People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — People’s Party Ticket. [ARTICLE]

People’s Party Ticket.

For County Clerk. JOHN A. MqFAR'LAND, of Jordan Township. For County Auditor. THOMAS H. ROBINSON, of Gillam Thownship. For County Treasurer, JOHN L. NICHOLS, of Barkley Township. F(Monty Sheriff. ELLIS JONES, of f a penter Township. F rC r.rdy Surveyor, WALTER HARRINGTON, < t .’.ion Township. F « County Coroner. M. Y. SLAUGHTER, of .'’arioii Town:!, .p. lor f • .-.jf.ie r. Ist District ' . . SFItIGI,S, c r.er Township. -loner. 2nd District. ADm . .. .J. ROBINSON. ; Hon Township. Fol Cor.cu,i Mner, 3rd District. ■GEOiN. E <■. THOMPSON, of • '<.? ■> ' ‘ Township. AG iiiC. • ' lids. No or b* T -m . Menl voter is th< hope of:; • .unlry. -z . .‘'WWwsMMMMM’t No i! .<> legislators fro in among ' h< profession. Mg?.'.. . have bo grea'm earning ' • <■: than labor. «««»«- ■• ;»».z , W*- tWr-K' 1: W: yp (•••n Ihe boom o: prosperity ’ mined by 11k Shorn Voo.h'-es combination that vo”-. to or. tuii the count rias soon the repeal bill was passed.

Thlue ' things that a; avcra-ie c>> nan is alive.to: The vote Ikhii'! and boodle at Washington. : ;;s the laboring man has;/!. .• hitter, hi' him hard v: h th • ■" tier. J.N ;•.].( of ’he “commonweal army" l! ■ publican says: “All me <tt . ;■.-•d encouraged by the i ‘ i|.' party, and the movement i>. 1 assuming most oininoits pj; : .-r lions.” Does Iholh’rmbl' ■ -'I ve in ghosts? 1 1 for s':< inov, ; l,a,s been telling us that the People’s party is de id. bo dead p o ties and dead mon make such a stir among the living?' Poi’t’i.i-.ts alone can thankfully say they are not to blame for the present crisis. For years they have pointedout these dangers, but they were not heeded. The present “on to Washington” is the natural fruit of old party rule. For years they have been sowing to the wind, and they ought not Io be surprised at a harvest of whirlwinds, for av a man sows, so shall he reap. rtr* in «»* >w»-4Bs»Tr*»flal Mrs. Lease and Mrs. Gouger made their own appointments here, c line and delivered their speeches independent of any political party organization; they gave the views of Mary Lease and Helen Gouger, and they alone are responsible for those views. The Republican, last week, called these ladies anarch-

ists, seek rs after notoriety and money; it classes them with Herr Most and Lucy Parsons, it even says that there is danger of a bloody civil war being started in this country by them and their likes. Will the Republican be kind enough to tell us just what wicked, dangerous things these wicked, dangerous women said? Tell us- just what anarchistic talk is, that we, being informed, can “shoot him on the spot,” comes before us with this dangerous, crazy talk. Marshall, inform the people. Save, oh save, the country.

Congress has with open arms, received every thief, boodler, I robber, sneak thief lobbyist and ; political scalawag that has scented plunder in the last thirty .years, but now when starving and honest labor moves toward the capitol they shout army, police, keep them out. Make much of your opportunity to steal and outrage the people, y*;u miserable deadbeats, for the time and place that know you no w, will soon know you no more forever. The Republican is giving its readers a continued story of the commissioners' allowances for the past year. We hope every taxpayer will examine this list and see where their monev is going. The law requires the publication of these allowances •vitliin ton days after the close of each session of the court. The Republican, of course, does this work gratis, as the auditor failed to comply with the law. in having them published within ten buys after they were made. If there was to be an equal division of property in the Uniied States, as some of tlu socialists recommend, each man. woman and child would receive cl.Ol'J as his share, according to the valuation of Uncle Sam', real estate and personal propc: ty in the census returns.—Fow ler Deader. TMking again without know ing what you are talking about. Socialism; that is. every man ac cording to his deeds. Coinmun ism; that is, every man according to his needs. It is common ism that you arc trying to talk ibout. Motnwi» i -- Just think of it. onr countr. can find employment and sup port lor six hundred millions ol people, if wisely governed, and yet less than one tenth, of that number is all of our population to-day, and they iind every branch of business paralyzed, millions unable to find employment, thousands starving, and a bloody revolution imminent. Now what caused all this, a venal government that has legislated for corporations, as against the people's interests. What will remedy the evils? Administer the government on’ the principle of equal rights to all, special privileges to none.

“According to Mrs. Lease and Mrs. Gouger, not a beneiiciont law has been passed by any ruling party, in this country for 30 years. ’’—Republican. The above is taken from las! week's issue of the Republican. Now. if Mr. Marshall had been present at this meeting, we doubt if he could have had the nerve to make such a statement as this. The statement made by Mrs. Lease was this: Thai there had not been a single law enacted by either of the old parties in interest of the people during the past thirty years. This is the correct statement of the affair and we defy Mr. Marshall or anyone else to show where any such law was passed. He made the above statement last week but in some unaccountable way, forgot to mention anything that would add proof to it. He simply went ahead and took up the would-be “anarchist ravings” of Herr Most and Lucy Parsons. Of course this was his only 7 argument by which he thinks to lash the “weak-minded and ignorant” voters back into the

lines of his party. If the Populist movement is such a weak thing, why did he devote more than half of his editorials last week to them. Little things should not attract so much attention. The Pilot indorses Coxeyism. —Democratic Sentinel. The Sentinel does not usually tell such lies; in fact, nobody ever accused it of telling very much of anything. Keep it before the people that the senate of the United States by a vote of near twenty to one rejected the Populist resolution to appoint a committee of nine to confer with the thousands of laborers marching on Washington. What harm to have met those men, treated them respectfully, listened tc their complaints? None, whatever. Oh. you scalawags, had they come with millions of boodle, you would have met them hundreds of miles out to learn how much they were going to pay per head. Oh, you tools of Wall street.

Much of the Republican's valuable space was taken up last week with Madames Lease and Gouger. Ever since Editor Marshall’s encounter with that Amazonian at Wheatfield, he has had a great dislike to strong minded, brave women. Whenever men and women of brains and souls come to this town and advance any thoughts that are at all opposite to the Republican's way of thinking, it, like'a little penny dog, when sniffed by a mastiff, immediately droops its ears, straddles its “anecdote, ' meaks behind its kennel door and sets up an everlasting howl. Bad government has generated what promises to be a political cyclone, if not something worse, immediately the two old parties begin to shake their skirts, look downcast, and say. 1. am innocent, I didn’t do it, it was those pesky Populists that 1 said were dead, they are the 'ellows that have raised h—. Oh, you lying, cowardly sneaks, how you shudder at the consequences of your own villainies. You, the leaders of the two old parties, are the 'scoundrels at whose door all this evil will be laid. You stand charged with it bi the indictment, clear your elves if you can, for the trial is now on.

This country is to-day and has been for thirty years governed by Republican laws, and whatever of disaster and danger there are in our midst, they are chargeable primarily to the Republican party. The blame and responsibility of the Democratic party consists in this, they promised, if given power, that they would correct the evils of Republican legislation and bring good times. Instead of carrying out their promises, they set to work and completed the work that the Republicans had been engaged in for thirty years, thus proving that there is no difference between them, they are each a too] of Wall street. w’««a<rKWcwt)nnnu>vro Committees sent by organized labor to Washington, bearing its demands, have been ignored, petitions signed by millions of toilers, have been cast indignantly into the'waste basket, the demandsof the Farmer’s Alliance. were carried by the good and lamented Polk and handed him to President Harrison, who contemptuously tossed them over his shoulder into the waste basket, not even deigning to open them. Labor thus denied all recognition at Washington, is marching in a vast body to the capital to ask why they are so treated. This may be all right, but from our standpoint the wiser course would have been to march in solid columns to the polls and there emptied congress of every tool of Wall street. That is the right way, cheap way, easy way, and the only -way in a government like ours.

In an article published in last week’s Republican, purporting to be a clipping from the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Mr. Marshall draws some “logical conclusions.” After reading it we cannot see where he draws such convincing “logical conclusions” when we consider the fact that the Globe Democrat is the leading Republican newspaper of the West. It would not be consistent for such a paper to take up the doctrines advocated by the Populists. No, not in the least. We wish to state right here that the People’s Party is not responsible for any act done by persons elected by them, that is not in accordance with the doctrines and platform as advocated by them. Do we endorse Governors Lewellyn or Waite if they commit acts that are contrary to things advocated by our party. No, not in the least. We are for the right and it must prevail. Would Mr. Marshall kindly bring to light some of the damnable things done by his rotten old hulk of a party? No, he is very clear of it. He is always willing and ready to hold up any good thing they may do, if that ever occurred, but never anything bad. The good things done by the Republican party are so few that it would be like looking for a needle in a hay stack to attempt to raise them to the view’ of the people. In the same article is the statement that, its tendency is indisputably revolutionary. If a reformation in the workings of this great government of ours is not needed now, there never has been a time that there should be. Its management has become so corrupt, so rotten, that it should be given a first class renovating to make it as pure as in the days of Washington and Jefferson. The day is approaching, and that not far distant either, when this will occur.

The venerable George W. Julian, once candidate for vice president on an abolition ticket, said, among other good things, before the Progressive Club, of Indianapolis, last Sunday afternoon, when speaking on the subject of “Political Independence:” “But epithets sometimes become honorable. Sixty-odd years ago, when Mr. Garrison started his little newspaper in a small, dingy yoom in Boston, assisted by a negro boy, both sleeping on the floor and living on bread and water, abolition was almost universally despised and denounced. The South seta price on his head and the wealth and respectability of Boston turned itself into a howling mob in the effort to suppress him. But the little cloud, no larger than a man’s hand, spread all over the heavens and the slave -was made free. The free soil party of 1848 was likewise the out come of political independence. It was composed of ‘impracticables’ who bolted from the old Whig and Democratic parties and ‘voted in the air;’ but they laid the foundation of the larger movement which nominated Lincoln in 1860 and shared in the imperishable glory of suppressing the rebellion and establishing freedom throughout the land. But the Republican party itself was a bolt. It was a combination of kickers. Some of my old Republican friends seem to believe that theii’ party is of divine appointment and necessary to salvation, but it never would have existed but for the ‘guerillas’ and ‘tramps’ who turned their backs upon the old parties and made a new one out of their fragments. If the Democrats in the free states could have raised a healthy crop of mugwumps in due season the power of slavery over the national government would never have reached its bad eminence and the curse might have been eliminated without the frightful surgery of the civil w r ar. The bane of our politics is not too much party, but too little. As to the need of parties in a free

government there is no controversy. Men who think alike on important questions naturally find each other out and stand together. A party is an aggregation of men who are supposed to have opinions and be capable of acting upon them.” Don’t talk of violence while we have the ballot. The laws must be obeyed, no violation of them must be allowed. Let plutocracy shoot first, and. if it does then lay on McDuff and damned be he who first cries hold, enough. ( The editor of the Fowler Leader would like to saddle the blame of the Coxey movement on the People’s Party. Not so fast, Mr. Leader, the blame, if there is blame, is the sure fruitage of villainous Republican legislation. For thirty years labor’s interest has been sacrificed to the Moloch of monopoly. Labor can endure no more. Robbed, plundered, sore of foot, hungry and starving, not able to pay railroad fare, start to trudge the weary way to Washington to ask congress to do justice; whereupon the Leader charges the whole affair to the People’s Party. What is to be done with the journalistic scalawag?