People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — Tail to The Populist Kite. [ARTICLE]

Tail to The Populist Kite.

All this talk of a new sikver party is r.©t. There is. a silver party now., which cast 2,.000,00(>! votes last fall, more thaor one- 1 fourth of all the votes, counted. That party is growing: it isi drawing to itself the true friends. 1 of silver of all other parties, l with a rapidity that absolutely 1 makes it too formidable to b"e headed off or captured by a news silver party, and especially byj the few lonesome leaders of thej silver remnant of democracy. Democracy today stands-, squarely for the gold standard,, and it is conceded by all its silver advocates that the next' great convention will declare sor 1 it.

Republicanism is* equally as pronounced for the*yellow' metal scales of Britain, and their next, platform will not straddle the fi - nancial question, as Tooth parties did in 1892. The one consistent friend cjff the tree and unlimited coinage of silver on an equality with gold, is the People's party. But sill-; ver is not all it is a £riend of.. The great Omaha jplatfecrm asks) for a per capita circiatation of SSO, which is less by kalf than was in use in 1865, the period of greatest prosperity. It asks, that national banks*be abolished;; 1 that all money be issused by the government only, whether it be paper or metal; tbafi the telegraph shall be added to the postal system; that sh*l}

be owned and operated by the government. The pQatfo rrn demands other reasonable things for the people, but in no part does it breathe one word of soci allsm or anarchy,. If there is a reader who is not - f&tniliar with that great declaration of principles, don’t let another minute pass without reading it,, as it stands complete at the head of this page. There will be no silver party this year non- next except the giant people’s party. To it all friends of the white metal must come; there is no other haven for them, and dispite the array of all the great newspapers against it, all the power of corporate wealth and grasping raonopoly can not stop the spread of populism; it is the true political faith, and of not one plank shall its broad platform be profaned.