FeD. 18, 1897.
THE NEBR ASKA INDEPENDENT.
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. nijBiBui 1110 uiiimuoa wouia nave
Nhown the "Don" that he himself made
1 t illusion the issue. The sound money
- people are anxiously inviting the popu
list Party to charsre on the wind mill.
auk umiuuii.v iiifjf encouuier is mat ine
populist leaders hare some lucid inter
Ta!s. Wm. A. Jones, Neb. City.
8ECY. POPULIST STATE COMMITTKK, NEB.
, I am inclined to believe the state
matter is a little premature, and making
an effort to cross the "proverbial stream"
severe (years before we get to it. Our
u a ui vs u ui 1 CV 1 1 VI (II 10 nui 'J uUU UVJUU
for all of us until another is adopted,
; then we will perform that duty, as we
have always done in the past, fearlessly
and without the consent of any other
Sarty on earth. 1 believe when you and
lr. Washburn fully understand each
i other vnn will not he no verv tap nnnrt
Can it be in the thought or wish of any
of our party to retire the silver issue
after all these years of toil and struggle
to make it one of the distinct principles
(and perhaps the one of the greatest im
portance at this time) as it has been
our battle cry since 1892. We have
forced it into the platform of the true
democrat party, and it has caused many
of the republicans to abandon their
party ties, and has such an impetus in
the nation that it is my opinion you had
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juhii hh wen ilium ui Biupnui iiio great
Niagara cataract with a teaspoon, or a
raging cyclone with a feather fan as to
trv tn not it hnpk nr rotnrri ita nnwnpH
course. The republicans are now agon
izing and almost palsied over it, as is
shown by making a feign at industrial
laereement. It can'tbe retired. Too manv
uavo uinuu iu a.u uuuccu biuuj auu uun
fully-realize what even this onestep forthe
ople means to our country and I be
like that the majority of thinking minds
hf.ve come to the conclusion that if we
cannot climb to the top of the peoples
ladder the first attempt, they will place
their feet firmly on the first round and
hold every steptill we get what we want.
The peoples party is not made of that
k, " of stuff that recedes or goes back
ward. But if the republicans or gold
democrats could get some of our lead
ers started that way it would be the
happiest time of their lives. They would
be willing to pay big for it. But we
must press on and if possible force the
issue into every national platform, and
by so doing bury the gold standard fal
lacy so deep that it never shall be re-surected-
and without the "consent of
any other nation." Let us endeavor to
keep all forces together and force the
battle all along the line until'we shall
seethe plutocrats of Wall street and
England quaking with fear that right
and justice shall at last triumph and let
us not De atraia tnat any party win an
sorb our party but give them every en
couragement to absorb all our princi
ples for if they are right no harm can
come from them even though they be en
dorsed by every party platform in this
nation. B. R. B. Weber. Sec. peoples
party. ;
CONGRESSMAN PETERS KANSA8.
; Am iiiaf. in ttiu nnf r laaviniT f ho nit. it
, and have only time to sav I endorse
yery syllable, every word, and every
sentence contained in your reply to Mr.
George F. Washburn. , If we wish to de
stroy the people's party I cannot imag
ine a more effective way to accomplish
that purpose than to follow Mr. Wash
burn's suggestions. Some of the leadrs
may try to carry out that plan, but the
rank and file of the party will not follow.
M. S. Peters, Kansas, City, Kan.
STATE SUPT. OF KANSAS. . '
I was a green backer before there was
a populist party. Was converted to that
belief while a student in college. As a
greenbacker I always advocated the
free and unlimited coinage of both gold
and silver, as have all of our platforms.
I became more fully convinced than ever
during the last campaign that this
-question must remain in the forefront if
the people win in 1900. I am in favor
-of fighting it out on the same line and
with the same candidate the fight was
waged last fall. In fact, am decidedly in
, favor of keeDinc ud the cainDaitrn with
out change of policy or loss of any of the
-elements that combined in the last cam
paign. Extremists, men of one idea,
-should be relegated to the rear, and all
true patriots should combine for the
greatest political contest of all the ages,
the one upon which the future of popu
. lar government depends the contest
that will, I believe, be between the same
forces and the same standard-bearers
that confronted each other last fall. The
St. Louis and Chicago platforms differ
only in minor matters. There should be
but one platform in 1900, and it should
-contain all that both contained in 1896.
I know of no safe way to increase the
volume of money in circulation without
increasing the basis upon which it rests
and, that can be done only by an increase
of tne coinage of silver. Those who
woald retire the silver issue would do
well to read the constitution and study
all phases of the question thoroughly.
They will find that the only immediate
and possible relief in the way of more
1 money for the people must have as part
of the program the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
Wm. Stryker, Supt. Pub. Instruction,
Topeka, Kans. -
CHIEF JUSTICE OF KANSAS:
I am unequivocally opposed to aban
doning the issue of silver redemption,
upon considerations both of principle
and party expediency. Fiscal reform is
our oldest and chief article of faith; and
as a means of reform we have always
urged the restoration of silver to itscon
atitutional companionship with gold.
The greenback and union labor parties,
out of which the populist organization
has grown, made it one of their cardinal
ueiuauus, uuu lurgeijr upon it iue reiorm
political forces have been nourished and
vitalized. Upon it in great part we have
grown in the past twenty years from an
insignificant party of two or three hun
dred thousand to one of two or three
'millions, and have finally compelled the
democratic party to leave off its equivo
cal and nonunderstandable platform ex
pressions upon the subject, and declare
in plain terms its adhesion to our faith.
I repudiate the assumptions but not the
-doctrines of the so-called "scientific mon
ey" school. If by scientific money is
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uieuut uni uiuuej, x uenevo iu it, uut re
duced to its last analysis, the advocacy
of scientific money is a simple higgle and
'quibble over the kind of material out of
which money shall be made. We never
eaid that money should be made out of
paper alone, as contra-distinguished
IDA
from other material. The greenback
party never said so. . e did siiy, bow
ever, and do so now, that it can as well
be made of paper as of gold and silver,
and that all that is necessary is to put
upon it, whether of one material or an
other, or of all, the approving stamp of
the sovereign power the government
ana give it its Inll legal tenner quality.
The prejudices and preferences of many
incline them to favor silver as one of the
materials out of which money shall be
made. The demand for silver remoneti
zation within our own ranks, however,
has not been because of its so-called in
trinsic value, but as a part only of the
generally felt necessity for more money
with which to transact the business of
the country. For us now, upon the eve
of certain victory, to fall out with each
other in front of the enemy, and divide
our forces over the minor and non-essential
question as tc what we shall make
money out of, would be folly would bu
treason, if not idiocy. But I do not ad
mit silver remonetization to be the chief
issue, except in relation to the coming on
of events. It is chief, however, in the
sense that it first presents itself, and
thereby engages the attention of the
larger number of people. Along with it
are others of equal, perhaps greater im
portance, and only lacking equal or
greater interest because not pressed so
far to the front; hence I will not consent
to an abandonment of any of the other
issues we have been presenting. The
populist party stands for reforms in cur
rency, landholdmg and transportation,
and its doctrines lead logically to the
socialization of all public interests and
utilities. For one, I have no hesitancy
in accepting Mr. Bellamy's .formula of
ultimate conditions: "The industrial
system of a nation, like its political sys
tem, should be a government of and by
and for the people." But an ideal state
cannot be reached at once. It can only
be readied by laying hold of the forces
and agencies of the government, and the
institutions of society, and working
them under recognized legal limitations
to the desired end. The restoration of
silver will be, indirectly, a sn iping of
the institution of money to such end, in
the sense that it will be an assumption
by the people of their rightful power
over their medium ol exchange. Having
become aroused on the subject of their
rig'ht in that one respect, the educative
force of its exercise is the most valuable
gain to be made. But the fact should
not be lost sight of that tli6 issues of this
trial now on before the bar of public
opinion are not between silver and gold,
or metal and paper, but are between
capitalism and industrialism; between
the people and their plunderers. One
count however.in the indictment against
the culprit at the bar is the crime of
money robbery, a specification of which
is the demonetization ol silver. There
are other charges, graver in my judg
ment than this; but it is count number
one, in a true bill, called such because it
happened to be first written, and I be
lieve in pressing the entire body of accu
sations to trial, without retracting or
dismissing a single one. The democratic
party now promises to turn states evi
dence, and help convict the accused. Let
the case go on. Frank Doster.
POPULIST STATE CHAIRMAN OF MARYLAND.
If the peoples party abandons the
silver issue it can by no means hold the
balance of power in the campaign of
1900. It may hold together many
staunch reformers and do much good
in an educational way, but it cannot in
spire the masses with any faith in its
success. Without faith there can be no
victory. During the next four
years there must be generated an en
thusiasm among the people that will
sweep the country like a crusade for the
triumph of every reform for which Bry
an stood in the last campaign. Drop
ping the silver issue is a bad way to be
gin. Hiram Trooman.
EX-STATE CHAIRMAN OF IOWA.
The populist party is the father of the
present free silver nnd financial reform
movement, and stands for the free and
unlimited coinage of both gold and
silver at the present lugal ratio of 16 to
1, and deraauds that all money made of
either gold, silver or paper shall be a
full legal tender, to pay all debts. I
know of no valid reason why we should
abandon the silver issue, or any other
fundamental principle of the peoples
party national platforms. J.
b. Anderson.
TOM PATTERSON OF DENVER.
I approve the position you took most
heartily. I see that Washburn is out in
a letter this morning in which be claims
that you and the Rocky Mountain News
are the only two that have dissented
from his position. I think he will dis
cover, 11 the populist party takes the
position he has outlined, that there will
be a million or so who have been voting
with it for the past four years, that will
mark their disapproval. This
section of the country, the mountain
states and those of the plains imme
diately joining, should harmonize npon
a line of political action if possible.
Thomas M. Patterson.
STATE CHAIRMAN OF KANSAS.
I have no patience with those indi
viduals who are so extremely virtuous
that they will not welcome the support
of any organization that is coming our
way, but I realize that this element can
get the ear of the capitalistic press and
that in view of this fact we should en
deavor to avoid any controversy that
is calculated to bring bad results. You
and I know the character of some of the
men who are the leaders of this move
ment, and while I concede that there are
many honest populists who are deceived
by tbem, yet nothing but evil can come
of any movement fathered by this class
of disreputable persons. John W.
Breidenthal. '
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THE GOVERNOR OF MONTANA.
After carefully reading your reply to
Hon. George F. Washburn, I am con
strained to say that I fully concur in the
views you therein express. I cannot for
a moment conceive bow any one could
consistently urge the populist party to
abandon or at least discard as the pres
ent dominant issue the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 of gold.
This principle was first promulgated by
the peoples party and in two national
conventions has been given the most
prominent place in its platform. Now
that another great party has espoused
this principle and in this respect become
national allies, wonld seem to me to be
greater reason for ua holding fast to this
issue. The history of the World dem
onstrates that but one question at a
time forms an issue in the public mind.
Other matters of equal importance may
become public questions, but they are
not public issues. At the present time
tne tree coinage 01 silver is the issue ab
sorbing public attention and it will re
main so until settled correctly. To
avoid the question or try to relegate it
to the background would prove our
party cowardly and show that we are
afraid of our own child. The free coin
age of silver is the first and most im
portant step in yonviucing the world
that the government can make money.
Xiiop that the full force of the party
may be United in support of this ques
tion as well as other matters of vital im
portance. Separate action is wise only
when honor and principle will not ad
mit of union. But when friends can
unite upon common ground for the suc
cessful adoption of the same principle
a division of forces would be the con
sumption of folly. I hope the views you
entertain may meet with general ap
proval as I believe . they will. Robt. B.
Smith. .
INDIANA, NAT'L COMMITTEEMAN!
I would say, as a member of the com
mittee on platform and resolutions at
the Omaha national convention, that I
as fully endorse them now as the funda
mental principles of our party as I did
then. To abandon the silver plank in
our platform is to abandon the principle
that would, if established, make us first
among the nations of the earth iu the
commerce of the world. It is a priuciple
in our platform that today holds the
majority on our side. The re-organization
of the republican party in '96 on
the principle of gold standard and high
protection is as incompatible as oil and
water, and in 1900 the people will return
to the old bimetallic system of 16 to 1,
and add the government issue of irre
deemable aud flexible currency. Joshua
Strange, Arcana, Ind.
OKLAHOMA, DELEGATE TO CONGRESS.
Have carefully read your letter and
editorial, and I must say they voice my
sentiments. While I am in favor of inde
pendent party action, so far as organi
zation is concerned, yet I am also in fa
vor of coalition with allthe silver forces.
By untiring efforts wp have brought a
large part of the nation to recognize the
element of free silver and the democratic
party to adopt it as a party plank. The
nation is aroused as never before to the
importance of this question, aud as they
further investigate many more of them
are led to see the need and iudespensi
bility of other reforms advocated by the
people's party. Free silver is the most
formidable plank we have in our plat
form for the goldbugs. They dread it
not only because it endangers their polit
ical interests, but because it endangers
their control of the finances of our
country. Every plank in our platform
is dear to every true reformer, but the
silver plank is the only one that has
drawn the attention of the masses to
any great extent as yet. As we have
been successful this far, let us hold fast
all of our principles, and as men or po
litical parties take a step toward us, we
should give encouragement, remember
ing that there was a time when many, if
not all of us, were shouting for the old
parties. J. Y. Callahan, Delegate to
Congress Irom Oklthoma.
' FROM NEW JERSEY.
I have just read in the Silver Knight
your reply to Mr. Washburn on the cur
rency question, in which I most heartily
concur with you; and most especially in
your three closing planks in the plat
form. H. G. Avery, Newark, N. J.
ADJUTANT GENERAL BARRY.
I have read your reply of January 30th
to Mr. G. f . Washburn s letter of Janu
ary 21st. I heartily agree with you that
the msues should not be changed, but
we should fight it out on the old lines
It seems to me that Mr. Washburn as
sumes a strange position when be advo
cates the calling of a conference to meet
together to formulate new issues that
would lead the populist party away
from the Omaha and St. Louis platforms.
The Omaha platform clearly demands
the free coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1, aud the St. Louis platform af
firmed it. It seems strange to me that
any man calling himself a populist
would advocate the abandonment of
the principles enunciated by these two
conventions. I believe that you have
the solid rank and file of the Nebraska
populists to support you to continue the
tight on this line. First Free and un
limited coinage of silver. Second The
government to issue all money, metallic
or paper. Third Government owner
ship of railroads, telegraphs and tele
phones. P. H. Barry, Lincoln, Neb.
NATIONAL COMMITTEMAN FROM IOWA.
In response to Mr. Washburn's letter
calling attention to his appeal, I replied
briefly agreeing with him in bis general
statement. The chief purport of bis ap
peal as 1 understand it was to convince
the country that we proposed to retain
our distinct party organization that
while we bad joined with the democratic
party in support of its presidential nom
inee, it was because that nominee was
in harmony with us on the great finan
cial issue, viz: the free coinage of silver,
the government issue of paper money
and the abolition of banks of issue.
These are now and always have been the
great propositions for which we have
contended and the greatest and
foremost of them all has been
the restoration of silver to the
place it occupied previous to 1873. To
abandon this Wue and after years of
hard struggle to awaken the people to
the enormity of the crime of 1873, would
be political suicide. Our party had a
great convention at St. Louis only a few
months ago. It made a platform that
h is met the hearty approval of all its
members bo far as I kuow. That plat
form has presented the issue of "scien
tific money" fairly and squarely and all
conferences that Messrs. Washburn,
Coxey and Van der Voort may convene
will not change the "fighting issue" for
the next four years. I am certainly op
posed to any scheme that means the
abandonment of the silver issue, and I
am opposed to any conference that may
be called having that object in view.
W. H. Robb.
J. Burrows.
First, let me say that I heartily ap
prove of the position you have taken.
I distrust the influences which induce
men in the east to think of such a thing
as bandoning the silver issue. The ques
tion of free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, without
waiting for the approval of any other
nation, is not only a distinctive popu
list issue1, promulgated by the party
long Bgo, as well as by the anti-monop
oly organizations which preceded it, but
it is a question the right solution of
which is vital to the welfare of the pro
ducers and laborers of the Uuited States
and its agitation will not be abondoued
until silver is restored as a money metal
on a strict equality with gold. The
conflict on this question is as irrepress
ible as was the slavery conflict before
the war. If such an incredible and im
possible thing as its abandonment by
the DODulist party should take place, I
should at once abandon that party, and
thousands thinking as I do would do the
same. I desire to go a little further in
my reply than perhaps your request
would lead me. I consider the present
condition of the populist party critical,
and the action of its leaders, or tne men
whom it ias placed at the head of its
committees, of the utmost importance.
I thick every man with the political fore
sight must see that at the next general
election there will be a middle-of-tbe
road populist party. Now, the vital
question for all populists is, that there
be a populist party which is not a mid
dle-of-the-road party? If there is such
a oarty that is, if there is two populist
tickets defeat is certain. Therefore my
effort to lead the regular populist or
ganization into an effort to maintain
a naion with the democratic party is
not only unwise but would be fatal to
success, and result in the return of the
republicans to power in this state.
1 he fusion in the late campaign was
made possible nay, was made indis
pensable to all the elements in oppo
sition to the republican party by the
fact of the strength the populists had
shown in the preceding election. That
strength was acquired by fighting for all
the distinctive issues of the Omaha plat
form. The influence from this is irre
sistible. It is, that to induce, nay, com
pel the elements of opposition to the re
publican party to come to us to seek an
alliance with us at the opening of a cam
paignwe must build up and increase
our voting strength to. To do this we
must maintain our party integrity in
tact, and preserve our party organiza
tions, absolutely independent of any
other citizen, faction or party. I there
fore regard any effort to maiutain a
fusion any mixture of chairmanship or
committees as bad politics, and ex
tremely unwise and calculated to defeat
the very objects we most earnestly seek
to achieve. I could give many good
reasons for this opinion if space would
permit. J. Burrows.
FROM FREMONT.
Being an earnest . believer in the prin
ciples you advocate in your letter to
lion. Geo. F. Washburn, 1 hope you will
pardon me for congratulating you on
the stand you have thus taken, J. G.
Blessing, Fremont, Feb.
C0NGRESSMAN-ELECT STARK.
I am at a loss to know how anyone
claiming to be a member of the peoples
party could speak or write in favo- of
the abandonment of the silver issue, im
mediately following the declaration lor
a government currency in the grand
platform adopted by our party in 1892,
at Omaha, Nebraska, under the same
head and preceding our demand for a
y-'Tculating medium off 50 per capita
and a graduated income tax, 1 una me
following: "We demand free and un
limited coinage of silver at the present
legal ratio of 16 to 1." This demand
was as plainly reiterated and our po
sition on this matter as clearly stated in
our last national convention at St.
Louis. It has never, so far as I know,
been questioned by any person of rec
ognized standing in the populist party,
and every loyal member thereof should
recognize it as a cardinal doctrine of our
organization, until a national couven-
vention duly called by tbe officers we
have chosen to preside over us, shall
order otherwise. In view of
the coin obligations of the United States,
free silver is as much of a necessity as
the other leading demands of our plat
form. No more. No less. We
do not believe this great movement is to
be sidetracked by the personal opinions
or ambitions of anyone or any hundred
men. The representatives of our party,
fairly chosen, have decided in favor of
the adoption of certain principles. They
will not recognize the authority of any
man or body of men who seek to add to
or subtract from their platform. Free
coinage is the doctrine of populism, old
as the party itself. It was defeated in
1892, and perhaps in 1896, but the men
who have braved ridicule, poverty and
bitter opposition from the birth of our
party to the present moment, have never
yet abandoned a principle for the reason
that it is unpopular, and tbey win carry
the doctrines of both free silver and
scientific money to a successful issue in
the coming campaign of 1900. W. L.
Stark. ' ' - -
CONGRESSMAN-ELECT GREENE.
I read your letter in reply to Mr.
Washburn with much interest, I have
also been reading from him iu the Boston
Herald.' While I do not question the
motives of Mr. Washburn, I do seriously
question his judgment. Free silver at
16 to 1 has been one 01 tne cardinal
principles of the populist party, and whr
we should now abandon it, is beyond
my conception and what motives can
prompt any true populist to recommend
its abandonment is hard to conceive
Yes I am a populist first and last
but for union, harmony and victory.
W. L, Greene.
NATIONAL COMMITTEMAN FROM FLORIDA.
I do not approve the retirement of the
silver issue. I consider the demonetiza
tion of silver the greatest, wrong the
producers of the United States have ever
uffered. " " " 1 believe in the scien
tific money our friend Washburn writes
of. Personally no question is of so
much importance and direct interest as
government ownership of railroads. I
am a fruit raiser and my orchard is in
the extreme south while my markets are
in the extreme north. S. S. Harvey.
EX-MAYOR WEIR, LINCOLN.
I regard the re-organization of our
monetary system as one of the most
vital and important questions that has
ever been before the people of this coun
try. Lven as an old soldier, 1 can say,
the question is scarcely second to tbe
issues that were settled in the fire and
blood of the civil war, so far as the inter
ests of the great mass of the people are
concerned. The other questions sug
gested are important. I would not for a
moment call that in question. But tbe
government ownership of railroads, the
question of land and trasportation, Ac,
are secondary in my judgment to tne
question that lies at the foundation of
all progress and development in this
country. The government ownership
ui rauroaaa win not teed tne Hungry, nor
clothe the poor. It is useless to talk of
tbe great schemes to a man who is hun
gry and cold. First give him tbe where
withal to be comfortable, and then be
win nave time and disposition to look
into and aid iu settling these other great
questions. Our first duty is to place
within the reach of the man without
capital, the means of caring for himself
and family. '1 his cannot be done with
money at a price of two to one as com
pared with all the necessaries of life. I
believe that there is no more important
question, that there can be no more im
portant question before us than the re-
monltization of silver, when the interests
of tbe great mass of the people are con
sidered, and all efforts to draw atten
tion from this vital question are
prompted by those opposed to it. I am
for free silver first, last and all the time.
No inducement can be offered me to
drop it, If the people's party abandons
it and throws it overboard, then I shall
go with it, and share its fate, and sup
port as best I can the men and the influ
ences aud the party that upholds it. No
nnuence can siaeiracK tnis great issue
and induce me to pass it by. A. II.
Weir.
JUDGE OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL piBTRICT
OF NEBRASKA. "
It is my humble ODinion that the free
and unlimited coinage of silver is tbe
paramount question, and that nine
tenths of the rank and file of the mem
bers of the independent party desire and
propose to Bettle this question before any
other. If we cannot restore silver as
constitutional money, then we cannot
carry our other reform measures before
the countiy. If we eliminate tbesilver
question, we will lose every Btate west
of the Mississippi river, and it will be a
iust rebuke, for our rmrtv in th nnront
of the proposition for the restoration of
suver 10 its piace as money, tt us force
the fight on 16 to 1 and win in 1900.
9 IT. -wr
jawara uaies, ioru, neb.
CONGRESSMAN-ELECT VINCENT, OF KANSAS.
The people's party must be preserved
and the way to preserve it is to stand
by our principles. From the organiza
tion of the party to the present hour one
of its fundamental principles has been
the "free and unlimited coinage of silver
as well as gold, at the legal ratio of six
teen to one." There is no more conflict
between this declaration and the demand
for scientific money than there has been
in the past, The free coinage of silver is
one, and by force of circumstances the
most prominent, of tbe fighting issues;
ANDY
TO
CUntCOllSTIPATIOlI
ABSOLUTELY GITAD&NTFF.n !?
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Best White Teeth 8 OO
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CLOSING OUT 1 Going to Missouri. Have about 70 head of choice
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the balance, boars ready for service. This is choice stock. No cnlto. My
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BUY FRESH KANSAS S
Gram, Field, Garden, Tree and Flower Seeda, all especially grown uid
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other fomc plant 1'or dry climate specialty. Oureleffant 1897 cat- KANSAS . ( F. B&rteldM 9t Co
logue In ready wiil be mailed r&KK on application. 8znd ro oxm now. SEED HOUSE ( LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
and all the "leaders" in oar party could
not change it if tbey would. The peo
ple are demanding it and they are going
to hare it. The man who stands in its
way, no matter bow prominent be may
be, willl find the procession moving with
out him. Tbe fact that tbe Boston Her
ald and other gold bug papers &re re
joicing that certain populiststs are try
ing to "abandon Bryan and tree silver"
ought to convince us that these "confer
ences" which are receiving so much at
tention and encouragement from that
source, are not going to result in any
good to our party or tbe reform move
ment. I do not question the motives of
those who are working for a Coxev "con
ference" and for a "change of the fight
ing issues." Most of them are no doubt
honest and sincere, but Wall street
could not work a more successful scheme
to divide our forces and retard, not only
free silver, but all the other reforms
we have have been advocating. Let us
continue tbe fight for free silver r for
government money; for government
ownership of railroads and telegraDhs
and for direct legislation.-W. D. Vincent,
Clay Center, Kansas.
PROFESSOR DAWES, BLIND ASYLUM, NEB.
CITY.
I have noticed vour reply to Mr.
Washburn, as published in the Inde
pendent, and commented on by other
papers. And I want to say that I very
much deplore this attempt on the part
of a few self-appointed leaders to bind
tne populist party to a line ot action
that they as a party have never con
sented to, and probably will never con
sent to, You are in the right in
this matter and the people expect you to
look after their interests while you are
m position to do so. 11. E. Dawes.
NATIONAL COMMITTEMAN DKAVEH OF NEB.
I am in favor of standing by our guns
just as we are, and casting aside every
man who tries to lead us wrong. The
populist party is now two large to be led
astray. Stand by silver and the other
fnndamental principles us outlined in
our Omaha and St. Louis platforms and
we are sure to win in 1900. We should
strive to secure all the aid we can, and
untill all forces opposed to the single
gold standard. I fully endorse your po
sition. D. Clem Deaver, Omaha, Neb.
Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat
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