People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — Populist Party not Destroyed. [ARTICLE]

Populist Party not Destroyed.

New Yi>rk. World (Democratic.) The World’s carefully revised returns of the vote cast at the last general election do not con firm the claim so recklessly inaite twenty-four hours after the polls were closed that “the poputist.,«*rty has been destroyed The greai western southern third party did lose the governorships of Kansas and Colorado jmd met with some unexpected aelea s elsewhere which artrac ted attention and gave rise to the belief that its growth had been checked, but an examina tion of the official returns suu v.-> that the belief, after ail, wa> not well founded In 1H92 t..< Populist party polled aitogeihei 1,041,048 votes for presideui. Between 1892 and 1b94 t ier was no general election the returns of which can be com pared with the year preceding This year the Populistic vob was 1,636,000, a gaiu of neai iv 600,000 votes in two years, do.' much greater the vote migut have been had not the two old parties in nearly all the western states favored silver, nobody knows, in 1892 the Populist party cast about one twelfth oi the total vote. This year tin total vote cast, except in Illinois. California, Wisconsin, Texas and one or two other states, wa* much smaller than in 1892. Li is doubtful if it was more than 10,000 altogether. In two years therefore the third party ha.grown from a representation ol 5.000,000 to a representation of 8,000,000 people and is by no means dead.

Even the New York World, while it does not figure our vote as high as it really is, says our party is “by no means dead.” In two years there will be but one silver party in the west and that will be the Populist party; no dodging then and the silver vote consolidated will be the vote that wins.