| Show THE PEOPLES PARTY general james B weaver wearer the candidate of the peoples party for foi dent in the late campaign has just issued a lengthy address to the voters of that party it is not in the terms or the tone of the documents usually issued by defeated candidates showing how it was done and blaming somebody with all the scolding severity of which the author is in capable but is anther generally considered in the line of a bugle call for the scattered hosts tb fb rally and reform their lines he presents the cheerful fact that his bis party ra ran n but little behind the party at present in power as an to the number of states carried thinks it ww will have bare the balance of power la in the united states senate and rejoices that it has doubled its representation in congress while a number of oc state governments have been secured after declaring the republican party almost annihilated he proceeds to curtail as he seems to think to a great degree the feeling of jubilation which the democracy feel over their triumph that it was waa the result of a violent reaction and not of the deliberate judgment of the american people in this he is ie manifestly mani featly and radically wrong as any one not infatuated with parti manship can see for there was waa no violence whatever in the uprising cuprisin as and everything before and during the eleo tion betokened the greatest deliberation the exercise of as calm cairn and col looted judgment as aa ever characterized any election in the country general weaver pro proceeds eeds to ariu else cise what the democrats have done are doing and are going to do leaving the republicans out of consideration altogether perhaps for the reason that he laid them out so early and effectually in the beginning he declares that the leaders of the democratic party are without answell any well defined policy except contemptuous disregard for every principle of reform this is simply an extravagant and pointless use of words which amount to nothing as an argument and reach nothing as a conclusion he ought to remember that the principal plank in the democratic platform is also the principal one in that of his own or tariff reform and that there is not a democratic leader carce ly a democratic layman in all the land but what is altogether committed to that principle the general says in a tous tone savoring more of prophecy than of logic that the new administration win will ignore the three great contentions of modern times relating to land money and transportation he can not know that this is the ease case even if he really believes it because to be just the record of president cleveland first term gives an emphatic negative to such a statement the land question was one that he paid more attention to than any other holding as he did that the public domian dom sin was held in trust by the government for bona fide 06 settlers not for huge cor coratious po rations ious and private speculators and in in carrying out this policy he has incurred the ire of more people in the west who looked upon the land 40 s theirs to any extent and for any purpose than has ha yet been set down la in anybody a vocabulary we don dant tsay say that the president was right in what he did nor shall it be said laid that he was waa wrong principally because it matter the point is whether or not of the facts facto of history bear out general weavers Weaver s 1 forecast and common juarice would seem to taake make one say lay that it does do not nol As an to the question tion of money that la is something which no administration has yet been able to dodge or liz linnore nore and it is ii hardly probable that the next one will be breaker in this thia particular and the same lame may be said of recent years yean regarding transportation the trouble all through with general genera weaver seems to lo be that he look at things through the colored glasses of the politician which he certainly is and a smart emart one too toe and not with the comprehensive unobstructed gaze of the statesman personally he is in an altogether unobjectionable mans man of cosmopolitan coo in opar litan tendencies catholicity of view and of great tolerance for opposing ideas having become somewhat lome what acquainted with the gentleman it may be said bald that we speak advisedly but neither he nor anyone else need hope to be a ruling power or to head one by denying to others a just juat meed of praise for honorable service or forea forestalling talling what they way may do hereafter by ba base selesa leaa if not jaundiced predictions the peoples peopled party in ie now a recognized factor in the political economy odthe of the united states it starts out better belter than some of the third parties did gaining more electoral votes for instance tance than either the anti masonic party 4 arty in 1862 1852 or the know nothings in F U 1866 1856 it represents more advanced principles and a less legs bigoted purpose than either of them and ought to do better it should also be borne berneca in mind in order to establish a thorough analyst airs that in no state and but few if any congressional districts could it have been successful without the vote of the democrats look at the result wherever the Peo peopled pleAs party stood lone alone or opposed the democracy it has generally failed where they have worked together success has been the outcome in nearly every case came Is in it not so BO then would not general weavers excoriation and denunciation of the democratic party J just at this juncture seem to be rather bad politics and in rather bad taste if nothing more serious it is in quite probable that we of the west will have to rely somewhat upon the peoples party to assist us in obtaining the rehabilitation of silver with the function of full money since both the old parties are more or less opposed to it it will thus be seen that the now new third t arty has a high and honorable purpose which should not be disparaged or curtailed through the injudicious adoption adopt ibn of a batch of isms iams which appeal principally to the rabble nothing can be done without means of course and as the national government to is exclusive in the matter of monetary coinage and issues what can the peoples People lis party or its friends hope to accomplish in the direction indicated for some years to come if it stands by itself and abuses those who might be won over pour four years hence on a platform whose distinctive tino tive features shall be silver re dimp tion if in the meantime it shall not have been accomplished the ad luet lust ment of national and state traffic and circulation and kindred mat matters teras that organization might dictate what the governmental policy should be even if it did not actually control to this ahli end its ito energies should be bent and its it leaders leaden should be instructed to case the wiles of demagogy wherever they are prone to practice them and cultivate the arts of patriotism and statecraft Mean meantime tinse all hands will watch the movements and achievements of the now new party with a great deal of interest realizing an ai they do i that it is the architect of its own fortunes |
