People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — GEN. WEAVER'S VIEWS. [ARTICLE]

GEN. WEAVER'S VIEWS.

How He Find* Thlage In Terns and Elsewhere. (From the Rocky Mountain News.) Des Moines, lowa, Aug. 30.—During the present month the writer spent twenty-one days addressing populist encampments in the state of Texas. The party is -increasing rapidly and making prodigious strides toward the conquest of the state. The action of the democratic conventions in Maryland, Kentucky, lowa, and Ohio, and the announcement of Senator Harris of Tennessee, the head of the so-called democratic silver forces, that he will follow his party regardless of its attitude upon the over-shadowing question of the day, has destroyed all hope of relief through the democratic party and the masses are flocking to the populist banner by the thousands. In fact old party ties are completely dissolved in Texas and there is not a lingering doubt about the attitude of the Lone Star state in ’96. She will cast her vote by an immense majority for the populist ticket. Men of prominence, old party leaders, openly renounce their allegiance to the democratic party and boldly align themselves with the populists. Prominent among these are Major Walton of Austin and Mr. Bounds of Hillsboro, both old democratic • leaders and eminent lawyers, possessing state-wide influence.

The democratic leaders are fiercely at war among themselves, while the rank and file are coming into our camp by the hundreds in every locality. They find a cordial welcome and the most generous treatment. Our leaders in Texas are not excelled by any in the union. They are broad-minded and fully alive to the gravity of the situation which confronts them. In fact we have a group of warriors there of whom w'e may all be justly proud. Nugent, Davis, Kirby, Tracy, Ashby, Farmer Wood, Walton, Bound, Rhoades, Bradly, Jones, Evans, and a score of others, all great-hearted, noblesouled, clear-headed men who were born to make this old world better by hewing their way to a higher and nobler civilization. While the Texas populists are guarding well the integrity of their party, they are broad and magnanimous toward the great bewildered and unde' cided multitude who have been betrayed by the old parties and are now calling piteously for help. Texas places the mighty financial issue to the front and she is doing it without renouncing other cardinal tenets of the party. The enemy has forced the fighting on the financial lines and Texas is meeting him and smiting him on the hip and thigh. She will set the pace of the whole southern group of states. With like activity, harmony and liberality in the other states throughout the south and west our success in 1896 is assured. • I most humbly pray that members of our party everywhere may awake to the glorious opportunity which confronts us. At the same time let us open our eyes to the serious dangers which are lurking along every mile of the road which lies between this and victory. The campaign in lowa promises to be an important one. Will later write of

this in detail.

J. B. WEAVER.