years
has not made so great an advance
ment, secured so many victories. Th®
Springfield platform was wholly pop
ulistic. Every plank was a populist
plank, and as a whole by populists
was considered a radical document.
In three years, however, these princi
ples, with one exception, have be
come public property, advocated end
advanced by members of all political
parties. Their complete triumph is
already assured. Observe the list:
Postal savings banks; the right of
labor to organize; the abolition of
child labor, convict labor and th®
sweat shop; the demands for the pub
lic ownership of the railroads, tele
graph and telephone; the eight-hour
(lay; direct vote for United States
senators; initiative and referendum.
A splendid catalogue, and their adop
tion will be as speedy as the public
will be educated to utilize the meas
ures economically.
Our remaining plank, the money
question, is well advanced. Th®
quantitative theory has been accept
ed by government departments, th®
‘ banks and the market reporters. It
is now regarded as a true princi
ple of political economy. But recog
nition is one thing and adoption an
other. This is our principal plank,
the foundation upon which we build
ed, and with over thirty years of bit
ter warfare behind us it is not to be
expected the end shall come without
a struggle.
Again, the question of a basis
arises. The annual production of
gold is now so great another basis for
currency is being sought by our op
ponents. Both in Africa and Amer
ica there are large areas producing
gold as evenly and surely as a farmer
may estimate his harvests. The
acreage value is known and estimates
of production for hundreds of years
may be mad® with fair accuracy.
Gold w’ill not buy as mueh of th®
other products of th® earth as for
merly. Gold is nc< longer king, and
thus th® demand for a new basis.
When this is adopted, it must not
mean again the confiscation of the
property of the producing classes, as
in the past. When that basis is de
termined there will be need of sci
ence and populists in attendance.
A new peril arises, rather an old
peril in an aggravated form, the
stock exchange, better known as Wall
street. Recently the bear® have at
tempted to instruct th® president of
the United States, and the incident
again teaches us that industries ar®
often in th® greatest peril. Here is
an organization entitled to no more
respect or consideration than th® old
pirates of th® Atlantic. Compared to
bucket shops, except in reliability,
their business is identical, but far
more disastrous. They destroy in
dustry, levy tribute upon all honest
commerce and enforce untold pover
ty upon the toilers. The populist
party alone will take up this work —
the reorganization of the financial
machinery, the punishment of the pi-
Tatical, the liberatien of th® en
slaved.
Th® world ndw does honor to the
populist. Denounced these many
years as agitators, disturbers and
mischief makers, the populist is now
esteemed for his loyalty, honesty, his
sound political economy, and his
staying qualities.
And the nation keeps apace. Pure
food, public health and sobriety, the
reclamation of the desert, the protec
tion of the forest and coal lands, pub
lic control of the railway lines, and
the improvement of the public water
ways are some of the vital questions
answered in harmony with the popu
list character and the populist in
stinct. Others have taken courage,
and it tells us these are great days
and the days for great things.
The rich law breakers, too, are pun
ished some. Public hatred for great
crimes is intense. Thus the tide, the
people, are in our favor, going our
way, promising an easy victory for
scientific currency and the overflow
of stock jobbing. Show the people
now, and the rest is easy.
Friends of th® cause are urged to
make this our most important meet
ing. With so much promise, so many
great measures advancing, the entire
nation changing front, the great re
sult® for the future cannot be proph
esied. It is the hour for the popu
list to be glad, to recite his achieve
ments and to cheer our nation for
ward to the highest pitch of human
•ndeavor and accomplishment. Il
will be worth th® effort to be in at
tendant® at the conference.
JAB. N. FFRRISS,
Chairman People’s Party Nat. Crm. ,
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
TOM L. JOHNSON.
It is slid that Mt. Bryan’s prefer
ence for the Democratic nomination
for the presidency should he himself
decline the nomination would be May
or Tom Lofton Johnson, of Cleveland.
The contingency that Mr. Bryan may
decline the nomination is a rather re
mote one. His presenf following
within the party is so patently strong
that it seems he can have the nomina
tion for the asking, and his only
reason for declining it would be a fear
that the Hearst disaffection might
make ®ertain his defeat. This idea at
least ha® been broached, but Mr. Bry
an has never shewn any great dread
of defeat. H® cam® out of his two
experiences of that kind—th® last
worst than th® dlrst—with great
cheerfulness and remarkabl® resil
ience and turned the advertising he
had gained to personal advantage
But should Mr. Bryan for any rea
son put away personal ambition, he
would not be able to foist his Cleve
land favorite on the Democratic party.
The S>uln has stood for more radical
departure® than would have been
thought possible twenty year® ago, but
it would revolt at Tom Johnson,
though he is of Southern birth. Tom,
beside bolieving in government own
ership of railroads, which th® South
would tolerate in no one except Mr.
Bryan, is a strong supporter of the
Henry George single tax idea, and all
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of his political theories run to an ex
treme of radicalism and eccentricity
that is far from the old time basis
of Democracy. This might make him
popular with a certain element in tho
northern cities, but such ideas in a
presidential candidate would be cer
tain to cause a violent conservative
reaction in the South.
If Mr. Johnson should defeat Con
gressman Burton fcr the mayor’s of
fice in Cleveland, which is by no
means improbable, that fact might
give him a boost as a presidential
candidate, but independent of his po
litical beliefs he docs not measure up
t® the presidential standard. His two
attempts to be elected governor of
Ohio w®r® fiasco®, despit® his spec
tacular circus tent campaign and the
oratorical support vs Mr. Bryan. He
has been a failure in politics in anv
broad field than that of the munici
pality, and his success there was
chiefly due to his advocacy of 3-cent
street railroad fares. He is in no
sense a large man off of the hay
scales, and though he might be ac
ceptable to both Mr. Bryan and Mr.
Hearst, and thus prevent a split iu
th® radical elements of the Democrat
ic party, ther® could be no possible
ehance for his election. The long
prophesied break in the solid South
would be forcibly realized if Tom L.
Johnson should be the Democratic
nominee.—Nashville Banner.
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